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Capital One: Pick Which Monthly Fee You Want To Be Stuck With Or We'll Pick The Highest One For You
What's in your wallet? If you currently have a free checking account at Capital One, you may soon have a bit less in your wallet every month, as the bank rids itself of freebie accounts.
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Atheist Symbol Rejected By Capital One, But Jesus Is Preapproved
Consumerist reader Mike has a Capital One credit card. He'd hoped to get one of the bank's customizable "Image Cards" printed with a big red "A" for atheism. His initial upload was rejected by Capital One, which sent him a long list of possible reasons. And when he called to appeal, things just more bizarre.
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Ask For Your Deposit Back, Capital One Hangs Up On You
Seeking to build his credit and be all responsible and stuff, Matt got a secured credit card from Capital One. If you're not familiar with the concept, that's a type of credit card where the creditor is... well, you. You deposit, say, $500 with the credit card issuer, and that gives you a spending limit of $500 or a little more. A good repayment history with this card will help build or rebuild your credit when you're not able to get another card. And when you have good enough credit to move on and shut down the card, you get that deposit back. In theory, anyway.
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Worst Company In America Round One: PayPal Vs. Capital One
At the end of this bout, one of these competitors will have paid the price in blood. And lord help them if they try to dispute that payment with either company's customer service departments.
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Welcome to Consumerist's 7th Annual Worst Company In America tournament, where the businesses you nominated face off for a title that none of them will publicly admit to wanting — but which all of them try their hardest to earn. So it's time to fill in the brackets and start another office pool. That is, unless you work at one of the 32 companies competing in the tournament.
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CFPB Now Taking Complaints About Checking, Savings Accounts
Seven months after launching its
credit card complaint portal, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has started taking complaints from checking and savings account customers — and actually expects banks to respond.
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People Are Back To Making Late Payments On Their Credit Cards
Two months ago, the number of people making late credit card payments
was at its lowest since Justin Bieber was a twinkle in his parents' eyes. Of course, when you reach a low like that, there is often nowhere to go but up.
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Credit Card Thief Changes Your Phone Number To His So Fraudulent Charges Get Okayed
Dan has a story of how his credit cards were stolen from his wallet and the scammer was able to get the account information changed so when the Capital One fraud department called to verify the suspicious charges, it was the crook who got the call. That way the fraudster could say, yes, I'm Dan, and I made those purchases in New York, even though I don't live there.
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