What a frustrating afternoon. For a week now I've been waiting for a year long savings investment to mature, with the intention of putting it into gold. All week, gold has been around £1272-88. Come today, when the money was available, the poor payroll figures had bumped it up to £1313. Typical says I, but go to buy.
Not a total surprise but the card was declined as a fraud prevention measure. I spent what seemed an absolute eternity on the phone to Lloyds to get the transaction cleared - I mean an eternity.
Despite this the card still wasn't being verified. I then found out I could a bank transfer instead. Meanwhile gold is now £1318, but ordered placed.
Go through all of the online login malarkey with the banks, complete all of the transaction details, asked to confirm with my password. A big red banner comes up (still in my Lloyds account) saying something along the lines of " are you sure you want to do this?", I click yes, and it says "we need to ring you to confirm" (automated call), go through that, fucking done after an hour.
Get a confirmation back from the bullion dealers saying they've received the funds but as it's over a certain amount they'll need either a passport or driving licence photographic ID.
I don't have either.
No wonder an independent crypto is the future.