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Saturday, July 28, 2012 - 6:52 AM

Not A Good Bank If You Travel Outside Of The US

Columbia Bank (NJ) (2 stars)
The debit/check card is very inconvenient.  We have to call frequently to verify transactions so that holds are released from our account.

Most recently, I called to clear our account for travel outside the US and even though I gave them our account number, they cleared only my card number for travel and not my husband's which we discovered when we were refused a purchase and had to borrow a friend's cell phone to make the international call to the bank.  (The rep gave the excuse that I had mentioned only MY travel and not my husband's which was not the case, showing the bank's complete lack of taking any responsibility).

We made 2 purchases since that time and now they've turned off access to our card again including online banking and the customer service center is of course closed so here we are in England for the Olympics and have absolutely no access to our money.

We'll be changing banks when we return home.
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Jul 28, 2012
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