fun with banking

1Shot1Kill · Apr 13, 2012

hazyintentions said:
Lol @ everyone arguing over tax refunds. My take, they are nice until you realize that is was YOUR money to start with! bahaha, the Feds got us again!

Unless you make under a certain amount and get it all back plus $1,800 like my gf, probably like most of the country

desert dude · Apr 13, 2012

1Shot1Kill said:
Yeah I live in a small town too but stop if we are around one and bring some delicious goodness home. I used to live in Reno and loved the easy access of a whole foods and trader joes both 5 minutes from my house.. I've been in a Costco once for camping supplies (again in Reno lol) but didn't looked around much.. I'm sure their cow ass is top shelf fo sho lol I love me a little meat with my marbleized fat

Me too!

My wife and I bought a house in Reno and plan to retire there in a few years.

UncleBuck · Apr 13, 2012

desert dude said:
I thought Walmart was prohibited in the progressive manifesto? Shouldn't you head on over to WholeFoods, or the farmer's market?

lol, it was the first and last $3 i may ever spend there.

desert dude said:
There is a pretty simple answer to this problem: Credit Unions.

yep, i'll join one some time, too much PTSD from the TBTF mother fuckers.

UncleBuck · Apr 13, 2012

hazyintentions said:
Lol @ everyone arguing over tax refunds. My take, they are nice until you realize that is was YOUR money to start with! bahaha, the Feds got us again!

i have no problem loaning my money to the fed gov interest free for a year to help them out, but no one is arguing about tax refunds. subject is actually banks. the title of the thread might be a giveaway.

and i got back all the money i paid plus some of everyone else's money via the earned income tax credit because i'm a poor mofo. so you guys paid for my greenhouse. thanks.

desert dude · Apr 13, 2012

UncleBuck said:
i have no problem loaning my money to the fed gov interest free for a year to help them out, but no one is arguing about tax refunds. subject is actually banks. the title of the thread might be a giveaway.

and i got back all the money i paid plus some of everyone else's money via the earned income tax credit because i'm a poor mofo. so you guys paid for my greenhouse. thanks.

Always happy to help the weak and infirm.

UncleBuck · Apr 13, 2012

desert dude said:
Always happy to help the weak and infirm.

i choose to be this poor. money is not important to me.

Gastanker · Apr 13, 2012

UncleBuck said:
i choose to be this poor. money is not important to me.

Brilliantly illustrated by this thread about cash checking difficulties. 9 pages on how you don't want to pay the $3 walmart fee...

I'm curious - why not complain to walmart? Shouldn't they also offer it for free? After all, they cash checks, and you are a customer - that follows your logic.

UncleBuck · Apr 13, 2012

Gastanker said:
Brilliantly illustrated by this thread about cash checking difficulties. 9 pages on how you don't want to pay the $3 walmart fee...

I'm curious - why not complain to walmart? Shouldn't they also offer it for free? After all, they cash checks, and you are a customer - that follows your logic.

it might be a good idea for walmart to cash checks for free so that they are in the store with cash in hand to spend. they do something similar with DVDs, they sell them at a loss but make money in the end by getting consumers through the doors. "loss after the sale" or something.

why does it offend you so much that i think a bank i do business with should cash a check for me?

Gastanker · Apr 13, 2012

I find asking for handouts offensive. Mute point with you obviously. And then to complain about not recieving handouts... even more offensive.

RyanTheRhino · Apr 13, 2012

Gastanker said:
I find asking for handouts offensive. Mute point with you obviously. And then to complain about not recieving handouts... even more offensive.

i think he was saying that the bank could take a fee for processing the check out of the money he will receive. without having an account

Gastanker · Apr 13, 2012

RyanTheRhino said:
i think he was saying that the bank could take a fee for processing the check out of the money he will receive. without having an account

He's saying they need to because he says so. Of course they could - but they don't. That is their choice, and they should be able to have that choice.

RyanTheRhino · Apr 13, 2012

Gastanker said:
He's saying they need to because he says so. Of course they could - but they don't. That is their choice, and they should be able to have that choice.

The only reason why they would say no is in case the check bounces, but with a fed check it shouldn't

Gastanker · Apr 13, 2012

RyanTheRhino said:
The only reason why they would say no is in case the check bounces, but with a fed check it shouldn't

A policy is a policy, and chances are they have a good reason to have it in place. Do you think UB yelling at customer service agents is going to change that just for him? No, it's just going to damper someones day...

kelly4 · Apr 13, 2012

I have NO idea why somebody wouldn't want a check from a party that already has $15 TRILLION in outstanding debt! Maybe the Democrats can spend alot of money on a long investigation to get to the bottom of it.

UncleBuck · Apr 13, 2012

Gastanker said:
I find asking for handouts offensive. Mute point with you obviously. And then to complain about not recieving handouts... even more offensive.

how am i asking for any handouts, genius?

i'm willing to pay a fee to cash a check with the bank i do business with, so i'm the one giving the handout. and it's not like the check is bad...it's a fucking tax return. it's got the fed gov's stamp on it.

and they sure had no problem cashing the check from us taxpayers. nice way to say thanks. no wonder people are fleeing the TBTF in favor of CUs.

UncleBuck · Apr 13, 2012

Gastanker said:
He's saying they need to because he says so. Of course they could - but they don't. That is their choice, and they should be able to have that choice.

what? am i protesting in front of the bank now in your mind?

LOL!

see my last post for what my real beef is here.

UncleBuck · Apr 13, 2012

Gastanker said:
A policy is a policy, and chances are they have a good reason to have it in place.

they have it in place to force you to sign up for their ripoff checking account.

taking more of my money in sneaky ways is not exactly what i would call a good reason. a good reason would be if the check were likely to bounce. i don't think a tax return is going to bounce.

and yes, they are sneaky ways. they can change the terms of your account at any time and often do.

Gastanker said:
Do you think UB yelling at customer service agents is going to change that just for him? No, it's just going to damper someones day...

heavens to betsy, i put a damper on the day of some banker gaylord, whatever shall i do?

cannabineer · Apr 13, 2012

UncleBuck said:
they have it in place to force you to sign up for their ripoff checking account.

taking more of my money in sneaky ways is not exactly what i would call a good reason. a good reason would be if the check were likely to bounce. i don't think a tax return is going to bounce.

and yes, they are sneaky ways. they can change the terms of your account at any time and often do.

heavens to betsy, i put a damper on the day of some banker gaylord, whatever shall i do?

UB, I partially agree and disagree. I do agree that banks change the terms without notice, and that gets me sort a steamed as well. But in the end, they are businesses and will tip the balance in their favor wherever legal (and a few other times as well). Unfortunately, in my little corner of the 'Stan, there are no viable CU alternatives.

Where I disagree is in dumping on some poor phone-support rep who probably isn't a direct bank employee. Hate the institution; be kind to its lower-to-mid-level employees. Jmo. cn

UncleBuck · Apr 13, 2012

cannabineer said:
UB, I partially agree and disagree. I do agree that banks change the terms without notice, and that gets me sort a steamed as well. But in the end, they are businesses and will tip the balance in their favor wherever legal (and a few other times as well). Unfortunately, in my little corner of the 'Stan, there are no viable CU alternatives.

Where I disagree is in dumping on some poor phone-support rep who probably isn't a direct bank employee. Hate the institution; be kind to its lower-to-mid-level employees. Jmo. cn

muttering a fuck you at the end was wrong, sure.

but i can tell you as a former guy-who-listened-to-irate-customers, he's doing pretty good if what he heard from me was the worst thing he heard that day.

RyanTheRhino · Apr 13, 2012

cannabineer said:
UB, I partially agree and disagree. I do agree that banks change the terms without notice, and that gets me sort a steamed as well. But in the end, they are businesses and will tip the balance in their favor wherever legal (and a few other times as well). Unfortunately, in my little corner of the 'Stan, there are no viable CU alternatives.

Where I disagree is in dumping on some poor phone-support rep who probably isn't a direct bank employee. Hate the institution; be kind to its lower-to-mid-level employees. Jmo. cn

true my mother gets to listen to people bitch about how QVC messed up their order every day for 8 hours like she was the one who dropped it off the truck.

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