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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by px43 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:23AM (#26176608)
When I closed my Wells Fargo account, they took out all my money, charged me some account closing fee, which over-drafted and fell back to a credit card which now had a balance on it due to the overdraft and they told me they couldn't close my account. I think I ended up paying something like 130 dollars of fees just to close my account, but at that point they'd already screwed me over so many times that I just paid it all and walked out.

Terrible, terrible company.

Every person everywhere really needs to move all their money to credit unions, our banking system is so thoroughly fucked.

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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by lostlogin on Thursday February 18, 2021 @02:56AM (#26177191)
I closed a bank account in the UK in about 2001. I emptied it at an atm then walked into the bank to close it.

The cashier gave me all the cash I’d already taken from the account.

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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by freetime2 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:03AM (#26178856)
In the US, they would reopen your account without telling you and start charging you fees and/or interest on the amount they overpaid. I know this because it happened to me last year when American Express mistakenly refunded a credit to me twice when closing an account (one check and one bank transfer). I never even cashed the check but apparently that didn’t make a difference to them.
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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by aligray on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:11AM (#26177640)
I really hope this is true, always nice to hear about the robbing happening in the opposite direction.
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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by lostlogin on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:25AM (#26181793)
I gave the money back when I realised what had happened, which was about 5 minutes later.
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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by csomar on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:44AM (#26178298)
Do you mean you got your balance twice?
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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by lostlogin on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:25AM (#26181800)
Yes. I gave it back.
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