Kick in the tail on the way out the door

Pizza Shop Talk The Think Tank
1

So, all the checks had finally cleared and it was time to close the bank account from our shut-down Columbus location. Went into the bank and the teller informed me, “there’s a $50.00 fee for closing a business account.”

I chuckled and took the rest of the funds over to my nice, tiny local bank and asked the teller there if they had a fee for closing a business account. She looked at me sort of puzzled and said, “No.”

So now my last experience and my freshest memory about Fifth Third Bank will be this: They kicked me in the @$$ on the way out the door. The marketer/businessman inside me can only shake his head in disbelief at this sort of short-term thinking.

2

What would they have done if you ran the balance down to about $2.73 and then said you need to close the account? Just tell them to take it out of the remaining balance.

3

Wow…people are crazy. Too bad you didn’t have some other accounts you could have said ya know why don’t we just get all these accounts closed.