Glitches at E-LOAN's Online Savings Account

This morning they reversed my transactions from earlier this week that were NOT duplicated.

I'm worried that they are going to try to unreverse them tomorrow morning. Are they in some kind of loop?

My transfer into Eloan on Nov 8, did get reversed this morning. I just put in for another transfer to get it back into Eloan. No crisis here. I appreciate their high interest rates. I have no complaints with there service.

I am on the contrary case. I made a transfer from ELOAN to my checking account yesterday (11/8). However, the transaction disappears today (11/9) when I check back my ELOAN.

Safecash,

You're not out of the woods yet. ELoan CSR's are saying DO NOT put in for another transfer, they are going to automatically reverse the reversals. After 2 hours on hold they say they will fix the problem, which is very widespread, tomorrow.

my dad did last week a transfer
and they return his money to the bank. It was the same amount he used a month ago when he opened the saving, they might have thought it was a duplicate?
strange... he is emailing them

Looks like they are re-doing all of the transactions that posted (or should have posted) on 11/8 this morning (11/10).

My 11/8 deposits to E-Loan have again been withdrawn from my external account and credited to my E-Loan account today with no additional action on my part.

Anyone who went in and rerequested any transactions because they were reversed yesterday is going to get ****ed!

Has anyone been reimbursed for an overdraft?

Same problem here... they reversed the deposit made on 11/8, then reversed that back again today (this is what I see on my bank account side). But, on Eloan's side the balance is fine on the front page, but 0 once you click on account detail!!!

What a mess! They don't have Quicken/Money downloads, and you can't view or cancel scheduled transfers. They need to improve this service quick, or they will lose business- an extra 0.2% is not worth it.

This happened to me with a $4000 transfer causing my checking to go into negative. They reversed it so I got it back, then reversed THAT. Now there's $4000 of my money in limbo, not in my checking, not in my savings. This is insane.

I followed up with a phonecall to ELoan after I initiated another tranfer back into my Eloan account. No problems here, all is fixed as of Nov. 10. No big deal....

I wonder if they will pay the 1 day of loss interest lol

Thanks to the glitch, I had a huge string of overdrafts occur on 11/08. I immediately set a transfer of $200 to get my checking account back into the red.

On 11/09, they reversed the glitched transfer AND my $200 transfer, the latter with no warning.

On 11/09, I call to see how to get my NSF fees refunded. Followed their instructions of sending a secured message through their site and have received no response in 4 days.

On 11/10, I've racked up $150 in overdraft fees. The local bank rep warns me more fees will show up next week.

On 11/11, eloan deposits $200 into my checking account. Eloan online account does not show a $200 debit.

Absolute nightmare! When nothing is going wrong, eloan is fine, but watch out if they **** up!

What bugs me is the lack of communications.

Apparently a few people did get an email that said something like "We accidentally processed some transactions twice on Monday. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Sorry for the inconvenience." (Not their exact words, just what they meant.)

But most of us didn't get any email. If they were going to start a mad frenzy of deposits and withdrawals from our external accounts, at the very least they could have sent out a bulk email telling us what they were planning to do and warning us about the activity in our accounts. Something like "We can't figure out which of you had double transactions on Monday, so we are going to reverse all of Monday's transactions, whether doubled or not, on Tuesday. We will then again reprocess Monday's transactions from scratch on Wednesday."

I am also bothered by the utter stupidity of reversing all withdrawals from E-Loan. Didn't they realize that some people could already have written checks against the money that got transfered to their external accounts? While little harm came from reversing deposits to E-Loan, reversing the withdrawals -- whether they were doubled or not -- compounded the injuries.

If there was no way around it, they could have at least told us what they were going to do. How hard is it to send out an email? But I suspect that they were attempting to keep their ****up as quiet as possible. Just let the minimum number of people know what is going on. Maybe most customers won't even find out it happened.

I would urge everyone to write letters. Tell them that mistakes happen, but it's very disrespectful to treat your customers like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and feed them manure). Wait until next week to see if they make any more mistakes and then print out your letters and stick them in the US Mail to:

Roberto R Herencia, President
Banco Popular North America
9600 W BRYN MAWR
ROSEMONT IL 60018

-and-
Mark Lefanowicz, President
E-LOAN, Inc.
6230 Stoneridge Mall Road
Pleasanton, CA 94588

Let Banco Popular know that they cannot hide behind their marketing arm (E-Loan) and place the blame on them. Let them know that this kind of treatment reflects poorly on their bank.

bad e-loan system!
Tried to open an saving account at e-loan.
On 11/8 they deposit two small amounts to verify my external account ( I link it to my anohter HSBC e-saving which limits 6 out going per month.
Same day 11/8, they took two small amount deposit out of my external account and also took my initial deposit for opening e-loan account.
11/9, they reserse all three transaction by credit two small amount and initial amount. Then on 11/9 , took two small amounts out of my external account again.
On 11/10 e-loan deposit two small amount again! and took two small amount out of external account again! And finally took initial deposit AGAIN! for opening e-loan account. So, total 8 transaction out of my linked external account! HSBC e-saving is limited 6 times per month, if exceed, HSBC might force me to close this account.
Very bad experience!

The nonsense continues - as of November 13, my account balances still don't reconcile, and e-loan says it must be a mistake made by my other bank. As e-loan has made two serious mistakes in the one week I have been banking with them, and my other bank has made no mistakes in 10 years, I think e-loan is full of s*@t. I hope the banking examiners come down on them hard - banks simply can't be permitted this level of sloppiness.

"I hope the banking examiners come down on them hard - banks simply can't be permitted this level of sloppiness."

The banking examiners aren't going to do a darn thing unless someone files a complaint or calls the situation to their attention.

If you really want to do something other than ineffectually complain on the internet,
the primary regulator of BPNA is the Federal Reserve Board.
You can find the procedure for filing a complaint here:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/complaints/

Remember to mention the full name of the bank:
Banco Popular North America.

Remember also that although BPNA is marketing these accounts under the E-Loan brand name, you have an account at BPNA. E-Loan is not a bank and does not issue bank accounts. Any complaints should specify BPNA, not E-Loan.

My transfer out of $7000 was duplicated on the seventh. I noticed the second transfer and initiated a transfer back to e-loan - then received the notification e-mail that there was a problem and they were going to fix it. I sent a secure message (that same day) telling them not to fix it, that I had already transferred the money back to them. Still no response from them yet, and they tried to draw $7000 from my nearly empty checking account (I got hit with my first $20 fee) as late as yesterday... The weird thing is an extra $7000 showed up in the eloan account, as if the transfer went through (it didn't). I sent another secure email and I'll call them later today, and if its not resolved by the end of the week they are losing my business.

I had this problem too. They duplicated a transfer out of my checking account—for THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Leaving me almost that much in the red. I sat for four hours on hold. Eventually someone at E-Loan called me (I never did get off hold) to say that "an error" had "affected a small percentage of our customers." They reversed the (illegal, fraudulent) debit the next day, and my bank kindly waived the fee so that I didn't have to deal with making E-Loan pay it.

I promptly closed my E-Loan accounts, though they fought me tooth and nail about closing them. And at first they said it would take 30 days to close the accounts, though I'd opened them only three days previous! "It's in the terms of service," they said. "And it's in the terms of service that you won't abuse your access to my checking account!" I retorted.

They said I'll have my money back in five to 10 business days, and I have my lawyer at the ready just in case. I am livid. High rates are NOT worth this kind of crazyness. And I will be filing complaints about this. These people should not be allowed to do business.

****it, this saga is not over (at least for me). OK, I moved my money over on Nov. 1st because of the great rate. On the 7th/8th, they made their mistake. OK, anything can happen once.

So, I look into my account yesterday and lo and behold--they continue this erradic money movement on Monday and Tuesday. I just called them up (after spending an hour on hold), and they said they would get someone to call me back.

I am livid. I am really livid. I have been hit with two not-enough-funds fees from my other bank (checking account). What is going on over there?

I am starting to look up contacting the Federal Reserve; it seems to be a drawn-out paper process, but it is all there is. ING Direct, I felt, was not doing me justice at 4.4% but at least they never made these kinds of mistakes in the 4 or so years I have been with them.

One mistake--everyone makes them. Two--now I get nervous, and when you cannot even legible explain to me why this is happening, I get very nervous.

Nov 16th -- and my frustration continues as well. My local bank has at least refunded me the overdraft fees. My E-LOAN account is still a mess. I am not sure if they are still fixing the problem or not. I am upset that there has been no letter of explaination and most of us will get ****ed the interest lost because of these problems.

I have today written a letter to the FDIC, SEC and my state banking commission. I wish I had friends in the TV media so that I could tell them to get the story out about this whole fiasco.

I encourage others to write and complain as well otherwise nothing will get fixed in the future. At a minimum they needed to inform everyone of the problem.

My partner and I both opened E-Loan accounts on 11/6/06 and they ****ed up both accounts with the double postings and reversals.

After the ****-ups and corrections, our balances at E-Loan are now correct. Fortunately there were no NSF problems caused by their errors.

However, they continue to fail to respond to any of our secure messages that they promise via statements on their web site to answer within one business day. I have tried repeatedly to contact them via phone without sucesss. Like others, I have stayed on hold for hours without talking to anyone.

It is like communicating with a Black Hole.

We are becoming very nervous about the safety of our deposits.

We, like others, are wary that interest will not be paid for all of the time our funds were in the ACH cyberspace due to E-Loan's ****ups.

We continue to send our secure messages into the Black Hole, hoping that they will be answered.

I opened a savings account with Eloan back in October with surprising ease. However, I ran into the trouble where I forgot my security answer and thus was frozen from my account. Since then, it has been an utter nightmare trying to ask Eloan to help reset or trace my lost answer. As other people have noted, dealing with Eloan customer service is like speaking to a Black Hole. After one relatively friendly customer service rep optimistically promised to have my situation sent to IT and "resolved in one to two business days," I did not hear a single peep from Eloan for more than THREE WEEKS. No one responded to my secure messages (despite the promise on the website to reply within "one business day") and when I tried calling customer service, I was put on hold for 45+ minutes. The reps I managed to speak with were unhelpful, sourly, and rude; they adamently refused to help other than to put in another request to IT. The main theme behind "customer service" seemed to be, "Not MY problem!"

After several increasingly angry emails and several messages left on the voice mails of "managers/supervisors" I finally got my situation resolved.

Although this was initiated by my mistake, customer service at Eloan should have been more willing to help me with the situation. Instead, they detered me with their ambivalence, rudeness, and slow response. When I am dealing with my own money and savings, I definitely would feel concerned if my bank was suddenly not helping me gain access to my personal accounts. Eloan's inability to resolve problems in a timely matter has caused me to lose faith in them and to seek banking elsewhere.

Regarding eloan and passwords: your account gets locked after 3 *cumulative* invalid password attempts.

Note the "cumulative" -- if you type a bad password, then type a good password -- your "bad password count" is not reset.

Over the course of a few weeks, with a new account and following up on duplicate transfer errors, it was easy for me to hit that threshold and get my locked on what seemed like "the first try."

The only way to unlock the account is to go through the eloan phone queue (there's no website interface for doing it -- and 'non-secure' email requests were not honored).

I won't tell you how long I was on hold, but let me tell you this: I found out my company's phone system automatically ends calls that have been open for more than 2 hours!

Ultimately after leaving multiple messages with "non-savings" eloan CSRs (while on hold on another line) I got a call back from an eloan manager the following day.

The first thing I did after getting the account unlocked was transfer my 100k balance back to emigrant-direct. Then I put that balance into a few 6% APY 3 month CD at a local credit union.

I figure a 3 month CD is a far more more liquid investment than a Banco Popular savings account. :-)

**** you eloan!

Thanks for the info. That password lock feature seems very problematic. No wonder no one can get through to E-LOAN. There are probably 100's of customers who are having this same problem.

I have had only minor problems (password reset) with my eloan account. After reading some of these horror stories, I will be more cautious. My transfers out of eloan have been quick,on par with INGdirect. I also like AmTrust direct. Their transfer have been quicker than either eloan or INGdirect.