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19 Sep 2020
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Ottawa
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Originally Posted by Cholo
No cost account means no service.
So if you get into trouble and need help there is no friendly voice to answer your calls.
Use your local bank , the one you have used for years, make friends with the staff, say hello to the manager, tell them your plans..they might even give you their personal cell phone number.
If you pay peanuts you get monkeys !
You have saved for years and now are about to spend all your savings, so you don't want to be cheap with your finances; which are by far the most important factor, no money no food.
A good bank manager can make your problems dissapear.
I had a very good client checking into a hotel in Venice with all his family, he then realised that his credit card was missing, so he:
1. Called me international reversing the charges,(collect) which I accepted.
2. Got me to send him new cards overnight delivery. I did.
3. And even better; I found another client that happened to be staying in the same hotel,  and asked him to pick up the first clients hotel tab. To be settled when they got home.
I still get a note for Xmas from him 20 years later.
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Interesting comments. I rarely enter a bank and have not for many years. Almost everything is done via online banking or ATMs...thus I have never had a relationship with bank manager. But your points are valid. I need to find another way to accomplish the same thing - maybe by getting a POA in place for a person to help manage my financials, specifically in terms of emergency funds and dealing with problems locally. I have a BAD opinion of banks. They are not there to help or serve, but to make $$. And in too many ways their actions prove this....Thus, I will continue seeking a reliable and inexpensive or free option....but because of your comments, THANK YOU, with eyes wider open and discussing my needs with each institution.
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