• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    because you cant get into debt using debit cards

    Lol that’s cute. They’ve recently started changing this shit, but at least when I was in college, banks were 100% putting people into debt and making tons of money on overdraft fees. For using debit.

    They had a program called, “overdraft protection” that customer service loved to sign you up for if you accidentally overdrafted. That should fix things right?

    Lol no. Turns out what they meant by “protection” was “protection from your card being declined.” In other words, if a purchase was going to put your account into the negative, instead of simply declining the transaction and preventing the customer from incurring a fee, it makes sure the purchase goes through, and the customer is charged $35 for overdrafting.

    They also had a practice of re-ordering a customer’s transactions in order to maximize overdraft fees. I believe this one has been illegal since Obama though.