How the Washington Mutual Takeover Will Affect Consumers

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Did you know that WaMu will charge you a fee to cash a WaMu check at their bank? The problem here is that the receiver of the check is probably unaware of this policy unless he or she has a WaMu account. This is a very troubling.

J of CA 1:42AM February 25, 2009

I once had a saving acct with WaMu, several months ago I with drew the money and closed the acct.Now i keep receiing these notices that my acct number xxx-xxx591-5 has a current balance of $4.50 and vecause I am overdrawn they have stopped honoring requets for withdrawals from this acct. if it continues they may report this to a consumer reporting agency.
I do not even remember the acct number because when I withdrew and closed my acct I destroyed everythigrelatd to Washington Mutual. I have called two times now and am still getting these notices. will you please correct your files.

Mary M Harding of CA 8:03PM February 17, 2009

I for one am sickened by the way Chase has raised the interest rates for long time credit card holders, even though they had a good payment record. I watched my rate jump from 9.9% to 24.9% once they got their hands on that portion of WAMU. I am so tempted to just let the whole balance default and walk away. The greed of Chase has me in such a flustered state of mind. You would think that they would want the money to be repaid, but they have basically set up the majority to fail. Will our government do something about this atrocity? They stepped in and protected those with money on deposit, why not help those that pay the interest that pays the salaries and dividends? Like I said before, I might just walk away. They can have my belongings.... and good luck trying to sell them off in these hard times! Oh, they could have taken our retirement, but we lost all of that in the last quarter.

Traci of AK 12:09PM January 30, 2009

pls advise if there is a website where i can get the history of each of my loans (3)
i go to website www.wamu.com as shown on loan payment statements and can not get in to see
any history info of my loans
pls adv how to get this info thanks

Emilio Ruiz of FL 4:58PM January 20, 2009

IF WE HAVE CREDIT CARDS WITH WASHINGTON MUTUAL, WILL WE BE GETTING NEW CARDS WITH JP MORGAN CHASE BANK ON THEM?

DENISE of FL 9:51PM January 13, 2009

I have a credit card through washington mutal what will happen. Will my credit card change into a chase credit card account, if yes when will changes come.

andrew thompson of MO 7:45PM November 13, 2008

I am curious what will happen to my credit cards????

Larry Knowles of TX 2:47PM November 13, 2008

What happens to credit cards owed to Wash Mutual. I am having a hard time now need help with a 6000. credit card with them. They wont help me settle it somehow. I dont get if they are bought out why they wont work with me. Its okay for them to have money problems and give millions to their CEOs but the average customer cant get into financial hardship. They are disgusting and the CEOs should go to jail for what they have done. They steal taxpayer money. All these banks the govt. keeps helping while people are still trying to figure out how to pay the same banks credit cards with high interest rates that they keep collecting on. If they can get bailed out by our govt. with our money , why cant they bail us out of debt with some kind of plan to eliminate what we owe them over time. That not right.

Daniela of NY 9:31AM November 12, 2008

As a customer, Iam disgusted with high robbery from Washington Mutual, the CEO should be jailed, the charges for overdraft of #2 is $34.00. no wonder the country is in this crises,all because of these banks and their CEOS, robbing the poor.

Gerard of FL 1:44AM November 11, 2008

i can not believe that wamu is giving hardworking or want to be hardworking people at severly hard time on thier loan situations when the real thief is walking out the door laughing his head off. boy oh boy george and the troll are sure making sure thier buds are takeing care of before they leave office. how come only the common every day worker gets jail time for being a thief.

patrick w. mulligan of FL 11:55PM November 07, 2008