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Article: Consumers battle banks over ATM fees
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- May 30, 1996
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Until two months ago, Marisa Gonzalez visited an automatic teller
machine two or three times a week.
The marketing manager at a Miami steamship company banks at a
small credit union that doesn't have ATMs. She liked the convenient
ATMs at Barnett Banks or SunTrust Banks, until they levied a $1.00
surcharge on ATM transactions by non-customers.
Now, Gonzalez goes just once a week to an ATM at her neighborhood
supermarket and makes cash withdrawals stretch. "They put a sign up
saying they wouldn't charge," Gonzalez said. "Now I make it a point
to go there."
For consumers like Gonzalez, ATM fees have risen from an irritant
to major gripe since April 1, when the two largest ATM networks
lifted a ...