Ignore Anything You Have Read in this Forum Regarding Wells Fargo

@myst4au wrote:


I got on the plane, as did about 1/3 of the passengers,

The time to have been worried about Wells Fargo was two (?) years ago, but of course we didn't know. Right now, and the foreseeable future, Wells Fargo will be watched and scrutinized like no other bank in the world. I have Wells Fargo accounts. I plan on opening as many more as the MSC will permit. I will sleep very peacefully while the rest of you presumably have to worry about the "next" bank to have a problem. All I know is that it won't be Wells Fargo.

I'm with you, myst. I want more accounts. I'm holding off hoping the other shoppers all panic and I can get the shops bonused.

And I would have been on the plane with you.

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@Flash wrote:

First, I tend to agree that $40 to open and hold open account with potential fees for a few months is not really reasonable under the best of circumstances. I do have accounts with this bank already and they were offering an opportunity to add additional relationships, which would not have incurred fee for me, but still for $40 I was not interested in the hoops to jump through.

Second, the shops are only relatively recent. The court proceedings and fines are from prosecutions that would have started a significant amount of time--likely years--ago. The cancellation of shops may be due to cost cutting at WF, though even a sizable fine such as that should not be particularly detrimental to WF. Generally contracts are broken by mutual consent or in bankruptcy. WF is certainly not going to be in bankruptcy.
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In my market for those who already have an account at that bank you can only do the job once. I think many have been done but I suppose there are still many branches where no one took the shop. There are probably not as many shoppers with a WF account already willing to do this shop as there are branches of the bank. The fee has gone up to $90 here. If I already had an acct I would have considered it at that price. The jobs for those without and acct seem still to be at $40.
To me I would compare worrying about opening an acct at this bank to being worried that someone who got the flu or pneumonia ever in their life would not be competent and able to hold down a stressful job after they recovered.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/2016 04:15AM by sandyf.
Interestingly, before the news of the latest round of firings came out, I got an offer for a (horrifically low-paying) temp job at a call center working with some kind of financial firm (outsourced call center). Now I'm wondering if it was for WF. As I said, the pay for this temp job was awful, not to mention that Glassdoor.com reviews said there were roaches in the cubicles, so I decided to pass on that "opportunity".
They don't outsource their call center ops.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
Ah, so it must have been for someone else. It was going to be something with answering questions about investment accounts, so I remember thinking that it might be something related to a financial institution in trouble. Now I'll never know... :-)
Oh, okay. Wells Fargo deposit and investment centers are separate. Maybe it was Well Fargo.

Their investment group bought out a lot of small investment firms over the years.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
yeah they separate man yeah yeah

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