Dick Durbin urges customers to leave Bank of America

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  1. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    To be honest, I'll pay $5 to BOA for the convenience of the card, I don't use it for anything other than getting cash and depositing checks at their ATM's. And I don't want to change banks.
     
  2. Gator Bill

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    Terry, I don't think there are going to be charges for what you use it for.

    But if so it's not worth anything to me to get cash. I'll just take a couple of extra minutes at the same place I could drive though to use the ATM and write a check and drive though and cash it.

    I do use m credit cards heavily as I get rebates on them.
     
  3. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    Bill I don't like carrying a checkbook, never have back before ATM's I used to just put a check in my wallet and get some cash 1x a week at the bank or grocery store. I like the Bank Card since I can get it when ever I want. I used credit cards for a lot of things for the same reason the rest of you do, the points/rewards.

    BTW: As Sid predicted the big banks fees present an opportunity to other banks....
    Lot's of examples like that in this article.

    Small Banks Respond
     
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    Me too....a small monthly price to pay for the convenience of telling credit cards to kiss my a**.....
     
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    Bank of America Corp. (BAC), the lender seeking to trim expenses by eliminating at least 30,000 jobs, will pay former wealth-management division head Sallie L. Krawcheck $6 million after her dismissal last month.
    That sum includes one year of her former salary, or $850,000, and a one-time payment of $5.15 million to be awarded in 2012, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank said yesterday in a filing. Joseph Price, whose position was also eliminated, gets a $5 million package, the bank said.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...6-million-severance-package-after-ouster.html