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TD Bank Explains How To Avoid Its Fees
By Phil Villarreal on November 4, 2011 1:30 PM   48 Comments
Responding to bad press it received over the announcement of a new fee and increases of other fees, TD Bank put out a press release clarifying aspects of its new $9-per-withdrawal charge for excessive savings account withdrawals (excluding ATM and teller withdrawals). Insisting the fee will affect only 1 percent of its customers, the release ends with some helpful advice on how to avoid its charges. More »

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TD Bank Decides It's A Great Time To Introduce A New $9 Fee
By Phil Villarreal on November 3, 2011 8:15 AM   68 Comments
Tone-deaf to the lessons of Bank of America's $5 fee debacle, TD Bank is trotting out a new $9 charge for each savings account withdrawal after customers exceed six monthly transactions (excluding deposits or ATM or teller withdrawals). The fee begins in December. More »

I Solved Citibank ATM Pen Shortage With Duct Tape, TD Bank Pens
By Ben Popken on June 3, 2011 11:00 AM   65 Comments
Reader Greg was sick of there never being any pens at the Citibank ATM at 8th ave and 16th st in NYC. They had those metal pens attached to wire like they always do, but people had stolen the pen innards and they were never replaced. (Probably because the bank got sick of replacing them.) So Greg came up with his own solution. He grabbed some free pens that are always in abundance at TD Bank and duct taped them to the empty Citibank pen barrels. More »

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TD Bank Charging Customers $2 To Get Cash From A Non-TD ATM
By Ben Popken on February 17, 2011 12:00 PM   70 Comments
As Congress today debates over proposed caps on debit card swipe fees that would limit bank profits and lower costs for merchants, TD Bank has announced they're going to start charging customers a $2 fee whenever they take cash out of a non-TD bank ATM. That's going to be on top of any fee that you already pay the ATM. The only way to avoid the fee is to be in a higher-tier checking account. More »

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TD Bank Charges Non-Customers 6% Fee For Coin Counting
By Ben Popken on November 16, 2010 2:00 PM   96 Comments
Sad day. TD Bank's coin counter machines used to be free to all, but within the past month they've changed it so now non-customers will get levied a 6% transaction fee. More »

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Man Gets $126 In Fees Refunded After Bar Charged Him Twice For One Drink
By Ben Popken on October 5, 2010 12:00 PM   41 Comments
Freddy was furious. $126 in overdraft fees? Even though his balance is sometimes down to the wire, he is careful to make sure he has enough funds in his account. Ah yes, but this doesn't account for when they mess up. More »

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Bar Charges Me Twice For A Drink, I Get $126 In Overdraft Fees
By Ben Popken on September 30, 2010 4:00 PM   217 Comments
Freddy watches his balances like a hawk, so he was surprised when TD Bank hit him for $126 in overdraft fees. Turns out the bar he had gone to had accidentally charged his debit card twice for one of his drinks, and though he was careful to stay within his low balance, it set the stage for a cascade of fees. More »

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An Unexpected Win At TD Bank's Penny Arcade
By Laura Northrup on September 9, 2010 12:30 PM   48 Comments
At some heartless banks, a malfunctioning self-serve coin counting machine could lead to lost money and general sadness. Not at Flexo's local TD Bank branch, however. A malfunctioning machine meant $32 more in his account. Unfortunately, this windfall came at the expense of the unknown previous customer to use the machine, to whom the $32 actually belonged. More »

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TD Bank Sells Overdraft Protection As A "Free" Service
By Laura Northrup on August 11, 2010 8:00 AM   40 Comments
Frank writes that he received a call from his bank, TD Bank, that insults the consumer savvy and the intelligence of their customers. TD kept calling him...unsurprisingly, to try to sell him on the idea of opting in to overdraft protection. Their sales pitch? Overdraft protection is a "FREE SERVICE." Well, yeah, like many services, it's free until you actually use it. More »

TD Ratchets Up Overdraft Opt-In Push With Pop-Up Scare Tactics
By Ben Popken on July 12, 2010 2:00 PM   29 Comments
TD Bank is really stepping up its efforts to try to get customers to sign back up for "overdraft protection," which really just protects their right to charge you $35 if you want to buy a $2.00 candy bar and only have a $1 in your account. Now they're greeting customers accessing their accounts online with pop-up ads trying to scare them into agreeing to signing up for the service. More »

TD Bank Pushes Totally Flat Debit Cards
By Ben Popken on July 6, 2010 1:00 PM   86 Comments
Run your fingers over one of TD Bank's new debit cards and you'll notice something missing. There's no embossed numbers. It's not a fake, it's the future: a completely flat debit card that can be issued right on the spot when you open an account at a local bank, with no waiting for it to arrive in the mail. More »

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TD Bank Will Pay Off Your Mortgage
By Ben Popken on March 16, 2010 8:05 AM   17 Comments
Free house! TD Bank is running a new contest: apply for a new mortgage, get a chance to have them pay it off in full for you. More »

TD Bank: Man's $100,000 Misplaced
By Ben Popken on October 15, 2009 8:22 PM   47 Comments

—>Zach's $100,000 CD with TD Bank he took out on 10/5 was mysteriously showing a $0 balance and no one seemed able to fix it until we told him what to do. TD Bank PR says it wasn't related to their clusterfunk of delays that started Sep 28. Zach's experience says otherwise.  More »

TD Bank Says All Transactions Up To Date Now
By Ben Popken on October 4, 2009 12:23 AM   38 Comments

TD Bank says all their customer transactions are up to date now. After the bank tried to integrate the acquired Commerce bank system, customers had experienced errors starting Monday including paychecks and other transactions not posting, and getting hit with a bunch of new fees.  More »

UPDATED: TD Bank's Statement On Resolving This Week's Meltdown
By Ben Popken on October 2, 2009 4:17 PM   15 Comments

—>TD Bank sent us the following statement - UPDATE: and now a new, revised one - about all the transaction and fee snafus that happened this week after they became one with the Commerce Bank customer data:  More »

Inside The TD Bank Meltdown
By Ben Popken on October 2, 2009 3:00 PM   74 Comments

—>Think it sucks to be a TD Bank customer this week, especially if you were formerly a Commerce Bank customer? Try being a TD Bank employee. One insider tells what it what was like yesterday on the other side of all those (still) unprocessed transactions and new fees.  More »

Some TD Bank Customers Still Not Seeing Their Paychecks
By Ben Popken on October 1, 2009 6:32 PM   82 Comments

—>TD Bank customers, particularily former Commerce Bank ones, are still complaining about their paychecks and other transactions not posting. Other customers said they were being limited to $250 withdrawals. The problems arose Monday after they tried to combine their bank system with Commerce Bank's, which TD recently bought.  More »

Seems More People Playing "The Penny Arcade" At TD Bank
By Ben Popken on March 16, 2009 5:09 PM   50 Comments

—>So like I said I got $120 from the Penny Arcade this weekend, but I was far from alone. Here is the crappy cellphone picture I took of the line. All those people on the right (plus the dog) are waiting for their turn at the spare change counting machine.  More »

Winning The Coin Jar Game
By Ben Popken on March 16, 2009 1:38 PM   88 Comments

—>Yesterday was coin-jar payout day for me. I got $120! Woohoo! And since I took my can to the Penny Arcade at TD Bank, formerly Commerce Bank, they counted my change for free, unlike the Coinstars in supermarkets. Perversely, the past few weeks as my coin jar got close to full , I started to really look forward to getting change, to the extent I started to develop some irrational behavior...  More »

NYC Police Commish Says TD Bank Is Too Easy To Rob
By Meg Marco on March 6, 2009 6:38 PM   75 Comments

—>The NYC police commissioner, Ray Kelly, is super annoyed at TD Bank because he says they're just too easy to rob. In one example of this phenomenon, a robber was thwarted by three Chase branches before successfully robbing a TD Bank. And get this, 17% of this New York City's bank robberies occurred at TD Bank branches.  More »