The people in BoA that supposedly fund the organizations you don’t like, etc… Well I’ll share a secret with you – they don’t use the ATM to withdraw cash for such things, and if they do actually need large sums of cash, they’ll pretty much ignore closed signs anyways.

Also, something to note.. banks make MORE money when people cannot withdraw their cash.

So next time you think you are making a difference, think about WHO you are affecting. Want to change BoA? You need to lobby your local politician, and take the cheesy tactics to the places that will actually affect the higher ups in some significant way.

Anyway, I have never had a bank account, and I will never use banks. I pay for everything in cash. I do not have a credit card and I take my paychecks and cash them at a liquor store. I work for a small business with no intention of incorporating.

Corporations destroy America.

You completely missed Kamie’s point. She wasn’t complaining about the fee and she DOES take responsibility for her bank accounts. She didn’t say the overdraft was B of A’s fault. She complained because a credit card was fraudulantly opened in her name. She only saw the offer for the card. She never requested the card.
If you give her the benefit of the doubt you can assume that she didn’t get any direct notice of the card. It’s also reasonable to imagine her overlooking notices recieved for a card that she never opened and had NO IDEA was opened in her name WITHOUT HER PERMISSION.
Because of the size of the company and the number of customers and transactions handled daily, it’s easy for large corporations to make huge mistakes. It’s the customer service that refused to assist her that is reproachable.

Anyone who’s ever had to clean up a credit record knows how morally unscrupulous large (and small) banking and credit corporations can be.

I don’t think the actions were criminal. Questionable, sure. But they didn’t ACTUALLY shut down the machine. The doors weren’t blocked, locked or barred. It’s mischevious. It’s not criminal.
Every act of protest causes an inconvenience. That’s the point. Make an interruption for an IMPORTANT CAUSE with wide-spread SOCIETAL CONSEQUENCES in order to spread awareness and concern.

Your defense of the corporations is laughable. I agree that it’s excessive to blame all of our personal and societal issues on the “evil” large corporations but it’s equally indefensible to excuse them entirely of responsibility.

You simply assume that the corporation is not at all to blame for Kamie’s situation. You assume that it’s her own “stupid” fault. You assume a lot of things about her in order to make your response.

Behind every comment on the internet is a thinking feeling human being. A person who has REASONs for their choices. A person who has VALUES whether or not they are the same as yours. Too often do I see people assume that others are irresponsible, unthinking, inexcusable beasts that deserve whatever situation they face.
Imagine Kamie is a friend of yours. A relative. How would you respond to her story then?

We’re all neighbors.

For those who feel that Bank of America is preying on students or even taking money from you. Uhm, the information is in writing to you. When you have an account and YOU spend more than what is in there, there is a FEE. Now, for those who didn’t know that, now you do. Why do people want to blame banks for those fees. Banks are a for profit business.

When will people understand how to take there own stand on their OWN mistakes. Come on, common sense people. If you are late, there is a LATE FEE. If YOU overdraw, there is an overdraft FEE. Take responsibility. If people really want to be able to avoid these fees, then balance your checkbook! Spend what you actually have.

So you want to stop people from using the ATM Machines. Well how low is that. Let’s see, how the hell would you feel that you couldn’t get your money out. And for you to actually do it, you have to go to another bank to find out that you have to pay $2 to withdraw from that ATM. So lets see, so if those people who couldn’t use those atm machines that day and had to pay $2 fees to use another machine. Then you guys should be responsible in paying those fees and any other fees that were associated with that. Wow, that would be a lot of money for you guys to pay out. And lets see, there are cameras at the atm machines, so if the pictures are there of those who put up the signs, then too bad for them. GOTCHA!

To Kamie and her myspace site
So after you overdrew YOUR account and never bothered to check YOUR accounts, it is the banks fault YOU are irresponsible ? Funny I thought YOU were the one who overdrew her account. They also send you statements in the mail to let you know that YOU have overdrawn your account. Maybe if you put as much time and effort into maintaining YOUR account as you do that silly myspace site you could have saved yourself a TON of money, but that would just be the logical choice. Grow up and take responsibility for your own actions, and go get a check register at whatever bank you are at now so you wont have to waste time setting up a new myspace account to complain about your own actions.

Why is it that people in general always want to blame a corporation for something they did themselves?

As for preying on college students. The accounts are free for college students for 5 to 6 years because most college students don’t have the ability to pay monthly maintenance fees. Anytime I have ever had an issue with the bank I have gone in and talked to the personal bankers and when it isn’t MY FAULT they take care of me.

Bank of America is like any other bank. Those people should be arrested for pulling a lame stunt and disrupting people’s lives. You say B of A is funding terrorists now ? Where is your proof ? Find proof that doesn’t come from an extremist group on how B of A is DIRECTLY funding a terrorist group and post it instead of throwing around names.

What these people did in this stunt was clever but it is still wrong, and they should be punished. Also what did they drive to get where they needed to go ? It had better be an alternative fuel car that runs on corn oil or else they are by their own defenition just as bad as Bank of America.

I have a savings account linked to my checking with $100 in it for overdraft protection. Bank of America sent me a credit card in the mail, which I shredded, but they activated it anyway and linked it to my checking. One time last summer I went over my checking limit by $5, and they took the money from the credit card, not the savings account. Of course, not knowing that this card was activated, since I destroyed it, I didn’t make payments on it. The interest grew exponentially on the $5 charge, plus late fees and non-payment fees, until I received a notice in the mail that my account was in collection for $300. I went to Bank of America to tell them that I never wanted this card in the first place and to ask them to take care of it for me, and they told me that technically it wasn’t a Bank of America card and that I needed to take my problems up with Visa. I called Visa, they said the only choice I had was to pay off the card completely. I was also told that this would not affect my credit score if I paid it off. So I did. I’ve been working diligently to build credit over the last six years so I would be able to buy a building to start my bakery this spring. I have never had a late payment on anything and have used credit responsibly, only to build an excellent credit history. Now my credit is absolutely shot. I threw away $300 for nothing, my six years of excellent payment history mean nothing, and now I can’t apply for a loan for my bakery, which I’ve been working toward for YEARS. All because Bank of America linked a credit card to my checking account and didn’t tell me about my charges until the card was in collection. DO NOT BANK AT BANK OF AMERICA!!!

This is just one example of the unbelievable, most definitely illegal practices of Bank of America. Get the word out!

Disabled Amereicans’ and college students’ should not be singeled out by this bank. I have lost all faith in commerical banks’ because of the way Kenneth Lewis treats customers’. Its like the, “bear sh*t in the buckwheat!”
Harrasement is inexcuseable by any average citizen why should Kenneth Lewis and his staff be excused?
EAT SHIT AND DIE BANK OF AMERICA!

Next time your ATM is put “out of order,” go across the street and use another one instead of wasting your time whining on the internet.