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PayPal's Real-World Dominion Expanding To 15 Additional Major Retailers
By Chris Morran on May 24, 2012 3:15 PM
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For so long, PayPal has been a convenient way to make payments online (so long as you don't care about things like customer service or getting your payment disputes settled or even responded to). But the company has been edging its way into real-world retailing, especially through its Home Depot partnership. And today PayPal announced its plan to go whole-hog in this sphere with 15 new major retail partners. More »
Which Are The Best & Worst U.S. Hotel Chains?
By Chris Morran on May 24, 2012 11:15 AM
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School is almost done and the weather is getting warmer (or at least it's supposed to be), which can only mean... well, it can actually mean an awful lot of things. But today we're going to discuss which hotel chains people will look forward to staying in — and which ones they will be dreading — this summer. More »
Zynga-Branded AmEx Prepaid Card Lets You Earn FarmVille Cash In The Real World
By Laura Northrup on May 22, 2012 12:34 PM
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This site does not, in general, approve of Zynga's freemium addiction-based gaming model or fee-laden prepaid debit cards. So we are amused and slightly dismayed to bring you the news that AmEx and Zynga have teamed up to bring a Farmville points rewards card into the world. Fill up your card, spend the money, earn points to buy in-game stuff. How could this product possibly go wrong? More »
If The Bank Hands You A Counterfeit Bill, You're Probably Stuck With It
By Chris Morran on May 21, 2012 10:45 AM
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While financial institutions often go through various security checks to make sure that the $50 and $100 bills you hand to them are genuine, most consumers will accept these same bills from banks without giving a thought to whether or not they are bogus. Problem is, if you end up with counterfeit cash, you are most likely screwed. More »
Bank Of America Apparently Doesn't Want Credit Card Customers Who Pay Their Cards Off
By Chris Morran on May 18, 2012 4:15 PM
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Contrary to any ads touting financial responsibility, banks don't really make much money on people who pay attention to their money, and they may just kick you to the curb when they realize you won't be a huge source of fees and interest for them. More »
Are Bank Tellers Going The Way Of The Dinosaur?
By Chris Morran on May 15, 2012 10:15 AM
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Between ATMs, online banking and smartphone apps, the average person can now go months, possibly years, without ever having to go into a bank and interact with a teller. And a number of financial institutions are continuing to looking for ways to remove tellers from the equation — or at least move the tellers somewhere that they aren't taking up expensive real estate. More »
Wells Fargo Prepping For Possible Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
By Chris Morran on May 8, 2012 4:00 PM
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Though it hasn't been formally accused of anything by the government, Wells Fargo let it be known in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission that the Justice Dept. may soon be alleging the bank was involved in discriminating against minority mortgage applicants. More »
Bank Of America Starting To Nudge Its Mortgage Write-Down Plan Along
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 8, 2012 1:00 PM
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Like the super-slow fat cat that it is, Bank of America is finally easing its rump into a mortgage principal writedown plan, as part of the $25 billion settlement between it, other large mortgage servicers and the government. It announced today that it will start to contact homeowners who may be eligible for the program beginning this week. More »
Bank Of America Tells Family It Won't Foreclose, Tries To Foreclose Anyway
By Chris Morran on May 4, 2012 3:53 PM
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For two years, a family in Washington state has been waiting for Bank of America to get its act together and finally figure out whether it's evicting them or whether it's going to adjust their mortgage. More »
Bank Of America To Drop That Whole "Bank Of Opportunity" Thing
By Chris Morran on May 3, 2012 5:24 PM
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For several years, Bank of America — via the gravelly voice of Kiefer Sutherland — has referred to itself in ads as the "Bank of Opportunity." Now, realizing that this slogan may not quite fit the public's image of BofA (and it would just be too easy for the bank to say "Pick on the other guys for a change"), the nation's second-largest financial institution is shifting its branding gears. More »
Burglaries Are Down, So Why Are People Buying More Safes?
By Chris Morran on May 3, 2012 12:45 PM
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Over the last 20 years, the burglary rate in the U.S. has dropped by around 45%, according to the FBI. And yet, manufacturers of safes and other devices to protect folks' valuables have gone up as much as 40% in just the last few years. More »
The Fax Of Shame: How It Really Feels To Lose Your Home
By Laura Northrup on May 2, 2012 8:00 AM
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C. and her husband are a young couple who moved into their first house just a few years ago. Unable to manage their mortgage payments, they asked their lender, PNC Mortgage, for help. The bank offered them a monthly payment $500 higher than the mortgage they couldn't pay in the first place. Their house has sat empty and on the real estate market since January, waiting for a buyer to come along for a short sale. One did, and the nightmare is almost over. Or it would be, if PNC would just stop calling the couple and any relative whose phone number they can find, almost every day. More »
House Passes CISPA Despite White House's Objections To The Measure
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 27, 2012 12:00 PM
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We first heard about CISPA, aka the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, a few weeks ago, and wondered then if we should worry about it being the next SOPA or PIPA. While the legislation is progressing further, and was passed in the House yesterday, the Obama administration is likely to veto it. More »
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Effort To Keep Student Loan Interest Rates Low Gains Bipartisan Support
By Chris Morran on April 24, 2012 12:45 PM
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Yesterday, presumed Republican candidate for President Mitt Romney mentioned his support for extending the current cap on interest rates for federal Stafford student loans, meaning that this is one issue both candidates appear to agree on. The question is, can something be done before those interest rates double in July? More »
U.S. Airways CEO Really Wants To Get His Merge On With American Airlines
By Chris Morran on April 20, 2012 12:50 PM
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To date, the folks at U.S. Airways have been quite coy about their intentions regarding a possible marriage to struggling-but-adorable American Airlines, saying things like "we're not opposed," and that they "wouldn't rule it out," but all that double talk may have ended with the latest hot-and-heavy chatter from U.S. Airways' CEO. More »
CFPB Checking Out The $31 Billion Banks Charged In Overdraft Fees
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 20, 2012 10:00 AM
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If banks had boots, mayhap they'd be quaking them right about now: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on the case, reviewing nine U.S. banks over their practices to see if they're on the up and up when it comes to charging overdraft fees. More »
Bank Of America Has Gotten So Bad, It's Hard To Tell Satire From Reality
By Chris Morran on April 19, 2012 2:20 PM
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Bank of America may have avoided the stain of the Worst Company In America Golden Poo for the second year in a row, but the perennial runner-up still has plenty of haters out there, including some who put together YourBofA.com, a satire site that will probably be taken down any minute now. More »
Feds Bust Scammers Who Collected $5.2 Million By Pretending To Be Cops
By Chris Morran on April 11, 2012 12:30 PM
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As you probably know, it's illegal for a debt collector to threaten arrest over a debt. It's also a big no-no to try collecting on a debt that doesn't exist. Unfortunately, that didn't stop a California man from operating a scheme where callers allegedly posed as law enforcement officers to collect on bogus debts. More »
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Public Shaming Does The Job: Bank Of America Gives Army Vet His $25K Back
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 6, 2012 5:00 PM
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It's not that we love the act of shaming a big, greedy bank into doing the right thing — wait. Scratch that. We totally love it, which is why we're happy that Bank of America finally refunded over $25,000 in fraudulent debit charges to a U.S. Army reservist. All it took was years of fighting, a little public flogging and collective indignation. More »
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Top Posts Of The Week And Open Thread
By Laura Northrup on April 6, 2012 11:30 AM
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- The Voters Have Spoken: EA Is Your Worst Company In America For 2012!
- EA Responds To Worst Company Win By Name-Dropping Past Worst Company Winners
- 10 Ways Blu-ray Is Letting Movie Lovers Down
- Soldier Says Bank Of America Won't Help Him Get His Stolen $25K Back
- Belvedere Vodka: Why Use Paid Actors For Controversial Ad? Just Steal A Picture Of A Woman!
