Halifax Reviews

**My dealings with the Halifax** Reviewing a banking service was never going to be easy as you base it on your own personal experiences with them which then means you can become very biased depending on whether or not they have hacked you off through bad customer service or excessive charges. I hope my review is fair about the Halifax ...  Read the complete review

What an awful Company. My son had an account with the Halifax. After going £10.00 overdrawn last year I paid off over £128.00 and asked that the account be closed down. My Son was with me at the time and authorised them to speak to me and to close the account. After paying off the charges with my own Halifax Debit Card, the young ...  Read the complete review

I have held a Halifax current account for just over a year now having always been with Nationwide. I was always happy with my previous account but needed a bank which had a local branch in order to pay in cheques after work. When i moved i really had my eyes opened. The staff are so friendly and nothing is too much trouble. When i opened my ...  Read the complete review

I was a Halifax customer until quite recently. I opened a current account with them, a joint account with my previous partner. After approximately two years of good service from Halifax, my partner and I split in quite a nasty ending. I went to Halifax and cancelled my partners direct debit for his phone bill as I was the main account holder I ...  Read the complete review

My parents opened a savings account with Halifax for me when I was a baby, and so my relationship with them began. I can only write about Halifax as I have never looked at changing - too much hassle and I have had no real reason to. My husband has also held an account with Halifax since he was a child and between us we have 3 current accounts (1 ...  Read the complete review

Halifax is the bank whch I have been with since I was 16 (im now 21) and for the first few years I was happy with them. Now however they seem to be making mistake after mistake and I will soon be planning on changing banks! Firstly (and I know most banks do this) but the insufficent fund charges are ridiculous. 9 times out of ...  Read the complete review

I HAD A BANK ACCOUNT WITH HALIFAX WITH A LARGE OVERDRAFT FACILITY. DUE TO BEING ILL I PAID MORE ATTENTION TO MY HEALTH. i NEARED THE OVERDRAFT LIMIT WITHOUT REALISING AND I HAD SEVERAL MANDATES GO THROUGH. HALIFAX CHARGED ME FOR EACH ITEM THEY PAID THEN CHARGED ME A FUTHER FEE FOR EACH OF THE MANDATES. MY ACCOUNT WAS CHARGED OVER £350 CHARGES FOR ...  Read the complete review

I have and have had accounts with most high street banks and I find Halifax the easiest to deal with, They have a very good online service which lets you open and fund new accounts quickly and the staff are friendly and helpful. I have been with them for some time but I recently switched savings account when their web saver fell from 5% ...  Read the complete review

I have banked with Halifax since leaving school 6 years ago and recently made the final decision to change to another bank. I am appalled with the charging system they have in place. I have experienced unfair charges on two occasions. The deciding factor was that I was charged due to going over my small overdraft by 0.95p but that was not what ...  Read the complete review

i opened an easycash account with these as i am currently in a DMP and needed a second account with basic needs ,this is exactly what i needed a electron card,no overdraft and somewhere to pay my wages into.Everything seemed fine until i put in my direct debits and two came out at unexpected times and then the biggest shock getting stung £39 each ...  Read the complete review

I had an account with Halifax for about two years, but I closed it because I moved and they needed me to go into the branch to change the branch I banked from. This was a shame as I was exceedingly pleased with the account in all other respects, and I would bank again with them. I always found it easy to contact them, whether ...  Read the complete review

I won't use this review to tell you all about the Halifax's interest rates etc because by the time you may read this they probably will all have changed! ~ Instead, I'll give you my experiences of banking with the Halifax. I cannot fault their online banking system as their site is 99.9% of the time up and running. It is ...  Read the complete review

Howard is so funny on all them adverts wouldn't you say? Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBoS) is a bank with whom I have had a bank account for approximately 6 years. I have only had their current account as I have found many other online savings accounts offer better interest rates. I have found on many occasions that the ...  Read the complete review

I have been with the Halifax for about 8 years now and it seems to me that things have gone form bad to worse there. My husband wants to claim back some insanely unfair bank charges from this bank but we know of a few people who have tried to do this and have had their accounts closed (although this is not in fact legal!) I ...  Read the complete review

Hello

I was wondering if anyone can help me.. i sent off a letter to Halifax to reclaim my bank charges. I got back a letter which appeared to be automated saying that there was an ongoing court case and they would inform me as they would all the customers in the same position of the outcome.

a few weeks later i received a letter stating that the judge had deemed there costs legal and therefore they would not refund them

Does any one know what i can do now, as i cannot see a way forwrd if the judge has made this decision on behalf of all the nation?

Surely there must be another way, banks cannot get away with robbing us blind any longer....

any help is appreciated

thanks

I have been with the Halifax since the days where I got a free piggy bank with my bank account (and deposited 20p a week!). Today I have three accounts: 1 student account, a standard bank account and a savings account. The Halifax offers a brilliant student bank account, which I am only too happy to ...  Read the complete review

Halifax, or HBOS, as they are called these days, is one of the largest banks in UK. I am one of their clients. I do not have my salary paid into them, but I have a couple of saving accounts. Recently I was attracted into one of their branches by their current promotion for a high yield saving account, one of those accounts where you ...  Read the complete review

I consider myself like a satisfied client of Halifax. I have 1 saving account with them, together with a debit card, I have their Visa credit card with a 0.5% cash back and I have a high saving account, currently giving me a bit more than 5% per month. I do not receive my salary into Halifax simply because there is no Halifax ...  Read the complete review

I applied for a current account online. At the end of the process I was given my account number and sort code. I was very impressed by the speed of this. There was also a note that said I must fund the account with £100 to make it active and to release my debit card. I made an online transfer of the £100 from my old NatWest account using the ...  Read the complete review

I had been with the Halifax for about 6 years. On the plus side the cardcash account that I had came with a cheque book, solo debit card and intenet and telephone banking both of which are fairly easy to use. I also had a websaver with them with a rate of interest about 4.5% and allowing me to move money easily between my 2 accounts ...  Read the complete review