Northwest Airlines is rolling out a program to charge a bit more for extra stretch space.
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Landlord Cancels Deposit Check, Makes Other Checks Bounce, Sucks
By 3.6.06
Thanks to this, several of his checks bounced and he got lots of insufficient fund fees.
WaMu Charging ATM Fees for Non-Customers
By 12.22.05
This news is a bit crusty, but we just now noticed it, and it affects us directly, so suck it up. Washington Mutual, who not two years ago pushed a massive ‘The Buck-Fifty Stops Here’ campaign in New York to promote their no-cost ATMs, has—wait for it—started charging ATM fees for non-customers. We certainly don’t recall a huge ad campaign telling everyone the fees were being reinstated after five years.
International ATM Mystery Fees
By 12.13.05
Since it looks like we’re having a Bank of America day, have another mystery. Gawker jocker Scott Kidder took a five-dollar hit to his BoA account each time he got out money in Europe. Painful, but in an ‘all banks ream you for international ATM fees’ way. But there were always additional percentage-based charge with each transaction, and the BoA customer care couldn’t tell Scott where it came from.
