Does anyone else hate the new Nat West adverts?

'Oh I'm saving for an engagement ring - and if she says no I'll buy a sports car!'

That's either one insanely expensive ring or one really rubbish sports car. Extremely annoying!
 
While we're chatting about banks - I had this emailed to me the other day and thought it apt for this thread:

Dear Sir:

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his presenting the check and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my entire salary, an arrangement which, I admit, has been in place for only eight years.

You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account £35 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.

My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and letters, when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, prerecorded faceless entity which your bank has become.

From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person. My mortgage and loan repayments will, therefore and hereafter, no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank, by check, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate. Be aware that it is an offence under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope. Please find attached an Application
Contact Status which requires your chosen employee to complete. I am
sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative.

Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Notary Public, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof.

In due course, I will issue your employee with a PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modelled it on the number of button presses required to access my account balance on your phone bank service. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Let me level the playing field even further. Press buttons as follows:

1. - To make an appointment to see me.
2. - To query a missing payment.
3. - To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
4. - To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
5. - To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
6. - To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.
7. - To leave a message on my computer, a password to access my computer is required. Password will be communicated at a later date to the authorized contact.
8. - To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 7.
9. - To make a general complaint or inquiry. The contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.

Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement. May I wish you a happy, if ever-so-slightly less prosperous day?

Your Humble Client
 
starfighter said:
Bank adverts where they pretend to be nice and helpful just **** me off, they are a load of ****. we know it and they know it so why pretend.
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To be fair, the staff in NatWest branches have always been helpful and kind to me. Their managers who took NatWest to the brink of ruin and devised those stupid adverts on the other hand, utter utter ****s :mad:
 
They are in fact real those conversations and not staged, they used microscopic cameras hidden about the room so the interviewees didn't even know they were being filmed. Its incredible real footage!
 
wez130 said:
i like the water slide through the city one, great music too.
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It was good the first time I saw it, but it is so boring the 457th time!!!!

I really REALLY hate the advert for those commercial vans, it is either Citroen or Peugeot, it shows some forklift loading pallets into the back, and then it lays it all out to look like a clock face and the forklift loads each van as if it is a ticking clock (it is sped up).

The music REALLY REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS. It makes me want to stab myself in the ear until I cannot hear it anymore.

Needles (yes, needles) to say I clamber for the mute button every time it comes on.

EDIT: This is the one, I ****ING HATE IT!!

 
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I think 'patronising' is the best way to describe those Natwest ads. Who do they think they're fooling? Like any staff member would ever treat a customer like that!
 
It's almost as if there is some form of escalation occurring in terms of annoying music in adverts. To be heard above the cacophony of irritating adverts, they have to raise the the bar each time. I'm loking at you mobile phone, car and banking adverts.

I also hate the way they cynically superimpose what you would really like, such as an amazing looking model etc. with say a sofa. I also hate the way mobile phone adverts talk about bringing people together as if they are solely responsible for world peace. I also hated these other Natwest adverts, where there was the good banker and the two bad bankers. They talked about how they could help their customers. The marketing people must have thought they were being ironic where such bad bankers would never symbolise the banking industry, but in fact they are relatively common in my experience.

Those rich people complaining in the advert about also make me chuckle. I best stop before I have a heart attack.
 
Those Natwest adverts are misleading. Everytime my partner deposits money into our accounts they always say they can upgrade our account in some way. The last two times weve bothered to see somebody about it they tried to sell us things we didnt need or tried to change our account so we would have a monthly fee with no real benefits of changing. So yes we hate the new adverts lol
 
The thing that really worries me at the moment is the lack of diversity in adverts at the moment. They seem to all be making music out of "every day sounds." The first time it was good but after that it was just rubbish.

The one for cannabis is a cracker though. Anyone who has smoked it will think its ridiculous and anyone who hasnt smoked it will think its ridiculous once they have talked to someone who has.
 
Building Candy said:
AAAAGGHHHU that peugeot one, what the ****!

we take a regular 308 and pour on the goodies........

you do what sorry? pour.... on ..... the goodies? thats just great

you give us 12 and a half k and we give you change

..... ooook, how about i just give you 12k? no? its £12,499 isnt it? go on admit it!

only availible in black.... why? ok i tell you what i'll have a "regular" 308, add the optional extras and get to choose my own ******** colour you smarmy, greasy ****! on 2nd thoughts **** this , you can shove your poxy french piece of **** up your fat **** you ****.

I dont watch a great deal of tv anymore, I tend to find it winds me up more than anything.
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I'd never have guessed! :D Class!
 
ScarySquirrel said:
I really REALLY hate the advert for those commercial vans, it is either Citroen or Peugeot, it shows some forklift loading pallets into the back, and then it lays it all out to look like a clock face and the forklift loads each van as if it is a ticking clock (it is sped up).

The music REALLY REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS. It makes me want to stab myself in the ear until I cannot hear it anymore.
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My 10 month old son loves it. Tells you something, doesn't it. :D
 
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