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Old Jul 27, 2008 | 5:58 pm
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Originally Posted by themicah
Also, does E*Trade provide postage-paid envelopes for mailing in deposits or do you have to pay for your own stamp?
You get to pay for your own stamp.

I, too, am in the process of moving my money away from E-Trade Bank. I was just in Kuala Lumpur and was unable to get any money from the seven different ATMs that I tried. I spent over 90 minutes on the phone in 5 different phone calls and they were never able to resolve the issue. E-Trade says it's Visa's problem; Visa says that E-Trade declined the withdrawal...back and forth. Bottom line is that my account is with E-Trade so it is up to E-Trade to fix the issue, but E-Trade's customer service didn't seem to agree. I was never able to get any cash over the entire course of my trip (thankfully I had my ING card with me--it cost a lot more but at least I got cash).

When I told the manager on duty, after he swore that everything was working, that I would be closing my account if I went to the ATM that day and it still didn't work he was fine with that. Of course, it did not work and one final call to E-Trade still failed to resolve anything. I have heard nothing back from them at all and they just don't care so I'm done.
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