PanAm330 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2601 posts, RR: 10 Posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1505 times:
Just something I thought about since it's a nice boring Friday here. Last week I switched from Citi to Wells Fargo, but I also use Bank of America. For credit cards, I've got Citi, BoA and American Express. I'm extremely disappointed with the way Citi treated me as one of their "customers," and a couple hours later I walked out of WF feeling like I was actually appreciated as a customer there. As soon as I can, I'm dropping the Citi credit card I have and getting a WF one. How about you guys- who do you bank with, and do you like them?
PanAm330 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2601 posts, RR: 10 Reply 2, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1480 times:
What bank they use? Hardly. It's not as if I asked for their account numbers. If that were the case, everyone would wear a trenchcoat and dark sunglasses when they walked in the bank. If you're really offended, suggest deletion.
DC10extender From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 617 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1480 times:
Wells Fargo, City County Federal Credit Union.
Did you ever read on your birth certificate that life is fair? Thats cause its not there.
BigOrange From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 2358 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1453 times:
I use Bank of America. Was going to switch to Commerce but I'm just refinancing a home equity loan with B of A and I have to have an account with B of A to do it
I am getting rid of my B of A and Chase credit cards though, I refuse to pay 20+% APR
Bwaflyer From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2004, 674 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1453 times:
Lovely Lloyds TSB (not) - but in the process of changing over to smile from Co-op, very good interest rates on current account, and the whole ethical policy attracts me. I also fed up with constant phone calls from some call centre offering me a Lloyds TSB account review (ie a meeting with an account manager to try and flog me a loan). Credit cards - only one for emergencies and large purchases for the extra protection under credit card legislation, from MBNA that I've had forever, and pay off straight away if I ever put anything on it.
JFK69 From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 1381 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1443 times:
Quoting BigOrange (Reply 7): I use Bank of America. Was going to switch to Commerce but I'm just refinancing a home equity loan with B of A and I have to have an account with B of A to do it
I am getting rid of my B of A and Chase credit cards though, I refuse to pay 20+% APR
if you get a chance afterwards I def. recommend Commerce. Best customer service and of course the sunday full banking.
UPS707 From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 354 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1436 times:
I refuse to use any of the major commercial banks....I always felt like they were "feeing" me to death and I was just an account number to them. I used to use a couple local credit unions that I liked because they weren't like that. Since then I've started banking using USAA and love it. You can't beat the convenicence of being able to deposit a check into your account without leaving your PC!
Doona From Sweden, joined Feb 2005, 3707 posts, RR: 14 Reply 12, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1433 times:
I utilize the services of a Swedish bank called Handelsbanken. I'm totally satisfied with what they provide, and their Internet banking service is one of the few which has not had a ton of problems with people hacking in and stealing people's money.
Cheers
Mats
Sure, we're concerned for our lives. Just not as concerned as saving 9 bucks on a roundtrip to Ft. Myers.
JBLUA320 From United States of America, joined May 2002, 3160 posts, RR: 21 Reply 13, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1430 times:
I bank with Wachovia. I've wanted to switch to Commerce because I have heard wonderful things, but they have no branches where I go to school (NC) and that's where I spend the bulk of my time. Though, I've heard Commerce will refund the ATM fee if you use a non-Commerce ATM, so maybe I'll make the switch!
Aloha73G From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2301 posts, RR: 5 Reply 14, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1417 times:
First Hawaiian Bank for checking, savings and Aloha AirAwards Credit Card.
They say "Yes!"
Interesting thing about Hawai'i is that all of our banks are only here....no B of A, Wells Fargo, WaMu etc.
We have:
Bank of Hawai'i
First Hawaiian Bank
American Savings Bank
Central Pacific Bank
Hawaii National Bank
Territorial Savings
.....and a few others.
B of A's attempt here in the 1990s was a complete and utter failure. They sold out to American Savings after about 5 years.
-Aloha!
[Edited 2007-08-10 22:53:41]
Aloha Airlines - The Spirit Moves Us. Gone but NEVER Forgotten. Aloha, A Hui Hou!
Dtwclipper From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1416 times:
I started with Michigan National Bank which became Standard Federal Bank which became La Salle Bank and depending what ABN Amro does will change its name again.
I switched all of my banking to SmithBarney/Citi Bank in May.
My first accounts where at American Federal Savings of Michigan. My dad was president of the firm so it was a good place for me to bank.
Mdodd From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 348 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1413 times:
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Reply 17, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1383 times:
Lincoln From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3887 posts, RR: 8 Reply 18, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1374 times:
Bank of America for everything but my upcoming mortgage (Wells Fargo). BofA is quite possibly the most incompetent company I've ever dealt with.
An example of a recent exchange
-- via email --
Me: "Hello, I will need a Cashier's Check in the near future, but there aren't any branches in the state that I currently live in, can you tell me what my options are?"
Them: "We appologize for the inconvenience, in the fure you can avoid problems by ensuring that a deposit slip is included with all deposits."
--- via telephone ---
Me: "Hi, I'm going to need a Cashier's Check in the near future, but there anren't any branches in the state that I live in, can you tell me what I would need to do?"
Them: What city and state do you live in?
Me: Cleveland, Ohio
Them: One moment.
Them: Hmm, there don't seem to be any branches in Ohio.
Me: Yeah
Them: Well, as soon as you locate the branch nearest you, they can issue a cashiers check.
Lincoln
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National757 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 717 posts, RR: 1 Reply 19, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1369 times:
Quoting Express1 (Reply 1): Not sort of info that people would like to give out really, that's sort of thing people tend to keep to themselfs.
Why so offended Dave? It's not like Will was asking for the account balances in our bank accounts or even the type of accounts we have. He's just asking where we bank.
In my case, I bank with WAMU and a local credit union.
Formula 1 Grand Prix Trips: YUL '08, MEL '09, BCN '10, SIN '11, and LGW '12
Aloha73G From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2301 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1363 times:
Quoting Lincoln (Reply 18): BofA is quite possibly the most incompetent company I've ever dealt with.
One of the big reasons they failed in Hawai'i (aside from crappy mainland phone service) was that weren't loaning any money out for mortgages. Why you might ask?? B of A requires heating systems for any homes they do a mortgage on and guess what....no one here has a heater.
My dad (a realtor/developer) talked to them about it.
Him: We don't need heaters in Hawai'i. Why don't you just eliminate that restriction for us?
Them: Those are our rules, we can't make exceptions.
Him: Well then you won't be doing any mortgages here.
Them: We will. On homes that have heaters.
Yikes.....talk about a bunch of idiots!
-Aloha!
Aloha Airlines - The Spirit Moves Us. Gone but NEVER Forgotten. Aloha, A Hui Hou!
Rara From Germany, joined Jan 2007, 1823 posts, RR: 3 Reply 21, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1363 times:
In Germany, I still use Sparkasse, even though they're crap. I need to switch to a decent bank sometimes, but I'm just too lazy. In Holland, I've been using SNS, which are equally crap (very similar to Sparkasse in this regard). In Hong Kong, I've been banking with HSBC and I haven't regretted that.
Samson was a biblical tough guy, but his dad Samsonite was even more of a hard case.
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 23, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1355 times:
I've been using SunTrust for several years now. I had been considering going back to the credit union I used to use (Delta Community Credit Union, formerly Delta Employees Credit Union) since their main branch and one of the their satellite branches aren't too much out of my way on my way home from work (Plus there's a Credit Union Service Center right near my job and I could make deposits there as well instead of going to a DCCU branch.). They have a policy of "once a member, always a member" so it would be easy for me to reopen my account there. I've just been too lazy to go do it. I may do it by the end of the year though.
While SunTrust is a lot more convenient for me (they have branches in quite a few Publix stores and even a few Kroger stores and I can find a branch pretty easily), their service at times leaves a lot to be desired, and some of their tellers just don't know what they're doing. One day, I had a teller try to deposit the amount of money I wanted back and tried to give me the amount of deposit I was trying to make. He didn't make this mistake just once, try three times. I've also had tellers that tried to use the bank's policy in regards to deposits of non-SunTrust checks when the check in question was written on a SunTrust check (My current employee uses SunTrust as well, as did my previous employer so nealry all of the checks I deposit to my account are written on SunTrust account.). The only branches I've never had any problems in regards to my deposits were the branches closest to my employer (My current employer makes deposits there every day and the branch closest to my previous job got a lot of the employees going there to cash their checks).
Lgbga From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 185 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1346 times:
I use a local small town bank for my checking. HSBC while husband is in Mexico. Credit cards, AMEX, Citi, B of Am that I don't use much. I'm not a fan of them or Chase.
25 FriendlySkies: I use Bank of America only because I live in Chicago, go to school in Atlanta, and work in Greenville, SC...BoA is the only bank that has locations in
26 Therock401: For 5 years I banked with the glorified check cashing parlor that is TCF. They have the ID card/checking account scam locked up at the Universities of
27 N231YE: I use Huntington. So far, they are fine, nothing great about them, nor have I had any problems with them. As far as Citi goes, my mother came just "a
28 PoRtColuMBus: I have a checking account with Chase, but a high-yield savings account through Citi and Citi-issued credit card.
29 Roadrunner165: Most people don't realize that large banks like Wells Fargo pioneered retail banking. My local bank has actual tellers who are knowledgeable in banki
30 Asturias: I use many banks in many countries. I'm mysterious like that (ey I travel a lot! :p ) saludos Asturias
31 SW733: In the US: US Bank, but I also have a Chase Credit Card In Namibia: Bank of Namibia (Dad worked for them) [Edited 2007-08-11 02:47:58]
32 ShannoninAMA: Wells fargo....i used to have "Plains national Bank" But they got bought out by WF
33 SW733: Oh yes, I forgot to add, I am switching from Bank of Namibia to Bank Windhoek...Bank of Namibia is a lot like the Federal Reserve Bank in the USA, but
34 National757: Same thing at WAMU. I spent two years at Washington Mutual and as tellers we were required to refer a set amount of products each month. How many ref
35 Jafa39: Nigerian Bank of International Commerce: I am just waiting for them to transfer 2.5 million USD that I am helping to move from a Govt contract for th
36 CaptainJon: I agree that Bank of America is awful. I am thinking of changing as well. How is TD Banknorth in the New York metropolitan area? I am also lazy when i
37 MCOflyer: Same here and it sucks for no weekend service. Other than that, the best I've come across. Hunter
38 Alias1024: Bank of America, and I've had zero problems with them. They have more branches and ATMs than anyone else, which has been nice since I have lived in No
42 Corey07850: Bank: Wachovia Credit Cards: Citi/Bank of America Money Market Account: ING
43 Mhodgson: In the UK I use HSBC as my main account, though also have a Nationwide savings account. I also opened a Chase account when I got here as I was concern
45 LH423: When I lived in the US, I used Bank Of America. I had no problems with them. In Canada I use Scotiabank. I find some of their rules a little rigid but
46 SouthwestMDW: I bank at First Midwest Bank. Smaller bank in Northern Illinois. I don't really like it and keep thinking about changing but I never do. I have a Firs
48 BAGoldEx: Banks: Bank of America, Citi, U. S. Trust, Boston Private Bank & Trust, HSBC Bank of Bermuda Cards: Citi Visa, AMEX, Diner's Club
49 Fly747: I don't use it, but have tried in the past. They're junk to say the least. I'd rather pay my $13 a month (or whatever it is) and have a full service
50 A332: After many years of loyalty with TD and getting nothing in return, I made the switch... This bank is the best... they have given me EVERYTHING I have
51 Braybuddy: I'm with National Irish Bank, which was Australian until two years ago. Now it's Danish. Confused? So am I every month when I get my Visa statement. T
58 Cory6188: My whole family uses Bank of America, and I haven't had any complaints about them whatsoever. They've always been incredibly helpful whenever I've gon
60 GlobeTrekker: In Holland I have a current and savings account with ABN Amro. I also have a account with the Postbank. My credit card is AmEx by AF-KLM Flying Blue a
61 Kalakaua: Bank of Hawaii, for its convenience back in the islands... Now, I'm just in it for the Hawaiian Miles. Wells Fargo in the States.
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