I despise my bank

[metawidget]

So, I sign up for e-bills and check the "send me e-mail when bills arrive" option in March. I keep getting enough paper bills to impart a feeling of keeping up, but my phone/Internet bill keeps piling up in my e-bill thing without a single e-mail. Three days before they pull the plug, I call to change some stuff and am informed that they can't do anything until I shovel a heap of money their way.

I pay the CIBC service fees to do stuff like notify me when they recieve e-bills. And maintain branches (they always close the ones close to me soon after I arrive in a neighbourhood). The CIBC can't manage this. I'm switching banks (I'm thinking Desjardins RBC (Desjardins horror stories seem to abound, and there's an RBC right near my place)... any horror stories I should know about?)

In good news, Noisette is back from whatever dimension she was hiding in. Lost cat situation over (for now).

Comments

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

I've found President's Choice to be excellent, although it's apparently run by CIBC behind the scenes, which might affect your decision. (I don't know exactly what the relationship is, since all their accounts, investments, and web interfaces are entirely different, and they have their own support personnel - I think it's probably just that they're backed by CIBC for stuff like fraud and securities laws.) I keep getting conflicting reports on whether it's available in Quebec, but I'd say it's worth checking out.