Robert
Irvine,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, October 24, 2011
On 10/14/2011, I found out that my account was charged a total of about $100.00 maintenance fees.
- They didn't just charge you $100 all of the sudden. At $9.95 a month, that is about 10 months.
Had you complained about not being notified the first month you MAY have had a valid complaint. But letting it go 10 months because you didn't use the account "very often", is your fault. Whether your account has $10 or $10,000 it is YOUR money and your responsibility to reconcile your accounts every month. If you did you would have found this out sooner.
The notice they sent was buried in the monthly e-statement, mingled with their advertisements sometimes. They claimed that's my responsiblity to find out any new charges and there is nothing they can do for me.
- Had they sent it in a separate e-mail how would they know you wouldn't think it was spam? If they sent it by regular mail, how do they know you won't just trash it thinking it was junk mail? The fact is that they sent it with your regular monthly e-statement, because that is something you SHOULD be reading.
Oh, and this is a fairly standard way to notify customers of changes, so perhaps if you get other statements from other companies you may want to make sure that they don't have any changes included in their statements as well.