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By: JustSayNoToBofA

JustSayNoToBofA — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:18:29 +0000

Never EVER open an account with Bank of America especially if you are a student or anyone on a fixed income or live paycheck to paycheck. They have no heart, no sympathy. I lost hundreds of dollars to them that I could have used to pull myself out of the hole. Never again. Bank of America is the Devil.

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By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:07:12 +0000

bob, I agree you can find some good accounts at credit unions and banks are in business to make money. However, since they’re competing for your business, online banks offer some pretty useful features that you can’t necessarily find at credit unions.

For example, when I was in school my credit union didn’t have online banking so I primarily used an online bank. The credit union hopefully has online banking by now but the point is they didn’t have it when I needed it.

A more current example is mobile banking. Many of the big banks either have or will have soon the infrastructure and technology to allow customers to bank from mobile devices. This is a great feature for the highly mobile and connected college students of today, something they probably won’t get from their local credit union for some time.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:52:39 +0000

The best checking accounts can usually be found at your local credit union. Don’t do business with banks – they’re profit centers and they’re very skilled at setting up all kinds of little traps and snares for you to fall into (so you’ll have to pay the exorbitant fees that are buried in the fine print). Forget about banks! Credit unions exist to serve their customers and are almost always a better option than banks. Using banks is “penny wise and pound foolish”.

And Schwab… are you serious? Schwab is a mess – they’d screw up a two-car funeral. I wouldn’t wish Schwab on my worst enemy.

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