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

[star-holder.livejournal.com]

You have a bank called "the gardens"? Awesome.

[ravi.livejournal.com]

Yup, and it's quite popular with the francophones ... it doesn't exist outside Quebec and so it's a serious PITA if you're traveling, even within Canada and need to use your account. :/

[star-holder.livejournal.com]

We have a bank like that here...only two of them exist. It's rather annoying. So I switched.

[dzuunmod.livejournal.com]

Their headquarters is called "Complexe Desjardins", and a friend of mine refers to it as The Complicated Gardens.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

Desjardins is one of the most common last name in "La Belle Province" aka Quebec.