It would be awesome if they turned it into low income condos for people who have lost homes in the past decade. Or an abortion-plex.

I'll start the bidding at $30k.

/Hey, it's what's in my savings account and I've been looking for an investment.

The best thing about BoA right now is that you can pretty much bend them over and make them your biatch if they think it will keep your business or keep them out of bad publicity.

Last fall when they announced their $5 debit card fees I pulled out the last of the money I had in my savings account and left it to auto-close with a $0 balance, or so I thought. Turns out the day after I made the withdrawal a $.01 interest deposit was made that kept the account open. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and I get a letter in the mail from BoA stating that my account had a -$14.99 balance and threatening me with all sorts of credit harm if the account was closed. I called them up and found that since the $.01 deposit was made they had happily been charging me $5 monthly maintenance fees for having a balance of less than $300. I flat out told them there was no way in hell I was going to pay the balance, and if they really wanted to make a big deal about it I was sure some local media outlets might want to know about their latest little scheme. The guy got his manager on the phone who promptly told me the charges would be cleared and they would be sending me a check in the mail for the $.01. I got the check the other day; I'm thinking of having it framed or something.

You might be careful framing that. You might get a $30 fee for not cashing it.

BoA is selling their big building up here in Providence too... Its the tallest building in Providence, and one of the oldest. It will be interesting to see how long it sits empty. Looks like they are hurting, break my heart.

2wolves: Keep the name and make it into a brothel.

For the longest time I thought the proper abbeviation for Bank of America was BoA, so whenever I saw it written as BofA, I thought that the writer was saying Band of farking America.

StrangeQ:

Last fall when they announced their $5 debit card fees I pulled out the last of the money I had in my savings account and left it to auto-close with a $0 balance, or so I thought. .

Yeah, so, you're actually supposed to close accounts and stuff. How is the bank supposed to know you just didn't withdraw the money in your savings account to pay for something you were, you know, saving for.

But good on you for taking out your own idiocy on some phone jockey and his, i'm sure, highly connected supervisor. I'm sure they told the CEO of BoA all about it when they met him for lunch the next day.

rudemix: It would be awesome if they turned it into low income condos for people who have lost homes in the past decade. Or an abortion-plex.

Hey, the big homeless shelter in the next block needs space...

Actually, it looks like BoA does not own the building, BentleyForbes does. They bought in it at the top of the boom and their main tenant was BoA. BoA, and others I would assume, have dropped much of their office space in the past few years. So now the building is worth about half of what it was purchased for in 2006. I just wonder who holds the mortgage...

Or perhaps to BentleyForbes, which bought the property for $436 million from Bank of America in 2006. The tower was appraised at $202 million in March (new window)

wingnut396: StrangeQ:

Last fall when they announced their $5 debit card fees I pulled out the last of the money I had in my savings account and left it to auto-close with a $0 balance, or so I thought. .

Yeah, so, you're actually supposed to close accounts and stuff. How is the bank supposed to know you just didn't withdraw the money in your savings account to pay for something you were, you know, saving for.

But good on you for taking out your own idiocy on some phone jockey and his, i'm sure, highly connected supervisor. I'm sure they told the CEO of BoA all about it when they met him for lunch the next day.

Wow, white knighting for BoA. What's this world coming to.

/meanwhile, in saneville USA, letting a savings acct go to $0 balance = automatic closure.

StrangeQ: The best thing about BoA right now is that you can pretty much bend them over and make them your biatch if they think it will keep your business or keep them out of bad publicity.

Last fall when they announced their $5 debit card fees I pulled out the last of the money I had in my savings account and left it to auto-close with a $0 balance, or so I thought. Turns out the day after I made the withdrawal a $.01 interest deposit was made that kept the account open. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and I get a letter in the mail from BoA stating that my account had a -$14.99 balance and threatening me with all sorts of credit harm if the account was closed. I called them up and found that since the $.01 deposit was made they had happily been charging me $5 monthly maintenance fees for having a balance of less than $300. I flat out told them there was no way in hell I was going to pay the balance, and if they really wanted to make a big deal about it I was sure some local media outlets might want to know about their latest little scheme. The guy got his manager on the phone who promptly told me the charges would be cleared and they would be sending me a check in the mail for the $.01. I got the check the other day; I'm thinking of having it framed or something.



When you want to cancel your cell phone plan do you just stop making calls?

We bid one dollar over.

Someone buy it and then burn it floor by floor (kicking BoA out first is optional), then raze the thing and build low income housing called "fark BoA Tower"

doosh:

Wow, white knighting for BoA. What's this world coming to.

/meanwhile, in saneville USA, letting a savings acct go to $0 balance = automatic closure.

No, not WN for BoA. Just pointing out that one should take care of their own business. With a business know for farking over its customer like BoA does, it is good to get things in writing. Accorded to BoA's Deposit Agreement, you need to submitt any account closures in writing and tell the bank how to disposed of the funds. When doing such dealing, get it in writing. Don't rely on what you think should be an automatic process. I did a quick search and I don't see where in the Depositor Agreement it says that zero balance accounts will be closed. It does mention that abandoned accounts will be dealt with in accordance of State law, but that usually means there is no contact or activity for at least a year or more.

Also, feeling good because you got some phone jockey to credit you $15 to your account by threathing media attention is silly. These guys were likely in the retentions department and have the authority to write off $25 or so. I know we did nearly 20 farking years ago when I worked at a State wide bank (that was eaten by Bank One, eaten by Chase, voltroned into JPMorganChase).


Fark doesn't like the link...

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wingnut396: Actually, it looks like BoA does not own the building, BentleyForbes does. They bought in it at the top of the boom and their main tenant was BoA. BoA, and others I would assume, have dropped much of their office space in the past few years. So now the building is worth about half of what it was purchased for in 2006. I just wonder who holds the mortgage...

Or perhaps to BentleyForbes, which bought the property for $436 million from Bank of America in 2006. The tower was appraised at $202 million in March (new window)

My heart bleeds for BentlyForbes. If some schmoe in Vegas has to keep his underwater house so do these guys.

Turn it into projects, and call it NWA VS BOA...

One of the accounts my job has is in a 6 story building. We occupy 2 of the floors, the other 4 have been empty for over 3 years now. The floors have never been occupied, so they are just empty. I used to go up to the top floor for lunch had a nice little table and chair up there someone in the construction company left. Then they locked the elevators. After that it stunk because I didnt have my private lunchroom anymore :(

G Love:
When you want to cancel your cell phone plan do you just stop making calls?

I ported my month-to-month cell phone number to a VoIP provider, but not before I cashed in my loyalty points for a cheapie phone that I immediately sold on CL. Farkers tried to stick me with a $25 "hardware administration fee" for that phone, and then tried to bill me for an extra month where I couldn't even use my old phone. I wouldn't mind a having to stick out the remainder of the billing cycle, but them wanting an extra month after that, plus that stupid fee, lead me to tell them to just fark off.

whither_apophis: wingnut396: Actually, it looks like BoA does not own the building, BentleyForbes does. They bought in it at the top of the boom and their main tenant was BoA. BoA, and others I would assume, have dropped much of their office space in the past few years. So now the building is worth about half of what it was purchased for in 2006. I just wonder who holds the mortgage...

Or perhaps to BentleyForbes, which bought the property for $436 million from Bank of America in 2006. The tower was appraised at $202 million in March (new window)

My heart bleeds for BentlyForbes. If some schmoe in Vegas has to keep his underwater house so do these guys.

It's different when corporations do it. They can just default and nobody blinks.

StrangeQ: The best thing about BoA right now is that you can pretty much bend them over and make them your biatch if they think it will keep your business or keep them out of bad publicity.

Last fall when they announced their $5 debit card fees I pulled out the last of the money I had in my savings account and left it to auto-close with a $0 balance, or so I thought. Turns out the day after I made the withdrawal a $.01 interest deposit was made that kept the account open. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and I get a letter in the mail from BoA stating that my account had a -$14.99 balance and threatening me with all sorts of credit harm if the account was closed. I called them up and found that since the $.01 deposit was made they had happily been charging me $5 monthly maintenance fees for having a balance of less than $300. I flat out told them there was no way in hell I was going to pay the balance, and if they really wanted to make a big deal about it I was sure some local media outlets might want to know about their latest little scheme. The guy got his manager on the phone who promptly told me the charges would be cleared and they would be sending me a check in the mail for the $.01. I got the check the other day; I'm thinking of having it framed or something.

I had a similar experience with my bank. I didn't even raise a stink. I was just calling to see what the new 2 dollar charge was for and the guy starts to immediately apologize and tells me the charge will be wiped.

They sound scared which is good.

StrangeQ: The best thing about BoA right now is that you can pretty much bend them over and make them your biatch if they think it will keep your business or keep them out of bad publicity.

Last fall when they announced their $5 debit card fees I pulled out the last of the money I had in my savings account and left it to auto-close with a $0 balance, or so I thought. Turns out the day after I made the withdrawal a $.01 interest deposit was made that kept the account open. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and I get a letter in the mail from BoA stating that my account had a -$14.99 balance and threatening me with all sorts of credit harm if the account was closed. I called them up and found that since the $.01 deposit was made they had happily been charging me $5 monthly maintenance fees for having a balance of less than $300. I flat out told them there was no way in hell I was going to pay the balance, and if they really wanted to make a big deal about it I was sure some local media outlets might want to know about their latest little scheme. The guy got his manager on the phone who promptly told me the charges would be cleared and they would be sending me a check in the mail for the $.01. I got the check the other day; I'm thinking of having it framed or something.

Pic or GTFO

Seriously, post a pic of that on Fark...it will be like we all triumphed over BoA.

wingnut396:
Yeah, so, you're actually supposed to close accounts and stuff. How is the bank supposed to know you just didn't withdraw the money in your savings account to pay for something you were, you know, saving for.


You mean, like my wife did when she moved her biz account to another bank and went into the local BoA branch and went through the paperwork to close the account? BoA doesn't believe in closing accounts... they processed an autodebiatcharge as a "courtesy" to her, which, of course, overdrafted the account.

/And yes, she'd called to have the autodebiatcharge moved to the new account
//And BoA was courteous enough to process the charge 3 times, on a CLOSED account
///BoA sucks

WTF is an autodebiatcharge? lol

/Didn't show up like that on preview

IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T: WTF is an autodebiatcharge? lol

/Didn't show up like that on preview

Filtered. put a space in between debit and charge..

Bob16: StrangeQ: The best thing about BoA right now is that you can pretty much bend them over and make them your biatch if they think it will keep your business or keep them out of bad publicity.

Last fall when they announced their $5 debit card fees I pulled out the last of the money I had in my savings account and left it to auto-close with a $0 balance, or so I thought. Turns out the day after I made the withdrawal a $.01 interest deposit was made that kept the account open. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and I get a letter in the mail from BoA stating that my account had a -$14.99 balance and threatening me with all sorts of credit harm if the account was closed. I called them up and found that since the $.01 deposit was made they had happily been charging me $5 monthly maintenance fees for having a balance of less than $300. I flat out told them there was no way in hell I was going to pay the balance, and if they really wanted to make a big deal about it I was sure some local media outlets might want to know about their latest little scheme. The guy got his manager on the phone who promptly told me the charges would be cleared and they would be sending me a check in the mail for the $.01. I got the check the other day; I'm thinking of having it framed or something.

I had a similar experience with my bank. I didn't even raise a stink. I was just calling to see what the new 2 dollar charge was for and the guy starts to immediately apologize and tells me the charge will be wiped.

They sound scared which is good.

Happened to me too. Took 3 months to close my debit account with them because their system keep trying to bill me for maintenance and that interest thing. It looped just like that for a couple of months before the account was closed for good.

EighthDay:

My heart bleeds for BentlyForbes. If some schmoe in Vegas has to keep his underwater house so do these guys.

It's different when corporations do it. They can just default and nobody blinks.

When individual people breach a contract: They are morally corrupt, have no soul, are communists and deservere any bad things that happen to them.
When corporate people breach a contract: Just business.

Came for an "A Man iin Full" reference. Leaving with saddlebags

Meanwhile, we who use our local depositor-owned credit unions are laughing our asses off.

wingnut396: Actually, it looks like BoA does not own the building, BentleyForbes does. They bought in it at the top of the boom and their main tenant was BoA. BoA, and others I would assume, have dropped much of their office space in the past few years. So now the building is worth about half of what it was purchased for in 2006. I just wonder who holds the mortgage...

Ahhh 10 comments in before someone had read the article, Im shocked it was that soon.

People on fark have just started to hate for the sake of it, its like /b/ but fark mods get rid of racist comments and moved nudity once they sold out, its all about driving up hits and biatching about a big corporation does that every time!

steamingpile: People on fark have just started to hate for the sake of it, its like /b/ but fark mods get rid of racist comments and moved nudity once they sold out, its all about driving up hits and biatching about a big corporation does that every time!

wingnut396: Or perhaps to BentleyForbes, which bought the property for $436 million from Bank of America in 2006. The tower was appraised at $202 million in March (new window)

Don't even attempt to try to burst the bubble of some good Bank of America hate. Fifty years from now, the tards will still think BoA owns the building.

Clyde_Suckfinger: wingnut396: Or perhaps to BentleyForbes, which bought the property for $436 million from Bank of America in 2006. The tower was appraised at $202 million in March (new window)

Don't even attempt to try to burst the bubble of some good Bank of America hate. Fifty years from now, the tards will still think BoA owns the building.

Whats funny is that this could easily fuel some BoA hate. So BoA sells their stake at the top, not long before everything crashed. So what did they know and when did they know it. Are institutions, like pensions funds and retirements systems, the main investors of BentleyForbes? If so, does that mean taxpayers are on the hook for more while BoA walks away, mustache betwixt fingers, with a pocket full of cash?

I don't have these answers, I'm just asking questions as to happened here and to that alleged girl in 1999.

StoneColdAtheist: steamingpile: People on fark have just started to hate for the sake of it, its like /b/ but fark mods get rid of racist comments and moved nudity once they sold out, its all about driving up hits and biatching about a big corporation does that every time!

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Why should I be the one to leave? Those of us like me just point out the stupidity of people on here until we get labeled as a right wing stooge, what I find ironic about that label is that those that I know are die hard righties call me a pinko for not believing their bullshiat and rhetoric. Im a farker that gets biatched at by both sides, its rather fun sometimes to be able to point out bullshiat on two fronts.

The mere linkage of foreclosure to that evil republican crotch-spawn of a bank, even if the property isn't theirs, is enough to make me guffaw.

Charles Schulz himself couldn't draw enough HAHAHAHAs to express my amusement.

steamingpile: StoneColdAtheist: steamingpile: People on fark have just started to hate for the sake of it, its like /b/ but fark mods get rid of racist comments and moved nudity once they sold out, its all about driving up hits and biatching about a big corporation does that every time!

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Why should I be the one to leave? Those of us like me just point out the stupidity of people on here until we get labeled as a right wing stooge, what I find ironic about that label is that those that I know are die hard righties call me a pinko for not believing their bullshiat and rhetoric. Im a farker that gets biatched at by both sides, its rather fun sometimes to be able to point out bullshiat on two fronts.

Okay, but the very mission of Fark is to mock the news...and the news makers. Complaining that people are doing that from both sides of the isle just make you look like a whiner.

You don't want that, do you?

Hmmmm, something for Apple to do with their billion$. A little toy to play with, perhaps. Probably could use some offices in the east.

StoneColdAtheist: steamingpile: People on fark have just started to hate for the sake of it, its like /b/ but fark mods get rid of racist comments and moved nudity once they sold out, its all about driving up hits and biatching about a big corporation does that every time!

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We aren't.

StrangeQ: The best thing about BoA right now is that you can pretty much bend them over and make them your biatch if they think it will keep your business or keep them out of bad publicity.

Last fall when they announced their $5 debit card fees I pulled out the last of the money I had in my savings account and left it to auto-close with a $0 balance, or so I thought. Turns out the day after I made the withdrawal a $.01 interest deposit was made that kept the account open. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and I get a letter in the mail from BoA stating that my account had a -$14.99 balance and threatening me with all sorts of credit harm if the account was closed. I called them up and found that since the $.01 deposit was made they had happily been charging me $5 monthly maintenance fees for having a balance of less than $300. I flat out told them there was no way in hell I was going to pay the balance, and if they really wanted to make a big deal about it I was sure some local media outlets might want to know about their latest little scheme. The guy got his manager on the phone who promptly told me the charges would be cleared and they would be sending me a check in the mail for the $.01. I got the check the other day; I'm thinking of having it framed or something.

Interesting. My wife went to close her BoA account last year (I was with her) and when they went to withdraw all of the money, I noticed the amount on the check was 1 penny short of the amount listed online. We called the teller out on it - and she had to call a manager over to authorize the withdrawal and ultimate closure of the account. That could possibly be what happened with you. If that's BoA's SOP, they're unmitigated assholes. It pays to pay attention when dealing with them.

StoneColdAtheist: steamingpile: StoneColdAtheist: steamingpile: People on fark have just started to hate for the sake of it, its like /b/ but fark mods get rid of racist comments and moved nudity once they sold out, its all about driving up hits and biatching about a big corporation does that every time!

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Why should I be the one to leave? Those of us like me just point out the stupidity of people on here until we get labeled as a right wing stooge, what I find ironic about that label is that those that I know are die hard righties call me a pinko for not believing their bullshiat and rhetoric. Im a farker that gets biatched at by both sides, its rather fun sometimes to be able to point out bullshiat on two fronts.

Okay, but the very mission of Fark is to mock the news...and the news makers. Complaining that people are doing that from both sides of the isle just make you look like a whiner.

You don't want that, do you?

Mocking the news is one thing, disinformation is something compeltely different, the place used to mock openly but over the past 3-4 years it has taken a dramatic shift to the whacky left. I dont feel Im whining as much as its pointing out the hypocrisy that is rampant here over recent history.