{"id":254,"date":"2008-03-28T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=254"},"modified":"2008-03-28T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:05:00","slug":"in-which-national-city-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/in-which-national-city-caves.html","title":{"rendered":"In which National City caves (Satisfaction part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes National City, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105793\/quotes\">you <b>WILL<\/b> be mine<\/a>.  Following up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/i-will-not-give-you-satisfaction.html\">the post from the other day<\/a>, here are the updates on my saga with National City.<\/p>\n<p><b>Attempt 7:<\/b> Going back on what the lady in Attempt 6, I called up what is apparently my &#8220;home branch&#8221;, which is where I opened the account some 10 years ago, although I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve been back since.  Spoke to the lady that answered the phone and explained my problem.  Well actually I didn&#8217;t really explain my problem so much as just tell her I wanted these fees waived.  She of course said she couldn&#8217;t do that and I&#8217;d have to talk to the manager, who was conveniently on vacation until Monday.  I pulled out one of the good phrases from that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com\/blog\/negotiating-out-of-bank-fees-part-2\">blog I linked yesterday<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I see this fee here and I&#8217;d really like to get it waived.  What else can you do to help me?&#8221;  Turns out there is also an &#8220;office manager&#8221; who can do it.  But she was with a customer, so I could call back in 10-15 minutes.  I instead opted to leave my name and number and have her call me when she was free.<\/p>\n<p><b>Attempt 8:<\/b> No call for an hour or two.  So I called back &#8211; ended up speaking to the same lady.  I introduced myself again and the lady explained that the manager lady was in with a different customer.  I said nothing and eventually she put me on hold.  After a moment or two, the manager lady answered.  I again said I wanted the fee waived.  Actually I said I got 2 of these overdraft charges and I&#8217;d like one of them waived, but she saw my trick and said that one of them was already waived, so I had to restate that I wanted the OTHER one waived too.  She asked me if this is the first time my balance has been negative.  I danced around the question since the answer is no and I didn&#8217;t want to lie about it.  And then she said &#8220;Okay I&#8217;ll do it&#8221;.  We talked about various other overdraft options (none free :-\/) and that was that.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/overdraft-758764.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/overdraft-758761.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>And there&#8217;s the proof!  I&#8217;m kind of glad because I was totally going to drop National City if they didn&#8217;t cave on this.  And that would have been annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes National City, you WILL be mine. Following up on the post from the other day, here are the updates on my saga with National City. Attempt 7: Going back on what the lady in Attempt 6, I called up what is apparently my &#8220;home branch&#8221;, which is where I opened the account some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}