Twitter Search / CNewswire

Loading...

Saturday, January 22, 2011

*Fwd: 1/22/11 SENDING MY CLAIM RE 5th/3rd BANK OVERDRAFT FEES CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "vanderkok [via Pixelpipe]" <postmaster-noreply@pixelpipe.com>
Date: Jan 22, 2011 12:07 PM
Subject: 1/22/11 SENDING MY CLAIM RE 5th/3rd BANK OVERDRAFT FEES CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT
To: <vanderkok@gmail.com>

..this is awesome ! finally, consumers are getting some justice re outrageous & unfair & unethical and now determined to be ILLEGAL overdraft fee practices ...! I received a notice of a class action settlement. .. from counsel for us as a class group ..the attorney is ben barnow in chicago ..for the case entitled Schulte et.al v Fifth Third bank (cs no1:09-cv-06655) ...I went back and looked at some activity from 2007 when I was traveling across the USA ...and was juggling the use of credit & debit cards ...5th/3rd hit me with some hefty fees during that period, sometimes repeatedly ..and apparently in a self-serving manner to make more money off me in fees.. they reversed a few, but not all & I still ended up paying $100 in fees..despite trying to explain to them that I was traveling at the moment & could not make a deposit... plus by that time I was  returning west where 5th/third has no banks or atm machines..they could have been more accomodating given my situation, but I ended up hit with at least $100 in fees...outrageous to say the least .. and here's another thing.. not related to the class action matter or overdraft, but I stopped using the account after 2008 ...even though I left it open with a small balance.. figuring I would use it again when I returned to the midwest (which I do periodically)..so just this month (jan 2011) I called to check my balance & I found out they had closed my account because of "dormancy" after FIRST using up my available balance with monthly "dormancy fees" ($5 per month) ..they never attempted to contact me at my new address ..they say they didn't get my address change ...somehow I think they would have quickly found me if I had owed them money ..ha ha, but they allege they didn't have my new address ...so they couldn't notify me they were hitting me with dormancy fees & closing my account ..umm hmm. ...

Posted via email from vanderkok's posterous