Price/on sale: £247,667/ first UK customer deliveries in late summer, 18-month waiting list.

Interest rates on these accounts were over 6 per cent, among the best rates offered by online banks to UK customers at the time (2006-2007).

UK customers will be able to reach for their cheque books next autumn.

Many UK customers have expressed feeling of being "ripped-off".

But look at the pricing - the $1.99 has been loaded into the cost of the books from the store for UK customers.

So, will those 33 UK customers be disappointed?

Bit like the choice of energy supplier was going to deliver the cheapest energy for UK customers.

Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate.

This is similar to offering credit to a UK customer.