Comment on Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I don’t have “overdraft protection,” I’ve told my bank I don’t want overdrafts to go through
Typically overdraft protection means it takes money from your savings, or other linked account, and transfers to your checking. When I had Bank of America they charged me $5 every time this happened.
I have an account at a credit union now, no overdraft charges, no cost when it pulls money from my savings account.
Why would you want it to automatically grab money from your savings? Wouldn’t you just want to transfer that yourself?
I feel like it’s an extra guardrail that if somebody tries to pull 3000$ from your bank account and you only have 500 there that it can only pull the 500 and not the additional 2500 from your savings account?
Because it keeps them rent payment from bouncing.
Some people aren’t good with money management and may forget to transfer money across, especially for scheduled things (bill payments, rent, etc)
Wells Fargo used to do that to me.
We charged you to transfer money from your savings account to your checking account.
Yeah because that robot needed to be reimbursed for their time lost moving MY money from one account to another.
I had money transferred into savings because that was the requirement to have a “free” checking account despite me not wanting to use their bullshit savings account. It finally led to me canceling it because “you transfer too often from your savings account” and they cited this stupid law that says I can only transfer from savings so many times before triggering yet another fee that goes to the bank.
Fuck all these big banks and the banking system that enables this shitty behavior.
Yeah it’s a sneaky marketing term. In the worst cases, they’ll charge you a fee and let your balance go negative. I personally would rather my account reject a payment if I don’t have the funds rather than letting it go through and charging me for it.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Credit unions are the way to go. Seriously if your reading this and have an account with a mega corp, go to a credit union. Start with a checking account, in time you can migrate all your other stuff over. Better deals on loans, and they’re not predators. And you have a better chance of not enriching the billionaire class while you’re at it.
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
Small banks are good too. I used to use a fantastic local one called First Republic where every customer had a banker they could call or email if needed. First Republic were acquired by Chase, who wanted some huge amount of money in the account (something like $200k) to get a similar level of service through Chase Private Client. I closed the account.