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5/3 Increases Overdraft Fees By $2
5/3 bank increased its overdraft protection fees to $10 from $9 this month. Daily overdraft fees shot to $8 from $6. That seems like a bunch. Was there a concurrent rise in the cost of providing such...
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USAA: Deposit Your Checks With An iPhone!
The friendliest bank in the world, USAA, will soon let customers instantaneously deposit checks through its iPhone application. Here’s how it works: you snap a picture of the front and back of your...
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USAA: Opt-Out Of Mandatory Binding Arbitration By Closing Your Account
The “credit union on steroids” has gone to mandatory binding arbitration for all disputes, removing customers’ ability to successfully sue them if things go wrong. Previously, USAA had arbitration as...
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USAA Online Checking & Savings Open For Non-Military
If you’ve heard us rave about USAA’s stellar financial services but grown sad when you learned that it’s only available for military-members and their family, have heart: you can get still get access...
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Magical USAA Check-Depositing Smartphone App Now Available For Android
Do you envy iPhone users’ ability to deposit checks in their USAA accounts by snapping a picture and using a fancy secure app? Now, check-zapping abilities have been granted to phones using Google’s...
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21 Banks And Credit Unions That Accept Remote Check Deposits
Why trek to local bank to deposit a check when you can slap it on a scanner or use your smartphone’s camera to upload it directly to your bank? Even though it still scares most of the bigger banks,...
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USAA And Mastercard Turn Celebrity Librarian Into Unwitting Consumer Scofflaw
K.G. writes that she used her Mastercard to pay for a car rental from Avis. The card issuer, Consumerist darling USAA, assured her that the card provided insurance coverage for rental cars. Good to...
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USAA Knows There's A Bug In Online System, Waits For Me To Find It
It’s so funny how math works! In the case of Consumerist reader Sam, he got a glimpse of the delightful ways math can be manipulated when comparing his USAA online money manager balance with the bank’s...
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How The Different Credit Card Issuers & Networks Handle Chargebacks
Whenever someone has a dispute with a merchant over a credit card charge, we always suggest they attempt to issue a chargeback through their credit provider. But not all card issuers and credit card...
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USAA No Longer Offering Bank Accounts To Everyone
(frankieleon)Sad news, Consumerists. There was a brief, shining period beginning in 2009 when anyone, not just people affiliated with the military, could get checking and savings accounts from the...
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