AUSTIN GENERAL 2 RE ANY GOOD BANKS IN AUSTIN
From: JETman (jetassoc@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:31:04 GMT


Steve Wertz wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:51:18 GMT, JETman <jetassoc@no-spam>
> wrote:
> > >Yes, it's good for thirty days until the replacement come through.
> > Only works of BofA ATM's. Does not work for POS, VISA, or savings > accounts. Been There, Done That.
> > -sw
Uh, it worked fine at HEB...

-- Regards,

JT (Residing in Austin, Texas)

Just Tooling Down The Internet Superhighway With my G4.......


From: "Texensis" (misterearl@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:13:49 GMT

"Mark Smigel" <mjsmigel@no-spam> wrote in message news:59b1f153.0306231122.1c18fe7f@no-spam | How happy are you with your bank?
|
| We're looking to switch to an Austin bank whose "customer | service" doesn't require the quote marks I've added, and | involves something more than an understaffed branch | and a call center in Bangalore.
|
| Thanks!
|
| MJ
If you can qualify for University Federal Credit Union, check it out.
Stay away from Capitol Credit Union. Washington Mutual has a very few outlets here in town and is advertising truly free checking right now,
but this is new. Only because of various complete foul-ups by Wells Fargo do we enjoy completely free checking with that outfit, which is where a lot of stuff wound up after about ten successive takeovers and mergers and computer-system migration problems, starting way, way back with Franklin. Personnel turnover is horrendous, but that's the case everywhere these days, it seems. Nobody seems to be delighted with their bank/credit union (speaking as someone constantly comparing notes, looking for a change). Some people seem to be happy with Liberty Bank (Eddy Safady), but it has few branches.


From: "Anathema" (spamfree@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin? NOT Austin Telco!!!
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:39:04 GMT

"Sparx Fligh" <sparx@no-spam> wrote in message news:1cPJa.15572$xg5.5648@no-spam >
> >
> > Ive heard good things about some of the local Credit Unions.
> >
>
>
> If Austin Telco was vaporized by a hostile invading alien race, I'd fucking > cheer them on.
> What an utterly infuriating bunch of back asswards inbred dumb shits they > are.
>
> I recently bought a new car, and they told me that they could approve my <snip>
> I also have about 736 more Austin Telco stories that are just as fucked up.
> One last thing- their amazingly rude tellers won't say 'hello' or 'goodbye'
> to you when you go through the drive-thru unless your kid plays soccer with > her kid. Then they'll talk to you all fucking day.
>
> *~Sparx~*
>
So why in the world have you stayed with them through 736 fucked up stories?
Do you like being treated like a miscreant in the process of doing business?
Just take your money elsewhere. It is that easy.


Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin? NOT Austin Telco!!!
From: Mapanari (Fakeaddress@no-spam)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:21:39 GMT

"Sparx Fligh" <sparx@no-spam> babbled and bored us in news:1cPJa.15572$xg5.5648@no-spam
> >>
>> Ive heard good things about some of the local Credit Unions.
>>
> > > If Austin Telco was vaporized by a hostile invading alien race, I'd > fucking cheer them on.
> What an utterly infuriating bunch of back asswards inbred dumb shits > they are.
> > I recently bought a new car, and they told me that they could approve my > loan by phone.
> Then they told me I had to come in to the office for approval.
> As I sat in the lobby waiting to see the loan officer, they called me on > my cell phone and approved my loan over the phone. When I told them I > was sitting in their fucking lobby as per their request, the loan > officer told me to go home so they could fax the documents to me. When I > reminded her again that I was sitting outside her door, she got huffy > and told me that she was on her lunch break (behind the closed door) and > it would be quicker for me to just go home to receive the fax, fill it > out, and bring it back. > > You're fucking right I complained. The manager was honestly stumped as > to why I was so irritated. She kept asking me what my point was. All my > well worded pearls of business wisdom just zooming miles above her > hollow head. Not unlike explaining the theory of relativity to a Hill > Country Brand parmesan flavored crouton. There are more productive ways > to waste your time.
> > Oh, they also told me that they "don't approve" of their customers > buying cars on eBay. The loan officer seemed genuinely pissed that I > didn't buy my car locally. She accused me of "not being a better > shopper". I was going to comment on her dress being the epitome of "bad > shopping", but decided to bite my tongue and take the check instead.
> I'll just take her off my list of "Women I'd try to screw if my wife > should suddenly die of Ebola Haemorrhagic fever".
> > I also have about 736 more Austin Telco stories that are just as fucked > up. One last thing- their amazingly rude tellers won't say 'hello' or > 'goodbye' to you when you go through the drive-thru unless your kid > plays soccer with her kid. Then they'll talk to you all fucking day.
> > *~Sparx~*
> > >
I'm actually sick n tired of fake cheery "Hello! I'm your best friend and if you play your cards right in the next 2 minutes during our transaction I might even such your dick or give your wife head while you watch with a video camera!" type of customer friendlyness bullshit.

Or the mind numbing "Bye bye" of those over made up barbie clone wannabe flying overpaid cocktail waitresses with ugly stockings and hideous uniforms made of spun plastic and used tires as you get off yet another miserable flight in tiny uncomforatable seats, breathing SARS, your nieghbors dandruff and dustmites and their kids sneezing snot molecules because the airlines won't recirculate air and spend another $50 a flight to ramp up the compressors to recirculate more air, and filters? Fahgetaboutit! Even some cars have air filters on the cabin intakes, but airlines? Sheet no!

And then there is the sullen, rote, boss-makes-me-pretend-to-like-working-
here "Hello, find everything allright?" questions from the counter droids at grocery stores.
Yah, like I could find anything because the stores purposfully put what I buy mostly on the bottom and top shelves because I know their pricing game, and if you want milk you have to go to one end of the store, and then to the other to find orange juice.
Of course, a man with a list and in a hurry is a loss leader to these stores, and dim-witted uneducated liberal women with 2.1 pretty little vacant-eyed kidlets in tow, going down every isle and catering to the screaming "gimmmes" is a store manager's wet dreams, especially is she heads down the makeup isle to make sure here organgatan-vulva-in-estrus color shade of lipstick, wax, perfume and some glycerine and red dye number2 @no-spam $400 an ounce pricing so she
can look good for the pool boy who's regularily porking her while she lays around the house and her husband is busy lawyering or whatever downtown and bringing home her bacon to waste in idle "shopping" and other self-indulgent pursuits of the bored and purposfulless, to stuff her cart with yet another $100 worth of high profit useless crap.

I LIKE hearing nothing.
I'll trade 100 potential dick sucking cheery employes waving their brown pudgy none-to-clean hands in mock friendlyness at me for one grocery store with "your item is free if it scans the wrong price", or back to HEB's enormously failed experiment in consumer sheeple control, the infamous "Wait more than 5 minutes we'll give you $5.00" promotion. They must have almost gone bankrupt with that one.

So after all the promotions and gimmiks, we, the public are left simply with vauge friendly promises of possible sexual favors by sullen employees.

No thanks....not even with YOUR dick sparky.

-- -Mapi
The Mapanari of Usenet.


Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin? NOT Austin Telco!!!
From: Mapanari (Fakeaddress@no-spam)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:22:31 GMT

"Anathema" <spamfree@no-spam> babbled and bored us in news:coZJa.4704$_H5.3976@no-spam
> "Sparx Fligh" <sparx@no-spam> wrote in message > news:1cPJa.15572$xg5.5648@no-spam >>
>> >
>> > Ive heard good things about some of the local Credit Unions.
>> >
>>
>>
>> If Austin Telco was vaporized by a hostile invading alien race, I'd > fucking >> cheer them on.
>> What an utterly infuriating bunch of back asswards inbred dumb shits >> they are.
>>
>> I recently bought a new car, and they told me that they could approve >> my > <snip>
>> I also have about 736 more Austin Telco stories that are just as fucked > up.
>> One last thing- their amazingly rude tellers won't say 'hello' or > 'goodbye'
>> to you when you go through the drive-thru unless your kid plays soccer > with >> her kid. Then they'll talk to you all fucking day.
>>
>> *~Sparx~*
>>
> So why in the world have you stayed with them through 736 fucked up > stories? Do you like being treated like a miscreant in the process of > doing business? Just take your money elsewhere. It is that easy.
> >
Beat me, hurt me, make me bleed through every orifice...why?

Because it feels so good when you stop!

-- -Mapi
The Mapanari of Usenet.


From: "Sparx Fligh" (sparx@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin? NOT Austin Telco!!!
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:11:47 GMT

"Anathema" <spamfree@no-spam> wrote in message news:coZJa.4704$_H5.3976@no-spam > "Sparx Fligh" <sparx@no-spam> wrote in message > news:1cPJa.15572$xg5.5648@no-spam > >
> > >
> > > Ive heard good things about some of the local Credit Unions.
> > >
> >
> >
> > If Austin Telco was vaporized by a hostile invading alien race, I'd > fucking > > cheer them on.
> > What an utterly infuriating bunch of back asswards inbred dumb shits they > > are.
> >
> > I recently bought a new car, and they told me that they could approve my > <snip>
> > I also have about 736 more Austin Telco stories that are just as fucked > up.
> > One last thing- their amazingly rude tellers won't say 'hello' or > 'goodbye'
> > to you when you go through the drive-thru unless your kid plays soccer > with > > her kid. Then they'll talk to you all fucking day.
> >
> > *~Sparx~*
> >
> So why in the world have you stayed with them through 736 fucked up stories?
> Do you like being treated like a miscreant in the process of doing business?
> Just take your money elsewhere. It is that easy.
>

Because I have tried many other banks before Austin Telco. They all suck in their own horrible ways.
Austin Telco is mostly irritating in their overall lack of business sophistication. Their employees all remind me of people that failed miserably at selling real estate. They ain't slick, and they get pissy and unprofessional if you ask to many well worded questions. They especially despise getting cornered with arguments based on logic.

Why do I stay? They're cheap. I own several businesses and move lots of money back and forth between almost a dozen separate accounts. They don't seem to appreciate my aggressive handling of those accounts, but they charge so little in fees.
Fuck 'em. Keep your money under the mattress, or buried in your yard in a Folgers can. Feed the hole.

*~Sparx~*


Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin? NOT Austin Telco!!!
From: Mapanari (Fakeaddress@no-spam)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:51:38 GMT

"Sparx Fligh" <sparx@no-spam> babbled and bored us in news:Dx7Ka.28135$TJ.1199768@no-spam
> > "Anathema" <spamfree@no-spam> wrote in message > news:coZJa.4704$_H5.3976@no-spam >> "Sparx Fligh" <sparx@no-spam> wrote in message >> news:1cPJa.15572$xg5.5648@no-spam >> >
>> > >
>> > > Ive heard good things about some of the local Credit Unions.
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > If Austin Telco was vaporized by a hostile invading alien race, I'd >> fucking >> > cheer them on.
>> > What an utterly infuriating bunch of back asswards inbred dumb shits > they >> > are.
>> >
>> > I recently bought a new car, and they told me that they could approve >> > my >> <snip>
>> > I also have about 736 more Austin Telco stories that are just as >> > fucked >> up.
>> > One last thing- their amazingly rude tellers won't say 'hello' or >> 'goodbye'
>> > to you when you go through the drive-thru unless your kid plays >> > soccer >> with >> > her kid. Then they'll talk to you all fucking day.
>> >
>> > *~Sparx~*
>> >
>> So why in the world have you stayed with them through 736 fucked up > stories?
>> Do you like being treated like a miscreant in the process of doing > business?
>> Just take your money elsewhere. It is that easy.
>>
> > Because I have tried many other banks before Austin Telco. They all > suck in > their own horrible ways.
> Austin Telco is mostly irritating in their overall lack of business > sophistication. Their employees all remind me of people that failed > miserably at selling real estate. They ain't slick, and they get pissy > and unprofessional if you ask to many well worded questions. They > especially despise getting cornered with arguments based on logic.
> > Why do I stay? They're cheap. I own several businesses and move lots of > money back and forth between almost a dozen separate accounts. They > don't seem to appreciate my aggressive handling of those accounts, but > they charge so little in fees.
> Fuck 'em. Keep your money under the mattress, or buried in your yard in > a Folgers can. Feed the hole.
> > *~Sparx~*
> > >
Telcos tend to attract the liberals and badly educated degreed has beens from the real business world.
It's sort of a co-op feeling for them to be working there, and we all know how good service was in East Germany and Russia 10 years ago...

-- -Mapi
The Mapanari of Usenet.


From: "KilleenRose" (rosemary111@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin? NOT Austin Telco!!!
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:43:07 GMT

"God Bless Texas" <not.here.not.there@no-spam> wrote in message news:BH7Ka.12068$XV.1035905@no-spam > That's it, back on the meds mapi.
>

(no shit!)


From: "KilleenRose" (rosemary111@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin? NOT Austin Telco!!!
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:48:53 GMT

"Mapanari" <Fakeaddress@no-spam> wrote in message news:725Ka.36059$sF.576@no-spam > "Sparx Fligh" <sparx@no-spam> babbled and bored us in > news:1cPJa.15572$xg5.5648@no-spam >
> >
> >>
> >> Ive heard good things about some of the local Credit Unions.
> >>
> >
> >
> > If Austin Telco was vaporized by a hostile invading alien race, I'd > > fucking cheer them on.
> > What an utterly infuriating bunch of back asswards inbred dumb shits > > they are.
> >
> > I recently bought a new car, and they told me that they could approve my > > loan by phone.
> > Then they told me I had to come in to the office for approval.
> > As I sat in the lobby waiting to see the loan officer, they called me on > > my cell phone and approved my loan over the phone. When I told them I > > was sitting in their fucking lobby as per their request, the loan > > officer told me to go home so they could fax the documents to me. When I > > reminded her again that I was sitting outside her door, she got huffy > > and told me that she was on her lunch break (behind the closed door) and > > it would be quicker for me to just go home to receive the fax, fill it > > out, and bring it back.
> >
> > You're fucking right I complained. The manager was honestly stumped as > > to why I was so irritated. She kept asking me what my point was. All my > > well worded pearls of business wisdom just zooming miles above her > > hollow head. Not unlike explaining the theory of relativity to a Hill > > Country Brand parmesan flavored crouton. There are more productive ways > > to waste your time.
> >
> > Oh, they also told me that they "don't approve" of their customers > > buying cars on eBay. The loan officer seemed genuinely pissed that I > > didn't buy my car locally. She accused me of "not being a better > > shopper". I was going to comment on her dress being the epitome of "bad > > shopping", but decided to bite my tongue and take the check instead.
> > I'll just take her off my list of "Women I'd try to screw if my wife > > should suddenly die of Ebola Haemorrhagic fever".
> >
> > I also have about 736 more Austin Telco stories that are just as fucked > > up. One last thing- their amazingly rude tellers won't say 'hello' or > > 'goodbye' to you when you go through the drive-thru unless your kid > > plays soccer with her kid. Then they'll talk to you all fucking day.
> >
> > *~Sparx~*
> >
> >
> >
>
> I'm actually sick n tired of fake cheery "Hello! I'm your best friend and if > you play your cards right in the next 2 minutes during our transaction I > might even such your dick or give your wife head while you watch with a video > camera!" type of customer friendlyness bullshit.
>
> Or the mind numbing "Bye bye" of those over made up barbie clone wannabe > flying overpaid cocktail waitresses with ugly stockings and hideous uniforms > made of spun plastic and used tires as you get off yet another miserable > flight in tiny uncomforatable seats, breathing SARS, your nieghbors dandruff > and dustmites and their kids sneezing snot molecules because the airlines > won't recirculate air and spend another $50 a flight to ramp up the > compressors to recirculate more air, and filters? Fahgetaboutit! Even some > cars have air filters on the cabin intakes, but airlines? Sheet no!
>
> And then there is the sullen, rote, boss-makes-me-pretend-to-like-working-
> here "Hello, find everything allright?" questions from the counter droids at > grocery stores.
> Yah, like I could find anything because the stores purposfully put what I buy > mostly on the bottom and top shelves because I know their pricing game,
and > if you want milk you have to go to one end of the store, and then to the > other to find orange juice.
> Of course, a man with a list and in a hurry is a loss leader to these stores,
> and dim-witted uneducated liberal women with 2.1 pretty little vacant-eyed > kidlets in tow, going down every isle and catering to the screaming "gimmmes"
> is a store manager's wet dreams, especially is she heads down the makeup isle > to make sure here organgatan-vulva-in-estrus color shade of lipstick, wax,
> perfume and some glycerine and red dye number2 @no-spam $400 an ounce pricing so
she > can look good for the pool boy who's regularily porking her while she lays > around the house and her husband is busy lawyering or whatever downtown and > bringing home her bacon to waste in idle "shopping" and other self-indulgent > pursuits of the bored and purposfulless, to stuff her cart with yet another > $100 worth of high profit useless crap.
>
> I LIKE hearing nothing.
>
> I'll trade 100 potential dick sucking cheery employes waving their brown > pudgy none-to-clean hands in mock friendlyness at me for one grocery store > with "your item is free if it scans the wrong price", or back to HEB's > enormously failed experiment in consumer sheeple control, the infamous "Wait > more than 5 minutes we'll give you $5.00" promotion.
> They must have almost gone bankrupt with that one.
>
> So after all the promotions and gimmiks, we, the public are left simply with > vauge friendly promises of possible sexual favors by sullen employees.
>
> No thanks....not even with YOUR dick sparky.
>
> --
> -Mapi >
> The Mapanari of Usenet.

You took the words right out of my mouth.
Well, except for the part where you wouldn't use my dick for something. Ya kinda lost me on that one.
But I do sincerely appreciate the sentiment. :-)

*~Sparx~*


Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin? NOT Austin Telco!!!
From: Mapanari (Fakeaddress@no-spam)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:38:47 GMT

"KilleenRose" <rosemary111@no-spam> babbled and bored us in news:FY8Ka.24589$hV.1100779@no-spam
> > You took the words right out of my mouth.
> Well, except for the part where you wouldn't use my dick for something. Ya > kinda lost me on that one.
> But I do sincerely appreciate the sentiment. :-)
> > *~Sparx~*
> > >
Sure, uh, Killeen Rose....???

-- -Mapi
The Mapanari of Usenet.


From: minervanine@no-spam (minerva nine)
Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin?
Date: 27 Jun 2003 20:40:45 -0700

mjsmigel@no-spam (Mark Smigel) wrote in message news:<59b1f153.0306231122.1c18fe7f@no-spam>...

> How happy are you with your bank?
> > We're looking to switch to an Austin bank whose "customer > service" doesn't require the quote marks I've added, and > involves something more than an understaffed branch > and a call center in Bangalore.
> > Thanks!
> > MJ
I completely recommend University Federal Credit Union, if you qualify to join (have to be connected with UT some way). They completely rock, and have done since I've been with them for the last...egad...24
years?!? M9


From: "God Bless Texas" (not.here.not.there@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Any good banks in Austin?
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:34:41 GMT

"minerva nine" <minervanine@no-spam> wrote
> I completely recommend University Federal Credit Union, if you qualify
Their initials are UFCU. With echoes of Pink Floyd in my brain, I could never trust an institution whose name could be set to music with such horrible results.