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I have been dealing with my bank recently. They have a hard limit on online transactions. Anything below the limit must be done online, anything above must be d
by Macha 4y ago
I have been dealing with my bank recently. They have a hard limit on online transactions. Anything below the limit must be done online, anything above must be done by a branch worker. They really don't want to deal with transactions below the limit, so even if you show up in branch to do the below-limit transaction, they'll just walk you through the web interface at a public computer in the branch.
I had to make a couple of above-limit transactions, which meant going into the branch. While there, I left behind some documents that I had not intended to. So I wanted to phone the branch to confirm they had them before returning to pick them up. Upon noticing, I rang their branch phone number printed on my reciept. It redirected me to their central support phone system, despite being a local number. The option to speak to a person was behind a four deep phone tree, with each step playing a minute long message asking me if I knew the types of transactions their website could handle before listing out the tree options.
- simfree 4y agoSounds like you need to switch to a credit union ASAP
- dumpsterlid 4y agoBig banks dont deserve your money, they are awful institutions.
- refurb 4y agoThis may be a shocker but the banks in Singapore are worse. You can do routine things online but anything signed needs to be in person. They have a number you can text to get to a queue number, but it’s not unusual for all queue numbers to be used up 20 min after the bank opens. Doing anything in person is a half day experience of sitting for a couple hours at the bank. And they are all like this. I yearned for the days of Citibank where I could walk in anytime and the worst was a 30 min wait in line while 4 customers were helped by one teller.