Wednesday, January 9, 2008

French banking is the best in the world!!!

Case in point:

-It took nearly three weeks for a bank to approve of me putting my money in an account

-After opening my account in October, I couldn't officially access it until I received an ATM card in the mail

-I wasn't allowed to have the card until I could prove that I actually lived at the address to which it came

-I wanted to deposit money in my account in my dad's city, but they wouldn't let me because I can only withdraw cash (and perform no other transactions) outside of my region.... regardless of the fact that I was still in the country

-In order to deposit a check (in my region) I needed to wait in line at the welcome window, get a slip, fill it out, go back outside of the bank and deposit the envelope in a box

-For every transaction I want to make (in my region) there is a different ATM

-If you go to the wrong ATM, you have to remove your card and then wait in line (again) at the next station.


...Oh my God I miss Bank of America. I can't wait to go back home and do everything I want to anywhere in the country from one machine.

But point of the story, I was able to deposit my check today... even though it's written out to Mr. Moyal. The lack of a first name means I can probably get away with it, but we'll see.

Oh and it takes over a week and a half to register transactions online. Super.

1 comment:

Aimee said...

Could you imagine if we had to deposit at our "home bank?" That would mean we had to go to Dublin every time we got a check! That would be so lame!!!