Fighting Banks
Fighting Banks
07/21/2010
The following is one of
the services I provide to individuals as a
Personal Advocate, but this was for my 90-year-old
father, yesterday.
Dad showed me that he had gone to his bank (one of two that have treated me like crap) with a check from his brokerage account to deposit to his checking account to pay some bills. The bank sent it back - actually only a facsimile now, not the real one - because it was unsigned. I thought about it and asked: "Did you go into the bank and hand it to the teller?" Yes. "And she/he accepted it without a word about it not being signed at the bottom?" Yes. Well, then it's the bank's error and I'll redeposit the check and get the penalty reversed.
And that's what I did. Sadly, there will likely be more penalties added that I'll have to fight from any checks he wrote that might have bounced because their own err... OK, incompetency. If bank personnel can't recognize they are accepting incompletely written instruments, they shouldn't be working in a bank. Just one more reason why I am sick of banks' incompetence, arrogance, and greed. (In a few weeks I'll be writing more about my fights with banks and other companies.)
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Dad showed me that he had gone to his bank (one of two that have treated me like crap) with a check from his brokerage account to deposit to his checking account to pay some bills. The bank sent it back - actually only a facsimile now, not the real one - because it was unsigned. I thought about it and asked: "Did you go into the bank and hand it to the teller?" Yes. "And she/he accepted it without a word about it not being signed at the bottom?" Yes. Well, then it's the bank's error and I'll redeposit the check and get the penalty reversed.
And that's what I did. Sadly, there will likely be more penalties added that I'll have to fight from any checks he wrote that might have bounced because their own err... OK, incompetency. If bank personnel can't recognize they are accepting incompletely written instruments, they shouldn't be working in a bank. Just one more reason why I am sick of banks' incompetence, arrogance, and greed. (In a few weeks I'll be writing more about my fights with banks and other companies.)
Comments or questions? Use the feedback form on this site.