I was running low on cash the other day, so it was time to make a stop at the ole bank machine. I’m a Citibank dude, so I made a special trip Friday morning to swing by the Citibank branch off the 14th St. F stop, so I wouldn’t have to pay a user fee at another bank. Except when I got there, I discovered that it’s no longer a Citibank. (It’s another bank; I can’t remember which).
So I kept walking, thinking (incorrectly) that I would find another Citibank somewhere on the way. When I didn’tI was running low on cash the other day, so it was time to make a stop at the ole bank machine. I’m a Citibank dude, so I made a special trip Friday morning to swing by the Citibank branch off the 14th St. F stop, so I wouldn’t have to pay a user fee at another bank. Except when I got there, I discovered that it’s no longer a Citibank. (It’s another bank; I can’t remember which).
So I kept walking, thinking (incorrectly) that I would find another Citibank somewhere on the way. When I didn’t, I finally stopped into a Bank of America in Union Square, and did the bank machine thing. I inserted my card, denoted how much cash I wanted, and then waited for the bills to start churning. But before I that could happen, I got that usual message, telling me that because I wasn’t using a Bank of America card, I would have to pay a fee.
[i]Yeah, yeah. Gotcha. Let’s just get on with it.[/i]
The user fee? $3! [i]Three dollars![/i] To get my own money! Are they out of their #$@! minds?
Naturally, since there was no Citibank near my office, I had to ultimately use another bank’s machine. Washington Mutual got me for $2, which is still outrageous. But of all the banks so far, Bank of America has the highest fee I’ve seen.
I’ve come to accept that I’ll need to pay a service charge if I withdraw cash from another bank’s machine, but $3 is just a slap in the face. Bank of America can bite me. Really … really … hard.
