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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Banker (tm??)
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 13:24:06 EST
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Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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My credit union just made an enemy of me...

I got my statement yesterday.  They had deducted, without any notice,
$15.  Called up to ask what's going on, they said they had a new policy
that anyone with less than $250 on deposit will be charged $15 per
quarter, starting January 1.

They refused to refund my $15 on such an obviously groundless basis as
their not having told anyone that they were going to do this.  I closed
out my membership, and certainly won't be going back.

General question:  is there anything that the average consumer can do
about this kind of situation?  It seems like every month some company or
other is taking me for $10 or $15 by this kind of monkey-business.  It's
not enough money to make going to small-claims court worthwhile, so they
get away with it.  (Somebody once joked that there oughtta be a "reverse
class action suit", where you could sue the class of people who together
have ripped you off for a tidy sum).
-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug