I’ve been busy as can be lately; I plan on posting more, and today, I’m inspired by Chase Bank.
I recently had a situation with Chase Bank in which they sucked my account dry with service fees. Seems that if you just keep your money in their bank and don’t *use* it–you know, what banks supposedly WANT you to do so they can lend out your money, they charge you a $6 service fee. I’m guessing the “service” was charging me a fee. No, this wasn’t from having a low account balance (I checked), just “inactivity.” Of course, they hadn’t *told* me about this feature, nor did they let me know that they were charging me the fee WHEN they charged me the fee, nor, for that matter, did they tell me when they had closed the now-empty account. They just let me carry my debit card and let me find out about the problem when I finally decided to USE the damned thing.
BEWARE.
After the fact, I was pointed by a friend toward http://chase-sucks.com, and it seems I’m not alone in being treated badly by them.