It’s the shade of the card of the teal lol! It’s glossy as opposed to Matt 
A partnership was announced in March 2017 (TransferWise teams up with digital-only Starling Bank | WIRED UK) but then ended in May this year (Starling Bank raising another £80M, ends partnership with TransferWise | TechCrunch).
The partnership didn’t actually amass to anything.
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Goodness me. I always forget colours have genders.
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I’ve never had a problem with people accepting printed pdfs as proof of address.
If I print a pdf, scan the printed copy and email that, they accept it as proof, but I send them the pdf directly without running it through the analogue duplication process, the don’t. Some people are weird 
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True and to be fair it’s not even true teal which is darker. But like all card the colour makes no difference to me using it 
The colour is ok, and I’m not the most manly person going 
but looks sparkly lol! I’m sure it will grow on me, just would prefer a darker colour of teal
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Because we’re on a Starling focused thread on the Monzo forum.
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I remember many people behaving the same way on the Starling forum, in particular in the Monzo vs Starling thread. Those who have certain deep perceptions will lean towards trying to confirm them - it’s a much-discussed phenomenon in the era of fake news called Confirmation Bias.
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What problem?
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Irony being you are a starling user fighting your corner… against monzo users fighting their corner 
Dont forget there are alot of us in the middle that have both and are patiently waiting to see who comes out on top so the comparisons between features is almost necessary.
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Sounds like you might be the one with tunnel vision 
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Oh so that’s why you’re here all the time. I thought you were just trolling.
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I just like a good bank/building society
I’m a nationwide user thanks
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Ever-increasing overdrafts are not a good thing though in my view - the banks hope that you get stuck in your overdraft so that they can charge you some hefty fees once you graduate.
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They lower the interest free allowance… in the hope, as Marcel said, that you don’t bother paying it off and they can make a bit of money.
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It wasn’t exactly smooth sailing at re-signing up, but Starling were prompt in their reply and at fixing the situation.
The 12-month closure ‘ban’ ended yesterday so I went to try and sign up yesterday and then again this morning and my mobile number was still attached to my old ‘closed’ account as it would try to log me in and then reject me as it had been blocked.
Emailed customer services to state that they needed to release my mobile number as my 12-months were over.
This evening, I resigned up as usual.
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Given the account still exists on their system, they should just reactivate it and send out a new card. Seems cleaner than hacking around it by removing phone numbers.
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Not saying the interest & overdraft are bad, my criticism was more about the fact it’s still legacy as hell, the app is meh, support is as you’d expect and bullshit charges all over the place (try get a direct debit declined and enjoy).
I respect the fact a bank has to make money; but I wish the charges were linked to something tangible (overdraft fees, cash deposits, sending out a new card, etc) rather than nonsense. It doesn’t cost anything to decline a direct debit, and the worst is that when you start getting DD’s declined is probably the worst time to hit someone with fees since they’re already going under.
If they wanted to make money I’d rather pay a monthly flat fee.
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Support for Nationwide is honestly one of the best in the UK imo. They reply to twitter at 2AM, they answer my calls within minutes and the branch staff have managed to make an introvert with anxiety to the point I can’t talk to cashiers, feel welcome.
Would they actually help you out if you had a real question that isn’t on their script? Or will they just fob you off with “you’re using it wrong”? This for me is the difference between the modern banks and the bullshit ones. With a modern bank I can easily escalate a technical issue to the engineering department if I need to. Impossible with a legacy ones (I had no luck trying to get a legacy bank to investigate an issue with how they calculated the “left to spend” during daylight saving time - it was giving nonsensical numbers for one hour after midnight every day, and even authorising card payments based on that wrong amount).
Also regarding Nationwide specifically, I had a disaster trying to dispute a payment. The first time I called they assured me everything was done, but after a month with no refund I called back and it seems like nothing was done the first time because they payment wasn’t settled yet, and now they asked me to send some proof via email… to an address whose mailbox was full (should I buy a box of hard drives and mail it to them? ), and the person on the phone had no idea how to proceed after that (nothing about maybe just sending it to her company address and for her to do the necessary the next morning when hopefully the tech team figures out the issue with the mail server).
but a flat fee for investing my money to make mibey and paying me a little interest is dumb.
But then again they have to finance branches and tons of monkeys to make up for their horrible systems that don’t allow the customer to do much online… (turns out if you do allow customers to manage their account properly online they’ll have less reasons to call and speak to someone… shocking I know).
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