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Old 04-30-2008, 12:54 PM
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Default I Hate Bank of America

Anybody seen this sign on the side of someone's house off Girard in Fishtown? Friggin' hilarious. Some guy has a professional banner made to express his annoyance. I'll see if I can get a pic this weekend and post it. This guy needs to be recognized for his creative revenge tactics.
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Old 04-30-2008, 01:21 PM
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sounds funny
i'll be waiting for that photo
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Old 04-30-2008, 01:37 PM
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I've always wondered what BofA did to that person. I think s/he parked an SUV infront of the bank one day, with all of these signs on it that said things like "ask inside about how Bank of America steals your money," or something similar. One of the bank employees saw me checking out the signs and explained, "just some crazy guy, you know?"
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Old 04-30-2008, 07:33 PM
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The best part is the bank is right across the street,when you walk out of the bank door there's no way you could miss that sign.I would really like to know what the grudge is.
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Has anyone used the My Portfolio Tab on the bank of america online banking screen. It is freaking awsome. It combines all your financial and reward accounts into 1 screen. I no loner have to login to 10 sites to see my account balances. Go BofA!

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The best part is the bank is right across the street,when you walk out of the bank door there's no way you could miss that sign.I would really like to know what the grudge is.
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I have no complaints about most of BofA's products except how they handled their credit card portfolio.

This previous fall they went through the entire books and jacked up rates on all classes of people and just pointed to their "universal default" clause that is in every BofA credit card agreement.

The trouble is that they exercised UD on huge numbers of people who have FICO scores on the 800s and are wondering why BofA jacked their credit card rates to levels that sub-prime borrowers are used to getting... rates above 24%.

Those are the same people I am looking for on Prosper.com who are asking for credit-card payoff loans so they can cancel their BofA debt and get their total revolving debt back below 18%. I can see their Experian scores before I bid on their loans... and some of these people have amazing credit, yet some I've seen have cards above 25%.

I hope Citibank does this to their quality customers and they come running to P2P lending--those are pretty good folks to lend to on P2P.

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I want to meet this person. I have a similar hatred of BofA. This has actually given me some good ideas. Once I finally rid myself of those thieves I will gladly display my frustration for all to see.
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Those are the same people I am looking for on Prosper.com who are asking for credit-card payoff loans so they can cancel their BofA debt and get their total revolving debt back below 18%. I can see their Experian scores before I bid on their loans... and some of these people have amazing credit, yet some I've seen have cards above 25%.

I hope Citibank does this to their quality customers and they come running to P2P lending--those are pretty good folks to lend to on P2P.
How well does that p2p lending thing work? what kind of rate of return are you getting? had anyone default on you yet?
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Can someone explain to me why people hate Bank of America so much? The only time they've taken money from me is when I screwed up and incurred fees.
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Can someone explain to me why people hate Bank of America so much?
First, why is this thread still in photography if no one's posting a picture of the I hate BOA banner?

BOA is a very far reaching bank that has many investments in nefarious subprime mortages co's, high interest credit cards, bad credit and "payday loans" as well as the biggest ripoff of them all-the 300% interest rapid refund loans for tax season. They hide behind many companies they purchased, but its still them.

Of course many groups raise hell about these "predatory loans", but for most of the products, I'd like to ask naysayers if they'd give a loan to their deadbeat cousin? High risk loans are higher interest and fee ridden to cover the inevitably high cost of default. Even the working poor need a credit card to survive these days, and if they make their payments and keep good credit they'll quickly be able to apply for a lower risk product.
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