Part V
Postmaster
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Bellingham, WA
Lame on the bank!!!! I switched banks for that very reason. One of my customers and now best friends is the Vp of my new bank, lets just say nobody ever questions anything I do!.... I can walk in with a $10k check and ask for cash on the spot, and I get it, no questions asked.....
Postmaster
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Bellingham, WA
Hotshot
Joined: Jan 2008
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From: Rochdale MA
That's a good idea too! Hmm.. Thanks for being so helpful all the time, Jim. It's nice to see good, helpful moderators.
On the note of money orders: I went to the bank on Saturday with dad to get a cashiers check for 950$ because I needed a 5% bid security thing or some such nonsense.
I went there with 950$ cash in hand. I tried to get a cashiers check. Sorry only money orders below 1k. Alrighty. Can I have a money order? Sorry you have to deposit the money first and then withdraw it as a money order. Ok. The tension level is just rising with every answer here. So we deposit the money. 950$ cash plus the 5$ fee for the money order. Then she says "Oh it doesn't come up as accessible funds." Ratchet that stress level up one more notch. So then I tell em to just give me my cash back so I can go to Stop&Shop to get a Western Union money order. Then she needs to call her manager to see if she's allowed to give me my @#%#$ CASH back to me. Crossed the street and went to Stop&Shop. They had to give me 2 money orders instead of one since they are capped at 500$. It cost me 2$ and NO frustration to have STOP&SHOP do what the bank could not do for 5$.
Pretty pathetic on the bank's part IMO.
On the note of money orders: I went to the bank on Saturday with dad to get a cashiers check for 950$ because I needed a 5% bid security thing or some such nonsense.
I went there with 950$ cash in hand. I tried to get a cashiers check. Sorry only money orders below 1k. Alrighty. Can I have a money order? Sorry you have to deposit the money first and then withdraw it as a money order. Ok. The tension level is just rising with every answer here. So we deposit the money. 950$ cash plus the 5$ fee for the money order. Then she says "Oh it doesn't come up as accessible funds." Ratchet that stress level up one more notch. So then I tell em to just give me my cash back so I can go to Stop&Shop to get a Western Union money order. Then she needs to call her manager to see if she's allowed to give me my @#%#$ CASH back to me. Crossed the street and went to Stop&Shop. They had to give me 2 money orders instead of one since they are capped at 500$. It cost me 2$ and NO frustration to have STOP&SHOP do what the bank could not do for 5$.
Pretty pathetic on the bank's part IMO.
Post Fiend
Joined: Dec 2008
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From: Wallingford, CT
Had we not been in a rush I would've driven us over to Wachovia which is my bank.
I'm not going to name names on the bank that wouldn't help us, but let's say it's the opposite of Old Alliance.
Postmaster
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 3,220
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From: VA
Commercial banks suck. I have an account with Wachovia and a credit union. The service and policies at the credit union are far better and Im kinda in Brent's shoes with the management except my dad used to be the CEO's boss a few years ago. Thankfully she liked and respected him and apparently it travels down the line! Wachovia, Im almost done with. I have like 56 bucks on a credit card that had no interest for a period and when thats done next month Im closing my account with them.
Its not the fact its Wachovia...its just the commercial banks and I dont get along together...
Its not the fact its Wachovia...its just the commercial banks and I dont get along together...
Master of Strokes
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 6,808
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From: CA
Posting Guru
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,086
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From: Washington Oregon
I'm gonna call it a night.. Good night y'all!!
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