{"id":499295,"date":"2010-04-01T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003973"},"modified":"2010-03-31T23:42:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:42:40","slug":"i-spent-94-and-was-stuck-with-nearly-500-in-overdraft-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499295","title":{"rendered":"I Spent $94 And Was Stuck With Nearly $500 In Overdraft Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/buried-thumb-158x105-38805.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Max bunched together $94 worth of purchases with his Wells Fargo debit card that somehow racked up $480 in overdraft fees because he was dinged with a fee for each of his purchases. An <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/consumer\/complaint-letters\/how-to-launch-an-executive-email-carpet-bomb-259713.php\">Executive Email Carpet Bomb<\/a> resulted in whittling $150 off the balance, but that still leaves a nasty $330 in fees hanging over Max&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, I had a weekend where i expected to make several purchases on my debit card. In preparation for this, I transferred $320 from one checking account to the check card account, which i keep empty regularly in order to prevent fraud. This transfer Occurred on a Thursday at approximately 5 PM. I made a series of purchases over the weekend (Friday, Saturday) with the card, and spent about $270 dollars, or so I thought. When i went to the bank this morning, I found out the following. The transfer that occurred on Thursday didn&#8217;t post until the middle of the day on Friday, after I had already used the card several times resulting in a 35 dollar overdraft fee each time I used the card. This quickly cleaned out my $320, and subsequent purchases have pushed the account balance to -$571, which includes $480 in overdraft fees and $94 in purchases. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve called Wells Fargo and escalated all the way up to a call center manager, to no avail. The best they&#8217;re willing to do is waive $150 in fees, still leaving me owing them $330. I&#8217;m a student with limited financial resources and I don&#8217;t just have $330 to give away to the bank. Is there any recourse? Executive office service wasn&#8217;t any help at all, the guy said he was the final decision and nobody could override him. I sent an EECB and am hoping to get a response to this soon. Needless to say they&#8217;ve lost me as a customer after this mess is cleared up, but is there anything I can do from this point?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Any advice for Max, other than to cancel his account as soon as he can dig himself out of the mess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max bunched together $94 worth of purchases with his Wells Fargo debit card that somehow racked up $480 in overdraft fees because he was dinged with a fee for each of his purchases. An Executive Email Carpet Bomb resulted in whittling $150 off the balance, but that still leaves a nasty $330 in fees hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}