The only bank I've been to that charges to cash personal checks. I've been to one bank that charges to cash business checks. I think it's all a big ripoff . If I pay my utility bill or phone bill with a check, does the utility company or phone company have to pay that fee? Somehow, I doubt it. This should be illegal. It defeats the purpose of paying by check. I suppose I could charge my customers a fee for paying by check. And alienate them.

I had a beginning balance in my checking account of almost $300 the day my overdraft took place. I admit the $24 overdraft was indeed my fault, an accounting error in my check register, even though the ONE check that overdrew was actually written to MY company, to deposit in my company account which was ALSO at Fifth Third Bank. I was prepared to pay the $37 overdraft fee for the one overdraft and cover the $24 that bounced...I mean who was going to return it? Me? To Me? Anyway, I awoke to find $293 in overdraft fees posted to my account the next morning because of the way Fifth Third Bank and certain 'other' banks rearrange their ledgers which 'allows' them to charge multiple fraudulent and excessive overdraft fees on purchases made by debit card that have already CLEARED on that day as they are pre-approved. My online ledger was showing a balance still on my account after all my debit purchases. Not realizing I had miscalculated my register when my check to myself (my company) was posted that night, instead of charging me for the actual overdraft of the check, they rearranged everything on my ledger that 'allowed' them to charge 'multiple' $37 overdraft fees on my debit purchases that day as if I had had a $0 balance on my account! My direct deposit was to happen that night at midnight, but because I couldn't make a deposit on that day before 2pm, I awoke to find my entire deposit taken and additional fees taken making my account -$531!!! I had to borrow money to cover my negative balance, nothing pending on my account. I deposited enough to have a credit balance on my account of $159. I made 2 purchases that day. Low and behold I awoke the next morning to have been charged another $189 in overdraft fees leaving me with another negative balance of -$103. The trickle down effect of my first overdraft keeps going. I again go to my bank asking about this fee and I'm told these fees are for the day before yesterday! I was frantically searching my ledger to see what they were talking about and there were a couple of 'foreign atm fees' of $2 that didn't show on my account until after that first overdraft. This still did not add up to me according to the fees they charge and I STILL cannot figure it out. Anyway, trying to wrap up my long story, I made a deposit as soon as I found out about the last fees, had a credit balance on my account all weekend of $12 on MY ONLINE LEDGER, awoke on Tuesday to find out they had charged me another $86 in overdraft fees, supposedly for the 2 purchases I made on the day I deposited the money that showed I had $159. They considered those purchases 'pending', and when the previous $189 overdraft hit, that in turn overdrafted THOSE 2 purchases! All this I believe because even though I made my deposit early Sunday morning, the deposit was 'pending', not actually posted until Tuesday...and I'm the one who has to pay for THEIR POLICIES. All in all I have deposited nearly $717 to cover a $24 overdraft of ONE check in stead of the $37 overdraft fee that I TRULY AND HONESTLY owed them. And had they charged me only the one $37 overdraft fee, none of the other overdrafts would have happened. This domino effect is absoutely devastating to the common consumer like myself who lives paycheck to paycheck. If any of us decided to rearrange a ledger at our place of work we would be fired. If ANY other industry or business tried such a thing it would be considered 'Theft by Deception'. Which in reality is exactly what it is. This HAS to be a LOOPHOLE in the banking laws that banks have adopted as 'Policy' to legally extort money from the consumer. It's hard for me to fathom that this isn't a 'gray area' in the law that some great and wonderful financial legal team has found to get more money out of the very people who are supposed to be able to trust them with their money. I WANT TO CLOSE THIS LOOPHOLE. I WANT A CLASS ACTION SUIT STARTED AGAINST FIFTH THIRD BANK AND OTHER BANKS WHO HAVE ADOPTED THIS SO-CALLED 'POLICY'. I can't imagine how many $$Millions$$ of dollars in these excessive and fraudulent fees have been stolen from consumers all over the country. I would be interested to know how these banks hide these extorted monies when they file their taxes. If you're an attorney willing to start a class-action suit I'll be the first in line. I am filing formal complaints with the Attorney General, the State Banking Office, the FDIC, the SEC, the Federal Reserve, Consumer Protection, the Comptroller of the US Currency, my State Representative, and Congress. And Michael Moore, if you want to expose someone in your NEXT FILM, PLEASE EXPOSE THE BANKING AND FINANCIAL INDUSTRY FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS. It's no wonder our financial system is failing and the economy is collapsing. It's because of greed. Plain and simple. Think about this...we actually have to PAY someone to TAKE OUR PAYMENTS these days! How twisted is that!

I was conducting business as a supervisor of a non profit organization who does home delivered meals for the elderly and, unfortunately, has a business bank account with Fifth Third Bank. I brought in our end of the week deposit, of around $1000.00, and also had a petty cash check from our business account that I needed to cash - the grand sum of $187.00. These bozos wanted to charge me $8.00 to cash the company petty cash check drawn on their bank, because I didn't have a PERSONAL account with them. This makes no sense whatsoever. I was not there doing business for myself, this was not for my benefit, this was part of a business transaction on their bank's business account. The manager was so busy eating a Dairy Queen frozen dessert - at 2:00 in the afternoon (6/10/11) that she wouldn't even get up to talk with me. I was so outraged and incredulous at the insideous, assinine and ridiculously total lack of intelligence at this "policy" that I was almost speechless. The teller said "I'm really sorry" - they are sorry all right - a sorry excuse of a cluster of unbelievably moronic "bankers". By the way, I've done the very same thing on several occassions before, but now, all at once, they want to charge me. This is so wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start. My boss, the County Director of this non profit, had to go cash the check for me. This cost me untold time, her time and frustration that is almost undescribable. I am so frustrated at the "dumbing down of America" where business/people have lost all perspective and concept of reality and logic. Fifth Third has to be the absolutely WORST bank I have EVER had the displeasure of dealing with. This will cost them so much in negative publicity - I will tell anyone who will listen this absurd response and policy of theirs. Fifth Third Bank sucks beyond the telling!

I DID NOT OPED THIS ACCOUNT I SENT YOUR E-MAIL TO THE FBI, THEY'LL LOOK IN TO YOU.

BLANCHE M GURNEY

I had a beginning balance in my checking account of almost $300 the day my overdraft took place. I admit the $24 overdraft was indeed my fault, an accounting error in my check register, even though the ONE check that overdrew was actually written to MY company, to deposit in my company account which was ALSO at Fifth Third Bank. I was prepared to pay the $37 overdraft fee for the one overdraft and cover the $24 that bounced...I mean who was going to return it? Me? To Me? Anyway, I awoke to find $293 in overdraft fees posted to my account the next morning because of the way Fifth Third Bank and certain 'other' banks rearrange their ledgers which 'allows' them to charge multiple fraudulent and excessive overdraft fees on purchases made by debit card that have already CLEARED on that day as they are pre-approved. My online ledger was showing a balance still on my account after all my debit purchases. Not realizing I had miscalculated my register when my check to myself (my company) was posted that night, instead of charging me for the actual overdraft of the check, they rearranged everything on my ledger that 'allowed' them to charge 'multiple' $37 overdraft fees on my debit purchases that day as if I had had a $0 balance on my account! My direct deposit was to happen that night at midnight, but because I couldn't make a deposit on that day before 2pm, I awoke to find my entire deposit taken and additional fees taken making my account -$531!!! I had to borrow money to cover my negative balance, nothing pending on my account. I deposited enough to have a credit balance on my account of $159. I made 2 purchases that day. Low and behold I awoke the next morning to have been charged another $189 in overdraft fees leaving me with another negative balance of -$103. The trickle down effect of my first overdraft keeps going. I again go to my bank asking about this fee and I'm told these fees are for the day before yesterday! I was frantically searching my ledger to see what they were talking about and there were a couple of 'foreign atm fees' of $2 that didn't show on my account until after that first overdraft. This still did not add up to me according to the fees they charge and I STILL cannot figure it out. Anyway, trying to wrap up my long story, I made a deposit as soon as I found out about the last fees, had a credit balance on my account all weekend of $12 on MY ONLINE LEDGER, awoke on Tuesday to find out they had charged me another $86 in overdraft fees, supposedly for the 2 purchases I made on the day I deposited the money that showed I had $159. They considered those purchases 'pending', and when the previous $189 overdraft hit, that in turn overdrafted THOSE 2 purchases! All this I believe because even though I made my deposit early Sunday morning, the deposit was 'pending', not actually posted until Tuesday...and I'm the one who has to pay for THEIR POLICIES. All in all I have deposited nearly $717 to cover a $24 overdraft of ONE check in stead of the $37 overdraft fee that I TRULY AND HONESTLY owed them. And had they charged me only the one $37 overdraft fee, none of the other overdrafts would have happened. This domino effect is absoutely devastating to the common consumer like myself who lives paycheck to paycheck. If any of us decided to rearrange a ledger at our place of work we would be fired. If ANY other industry or business tried such a thing it would be considered 'Theft by Deception'. Which in reality is exactly what it is. This HAS to be a LOOPHOLE in the banking laws that banks have adopted as 'Policy' to legally extort money from the consumer. It's hard for me to fathom that this isn't a 'gray area' in the law that some great and wonderful financial legal team has found to get more money out of the very people who are supposed to be able to trust them with their money. I WANT TO CLOSE THIS LOOPHOLE. I WANT A CLASS ACTION SUIT STARTED AGAINST FIFTH THIRD BANK AND OTHER BANKS WHO HAVE ADOPTED THIS SO-CALLED 'POLICY'. I can't imagine how many $$Millions$$ of dollars in these excessive and fraudulent fees have been stolen from consumers all over the country. I would be interested to know how these banks hide these extorted monies when they file their taxes. If you're an attorney willing to start a class-action suit I'll be the first in line. I am filing formal complaints with the Attorney General, the State Banking Office, the FDIC, the SEC, the Federal Reserve, Consumer Protection, the Comptroller of the US Currency, my State Representative, and Congress. And Michael Moore, if you want to expose someone in your NEXT FILM, PLEASE EXPOSE THE BANKING AND FINANCIAL INDUSTRY FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS. It's no wonder our financial system is failing and the economy is collapsing. It's because of greed. Plain and simple. Think about this...we actually have to PAY someone to TAKE OUR PAYMENTS these days! How twisted is that!