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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2006-01-30 02:27 pm

Rhetorical question (rant)

Why is it so dam' difficult dealing with the bank (BoA) these days? I've had the runaround from the greeter at the Burlington Mall branch, the customer service hotline, then I had to get past the greeter in Woburn just so I could talk to an actual human and order new checks. I still have no confidence that what I get will be what I ordered. I've banked with this place through four changes of name (theirs) and 24+ years but am getting closer and closer to switching to some cute little savings bank, or Citizens.

I still feel like two of my questions remain unanswered, but I'll save them for another trip: I used up all my reservoirs of Polite today making it clear that I wanted service and I wanted to be called Mrs. Waks, not Jane, by their employees.

[identity profile] msmemory.livejournal.com 2006-01-30 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Their telephone customer service center told me because my old checks were from Fleet, they couldn't issue me new ones in the same design. Only if I wanted Standard Green could I order over the phone. And if I wanted to see designs, I couldn't do it online, I had to visit a branch in person. He could read me names of designs (which included Puppies and Care Bears) but not describe them to me. P.I.T.A.

[identity profile] anastasiav.livejournal.com 2006-01-30 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
www.checksinthemail.com

Why order from the bank at all??

[identity profile] umbran.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
And if I wanted to see designs, I couldn't do it online, I had to visit a branch in person.

Unless there was some issue with you having old Fleet checks, this last is patently untrue, as I could see the patterns quite clearly online. Not just PITA, but incompetent, ignorant PITA.