wuliheron
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I think they're are waiting to see if the whole thing blows over and discussing how to spin the story if necessary.
I think they're are waiting to see if the whole thing blows over and discussing how to spin the story if necessary.
waggy
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dali71
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They were barely beat out for Consumerist's Worst Company in America 2011 by BP (49.13% to 50.87%). Draw your own conclusions.
Engineer
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- Oct 9, 1999
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Worst bank that I've dealt with. Had an automatic payment scheduled and it did not go through. They charged me a late fee and when I disputed, they told me that I was late and nothing they could do about it. I then directed them to the payment schedule page and they had no explanation as to why the payment was sitting there, not cancelled nor executed. I've since dropped them (only used them for the 0% money anyway).
Interesting. The exact same happened to me before; I scheduled a payment, time passed and nothing happened. I was lucky that I caught it right away, made another payment and phoned in some major noise so I wasn't burned but I still feel paranoid enough that I check every month now.
Of course, their explanation was "web server maintenance problem, be prudent and check".
Okay... I'll contact my team of scientists and tell them to start working on finding out why their critical systems being faulty should be my fucking problem.
Honestly, I'd drop them too if I could find a less morally bankrupt corporation within driving distance.
I thought most of the US debt was owned by China. If the congress defaults, then thats pretty much like locking your own house.
For the couple and their attorney, walking over to the bank (with law enforcement) and shutting the place down had to be absolutely awesome. Start clearing out desks, computers, cash etc. Epic 
"All your bank are belong to us"
"All your bank are belong to us"
QuantumPion
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Precisely the nature of this article? When you own property, you have the ability to make legal claims for it. If the government owned everything, and a bureaucrat made some mistake which caused someone to get kicked out of their home, you think they would have the same recourse?
Um... you are! I mean, you are the one railing against private property ownership, a primary tenant of national socialism. So technically, you ARE the forum nazi! :biggrin:
Oh and also, you misspelled "liberals".
LMFAO!!!
Hell yes, "sorry bud but we are going to keep the doors pad locked for 3-5 business days while we wait for the check to clear and the funds to become available".
Thump553
Lifer
- Jun 2, 2000
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What the couple and their attorney did is a very common legal practice known as an execution of judgment. It's done all the time to force unwilling judgment debtors to pay up, nothing particularly unusual about it except the underlying fact situation of the original judgment.
It would have been easier and more efficient to involuntarily collect this judgment through other means, such as garnishment, but that wouldn't have generated the publicity.
Money could not buy the massive free publicity this stunt gave the couple's attorney though.
It would have been easier and more efficient to involuntarily collect this judgment through other means, such as garnishment, but that wouldn't have generated the publicity.
Money could not buy the massive free publicity this stunt gave the couple's attorney though.
rstove02
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BoA can suck it. They used to be a fairly decent bank, but in the last 10 years or so they have gone full blown nuts.
The last accounts I had with them was a mortgage and checking account. Decided to pay off the mortgage in full using the checking account. They tacked on an EFT charge to pay off a BoA mortgage with a BoA checking account. They also added another charge to close the paid off mortgage account (I would think that having a zero balance on your mortgage would automatically close).
About two weeks later, I got not one but two nasty letters in the mail stating that I have terminated my auto-payment of my mortgage and that I could suffer fines and surcharges if I did not manually mail in my next month's payment.
The biggest problem with BoA, IMO is that they have gotten so fragmented in their departments and sub-departments (and sub-sub-departments) that their left hand does not know what their right is doing. For example their "Escrow Insurance Outgoing Payment Department" does not work with their "Escrow Incoming Insurance Bill Processing Department".
The last accounts I had with them was a mortgage and checking account. Decided to pay off the mortgage in full using the checking account. They tacked on an EFT charge to pay off a BoA mortgage with a BoA checking account. They also added another charge to close the paid off mortgage account (I would think that having a zero balance on your mortgage would automatically close).
About two weeks later, I got not one but two nasty letters in the mail stating that I have terminated my auto-payment of my mortgage and that I could suffer fines and surcharges if I did not manually mail in my next month's payment.
The biggest problem with BoA, IMO is that they have gotten so fragmented in their departments and sub-departments (and sub-sub-departments) that their left hand does not know what their right is doing. For example their "Escrow Insurance Outgoing Payment Department" does not work with their "Escrow Incoming Insurance Bill Processing Department".
DrPizza
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Too big to fail, too big to operate efficiently without errors such as these.
I love my little bank. My wife logged in to our account this weekend using *my* computer instead of her computer. She's never used my computer for banking before. She was locked out of our account until she called the bank from the registered phone number, received a text message to our phone, and used the key number in that message when logging back in to our account. I thought it was a very nice touch; it inconvenienced her for all of 1 minute. A couple weeks ago, my son lost one of our debit cards. Within minutes, our debit card was cancelled; but the human we talked to (wow, humans), also noted that a couple of automatic payments that would have been taken out with the debit number during the next few days were okay to allow. ZERO problems from our end, and nearly effortless in both cases.
I love my little bank. My wife logged in to our account this weekend using *my* computer instead of her computer. She's never used my computer for banking before. She was locked out of our account until she called the bank from the registered phone number, received a text message to our phone, and used the key number in that message when logging back in to our account. I thought it was a very nice touch; it inconvenienced her for all of 1 minute. A couple weeks ago, my son lost one of our debit cards. Within minutes, our debit card was cancelled; but the human we talked to (wow, humans), also noted that a couple of automatic payments that would have been taken out with the debit number during the next few days were okay to allow. ZERO problems from our end, and nearly effortless in both cases.
wuliheron
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wuliheron
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Oooooo, shiny! Nobody ever lost money underestimating the average intelligence of the American people.
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