Transaction Fee On Haiti Donation Leads Student To Create Anti-Wachovia Facebook Page
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/transaction-fee-on-haiti_n_442462.html
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Several days after 21-year-old Heather Lynn used her Wachovia debit card to donate $10 to Yele Haiti's earthquake fund, she noticed on her online billing statement that the bank had deducted a 3% "international service fee" from the donated amount. Since the four major credit card companies had waived their transaction fees on donations to Haiti, Lynn says, she assumed that Wells Fargo, Wachovia's parent company, had done the same.
Lynn, an art major at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., immediately moved all her money to the Bank of Hampton Roads, a local community bank, and created a Facebook page to raise awareness of Wachovia's policy. The page, called "Wachovia = Fail," attracted more than 200 "fans" in a week and a slew of comments from people who are angry over Wachovia's ways of business.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/transaction-fee-on-haiti_n_442462.html
Lynn, an art major at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., immediately moved all her money to the Bank of Hampton Roads, a local community bank, and created a Facebook page to raise awareness of Wachovia's policy. The page, called "Wachovia = Fail," attracted more than 200 "fans" in a week and a slew of comments from people who are angry over Wachovia's ways of business.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/transaction-fee-on-haiti_n_442462.html
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the4104
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Good to know. I definitely won't be opening an account with Wachovia any time soon :)
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