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Lloyds Bank: Classic Account reviews

Name: Classic Account
Rating: 4.05 (701 reviews)

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3.92

Based on 701 reviews, last reviewed 21st Dec 2024

60% decrease in 5 star reviews

in the past 90 days

100% increase in 1 star reviews

in the past 90 days

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Latest highest rating:

5

Good account Signed up easily. Online verification came in 2 days. Debit card came on 3rd day. The app works well for me. Impressed so far. Using it as a 2nd acco... Read more Reviewed on: 15th December 2024

Latest lowest rating:

1

Lloyds Bank refuses my payments by bank transfers. Lloyds Bank refuses my payments by bank transfers. to my builder and to a financial institution at the branch. I had my passport with me. They asked m... Read more Reviewed on: 21st December 2024

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The Lloyds Classic Account is fee free for use in the UK, providing your account balance doesn’t go below £0.

The Lloyds Classic Account can be serviced via the app and you can earn up to 15% cashback on spending with selected retailers.

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Lloyds Bank Classic Account reviews (701)

Review of the Lloyds Bank, Classic Account:

Account opening

Account opening was easy and fast Reviewed on: 3rd April 2023

Lloyds Bank refuses my payments by bank transfers.

Lloyds Bank refuses my payments by bank transfers. to my builder and to a financial institution at the branch. I had my passport with me. They asked me a lot of questions that were inappropriate.. They are mental and treated me as a criminal. I wasted one hour each time there and in the end they refused to do the transaction. They also blocked my account on one of these transfers. They are abusing their power. Reviewed on: 21st December 2024

Good account

Signed up easily. Online verification came in 2 days. Debit card came on 3rd day. The app works well for me. Impressed so far. Using it as a 2nd account for purchases. Reviewed on: 15th December 2024

Utterly Horrific Experience if You Have Special Needs!

I would give Lloyds Bank zero stars if I could. My experience has been utterly horrific, and I would never recommend them to anyone - especially not those with disabilities or specific needs. Their banking app is completely redundant, as every payment I attempted was blocked with a message instructing me to phone them. I am very severely ill, speech-impaired, and require a relative to speak on my behalf, but Lloyds is not set up to handle customers like me. I first tried using the Relay service to call, but their automated system didn’t allow enough time to input my details before disconnecting. After three hours of exhausting effort on the Relay service, enduring long holds and being hung up on twice, in the end I was told I needed to call a different team at a different time! The next day, with my father’s help, we called again. Despite listing my needs on my application, Lloyds staff showed no understanding of what speech-impairment or severe neurological illness entails. I was forced to speak, despite my extreme limitations, just to confirm basic details. After all that effort, the payment still didn’t go through. A second call was required, where I faced a clueless representative who refused to proceed unless I kept speaking, despite my father being there to handle everything. The ordeal took 45 minutes and caused such a severe relapse in my illness that my paralysis is worsened. To make things worse, Lloyds refused to accept my parents’ Power of Attorney because my account was newly opened. In frustration, I decided to transfer my balance back to my original bank - only for Lloyds to block the transfer yet again, despite it being to an account in my own name!! This entire experience has been a nightmare. First Direct handles similar situations with a simple text confirmation system - no unnecessary calls, no reliving the same exhausting process repeatedly. Meanwhile, Lloyds is stuck in the dark ages, ignoring modern, accessible systems like app-based authentication codes. Lloyds have caused me immense stress, wasted my time, and made my health worse. I will never use them again, and I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone, especially not those with disabilities or complex needs. They're appalling and completely unacceptable. They failed me at every turn, from their lack of accessibility to their outdated processes and poor understanding of my needs as a customer with a severe illness. The fact that they forced me to endure such an ordeal - resulting in worsened health and paralysis - is not just frustrating but downright harmful. Their refusal to take Power of Attorney into account, combined with constant payment blocks (even for transfers to myself), shows a complete lack of regard for customer care and a failure to adapt to modern, inclusive banking practices. Reviewed on: 3rd December 2024

Wanting profit , ignoring customer needs

Keen to close local branches, causing crowding in the remaining few. Frequent changing of which counters are for which service. Look like they would prefer to have no branches at all Reviewed on: 7th November 2024

Easy to set up Classic Account with Bank of Scotland...

Easy to set up Classic Account with Bank of Scotland, after moving countries. Great service at any branch Reviewed on: 29th October 2024

I have spent a month calling them to resolve a simpl...

I have spent a month calling them to resolve a simple issue. Every time they tell me it is fixed but it is not fixed at all. Customers without a smartphone can not use their services. They claimed their app would work on a tablet device without a smartphone but it does not. So many hours wasted calling their call centres and nothing has been resolved. All of the assurances Llloyds have given me are just empty words. Reviewed on: 16th October 2024

Great Service from counter to online experience

Great Service from counter to online experience Reviewed on: 11th October 2024

Avoid at all costs.

Avoid at all costs. They will send the payment even when you tell them someone is taking the money without approval. Reviewed on: 27th September 2024

do NOT bank with LLoyds

1st - why have an automated telephone menu system that forces you answer a lot of questions only to say that customer service is only available 8am-6pm = start with that instead so the customer can hang up immediately 2nd - why close branches and have everyone do internet when you don't support internet banking 24/7 3rd - the automate systems/internet banking absolutely sucks as it does NOT fully support international mobile numbers or international trnsactions Reviewed on: 21st September 2024

What a joke of a banking company.

What a joke of a banking company. After fraudulent activity on my account I made a claim which was paid back into my account. I had to cancel my card and wait over 10 days for my new 1 to arrive. 4 weeks later they have re-debited the money stating it looks like I had involvement. Each fraudulent activity had a non-gbp transaction go along with it so was made outside of the uk. Even though I was using my card in my home town the same time these fraudulent activities were happening they still say it was me. So now apparently I can cut myself in half be in the USA and UK at the same time. The fraud department over the phone couldn't help as it was passed to the back office where the only form of contact is via email.... which they never reply to. So in a nutshell if you want your money to stay safe AVOID lloyds at all cost. If like me are already with them swith to a more reputable bank ASAP Reviewed on: 14th September 2024

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