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Huntington Bank

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Consumer complaints and reviews about Huntington Bank

rosalyn maue Send email
 
Dec 22, 2015

name change/mortgage payments

I have have been buying my house since 1994. I have only been late once with the mortgage payment. I am a single mother who was widowed over twenty years ago. So, I have made every single payment by myself raising five kids alone. However, even with that said, I still get phone calls reminding me my payment is due. Seriously!!! I find it insulting, because if you looked at my payment record you would see I only have had to pay late fees once,ever! Computer generated phone calls are not personal. Not to mention, where is the faith in Huntington in me. I have proven I pay on time. Also, I did remarry back in 2009 for 5 months. The man tried to kill me.So I put him in jail and divorced him before the end of 2009. He had never made a house payment and had no rights to the home. I brought in divorce papers which got passed on, then misplaced at some point because my name was once again changed back to that horrible mans name. However, through no fault of mine I have to bring divorce papers back in again because Huntington once again has no faith in me, even though I was not the one who made a mistake in losing paperwork concerning really being divorced. I have lost faith in Huntington. For me personally I like to think that a mutual trust to some degree should be established after 20+ years of doing business. I don't feel that at this point. Very disappointed. I have worked 50-60 hours a week for over ten years now to maintain my own home by myself. I would appreciate some respect.
Katherinemccabe Send email
 
Nov 13, 2015

Huntington bank

Assistant branch manager, I am an 60 year old woman going through breast cancer treatments, had a problem with my account ask to speak with a manager....Josh Stros said he was, explained my problem to him he was rude did not want to help he made me feel like a criminal , he threatens me when I ask him for my paper work he said he would mail it to me when he had it in his hand I ask him for a copy again he said he would mail it I returned with I will sit here're replied he will call the chesterfield police... Ok call , he then after calling me names and being very unprofessional he copied the papers ( that he said he would mail) I will no longer deal with hunnington bank and neither will my husband and his account or my 4 adult children as of today we all closed our accounts and went to a credit union
Kendro3 Send email
 
Nov 2, 2015

24 Hour "Grace"

After all of the touting Huntington has done about its 24-Hour Grace campaign. I was informed today of their ridiculous caveat. Regardless of size and circumstance, they can arbitrarily decide to return instead of overdraft your payment and charge you 37.50 for it with no explanation. I had a monthly life insurance payment of 16.00 that was set to come through and, due to my pay schedule, the money was unavailable. The money was in the account the next morning, but rather than 24-hour grace, I was slapped with a non-refundable return fee. When I call for an explanation, the customer service supervisor advised me, "Well, it's our money so we can do what we want with it." While acknowledging that there is no set criteria for this decision just that "everything is taken into consideration." What has been characterized as a program designed to give people an opportunity to correct these situations without penalty is actually an arbitrary policy that can end up with you screwed and lining their pockets with your return fees.

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sfunston Send email
 
Oct 14, 2015

Check received by Huntington Bank

I received a check from Huntington Bank which there were a lot of issues with this bank,(and I had been with them for over 11 yrs. go figure till a new manager came in) but the letter attached states: We have determined that you are eligible for a refund of certain overdraft fees. My acct. has been closed ACTUALLY BY THEM ALMOST 3 YRS. AGO due to someone stealing our identity & they wouldn't fix it & called us liers so I went to another bank. I still have all the documentation on this matter but I am so curious as to why all of the sudden I am receiving a I FEEL, SLAP IN THE FACE BY THEM? ANYONE WITH THE SAME ISSUE PLEASE LET ME KNOW

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BryceS Send email
 
May 6, 2015

Possible Class Action

See 14CA010574 Read the Appeal at the Ohio Supreme Court's website.

If anything like this has happened to you please let me know as I will be filing a class action suit against Huntington for what they've done to US. Unfair and Deceptive practices are NOT permitted; even by this company that thinks they can get away with anything

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mightoneday Send email
 
Dec 14, 2014

Huntington Bank

Worst bank ever I owe them about 14,000 because of the many fees they like to charge people when I went to the bank to speak with someone about my situation the gentleman I spoke with started crying because he was so ashamed of working there and not being able to even close my account or stop the charges that now are 25 dollars per week unless I make my balance positive in 7 days they will keep charging me... I also tried to discuss several times with him an with customer service over the phone the arrangement of payments but they said I will still get charged $25 per week unless I make it positive in one week... impossible I don't make that much! I never opt in for overdraf protection until after I caught myself overdrawn thinking that it was going to stop it !
HUNTINGTONGOINGTOTHEDOGS Send email
 
Jan 2, 2014

Agents Know Everything, They Cannot be Wrong

They're Customer Service Department, in Michigan while I'm in Ohio, is absolutely horrible. I have never dealt with arrogance and non-compassion like this from a major Corporation's Customer Service Department. I have worked Cystomer Service for 26 years and have not dealt with attitude like this at this level. i'm hoping the Woman I dealt with is training her counterpart in India. It's sooner than later!
lausus Send email
 
Dec 28, 2013

HUNTINGTON BANK

WORST BANK EVER!!! Offer a 24 hour grace period but do not honor it. They returned a check immediately even though I put the money in THE SAME DAY. The check was short $18. They charged me $37.50 to return the check. I should not have had a problem because of the 24 hour grace which they said doesn't work on checks sometimes. FALSE PUBLICITY!!!! HONOR YOUR POLICIES!!!
User666109 Send email
 
Apr 8, 2012

overdraft protection - opting in

I opened a new checking account last May at Huntington Bank. I have liked the account and never had any fees, problems, or issues.

I have heard about the new legislation where consumers now have to "opt-in" for "overdraft protection" for transactions on their ATM/debit card. I didn’t really know what that meant. I just always figured if you didn’t have the money in your checking account, the transaction would just be declined. Made sense to me. Well I was called last week asking if I wanted to “opt-in” to the overdraft protection which means that I won’t have those “embarrassing situations” when a charge is declined due to no available funds and the “bank is there to protect me” and I have “24 hours to put the money back into my account” to cover any negative balance and I will “never be assessed a fee.”

Well here is what happened. I rarely use this card/checking account but set it up last May because they sent me one of those free $100 offers if I signed up for a new checking account and put money in it every month by direct deposit. So I put in $100 a month and don’t really use this account much.

Last Friday I had a balance in the account of $45.55. Over the weekend I made a few purchases:

$10.00 – entrance fee (for 2) to a bar/club – balance now = $35.55
$7.80 – late night Taco Bell (bad, I know) – balance now = $27.75
$8.59 – gas station, don’t remember what – balance now = $19.16

Now here is where it gets interesting. I went to the drive-thru for beer (yes, we have drive-thrus for beer in Ohio) at Macadoo’s, where I have been going for well over 8 years now for beer. The beer after tax was $6.59. She ran my card and came to me with the little clip board to sign and the receipt showed $65.90. She obviously mis-keyed the transaction amount and added a zero at the end. Now in the old world, this would have just been declined, she would have noticed and then ran it for the correct amount, which would have been approved and brought my balance down to $12.57. But because I now have this amazing protection from the bank, it ran through and made my account negative (pending transactions only, nothing has posted to my account yet – it’s the weekend). I noticed the amount was wrong on the receipt and I told her so she cancelled the transaction and printed me a receipt for the right amount, $6.59.

On Monday I still showed an account balance of $45.55. However I had 5 pending transactions:

Bar/club - $10.00
Taco Bell - $7.80
Speedway - $8.59
Macadoo’s - $65.90
Macadoo’s - $6.59

So on Monday night/Tuesday evening, even though only the four legitimate transactions were presented for payment, they still deducted that $65.90 from my available balance, which I guess is now what they are using to determine if you overdrew your account.

So they took the largest amount first (even though it was a cancelled transaction, I never signed for it, Macadoo’s never presented the amount for payment) and deducted it from my account. So my balance now equals ($45.55 - $65.90 = -$20.35)

So then they charge me $37.50 each for the other 4 transactions totaling $150.00 saying my account was overdrawn when the 4 items were presented for payment, even though ONLY the 4 legitimate charges were – the $65.90 was NOT. They assess these fees on 2/15/11, however if you look at my account ending on 2/14/11 (actual balance – ignoring that pending/incorrect transaction), it shows they paid all 4 VALID transactions and my true/real/posted account balance never went negative. It did not go negative until after they posted the $150 in fees on 2/15/11.

So my question is this… how can a bank say you overdrew your account on a transaction that will never be presented for payment, was never presented for payment, was cancelled by the merchant, and never posted to my account?

Had I never opted in to the “overdraft protection” they would not have allowed my balance to go negative when she accidentally overcharged me and I wouldn’t have been charged $150 on 4 charges totaling around $30. The transaction would have been declined and the merchant would have noticed – keyed in the right amount – end of story.

The overdraft protection is a scam. It is just a way for the banks to now be able to legally assess you fees. Think about this if you are thinking about opting into this service. It is just a way for banks to make money by bypassing the law Obama signed in July, 2010 to protect consumers from this very thing. By now “opting-in” you are really just allowing banks to manipulate your account as best they can to get more money out of you in outrageous fees.

Oh, and about getting those fees back (the erroneous $65.90 did drop off my account and was never presented for payment), the bank is telling me that it is the merchant’s fault and I have to take it up with them. I doubt Macadoo’s is going to give me $150 for an honest mistake/transaction that she did cancel on their credit card machine and they never presented to the bank for payment. It just still (to the bank’s benefit) sat on my account as a pending charge that they used to deduct from my available balance even thought it was never a valid charge so they could say I overdrew my account – which I never did.

Please pass this on so others are aware of what the banks are up to….


Todd Eckstein
Battelle Memorial Institute
Information Management
505 King Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43201
[email protected]
614-424-7085 ph / 614-458-7085 fax


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User928656 Send email
 
Apr 8, 2012

overdraft protection - opting in

Credit card (Visa orMastercard debit cards) refunds may take 3-5 business days to post back to your account. Preauthorizations (gas or restaurants) fall off after 3 days or when the merchant submits the receipt, whichever is sooner. Too bad the beer store screwed up. What is their name?
User928656 Send email
 
Apr 7, 2012

24 hr grace period

You had an additional withdrawn item come through your account on 11/14 that overdafted your account again? Sounds like someone needs a to teach this bank a lesson. Why don't they have 24 hour ATM, online or phone banking to transfer funds. At least offer free overdraft transfers from your savings account or offer checking reserve. What a scam. Banks should call us before they post our authorized transactions.

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