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Bank Of America Drops $5 Debit Card Fee
As expected, following the complete failure of banks to institute an extortion cartel on debit account fees after two already defected, it was only a matter of time before Bank of America withdrew as well. Sure enough:
- BofA Drops Plan for $5 Debit Fee, Spokesman Says
Now, while this is great news for whatever deposits BAC has left (substantially lower than what it had at September 30, that's for sure), it doesn't answer the question - just how will the bank make money?
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Look! A unicorn!
Too little too late.
Burn in hell BoA (damn, that sounds like a scorned woman, lol)
Ratfucking lamprey banks trying to kiss up to the public, all the while installing 1.5" thick bulletproof glass teller windows ALL ACROSS THE U.S.A. in the most benign bedroom neighborhoods.
They know they are held in UTMOST CONTEMPT by their American HOSTS.
Seriously now...just when are they finally going to nail plywood over the doors of EVERY Blight on America bank door? What are folks waiting for? Who would own these crap shares?
Only questions on BAC...
"Who would own these crap shares?"
Washed-up billionaires...
As a BOA account holder, in the past month I have recieved a tremendous amout of marketing (Via, mail, email and even direct telemerketing) saying all they can to maintain the account.
Please wake up and jump before you are boiled.
Message from Bank of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90eGrdPpv3g
Bulletproof glass is not bullet proof it's bullet resistant. Just shoot it 5 times in the same place. Or use a flamethrower on it.
It is quite apparent that Banks are making money through credit card purchases.. Just watch 1 hour of TV and you will see the push by every bank to get their plastic cards used for getting the fee from merchants.. I'm sure the interest charges are great too, for those that do not pay the cards off monthly like the smart ones do..
To make money on credit card accounts, they have to get people to actually make the payments on their BAC card accounts. I have a feeling that credit card delinquencies are more than erasing the interest earnings from the few poor chumps that are carrying balances and making payments.
When BAC announced the $5 debit card fee, I went down to my branch and closed a business account I no longer used. They asked me why I was closing the account. "Fees are getting too high".
They handed me my $3,400 in twenties, a huge envelope. I thought they were doing it just to be snarky, but then I reflected: the people who came in before me to close their accounts today took all the $50s and $100s.
These dinosaurs are on their last legs.
I cashed a US treasury check for over 5g's a couple years ago.. I thought I was being investigated for a murder when I asked for the money and indicated I would not be depositing any of it in my account..
They try to give you the run around cause they dont want you to know they only have like 10k at the bank tops. People would shit if they realized how little cash is actually out there.
pods
yeah.. they practically admitted to as much.. They were actually quite intrusive when asking about my intent with the cash.. I told them I was diversifying out of electronic digits.. true story..
I forget the exact number, but my experience is that banks require you to call ahead of time for "larger" cash transactions. I'm thinking the number is around $5k. Of course, anything over $9900 immediately triggers anti-money laundering paperwork and the red flag brigade comes marching in.
I find the electronic digits to be usefull for me still, but instead of playing with the TBTF banks, I use Schwab's brokerage checking features. I've had no issues and have been reimbursed for any ATM fees. Can anyone think of a single reason (other than the collapse of the currency) why this type of account would be at risk?
I shit you not this is a true story. Several years ago I used Chase right after they bought out my old bank. I was standing in the teller line and the person in front of me finishing up his business turned around and said "the best part of our bank is this" and he grabbed a sucker from the candy bowl and unwrapped it. Do not underestimate the level of ignorance and retardation of those who use these TBTF banks.
1 Hour of TV and I usually see some nice sounding music and a BofA or Chase commericial. Where do they get this money to advertise? Oh, deposits. Sorry, still drunk from pass this bill.
'just how will the bank make money?' - Same as MF Global, they take it out of your account by 'accident' and if you notice they give it back, if you don't, ain't no one going to jail...
If the bank doesn't steal it to boost its profits then the .Govt has to sell new bonds to recapitalise it.
Now where's that Regulator again...
"Why should you go to jail for a crime that someone else noticed? Bob Lablaw Law Offices are here to assist you. Check us out on our Bob Lablaw Law Blog."
'just how will the bank make money?"---Answer: go back to honest commercial banking and giving people services they actually need. Oh wait, then they can't screw the American taxpayers through racketeering too systemically threatening to fail threat and pretend they are "masters of the universe" while adding nothing substantive to the world and running away with bonuses.
What a dumb idea I just had there.... ok, continue fucking people up the ass from here to eternity and then letting Tyler Durden lapdogs blame the SEC and CFTC for it, that's been working real well the last 10 years.
I get that mixed up too. Community Bank, Credit Union vs. TBTF, it is so confusing.
That's not a unicorn. It's a monkey flying out of someone's ass. Much more credible.
Next, BAC is going to spin off its debit card business into a new entity called Qwikster and send a condescending email to its customers to tell them about it.
Holy shit - I just laughed so hard I spit my food out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8cVGMV_j4 Like this?
An elderly gent in Tinytown, U.S.A., moves his three-figure checking account from a Bank of America branch in town, to the local County Credit Union...while across the continent, the parent company, a $65 billion-dollar collossus in Charlotte, North Carolina, turns tail-between-legs and recinds a $5 monthly debit card fee.
The Netflix Effect.
CDS
Won't save you BAC.
'- just how will the bank make money?'
Those days are over.
BAC will make money with new Account Cancellation Fees...
The 5 bucks were just a trial balloon. The mass defections were people who READ the fliers that came 6 weeks ago telling depositors about fees. They plan to nickel and dime the remaining idiots for revenue.I ended a 31 year relationship and went to BECU.
The move has made me over $1000. just in fees I won't be assessed, and that isn't counting the ATM charges. It is fees to be assessed or about to be, on checking and credit card accounts.
fuck them in the rear view mirror.
The 5 bucks were just a trial balloon.
This move it to appear they are 'listening' to 'consumers.
Once people moved their funds they aren't coming back for '5 bucks'.
'- just how will the bank make money?'
I guess it depends on who they are making money for, there are probably plenty of golden parachutes still around. I wonder what their bonus pool is looking like, can't lose the guys that bankrupted the joint right?
We're saved!! Risk on!
Indeed, no crisis.
Shhh go back to sleep.
That's awfully white of them isn't it?
you are a racist Che
You are a loon.
'Just how will the bank make money'?
World War profiteering coming soon.
Exactly. BAC will be given Poland.
nope.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/01/us-usa-afghanistan-idUSTRE7A00M320111101
Yep.
http://www.eutimes.net/2011/10/russian-leader-tells-top-generals-prepare-for-armageddon/
That's Russia, amurika be broke.
The USA do not have the money to invade middle east, "The Great Event"...Its not gonna happen.
The USA (or banksters behind it all) can't afford NOT to have a war, and besides they have been planning it for centuries (ex: free mason Albert Pike and his plan for 3 world wars).
sorcha faal has credibility?
Theyre getting ready for the big one, Iran, plus Russia and China enter into that.
That would be the war to end all wars, right.
Just where is the Antichrist when you need him?
See Lloyd.
"Just how will the bank make money?"
It won't, and it's all Reggie's fault and those rabble rousers on Zero Hedge. Damn them, they're nothing but..er, well, rabble!
SD1 is right, the only way out for them is war (again).
Rabble rabble rabble!! South Park Rabble Rabble Rabble - YouTube
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Looks like Tylers message of 3 - 4 years is now going mainstream! Rut Roe! Reorge!!
Buy making change, of course.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4258/saturday-night-live-first-citywide-change-bank-1
It will follow MF global's lead and steal it. It's legal to do that now. As long as you are politically connected.
Don't worry BAC longs, they'll recoup the planned income from the loss of the debit fee with less transparent nickel & diming.
Just how will the bank make money?
Making money isn't the plan really. Trashing the USD and confiscating our savings and assetts is the long-term plan.
The grift is never about the game the mark get's to play.
how are those postal layoffs coming spastica?
Did they cancel them? I missed the memo again.
Anyone still left in BAC accounts deserves it.
The system shares a few scraps of the joys of complexity with a few. To use them as cannon fodder. They are so hopelessly enamored by the system they will fight to protect it.
How will the banks make money?
Easy. A quick call to Uncle Ben. Instant Money.
I called him too. All I got was some instant rice.
ZING.
Thanks to the Netflix model of doing business we can extrapolate they were losing a ton of customers.I'm sure Bove will be on shortly to tell us how bullish this really is.
Dang ... you guys can't take a joke
We was kidding.
Lol!
its too late to apologize... its tooo laaaaaaaaaaaaate
Bank of Apology?
No need for National Bank Transfer day anymore. BAC saved!
F BOA
Feather Boa?
Bad karma around the $5 fee; it's where their stock is headed next, and below which it will remain.
If they give me a nice toaster, 100 bucks, and a super coffee machine, I'll open an account.
margaritaville for a merrill lynch brokerage?
Ya sounds good. But you won't be able to close it without early termination penalties like a 30-06 in the brain pan.
BAC ain't a bank....its a prop desk with a retail division catering to customers they can fuck over with no fear of reprisal.
We shouldn't care if it makes money. It will not make money. Credit is rolled up and reality trumps shadow banking. Prop up TBTF all you want... The scam humpties will still have a great fall receeding to the mean....
sounded like such a great fucking idea in the conference room, didn't it boys?
Fuck them anyway. Keep the money walking. Move to CREDIT UNIONS......
Create your own bank up in the attic, under the ground, behind the wall, etc. and , stock up gold/silver!
BoA, realizing it has over-penetrated, practices withdrawal.
It should start trading features! I heard there is space avaliable.
This was 1 month too late- the proposed "Bank Transfer Day" is still going to happen, and even them taking-away-the-fee-they-were-going-to-charge-if-it-wasn't-for-a-potential-BAC-bank-run won't stop people going on tilt and mucking their accounts.
I did yesterday, it felt awesome.
They'll still try to nickle-and-dime customers. A monthly fee for checking, usually around $10-$12, went up to $15 without anybody telling me.
well, if BOA is following the Netflix model closely, next up should be an abortive attempt to separate into two companies their in person bank teller business from their ATM machine business. You will need different ids and separately funded accounts to withdraw from one or the other. The future bitchez!
Awaiting headline that says: BofA drops $5.00
Oh good, I'll be down to open an account this afternoon- fucking shithead bank
L0L!!! no soup for BAC!!!
they make money 2 old-fashioned wayz
1: they get it from warren B
2: they STEAL it
"businesses any idiot could run"
~Warren Buffet
They'll ask for a government bailout of course.
Now how are all their employees going to buy their $5 footlongs at Subway????
Good News: Referendum increasingly unlikely in Greece
Bad News: Because the Greek government could collapse as early as tonight
-CNBC about 30 seconds ago
Wait.... are they attempting to hedge their rumors now?
really great source
thanks
The motherfuckers scalp every tiny fee they can, then keep you on the phone with their Filipina doormat apologist for 45 minutes while she says, "I'm Soooo soooorrrrry" nine times and still doesn't reverse their asinine charges.
Ratfucking vermin; but their shit is getting shown to the light and right soon.
Hey, naive and weak guy here. My wife vetoed getting out of BoA because it would mess up her automatic bill payments/would be a hassle etc.
Whats the worst that could happen to BoA depositors?
c'mon billy... You know the answer to that one. Short of that, in the FDIC we trust!?!
You're supporting the beast that is being used to murder capitalism, so that socialism can increase its stranglehold on humanity.
Other than that, not much.
Online bill pay set up is worthless if there are no funds.
every community and credit union offers same benefits, and perks
choose wisely
Good gawd. We're hostages...we can't leave! Bulls, bears, pigs. Sheep.
That your lazy ass wife is in charge. Change banks and set up the auto pay up with the new bank. It is NOT that hard. This fucking country is not willing to do a couple of hours of work to save it from destruction.
Until the market - that is US - takes our power back by moving our money away from the likes of BAC etc. the status quo will continue. You could even offer to help with the transition. It is just a little work.
NFLX got a bit of humility (or pretended to) with a slap down. The primary dealers should be next.
One of these days in the not too distant future, one of us will show up at your door, ring the bell, and when you answer we will punch you repeatedly in your big thick head. If this is your first day at fight club you have to fight.
Sorry billy, there times to just "smack the bitch.!"
I am have been married 28 years and no fucking cunt is going to tell me what to do about money. NOt their strong suit.
My bro pulls with wife over 200k a year and their broke. SHe runs the finances as well as tan man did with countryfuckingwideinthemouthfullof cock.
I been asking the same thing for 2 years now. Once they lost the overdraft bonanza they started looking for other ways to chisel away from their customers. TD Bank did away with their ATM fee rebates for the majority of their depositors which is the primary reason everyone I know originally joined Commerce Bank which was bought out by TD. Then banks instituted checking account fees.
So exactly how are they intending on making money while foreclosures increase and whatever people left which have jobs are jumping from bank to bank in search of higher pitiful yield on CD's and savings accounts? How can they survive interest rate hikes when they will be paying savings rates at "normalized" levels. Back in 2005 they were paying 3% and in 1999 nearly 5%.
That is why they need ZIRP forever and QE because the only way they can possibly profit is at the casino. The natural banking model is dead until the banks implode. Think of what they have resorted to in order to make money..They are buying CDS on THEMSELVES. This could and always will end in one thing..cannibalization of one another, rumor mongering and 1 bank left standing.
I know many who have closed accounts at that broken bank.
And, how is that bail out of GM working for ya. Pathetic excuse for a company.
We'll have to wait for the election to see the GM payoff. From the unions to Obummer, that is.
what the hell do they care. Once the trillion in derivitives goes pop they will get a nice big taxpayer funded check from big ben and little timmy.
They all learned how to flipflop from the master (you know who).
"We are cutting the pc division, wait we don't"
OMG if someone makes a bad decision, and you criticize them for it, and they reverse the decision and you criticize them again, it's called loss of objectivity. Move on ZH.
Go stand in the idiot line and wait your turn.
the old fashion way___ by failing
They figured out it will be easier to increase revenue via the next TARP.
Expect an announcement about all the charities that are gonna get screwed now.
Brian will shift "blame" onto the customers.
What a moron.
Same way MF did, "borrow" customer deposits, count them as revenue, pray for bailout.
The $5.00 tax was only on the poor people with less than $5 grand . What a bunch of pigs .
YEA on top of it all, the $5 fee was only for the poor paupers.
go to hell BOA, you tried to screw the american citizen, the damage that has already been done...
"Do you expect me to make money, Goldfinger?"
"No, Mr. BoA....I expect you to die."
Bank of America: we make money the old fashioned way - by running a casino.
They are going to start charging $5 for parking, $10 for valet. In cities where customers don't have to drive to the branch, they will set up security checkpoints much like at airports and when you put your wallet through the x-ray scanner, you'll never get it back. Trips to the bank will be much quicker.
Make money the way you did 20 years ago. Compete for deposits, make good loans at reasonable rates, and put your customer first. This is 'banking', not rocket science. Pay the rocket scientist a million bucks, pay the bank CEO a couple hundred grand (assuming he's been there 20 years-or-so).
But then again, with rates at zero, who the hell needs to lend money? And who needs customers? In fact, except for Fed access, why bother being a bank!!??
The announcement is a right hand out futile offering tactic, it's what the left hand is doing behind the scenes that counts.
If you have an account with them, they will get that five bucks, just like Comcast does with those ridiculous fees made up out of thin air.
Move your accounts and don't play, it's the only way to win.
I know BAC's problem are mostly obvious to all here, but usually a radical fee hike is a sign of a company desperate for cash. A canary in the coal mine.
Let these TOO BIG TO FAIL BANKS, FAIL!
Make it happen. Pull out like you were on a drunken bender and just realized that that wasn't your penis flopping around and the girl has a HUGE adam's apple. "Ann Coulter flashbacks..."
DO IT!
Not this time Chip; in this instance B of A is just another disgusting, contemptable, purely SYMBIOTIC LAMPREY APPENDAGE deserving righteous contempt.
If there is one entity that I want to see fail more than any other, it is Bank Of America.
More than Goldman? More than JPM? More than the North Korean Government? More than the Obama Administration? Wow!
Damn poor people, messing up the business of our cartels
To BofA: JUMP FUCKERS!
I try to pay with cash to help the merchants I do business with. When you use your credit card Visa gets 3% of the transaction which cuts into the merchants bottom line. If everyone store did business in cash prices of goods could be up to 3% cheaper and stupid people wouldn't have all this credit card debt they can't pay and big banks would not have as much influence on us and our government. Fuck credit and debit cards.
They are going to double down and replace it with a $10 fee instead ;)
I already cleared my personal accounts out of BoA last month. I will deplete my business account by the end of the month and move to US Bank. BoA, morphed into a pathetic excuse for a financial institution by virtue of both the greed and stupidity of Ken Lewis and his group of jokers. I hope we can effect "clawbacks" or file lawsuits for all the money these assholes were paid for running the company into the ground.
Walked into the last big bank I had an account with yesterday after I had transferred money in to cover an electronic payment but they post payments before deposits and hit me with an overdraft(which of course they apply immediately). I was in the process of moving over payments to my CU and had not been replenishing the account regularly as I was closing it. I sit down with, no shit, the Lion fromthe Wizard of Oz, it's Halloween, and tell her I'm not talking with her if she doesn't take off the ridiculous plastic nose. I give her the bank card and tell her to close the account. She asks why and I told her she didn't want to know. Not 3 minutes later she turns to me and ask "Is it because of the bank card fee?". I got pissed. My reply(true story) was "No, it's because you turned off my bank card at 3am in the fucking morning while I'm driving home from my father's funeral service and leave me stranded in some backwoods Virginia highway pit stop with no other CC and not enough cash to drive the remaining 800 miles home. Because your C/S number is so tiny even the 20yo clerk couldn't read it and half of it's obliterated by the number impressions. No call, no email from your security department. I wake my sister up at 3am and she tells me they threw some expense cash in my bag and forgot to tell me about it so I at least made it home no thanks to your bank, that's WHY!" That shut her up and got me stared at by everyone in the place(I was loud). I excused myself and went to the restroom because the meds I'm on leave me a bit 'loose', I made a deposit and didn't flush. I walked out, she handed me an envelope with the balance in it and tried to hand me her card saying I could call her if I changed my mind. "That's NOT going to happen!"
Too little, too late. I've closed out by BAC accounts and every day I'm telling all my friends/family to do the same.
BAC dun goofed.
Move your accounts to a local Credit Union, closest thing to a local banker we have left.
Whoopie.
Imagine the Exodus.
30 years ago I heard these words from parents.. Go with BOA they are the very best.
Now I walk into my CU with a BOA check and am treated as if I am toxic.
I cannot wait to see the FDIC to close that great big steaming Fishkill landfill.
After this fiasco, they will only disclose their next scheme under "The Cone Of Silence".
I keep a small checking account at a local bank and also have a Citibank account. Citibank is trying shit, mailing out lies that I am getting an "upgraded" account when it's nothing but more fees, and more complicated bullshit to try to avoid them. I'm closing my Citibank account soon.
I will consider using a big bank as long as the checking options are simple, straightforward, and no gimmicks. I like the online banking of the big banks better, they are much easier to use.
Other than that, savings accounts are now practically worthless. You get nothing, and there are limits on external transfers.
The rest of my money is in you know what.