{"id":701060,"date":"2010-03-25T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003746"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:09:36","slug":"i-dont-want-a-savings-account-fifth-third-please-stop-calling-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701060","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Want A Savings Account, Fifth Third: Please Stop Calling Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brad is a customer of Fifth Third Bank. He’s annoyed at the bank’s marketing practices. He tells Consumerist that when he transferred a large amount of money from his account with a credit union, Fifth Third decided that he clearly had too much money, and they wanted to help him open a savings account to remedy that situation. Well, that’s not what they said<\/em>, but close enough.<\/p>\n

I would like to know if this is a common practice as this is quite annoying that Fifth Third is doing this. I am in the midst of a kitchen remodel and transferd a large sum of money from my credit union savings account to my Fifth\/Third checking account to pay for the kitchen remodel.<\/p>\n

I have received two calls from two different 5\/3 employees asking me if I would like to open a savings account with them. Why are they calling me? I used to have a savings account with them many years ago but now keep it at a local credit union. I do not like the fact that they are watching the transactions on my account and using this information to cold call me…is this common practice among large banks?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Have you experienced this phenomenon (even once) with your bank? Does it make you feel like your bank is watching over you, or just watching you intently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brad is a customer of Fifth Third Bank. He’s annoyed at the bank’s marketing practices. He tells Consumerist that when he transferred a large amount of money from his account with a credit union, Fifth Third decided that he clearly had too much money, and they wanted to help him open a savings account to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Wnq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}