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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.invest,net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Stopping automatic payments
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 13:37:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 13:37:32 1985
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> > In article <835@cae780.UUCP> gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
> > >It looks like I'm headed for a battle in small claims court, so I thought I'd
> > >ask you netters if you think my position is reasonable ...
> > >
> > 
> > It seems to me there is a somewhat simple solution here.  Simply terminate
> > the checking account and start another.  
> 
>   I would go one step better.  Simply terminate the checking account and
> start another at another bank.  Last time I had a similar problem, just
> threatening to do this was enough.

Any reasonable bank would help you in stopping the payments, even if the
request legally did have to come from the insurance company.  My current
banks do.  I've closed my accounts at unreasonable banks before (once in
Baltimore) and the threat of me leaving straightened out another unreasonable
bank (in Denver).

-Ron