Post by moonraker on Feb 15, 2019 14:46:46 GMT
Last year a friend of mine was gifted a house, something that's turned into a nightmare. She had to spend what little money she had on legal fees and was, perhaps naively, hoping to get the deeds in late December so she could raise some money on her property. She's still waiting for them and in the meantime has had a big row with her husband, prompting her to get her own credit card.
As soon as she got it, she started using it to pay off bills, buy food and so on, only for the company to block it, presumably because of excessive use. The company refused to discuss the matter with her, because it was "under investigation". Eventually the company said that they would unblock it "within three days". That was almost three days ago, and now it says it will be unblocked after midnight. In the meantime, my friend can't buy food and petrol. (I've just sent her a loan to tide her over.)
Why three days?
It's not quite the same, but occasionally my High Street bank has locked my account because of "unusual activity" on my debit card, and as soon as I've convinced them that all is well my account has been unlocked immediately.