Halifax Reviews

I've been with Halifax 20-odd years and I loathe them. I think they've become the most robotic of the big faceless banks. Recently they started sticking their low-income customers with the useless Visa Electron debit card. The most annoying thing about this is that not everyone takes it. It's difficult to buy online with it, you can't buy rail ...  Read the complete review

I joined the Halifax about a year ago, & although they knew I was out of work, opening my new account was no problem. They welcomed me with open arms, even giving me a £1000 Overdraft. As time has gone by I have not been able to restart work because of ill health. On two occasions I have gone over my overdraft limit by a minimal amount ...  Read the complete review

AVOID THIS BANK AT ALL COSTS - Advantages: many handy branches - Disadvantages: incompetent staff, serious mistakes made, appalling customer service

After dealing with 3 other major banks in the last fifteen years I can honestly say that Halifax bank of Scotland are by far the worst. The bank of Scotland used to be a reasonable bank to deal with but since their merger with the Halifax, customer services levels have plummeted. In the last 18 months, HBOS have been exposed to a fair ammount of ...  Read the complete review

After a few months working for the halifax i decided i would switch my current account from HSBC as it would be easyier for me as shortly i would be getting a personal loan hopefully from the halifax and i would be able to have the loan paid straight into my account. now as most of you are aware when opening an account you have to take ID ...  Read the complete review

Due to my low income I've been stuck with Halifax for years. Some months ago they changed my Switch to a Solo with no communication whatsoever - thus reducing the usefulness of my account. Now I find they're replacing that with an Electron which is even less useful. I depend on my card for on-line transactions and simple stuff like buying ...  Read the complete review

Today I went to open a new bank account at the Halifax, I’m not one for ringing places up and getting appointments so I just drove to town and went into the local branch to see if they could get me started. The first thing you need to open an account with any bank is three types of ID. I took my passport, my phone bill as one of the ID types ...  Read the complete review

I have an existing Halifax mortgage - all seemed fine for 2-3 years. I applied on-line and it was a run of the mill job. When we decided to move and do the easy thing of making another application with the Halifax it all went horribly wrong. They made countless errors in the application; carrying out the wrong survey, not seding me the ...  Read the complete review

I?ve been a customer of Halifax for five years with their CardCash account with a Visa card. In the last year, I and my partner became first-time parents, and for most of last year I was the sole earner. We had moved to a 2-up/2-down which we rent from a Lettings Company and the direct debit for them goes through the Cardcash account on the 7th of ...  Read the complete review

I`ve been with the Halifax for over 15 years now, and I use them for loans, my credit card, my current account and my savings accounts. So far I`ve only ever had one problem with them - read my review on the Halifax loans department for more information on that. Apart from that, I`ve been with the Halifax man and boy :-) I`ve always ...  Read the complete review

As a 7 year old I remember visiting a Halifax branch just down the road from me, now as a 19 year old, I have resisted the gimics offered to me by other banks and stuck with my good friend the Halifax. But why? There was alot of reasons why I should have left while I was a teenager, I saw all the free gifts I could have got from the ...  Read the complete review

A couple of years ago when the interest rates started to go down and decided to have a look and see if I could get a better deal for my money - primarily a high interest rate with fairly easy access so that I could actually get to the money if I needed to. After looking at a couple of websites and newspaper supplements I decided that the Halifax ...  Read the complete review

Is it a bank? Is it a building society? No, it's the Halifax, does neither particularly well, and can't decide quite what it wants to be. I recently made the unfortunate mistake of ordering my travellers' cheques with the Halifax, having held a bank account with them for the best part of the last decade. No commission, good ...  Read the complete review

Having joined halifax on leaving university i was under the impression that the bank looked out for its customers. Halifax offered me a bank account when no other would. The let me mess about with my student finances until i was back on my feet. All in all three years ago i was pleased, nay, honoured to rank amoungst the customers of this noble ...  Read the complete review

Who Gives You X-tra Aggro - Who, Who, Who ??? - Advantages: None - Disadvantages: Cannot contact branch by phone, Very inflexible, Long term business means nothing

I am getting a divorce and one of the scariest things about being a newly separated woman was all the banking you have to do. I was sick of banking. My husband was the banker in the family. And once he was gone, I had to learn to do it myself.. Now, I was never at all fond of banking. It takes a lot of effort for little return. Just ...  Read the complete review

I've had a current account with the Halifax since the tender age of 14. No I wasn't some kind of precocious brat with an unhealthy interest in the F.T. The people who employed me to do a paperround preferred to put my wages into a bank account which happened to be the Halifax. So 13 years later I'm still with the Halifax. Avoiding ...  Read the complete review

A couple of years ago, after leaving my job at another Bank I decided to change banks, this was a bad decision. According to the adverts changing your bank should be no problem, except, if like me, you have three accounts which look after my salary and spending money in one, my household bills in another and insurance policies in the ...  Read the complete review

Bank of 1001 jobs - Advantages: Helpful Service, Wide range of account stuff, Clean buildings - Disadvantages: Phone service

So, where on the high street do you find an account that gives you easy access, high interest and great service, maintaining the rates at a competitive level even after they have their hands on your money? Well, the answer is nowhere! Look no further than your PC! There are a number of Internet savings accounts available, but ...  Read the complete review