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Step 2. Find out it's actually a fucking nightmare
Step 3. Finally stop thinking everyone who worries about obstacles you assume don't happen are tinfoil hat weirdos.
It's always step 3 that gets people.
When I first moved to the SF Bay it tickled me to find there was no retail Chase Bank presence at all. Then the financial collapse and bailouts happened, Chase scooped up WaMu, and now Chase is everywhere here. :sadpanda: I won't even take money from their ATMs if I can avoid it, my bank covers ATM fees, but f*ck giving that company another dime.
Similar experience: Citibank Retirement. I had about $80,000 in IRA/CD's. I'd created & contributed to them over a period of 35 years. Last year, it's time to retire, and Citibank won't give me half the money. It seems that some CD's are for "Cliff Stoll" and some for "Clifford Stoll". Citibank Retirement demanded a "Marriage Certificate, Divorce Decree, or Court Order" to demonstrate that "Cliff Stoll" is the same p…
Similar experience: Citibank Retirement. I had about $80,000 in IRA/CD's. I'd created & contributed to them over a period of 35 years. Last year, it's time to retire, and Citibank won't give me half the money. It seems that some CD's are for "Cliff Stoll" and some for "Clifford Stoll". Citibank Retirement demanded a "Marriage Certificate, Divorce Decree, or Court Order" to demonstrate that "Cliff Stoll" is the same p…
Crypto solves this. Well, eventually, after initially making it worse, because all your crypto-adjacent transactions in the meantime make legacy banks extra-hair-trigger suspicious.
So glad I was able to just walk in to the local HQ and have a sit-down with the person who ultimately authorized crypto exchange transactions. YMMV
The most important lesson learned here is not to ever deal with retail banking at the branch. Not only do they not care they aren’t given the authority or autonomy to help you. By trying to do this at multiple branches across the country OP likely made the problem worse as those actions raise suspicions even more. With that much money after the first day of inaction by support he should have CC’d every department fro…
Similar experience: Citibank Retirement. I had about $80,000 in IRA/CD's. I'd created & contributed to them over a period of 35 years. Last year, it's time to retire, and Citibank won't give me half the money. It seems that some CD's are for "Cliff Stoll" and some for "Clifford Stoll". Citibank Retirement demanded a "Marriage Certificate, Divorce Decree, or Court Order" to demonstrate that "Cliff Stoll" is the same p…
Are you still doing the hats & bottles or did you retire from that too?