NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/misc/consumer/21338

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From: [e-mail] (Bob Wier)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Dedicated ATM card?
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Date: 31 Dec 92 03:16:51 GMT
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From article <[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (Henry Mensch):
> [e-mail] (Lee Choquette) wrote:
> ->Same here.  However, at least in Utah, the latest trend seems to be *against*
> ->free interchangeability.  Last June, a Utah bank with a lot of ATMs started
> ->charging $1 to use the ATM if the user does not have an account with that bank,
> ->and another bank with a lot of ATMs will start doing the same January 1.
> ->
> ->Is this same unfortunate trend happening elsewhere?
>
> happening?  it's done.  this is the standard in most large cities.

  Yup - that's what I've found.  Virtually everywhere I've had bank
  accounts in the last 10 years charge a fee for using "foreign" atms.


  Since I'm a heavy atm user, the bank I select is strongly based on
  how many atms they have which are available for use "free".  Down in
  Texas about 6 years ago, there was a bank (forget which one - gotta
  have a different name now anyway) which had an atm in every 7-11 store
  (before THEY went on their head).  That was pretty convenient.


- Bob Wier

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