OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloadingyour data.

[Chris]

Try a credit union.....

Fred wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 10:57, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> ...
> > See, your local bank with 10,000 customers might be OK with keeping a
> > meg of data online for you and sifting through it for what you want to
> > see.   That's ten gigs of reliable online storage - not too bad.
> >
> > Then your bank gets bought by another bank which gets bought by another
> > bank until there are three banks in the country, each with a hundred
> > million customers.
> 
> Yep. This is exactly what happened. My accounts were initially at
> *BankBoston* -- remember them? Then they got bought out or merged with
> Fleet, and now Fleet has been consumed by Bank of America.
> 
> I find this all very annoying, but what can I do? I suppose I can close
> down all my accounts and sign up with a local bank -- only to see them
> bought out by Bank of America or another Really Hugh Institution a year
> later.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> Maybe I should go offshore and set up a bank for the rest of us. Oh, but
> the IRS would just love that! :-)
> 
> --
> Fred -- fred at lrc.puissante.com -- place "[hey]" in your subject.
> The mass of humans on planet Earth -- regard them as the ebbing
> seas in the winds of change. They ebb, they flow, they know not
> where to go.
> 
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