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Article #482Re: Bank Royale / Royal Bank
From: Gormax
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
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It appears that HUGGY is just plain stupid. I guess this is his own private news group, I feel for you all in Mb, to have him with you. Huggy wrote in message <369e2e22.20151426@news.sprint.ca>... > > > >I must admit that staffs at Royal Bank are POORLY trained for their >OWN services what they provide. At least all the other bank staffs >who are taking the phone calls do know their products. At least >other bank personnels do NOT hung up on someone's calls. Too bad. >They lost a deal of gettng thousands of dollars of G.I.C. for 50-100 >years. > > >Today, I called Royal Bank for asking about one of the GICs in THEIR >brochure. I called the number on the brochure. The person who >picked up the phone call didn't know anything so he told me to wait. >He then described something that's out of GIC in question so I asked >him what he was talking about. Then he told me that he was going to >transfer so wait. OK. I waited. He hang up and I got the fast >busy signal. I dialed again and someone else picked up the phone. >"Someone else" transferred to mutual fund department which has nothing >to do with G.I.C. Then mutual fund specialist decided to transfer >my call and she hang up and I got fast busy signals. I called the >customer service number that mutual fund specialist mentioned. OK. >Now customer service receptionist refers me to call back a number that >I first called. She didn't even know the kinds of G.I.C.s that THEY >would offer. I told her that two persons on the line didn't know the >products and one person hang up. One another hang up on me as well. >I told her that they were going to lose their business. The lady >transferred to a Royal Direct (investment line). Fine. Now I giot a >gentlemen. He told me that 3 yr special G.I.C. (called Market Rate >Increase G.I.C.) is 5% while 5 yr one is 5.3% and he called the rates >as "adjustment rate." I asked him the rate of return. He told me 5% >per annum is for 3 yr and 5.3% for 5 yr G.I.C. That's more than a >prime rate. That's not possible. If I understand correctly, someone >yesterday told me 3.5% for that particular G.I.C. I must then assume >that adjustment rate is sorely for purpose of determining whether >customer gets better rate or not if Royal decides to increase the >interest rate of that particular G.I.C. > >In any case, phone takers at Royal Bank, in general, have no idea what >they are talking about. Whatever the case, hunging up on someone's >call is not acceptable. It's an insult. The person who I am >*supposed* to call first time even confused with other G.I.C.s and >started to tell me about participation rate which has nothing to do >with G.I.C. in question (however, this matters with other G.I.C.s such >as market linked one). > >As far as chequing account etc. are concerned at Bank Royale, they do >not have good option as well. If you choose to have $9.5/month >option, you do not get interest nor certified cheque option. You >have limited number of transactions; which are not the case at TD >Bank, for example. At least when I opened up my first account when >I just arrived here, the personnels told me that I couldn't write the >cheque on Young Saver's Account nor told or provided me with cheques; >In fact I could... and I didn't know it because Royal personnels >didn't know it. > > >When come to think about for a second, this is worse than my history >with Scotia Bank and C.I.B.C. At least Scotia has better service fee >options and C.I.B.C. usually makes no mistakes (although it may take >time...). > > >Anyways, avoid Royal. That's only I can say. Never deposit >thousands/millions of money for someone who doesn't know how to handle >YOUR money. I am glad not to deposit money at Royal for my life... >my life 50 years later. $500 can become a couple hundred thousands >(50 years later... why not... 70 years later from now... it's >possible) but I now know I never trust them. At least when I changed >my Royal branch when I changed my school... the personnel just gave me >a regular savings account although I was something like 16 years old. >I am glad that I am not a customer of Royal and I am now sure that I >will never become their customer again. > > > > > >______________________________________________________________________ > >M a s a t a k a N o d a, Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada. N� d' ICQ: 24703041 >--> http://www.radiotelephone.net <-- >Infinite Communications� (TM): Il y a un coeur�. Il y a un esprit�. Il y a une voie�. >�tudient @ d'Universit� McGill >Indicatif d'appel de radioamateur: VA2QRU & VE7JPN & JP2CKG >Membre d'internationale aucun code Morse pour services radioamateur - NCI2014 >C� : hugs@radiotelephone.net.PAS_DE_SPAM (SVP enlever/please remove .PAS_DE_SPAM) > || 24L ---------------------------------------------------- 06R || >Pilote Avion Priv� (jour & nuit): St-Hubert & Dorval INTL (dupuis 1998) >---:|| 24R --------------------------------------------------- 06L ||:
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,70c45e38f61e1a81 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: f504b,70c45e38f61e1a81 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,70c45e38f61e1a81 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 114af9,70c45e38f61e1a81 X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,70c45e38f61e1a81 X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 100c8e,70c45e38f61e1a81 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c8e,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,70c45e38f61e1a81 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,70c45e38f61e1a81 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public From: "Gormax" <gormax@telusplanet.net> Subject: Re: Bank Royale / Royal Bank Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: <3pQo2.8624$Kg6.64204@news2.telusplanet.net> X-Deja-AN: 434219123 References: <369e2e22.20151426@news.sprint.ca> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 X-Trace: news2.telusplanet.net 916705983 209.115.134.22 (Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:33:03 MDT) Organization: G.M.A. Services Ltd. NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:33:03 MDT Newsgroups: mtl.general,qc.general,can.general,bc.general,van.general,ab.general,ont.general,tor.general,mb.general,sk.general