Ordered £500 worth of Thai baht cash from the Travelex website Sunday night using my Lloyds TSB debit card to be picked up Wednesday evening from Heathrow Terminal 3 before my flight to Bangkok. Something i've done many times before. Last time was in February. All went ok just just awaiting payment confirmation from Lloyds TSB. Monday afernoon gets a email from Travelex, payment from Lloyds TSB refused. Phoned Travelex thinking i'd made a mistake entering my start end dates etc. No such luck, it seems Lloyds TSB have changed their system. If your getting foreign currency in CASH then it's treated as a cash point withdrawl, ie my daily cash point limit is £200 a day so i could only get £200 worth of cash in foreign currency. What a complete joke this is. Phoned LLoyds who who weren't very helpful. Well they were willing to be very helpful if i ordered the currency from them. I believe traveler cheques should be ok, just if you want cash.

it is due to fraud, why pay for a 1000 USD HIFI and sell for 200 USD on the second hand market, when you can pay for 1000 USD in currency and collect 1000 USD in currency.... enough said ( sorry ex Llloyds TSB worker )