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Charles Schwab has native english speaker support just a phone call away (with no waiting in the handful of times I've used them, so far). And they were the fir
by cashewchoo 6y ago
Charles Schwab has native english speaker support just a phone call away (with no waiting in the handful of times I've used them, so far). And they were the first of the non-robinhood retail brokerages to break rank and offer 0-commission equity trades.
Example: I accidentally deposited a check into my IRA once. I called and explained I wasn't sure what to do because 1) the check was post-tax money and 2) if I tried to fix it myself, would it count as an early withdrawal?.
The guy picked up almost immediately, said yep lemme transfer you, the <something> department has a button for that. I got transferred, still to a native english speaker, who sorted me out. A couple days later it was all fixed in my account. 10/10.
I do all my banking with them and if they offered a 2% cashback credit card, I'd move that to them too.
Speaking of which, Citi (I have the doublecash) has been dreadful - my card # got stolen once, and they sent the new credit cards to my old address (that I still - for a bit longer - owned, thankfully) even after I specifically stressed, and confirmed multiple times, that I was 300 miles away from the address and if they sent them there, they'd sit in my porch for 1-2 weeks before I could get to them, and I would also not have a credit card to use.
They reassure me, even getting a bit snippy at the end of the call, that they're sending them to the address I gave them (my parents' house) on the call. And since I'm such an important customer, they're overnighting the cards.
Sure enough, the next day, I check my security camera and see a dang cardboard envelope that says CITICARDS all over it sitting on my old porch 300 miles away.
So I call them up, explain that they did exactly what I asked them not to do, and if they could cancel those cards and try sending them again, because I don't have a credit card right now, and I'm trying to furnish and move into a new house and need to put about $10k of appliances purchases through the cards ASAP. They explain that, sorry, they need to wait a week or two (I was incensed and don't remember clearly at this point) before they can do anything.
Luckily a week later when I rolled up to finish cleaning the old house, the cards were still there, albeit a bit damp.
In the meantime I'd applied for a Blue Cash Preferred (which gets 6% cashback on instacart!) and they had it to me overnight and dropped it on the doorstep of my new house which was a new construction and not even in some systems yet as a valid address. Their support as been good so far, too, though I haven't had to call them but once so far.
(Thanks for coming to my TED talk.)
- cashewchoo 6y agoI will add: one thing I don't like about schwab is their password/account security. They don't offer real 2FA, for instance.
- SaintGhurka 6y agoThey do have it. They call it Two Step Verification and I found it in my account security settings. Or is it not real 2FA somehow?
- cashewchoo 6y agoit's email/sms/phone-based. I consider "real 2fa" to be authenticator-based. Not vulnerable to SIM hijacking. The email one has different problems (what if my email's hacked too?)
- callmekit 6y agoSchwab's 2FA is app or hardware token-based. https://www.schwab.com/help/two-factor-authentication https://www.schwab.com/help/two-factor-authentication
- chrisan 6y agoIn my account I am only getting the option for "Two-step Verification" https://client.schwab.com/clientapps/access/securityCenter#/main/epass https://client.schwab.com/clientapps/access/securityCenter#/...
- SaintGhurka 6y agoWhen you hit the "Always at Login" radio button, do you get the "Security Token" option?
- chrisan 6y ago