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**** THIS AND THAT Story By: James Edstrom **** SAY GOODBYE TO SPRINT The past two weeks I have been getting rid of all these corporations. I have been thinking about doing this for a very long time, but as everyone knows, it is a pain to switch everything. But I have done this finally. RCN CABLE AND INTERNET SUCKS This is the worst cable company I ever saw in my life. I wrote about them last year. Since I had their systems installed almost 4 years ago, there has been nothing but problems. The tech guys have at least been here 30 or more times. Recently I have had tech guys here for the Internet, which keeps going out at the worst times. These tech guys do nothing. Read some of my horror stories HERE . These companies need to be stopped and the only way is to finally say goodbye. They need to be told that bad service will not be tolerated. They raised my cable bill several times last year. They added charges for my HD converter, my digital converter, my movies and just about everythin...

**** CHASE STARTS TO CUT CUSTOMERS CREDIT LINES IS CHASE READY TO FAIL? **** Chase Bank In Times Square Once again the crooks at the credit card companies are at it again and this time it is Chase. I am tired of dealing with these crooks, these thieves. Thats what these banks are. After calling for all my readers to close their Bank Of America accounts, I am now asking the same about Chase. Below are just two examples of the crooks of JP Morgan Chase from this year alone. Chase has many many cases involving fraud against it, and like always, no one goes to jail. Like always, they pay a little fine compared to what their customers lost. CHASE BREAKS LAW AND DEALS WITH CUBA AND IRAN JPMorgan Chase recently agreed to pay an $88.3 million fine to settle charges the bank violated regulations that prohibit lending money for the illicit nuclear trade and that cover dealings with Cuba and Sudan, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said...

**** TIMES SQUARE GOSSIP EDITORIAL BOYCOTT BANK OF AMERICA **** James Edstrom If Occupy Wall Street is to stay alive, it must pick a target now. The movement seems to be all over the place and not centered on any one thing. Even with the planned protest of the Stock Exchange on Thursday, this is not a centered attack. Thousands of companies belong to the Stock Exchange and a protest against thousands of companies does not send a powerful message to any of them. It will get media attention, but it will not get any of these companies to change their policies on anything. It will not teach any of them a lesson and it will not make them listen to the American Public. This is why a target must be picked and this will show the power of the people. After careful thought, and after being cheated so many times by Bank Of America, I think this should be the target of Occupy Wall Street. Not because I was the only one ripped off, but Bank Of America has cheated millions of people, they are one of...

**** TIMES SQUARE GOSSIP EDITORIAL By: James Edstrom **** Crooked Branch Of Bank Of America I have written about Bank Of America before. A couple of years ago I wrote about how they were cheating me on my credit cards , because they were switching transactions around in my checking account so I would go under and they could charge me a fee and then they raised my interest on my credit cards because I went under. They settled that case for around 750 million fine, but I got no money back. To The Bank Of America, cheating customers is a way of business. They figure if they get caught, they get fined, meanwhile they made so much money, it's just a cost of doing business. And they never admit any wrongdoing, they just pay the fine. So after I canceled my credit cards with them, I felt it was just too hard to switch my direct deposits in my checking account to another bank and too hard to switch the direct payments such as AOL and others. So like the fool I am, I kept my checking acco...

**** THE STORES THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS **** SEARS RAISES INTEREST ON THEIR CREDIT CARDS RIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS **** Sears I am still fuming at what these credit card companies have done. Now a story on the Sears Card. I noticed a couple of months ago that my interest on my Sears Card that also works for K-Mart which is owned by Sears stores raised my interest to 25.24 per-cent. I called and spoke to a woman and she said she would lower the rate back to the old rate I had. So I get a bill last month, and I still see the new high rate. I figured between the time the bill was made and the time I talked to this woman at sears, the bill must have been made before she put my interest back to the old level. But to my surprise, I just got a bill today, and the interest is still at this high rate. I just got off the phone with some Representative from Sears. I explained that the woman I spoke to a couple of month ago said she was putting the rate back to the old level. He said she was wrong. I...

**** STEAL STEAL STEAL IS BANK OF AMERICA'S MOTTO **** Bank Of America Once again Bank Of America continues to steal from their customers. I closed every account with them, except I kept a savings account with a zero balance and I kept their checking account because I had direct deposit and everything was linked to this account to pay the bills. I cancelled their credit cards because they raised my interest to almost 25 per-cent. I could understand that, if I was a credit risk, but I have a higher credit score than most of Americans. It's bad enough that Bank Of America took bailout money and their CEO's continued to ride high on our money. It was bad when a few years ago I complained that they were switching transactions around so they could charge me more fees. They denied this, but recently they paid a 750 million dollar settlement without admitting any wrongdoing. Of Course... Each customer would have gotten up to 70 bucks, but with all the people filing, most people pr...

**** THERE COULD BE THE BANK OF KATHY POSNER **** Kathy Posner If I have $50 cash in my pocket and want to buy something that costs $60; then I obviously don’t have the money to pay for it and cannot purchase the item. I could reach into the pocketbook of the woman standing next to me and take $10, but that would be stealing. I would be arrested for a crime; go to trial and even might go to jail. (Unless it were my first offense and I got probation!) By the same respect, if I write a check for $60 and only have $50 in my checking account, I am essentially stealing from the bank and should be punished in the form of an overdraft fee. And I also should pay an overdraft fee for every single check I bounce after that first one. Obviously our government does not agree with that theory. There is a bill (Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act) pending in Congress now to limit the use of overdraft fees. Our legislative leaders have decided the fees are too high, so some banks have vo...

**** AMERICAN EXPRESS LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT ! **** AMEX CONTINUES TO SLAM GOOD CUSTOMERS **** You Are Approved Suze Orman Even with the big bucks they spend on celebrity endorsements, American Express continues to screw their good customers. Several months ago they cut my credit by around 60 per cent. Right out of the blue, this loser company cut credit to a customer who always pays his bills on time and who has a credit score hitting almost 800. My credit score is better than most of America. When I called them to ask why, they told me there had been too many inquiries into my credit and I was a bigger risk. So while I had them on line, I went to the credit companies website that they said gave them this information and I looked while I was talking to them on the phone. There were two inquiries. One from Bank USA and the other one was from American Express. I could not believe it. When I told the person on the phone this, they told me my report must be old. I said that I have the new ...

**** BOYCOTT THE CROOKS OF BANK OF AMERICA **** HOW THE BANKS HAVE ROBBED US **** Bank Of America Is The Worst Bank In This Country We just read our good friend and frequent Times Square Gossip contributor Kathy Posner's blog on the credit card companies. You can read what she has to say by clicking here , but we disagree with her so much on this issue. Our Chicago icon seems to think that the credit card companies are being fair. Well my friend Kathy, they are not. I have around a 780 credit score which is better than 80 percent of the rest of the country. We have been slammed with unfair interest hikes and unfair lowering of the available credit. We always pay our cards on time and always pay 3 or 4 times more than is due. Bank Of America was the first company to screw the American public. They raised my rates almost a years ago because I was short one cent in my checking account and they covered it. They charged me 39 dollars to pay the one cent. I told them I always check my b...

Close Your Bank Of America Accounts I am calling for everyone that reads Times Square Gossip to boycott The Bank Of America. I have had it with their underhanded business practices. If you have their credit cards or have a account in their bank, cancel it. I never look at credit card bills, I just pay them online every month. I never look at the interest rates, I just always assume that they are the same as always. Well yesterday I just happened to look for once and was I shocked. They raised my rates from 17 percent to almost 26 percent. I could not believe it. I always pay on time, I always pay 2 or three times the minimum due and I have had this card for years. My credit score is 702 which is considered excellent. I was outraged. I called them up today, and they told me they had sent me a notice last March ( One year I didn't notice the higher rate) and that I had the option of not using the card and still pay the low rate or if I used the card, the higher rate prevailed. I sai...