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Ally Bank Reviews

Formerly GMAC

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Ally Bank has financial roots that go back to 1920, but it was established as a digital bank in 2009. It was one of the first 100% online banks, and now it is a full-service bank offering checking and savings accounts, investment and retirement services, and loans for auto and home purchases. Customers can expect fee-free products with no account minimums, such as the No-Penalty Certificate of Deposit (CD), which allows early withdrawals.

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Pros
  • No account minimum or overdraft fees
  • High APY
Cons
  • No physical bank locations
  • No cash deposits

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    Reviewed May 19, 2015

    I went glen auto to purchase a car. Before I know it I was talked into leasing a car. The finance company Ally. I was told all I have to pay is car registration and monthly bill of $249. I kept getting bills every month with miscellaneous call co. No explanation.

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    Contract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed May 18, 2015

    Ally Bank financed a motor home for us that we bought on March 30th 2014. McMahon R V the company that we bought it from went chapter 11 in June of 2014 and never paid it off. It was a trade in to Bank of America. We are paying Ally every month for something that we can't use because we can't register it without title. Ally has done nothing to take care of this matter and now over a year later, with vacations coming up, we are going to lose our deposits that we put down last year and have to rent a RV which will cost us even more money. I think Ally should come to some kind of an agreement with Bank of America so they can obtain title and we can register it and use what we are paying for.

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    Reviewed May 14, 2015

    We submitted a request for SCRA assistance and we received a response that declined us because my husband has been active duty too long. 20 years. He will be deploying to Kuwait for 12 months. We have never been declined by any lender for his deployments and currently all of our other lenders have approved our requests. Ally ** you with its interest rates and absolutely does not take care of armed forces.

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    Reviewed May 7, 2015

    7 months ago I purchased a car and financed through Ally Auto. They are BEYOND terrible. Their customer service department is full of idiots. Don't expect to call anyone that can understand or speak English. They just read off of their monitors and tells you "okay" or whatever it is they think you want to hear but nothing is ever corrected. I always make an extra payment via Bill Pay through my bank. My bank sends Ally Auto a check on the 15th for them to receive by the 21st. When I didn't see my payment posted, I called Ally & they said they never received the payment. However, I have proof of the cleared check.

    The customer service rep. tells me to fax them proof and tells me to give them 10 days to REFUND me via mail. I don't want a refund. I want my money applied correctly. Because I'm on a daily interest rate they want to refund me back the extra payment - NO THANK YOU. It took them 3 months to resolve this issue. I had to call every other week just to get different answers and explanations of where my money went.

    This is just ONE issue. I've had so many issues with them applying payments incorrectly or NOT applying my payments. Honestly, I feel like they just apply whatever amounts they feel like. You should see my payment history. A lot of credit and debits from them trying to fix or doing whatever they're doing to my account. When I was purchasing my car, I overheard a man who SPECIFICALLY said he didn't want to go through ALLY. I should have asked him why and gone with someone else. NEVER again. They are IDIOTS.

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    Reviewed May 4, 2015

    Over the past few months I've had the misfortune of dealing with this miserable company. It is rare to see a company that is such a mass of confusion and miscommunication. Even when my loan was paid in full it took many phone calls to figure out how they could send me a lien release. IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY, DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS COMPANY. You will waste countless hours on what should be trivial transactions. You will be frustrated beyond belief. You will be lied to, you will be transferred, you will be misguided. DON'T DO IT.

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    Reviewed May 4, 2015

    I contacted Ally to schedule an appointment for my lease return inspection. However, I was told that I needed to drop my car off at the dealer and walk away, that the Dealer would call to schedule the inspection within 72 hours. I questioned the procedure and asked that I wanted to be present for the final inspection since I could be held liable for all damages. Besides the fact that since the vehicle is my responsibility, I should have full control of it until I know that everything is the way it should be and sign off the required paperwork. No luck whatsoever, I even spoke to a supervisor and called the next day and as always got the same answer. NOT A FAIR PROCEDURE AND WOULD NEVER LEASE THROUGH ALLY BANK AGAIN!!!

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    Reviewed May 3, 2015

    I bought out my auto lease from Ally Bank two weeks ago. The instructions I was give by the numerous customer service people I spoke to was inconsistent, unhelpful, annoying, and may affect my credit rating.

    One example will suffice: at my request, the payout notice from Ally was faxed to my credit union. My credit union wanted an address to FedEx the check to and we called to have this address faxed or emailed to either myself or the bank as documentation that we were using the correct address. I was on the phone with my new lender and Ally when we asked for this address. The customer service rep and her supervisor told us repeatedly that they had no capacity to fax or email the address to us and said that they could only give us the address verbally. My lender thought this was not a very reliable method to document an address where 10s of thousand of dollars was going to be mailed. In addition, the customer service reps were very difficult to understand and hear despite repeated requests that they speak up or speak directly on the handset rather than a head set.

    My banker has 25 years in the banking business. She commented that she has never had such an odd and unsatisfying experience with a finance company. I agree. We finally chose an address because it was on the payout notice fax heading, and Ally confirmed that this was "a correct address" so at least we had documentation that it was affiliated with Ally. It has now been 10 days since the check was mailed to the PO box. I called every day last week to see if Ally had record of receipt and they had not. The payout amount is no longer valid and on my online account it appears as if I am in arrears for the lease payment which is amply covered by the payout. Ally Bank auto finance should be shut down!

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    Reviewed April 28, 2015

    I leased a GM terrain 2012 about 3 years ago from Kerry GMC Tri County. Today, I had only 28K miles on my car (which is less than 45K ) which I bought. The car depreciation value according to the contract is $13,150, but If I want to buy it by the end of the lease, I should pay $16,1000 ($3000 more than the value according to the contract). Additionally, if I want to sell it to the CarMax or other dealers, the payoff is $20,4000 according to the Ally Bank representative. I leased many car before, and usually the buying by the end of the least is equal to the depreciation value. I am not sure why the bank will charge $7000 more for pay off the car.

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    Reviewed April 25, 2015

    I have my 2009 GMC finance through this company. Since day 1 I have received phone calls from them on a weekly basis. Payment is due, when will you be making a payment... on and on. I have now gotten to the point I know their phone number by heart. I have learned to ask them questions concerning my truck and why I can not get them to re-finance this when I have asked every phone call. Needless to say I am now only shy of 1 year of paying this off, but I still get phone calls from them. Yes, I still ask for re-financing (which I will NEVER do with this company).

    I also ask them how the weather is in India and if they can recommend a good place to stay if I make a trip to India for work... That gets them off the phone in a hurry. They outsource the calls, So I know they are sitting in a office with four or five company scripts in front of them to only go off the paper they have for Ally, and other companies that outsource... This is H1B immigration program at its best. Please do not use this company.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 21, 2015

    My mother died in Nov. 2013. She had leased a GM car through Ally at her local dealership. As her daughter, I said I would continue making the payments until the lease ended in October 2015. I have faithfully made the payments. I faxed numerous documents to Ally per their request; they have no mailing address. Documents included death certificates, social security numbers, notarized letters from other family members saying they had no interest in the vehicle. Documents were faxed numerous times due to the fact that when we got no response, they claimed they had not received documents or they couldn't read them, or they couldn't find them. We found that they were being offshored God knows where.

    This is troubling, especially since they have not given us a simple letter we can present to get license tabs. They have now asked for the social security numbers of my children! There is something terribly, frighteningly wrong with this company. I can't believe General Motors allows them to handle leasing. Obviously they don't care. The dealership has said in so many words that it's not their problem. Well, I will never buy a GM product and will advise anyone who will listen to not deal with Ally or GM. Thank you for allowing me this forum.

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    Reviewed April 17, 2015

    While calling for information regarding payoff and title information I was given incorrect information. I had to make many phone calls and be put on hold multiple time for long waiting periods. I have never been able to talk with someone to assist me. I am still waiting for someone to assist and take responsibility. I feel like calls are also outsourced. I do not recommend their services to anyone.

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    Reviewed April 15, 2015

    AN UNTRAINED MONKEY could do a better job than Ally's customer service. No title for new GMC thanks to Ally's "Customer Care" which is in the Philippines (you know, between China and Indonesia; next to Vietnam!). Isn't "Customer Care" an appropriate name! Ally's agent said I would get my title and a refund for overpayment in 4 days. Four days later Ally's ** sends me a two-sentence letter that read, "This is to inform you that Ally does not hold the title to the above described vehicle." Leaving me wondering: Why? Where is my title? What about my refund? Ally confirmed my refund was sent to the wrong address, and DMV confirmed that Ally gave them the wrong address to send the title resulting in my original title being destroyed.

    Seems to me that any reasonable person (or entity called "Customer Care") that got returned mail would do a little simple research, like check to see if it was sent to the same address the buyer gave on the original contract. I provided the correct address. Isn't it funny how all fourteen invoices get sent to the correct address? But my title and refund get sent to an address that is not on the contract? I should not have to wait in line at DMV and pay for a duplicate title for a new GMC. I want the original title, not a duplicate. I paid Ally in full. I provided the correct information on the contract. It is out of my control when Ally's people can't read an address on a simple contract that they prepared.

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    Reviewed April 13, 2015

    I checked one of my credit reports transunion and found that Ally Bank is reporting to all the credit reporting agency including someone called in no is along with Equifax and Experian that I have a joint account with my husband on a care loan that he took out. I was not with him; I did not sign or assume any responsibilities of this loan whatsoever. Matter of fact when my husband got this loan he was living in MI and I was living in UT to get to know my birth family that I found.

    I'm appalled that this bank assumes that I will pick up the tab on this loan! Just because I'm married to their client doesn't give them the right to put me on this loan or report it being my responsibility whatsoever. Now I have to jump through hoops to get all this removed. There is not just a number you can call and talk to a human being that you want to dispute this problem. I have a hard time with going online. Besides Ally screwed up and Ally should correct the problem with all 4 credit reporting companies. I want nothing less then a report mailed to me from the credit reporting agencies that Ally has been removed from my reports and a letter of apology from Ally.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2015

    I was contacted by a representative from Ally on 4/9/15 informing me that my first car payment was six days overdue. I explained to the rep that I forgot to change the account # on the payment made through my bank and that the previous car has been totalled and paid off by my insurance company. The rep acted as if she could not hear me and continued to tell me that my payment was for the old account. We went back and forth until I could no longer take it and I informed her that I could not talk to her anymore because she was not listening. After she checked several times, she determined that I was correct, but said it would take 30 days to re-allocate the funds to the new vehicle and that I had to make another payment in the meantime.

    I got nowhere when I called back today to speak with a manager (couldn't even get to one) and I was also unsuccessful with the live chat. I told her yesterday that I wanted it in writing that the payment that was sitting there would be applied to my May invoice, crickets! Bottom line, no payment guarantee from them, no additional payment. This is so frustrating because you can tell that they only care about the money, they don't want to hear anything else. Even when they figured it out, they still found a way to get more money out of me with this 30 day re-allocation tool. Still unresolved in Buffalo!

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    Reviewed April 9, 2015

    My wife and I purchased two vehicles over a year ago and both vehicles were financed by Ally Financial. In the first months we had minor issues with the company until one day I made a payment online (instead of paying an $8 fee for them to take my money) and instead of removing one payment from my account they removed two. Upon noticing this I contacted Ally and informed them of the mistake. I was not angry, instead I requested they keep one payment and return the other. They rudely informed me that they are "unable" to remove two payments without my authorization and that they are "unable" to refund my payment.

    So I contacted my bank and put a stop payment on the transaction and my payments were returned which I then (very carefully) re-posted the payment to which they AGAIN removed two payments to which I AGAIN called and informed them of the mistake and was rudely informed that AGAIN they were "unable" to remove two payments without my authorization and AGAIN they were "unable" to refund my illegally withdrawn payment therefore I had to repeat the process with my bank.

    Now, after all this nonsense my payment fell past due damaging my credit and allowing them to charge late fees. Upon being informed of this I was furious. I demanded to speak to several managers which proved useless. I asked where their South Carolina branch was located so that I may bring my bank statements and other paperwork to their attention to which I was informed they did not have a location in my area.

    I refused to pay late fees and instead asked politely for these matters to be resolved to no avail. During this time my wife and I had a substantial tax check stolen putting us in a financial bind. I contacted Ally and informed them of my misfortunes to which they did not care. I informed them that I had police reports and also video surveillance of the responsible person cashing the check at the bank. Again, they did not care. However they informed me that they gave my wife and I an extension on payment. This I did not see. However they may have I'm not sure.

    Several months went by with my wife and I struggling to hold on to our cars paying monthly and trying to catch up where we could. Ally constantly harasses us with phone calls all times of the day and night including Sundays looking for payments despite us repeating our story to more managers and debt collectors than I can count.

    Eventually the stolen tax check was returned and I spoke to Ally about both cars getting the total past due amount to be Just under $2,000. We sent in the money and thought we finally solved the issue. We were WRONG! Several days after submitting an almost $2,000 dollar payment our account on both cars still showed us to be past due by large amounts. Once again furious I called Ally and demanded to know why I was still showing past due after submitting so much money to which I spoke with several people at Ally none helpful.

    They tried to explain the situation to my wife and I but it was very confusing as both of our vehicles are of the same year, make, and model. It didn't make matters better that they had to keep jumping from account to account throwing numbers around, yet another reason I would rather go into a branch location and speak face to face with someone. Having just moved out and getting married and our own home we couldn't afford a lawyer and are still fighting to catch up and avoid repossession.

    Before becoming involved with the WORST finance company we have ever had to encounter we had financed several cars with different companies and had perfect payment records and great credit to show for it. I have never had one Problem with any finance company until now and I have NEVER come across one So rude and uncaring. Whatever you do read all the reviews. Understand that I am not the only one warning you. AVOID THIS COMPANY!!!

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    Reviewed April 8, 2015

    I am beginning to lose my patience with Ally. I have been calling since the beginning of March for them to send me paperwork so we can assume the loan of my mother in law's car and they claim to have mailed it twice and faxed it twice but we have received nothing. Now today they tell me that they cannot continue to resend it so if I don't get it then we will either have to pay off the car or return it to them. They have to be crazy. I asked if they could email it or show me proof it was faxed and they just say no. This is ridiculous. I should have just kept paying it while it was in her name and not tried to do the right thing.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2015

    OK so my 1st ever car I received with Ally and can I say they are Horrible. I tried to send it online and that didn't work. So then sending in the payment the customer service rep told me that they are obligated to lose the check so basically you're going to lose my money. They suck. I will never ever ever deal with them again. They just want to make a quick buck.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2015

    I have bought dozens of cars over the years and this is the worst customer service I have encountered!!! After the second month I began getting a recurring $11 late fee for no reason. After calling numerous times and getting frustrated I decided to pay off the loan. Another unpleasant experience!! I would never recommend Ally to anyone but a retired person that has time to aggravate themselves!!!

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    Reviewed April 1, 2015

    I opened an online saving account and had my investment bank send a large amount of money to my new Ally account. After a month Ally had not acknowledged receipt of the check. After numerous calls by myself and my banker, Ally finally admitted that they did cash the check, but are unable to credit my account without going through more hassle. They finally have agreed to put the money in my account and pay the back interest I'm owed. We shall see. In the mean time I had no access to my money.

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    Reviewed March 31, 2015

    Leased a car from Ally Auto lease. Returned the car to dealer. Ally sent me a claim for $344 in so-called damages. These are very shallow scratches that can be buffed out easily. Can't even see one on the door photo. The bumper is a deposit of road asphalt that could be easily scraped off. This is just a scam to squeeze more money out of us because I doubt they will repair and will not affect the value after reconditioning at all. Bogus claim. I will fight and at least cost them some more in admin time. They must make millions on these bogus damage claims.

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    Reviewed March 30, 2015

    Our vehicle was at the repair shop. We paid for the repairs, plus $800.00 in storage fees. We made arrangements to pay the balance of $500.00 when we were to pick the car up on 3/13/15. We went there as scheduled at 12:30 pm in the afternoon and Ally had instructed the vehicle to be picked up that morning to avoid a mechanic's lien. Ally never contact me to say what they were doing. When we got there the car had been picked up that morning. We had continued to make the payments on the car and were not behind. Before Ally would release the car to us, they said we owed $4,097.00. It took two weeks for us to show them that we did not owe them anything. But of course we ended up having to pay an additional $1000.00 before we could get the car.

    These people are predators of the worst kind, trying to extort money in any way they can. If they had had the courtesy to call me, they would have known that arrangements had already been made with the repair shop. But instead they took the car so they could add up charges. Now, they have given me a Major Derogatory Remark (Repossession) on my vehicle. This was totally not my fault, and was uncalled for. I am also writing to the BBB and a letter to the dealership so that they can avoid using Ally for others, if at all possible.

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    Reviewed March 27, 2015

    After turning in a lease (which was under the mileage by over 5,000) Ally tried to charge me for a missing combo key at $175. I contacted them to inform them both keys were returned with the vehicle. They said they will forward this info to a higher office. Meanwhile the car was still at the dealership, so I contacted the dealership and they confirmed both combo keys were in their possession. The dealership even contacted Ally for me to inform them both keys were accounted for. Ally still argued that the key was missing!

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    Reviewed March 24, 2015

    To be fair, Ally could be a great bank and does, indeed, do many things better than other banks. There are, however, some serious issues. First of all is their POP MONEY - think PayPal - service. It is awful! Not only does it require that your recipient become a member to collect funds, but the emails from Pop Money, notifying your recipient that funds are available, are routinely blocked as 'spam'.

    Ally does answer the phone quickly, but many customer service reps are poorly trained and discussing more complicated questions requires supervisors or management that reply days later. In addition, deposits are held for days, even after establishing a sound relationship with Ally AND having many times the deposit amounts on the account balance. "Two to five days" is the typical response on most transaction requests. Ally is a pretty good bank, though customer service issues seem to be getting worse, and we have been persuaded to continue shopping for a bank that actually pays more attention to customers and doesn't just say they do!

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    Reviewed March 24, 2015

    I am not a customer of Ally Bank, but one of their customers fraudulently used my bank account to make a $1400.00 vehicle payment. I called them and asked them to reimburse me and they refused. The only option they offered was to send a reimbursement check to the customer that fraudulently used my bank account information! Absolutely unethical. I was able to file fraud paperwork at my bank and hopefully, will be refunded that way. Terrible policies for victims of fraud.

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    Reviewed March 24, 2015

    I've leased 9 or 10 cars over the past 20+ years. At lease-end or within a couple months of lease-end I always trade the car in and get a new car. The dealer takes the trade, writes a check to the leasing company paying off my remaining obligation and the residual, and then can sell the car or do whatever they want, as they're now the owner of the vehicle. But Ally Bank won't allow this!! They say no one can ever trade in a leased car... even though dealer working with now takes in about 100 leased cars/month on trade. This is very common and I've done it on 9 or 10 vehicles. Ally Bank just killed my new car deal, unless I want to give Ally $39,177... when my residual is only $25,500 and 2 remaining payments are $1000 ea. So they're owed $27,000 approx, but want $39,177... seems almost illegal, as they're basically holding me hostage. I will never ever buy another GMC product, nor do any GMAC or Ally financing again in my life. Ever.

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    Reviewed March 23, 2015

    Every encounter over 3 years that I ever had with ALLY was terrible. The offshore customer service reps gave me incorrect info on 100% of questions ever asked. They did not know the difference between P and I. Payoff vs. YTD P. Difficult to get to an English speaking agent. When I asked to pay off the loan so that I could sell the car, every step was messed up, took weeks instead of days to complete - and this was with the US reps. Unbelievably bad. Do NOT finance anything with Ally financial...

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    Reviewed March 22, 2015

    I purchased my car through Ally auto loan and made $5000 down payment and my monthly payment has been consistent though I sometimes make late payment, I always make sure the late payment is added, yet this foreigners at Ally keep sending me late charges by mail. I have called so many times to explain that I have paid more than I am supposed to. My payment is about $412 each month and when am late, I do pay around $430 sometimes more depends on my budget, yet keep getting late charges.

    My car was $19000.00, I made $5000 down payment which was supposed to reduce my interest rate. I have since made 17 payment out of 66 according to my online statement but this customer service rep told me I have only made 14 payment. She sounded like somebody from India, very unintelligent and difficult to understand. I explained to her my online statement indicated at the time I have so far made 17 payment, so why was she arguing and she still insisted I had made only 14 payments?

    I want somebody to explain something sensible to me because I think am being defrauded by Ally or the dealership I purchased the car from. I was made to understand the $5000 down payment was going to reduce my interest rate and actually car loan which was $19,000 but looking at my online account I still owe over $14000. Is there something I don't understand or could there be something that is escaping me? Can somebody explain to me how this whole car payment system with Ally works please, looks like am throwing money away. I am tempted to seek a professional help to get this resolved but if I dare find something ugly, I will surely sue Ally for $10 million for fraud. I do hope to get some good explanation and answers before I lose my cool with this Ally crap.

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    Reviewed March 21, 2015

    2.5 years I paid my car note on time, the loan was from Ally Financial. Well I recently became late, almost 3 months I believe. So I made arrangements to pay what I owed & they insisted I had to pay the balance off. I spoke to them on a Friday & on that Sunday night I was in visiting family out of town, went to WalMart & they had towed my car while I was in there. Spoke with someone on that Monday to get things cleared & I was told that I had to pay the balance plus $375 for tow charges & my car would be paid off & released to me. Needless to say I moneygrammed them almost $7000. I've been waiting on my title & I hadn't received it so I called & the lady said they had me owing an additional $400 & that I would have to call back on Monday to speak with someone else.

    First off if I owed anything else why would they send the release papers to the tow yard for me to pick up my truck? I am completely fed up with Ally, they are very unprofessional & I can't believe North Little Rock Nissan uses such terrible loan companies. Now the next vehicle I get, I'm going to research the loan company first before anything.

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    Reviewed March 21, 2015

    Ally Auto repoed my car that I refinanced through Chase bank and I have the paperwork proving so. They incorrectly took money and put it on the wrong account, my wife's. They paid her car off, but we never got the title and I have two liens on my car, I called with my bank to fix this in January. They said no problem. They lie. I have case numbers and POC from Chase. Then suffering from cancer they repoed my car. What sick people they are. I will go to court and sue them for this. Do not deal with these crooks and tell everyone you know.

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    Reviewed March 20, 2015

    My Grandfather purchased a 2011 GMC Sierra for $28,000 brand new in 2010 and financed through "Ally". He just passed away March 6, 2015 and was the only one listed on the account so I call thinking I'm doing the RIGHT legal thing by calling "Ally" letting them know he passed and that my father is going to be making the payments until we can pay it off. Well the "Customer Service Specialist" tells me that we have six days to mail in a death certificate, have my grandmother which is executor of the will to write a letter saying my father is going to take over the payments, send in a copy of my dad's driver's licenses and social to see if he qualifies to take over the account even though he's been paying since October 2014 when my grandfather became ill. And that if we don't pay in full and no one is approved, then they will come and seize the vehicle.

    Now $17,000 has been paid on time since the truck was purchased and there is approx. $10,000.00 left and they aren't sympathetic at all. The bill will be paid like it has been but what they want to do is repossess the truck, sell it at auction and bill us for the remainder. They also deleted my grandfather's online account within 2 minutes where I can't access payment details for proof that the payments were on time. Oh also I'm not on the account but I can call and cancel it just by saying the account holder has passed?!? Without proof of a Death Certificate?!? Someone please let me know what my legal rights are and if "Ally" is taking my grieving family for a ride? STAY AWAY FROM ALLY FINANCIAL!!!

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    Reviewed March 14, 2015

    Got an auto loan with GMAC in Jan 2010 which changed over to Ally shortly after. I was ready to pay off the remaining balance of my loan, called them up, said “What's the best way to pay off my loan?” They said "Certify mail a cashier's check or just make your final amount online.” So I confirmed my home address with them was correct. Great, made sure address was correct on my profile as well and made final payment online. Received a letter in the mail congratulating me on paying off my loan and what a great freaking customer I am.

    I called them up 2 months later since I never received my title. They said they shipped it on Jan 22nd and I will receive it any day now. I asked them what shipping method they used since that was 2 months ago. The guy from India says, "Oh well we shipped it to this address" (which was an outdate apartment address). What the heck??? Indian guy said he can't provide copies and that I'm basically SOL. I asked him why they would send me my title to an outdated mailing address. He didn't have an answer. Now I'm stuck fighting with the DMV trying to get a copy of my title. Thanks Ally, there will not be a next time.

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    Reviewed March 13, 2015

    We leased a Buick Enclave who used Ally Bank for financing for 3 years but as we were moving out of the country we had to advertise for a lease takeover. Ally Bank stalled each application and misinformed us on the process that we lost every application. They insist we pay the full term and hand in the car with the unused mileage. Their call centre in Philippines are useless and their leasing department and process is archaic. They even insisted applicants complete the 'office use only' sections. Ally Bank would not even accept email or scanned applications and insisted it got mailed which takes them 2 weeks to review.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2015

    I have auto payment from my bank and after 4 years I wanted to pay my loan off. I requested a pay off bill on March 2nd and never received it. I called back on March 9th to state that I never received the bill. I was told that it will be coming. I never received it by March 11th so I called back. I was told that they will send another bill with additional finance charges based on the additional days. They have all the information recorded that I made all the calls and refused to waive the additional finance charges. This is the last time that I do business with Ally. The purpose of this feedback is to alert anyone that is considering Ally.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2015

    I received a letter from Ally Bank addressed to my deceased husband because due to a report from ChexSystems, Inc. my husband was denied a checking account. (Still can figure out what credit has to do with a checking account that requires a deposit to open.) I called the bank's phone number and the first person I spoke with said that since it was addressed to my husband, they would have to talk with him. I had just said "He died four years ago." I replied, "That's going to be difficult" when she spoke along with me, "But he died." Duh! ChexSystems, Inc. phone number given to me from letter from Ally produced five ads before telling me the phone was no longer in service. I called the forwarding number and hear some more ads, but no response. I can find no one to handle this, when they know a fraud is being committed.

    I will never use, or recommend, the use of a bank or credit reporting system that does not have four brick walls and personnel to handle their business. Now I have to watch repeatedly for my own accounts since my bank and others have a hard time removing a name from a file that is in dozens of department of the bank. Ally had an application number on my letter that they could open a file and read; the fraud department had that order number on file and agreed that the report said my husband had died. So what is with this? Informing me that his application was denied is ridiculous. The application itself should have been rejected. I'm not sure now whether it is the Ally or ChexSystems, Inc is responsible for this and I can only hope I've nipped the problem in the bud.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2015

    Here is the way the business model of Ally and any other large corporation works: They are interested in making money. That is all. If you become a problem in this money machine they will do anything to satisfy you. If you have a grievance with Ally sue them. If it is a small amount of money - say under $2000 - They will quickly settle. Because they know it costs more to fight the lawsuit with $300+ an hour attorneys than to settle. Here is how: Find the resident agent for Ally in your state. (This is the hardest part); Write a letter to the resident agent c/o Ally Financial; Wait for response. Sue the resident agent in small claims court if they don't reply. (They almost always do - Ally called me yesterday - March 10, 2015).

    My Toyota Yaris was repossessed on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 from the Vehicle Recovery Facility at 305 Metropolitan Grove Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20878. I filed a Show Cause Order in Action of Replevin suit against Ally's Baltimore resident agent on the same day. In December I paid all fees for the return of the vehicle. There was a signed legal agreement with Ally that Ally would apply the repossession fees to my account. Ally has charged me $180 more in "miscellaneous fees" in violation of our agreement. The Ally representative stated this was for the repossession.

    When I took possession of my vehicle there was extensive body damage to the front hood, bumper and grille. I had an appraisal done at Zamora's Auto Body, 772 E Gude Drive, Rockville MD 20850. The auto body mechanic indicated that the damage was clearly from towing damage. Zamora's estimates the cost to repair my vehicle is $1251.55.

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    Reviewed March 6, 2015

    When I opened my savings acct I was told the interest is compounded daily but only posted once per month. I was told the fifth of each month. Here it is at 8:00 pm on the 5th, I called the 800 number because as a new customer I thought there might be a problem. The response I got was infuriating. It is only 8 pm where you are. We have until midnight. While that is technically true, if they do not plan on crediting the interest until midnight on the 5th why wouldn't they just publish that statements come out on the 6th. In a time where everyone is skeptical about their banks, this seems like a stupid policy and one that only adds more suspicion by their customers as to the bank's motives.

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    Reviewed March 5, 2015

    I bought a car in May 2014 and took out a 6 year loan. By September I paid ahead and only had 3 payment left of just over 1100 dollars. I kept getting calls that a missed payments and that I was 4 payments behind!!! I told them that I was 60 payments ahead and was going to finish paying off car on May - 5 years ahead of schedule!!! They said no that I need to make a payment! Well the car was repossessed last night and trying to get it back has been a nightmare!!!! This is the worst company I have ever dealt with!!! Can't speak English or understand math!!! I should sue!!!

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    Reviewed March 3, 2015

    My wife has an acct. with Ally and we have auto debit on the acct. When they do not debit our acct. on the due date they tack on more interest. If the due date happens to fall on a Holiday or week-end then they calculate the interest for more days in the period. Thus they make more money from this and they will not do anything to help. They say that's the way it is set up through some institute. If Ally does this check your auto debit acct and see if you are having the same problem. It's a rip off for the people that makes them RICH. You and I.

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    Reviewed March 2, 2015

    I had an auto loan with GMAC which was turned over to Ally Financial. I bought my truck in 2008. I recently paid the truck off. I was told that after paying your vehicle off and because I made my payment off of my debit card and not a cashier's check that they would hold it an extra 10 days. Well, 10 days came and went and still no title. I have been trying to obtain my title since Jan of 2015. My registration is now expired and now I have no way to work. I called Ally Financial numerous times about my title and every time you call them you get someone different on the phone. All they do is give you the run around. They promised me it would be in the mail before my registration expired. Well it's now expired. I don't know who they think they are. That title is now my property along with my truck which I paid 21,000 for. I don't owe them anything!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2015

    I tried to make a due date change from the 1st to the 22 of the month and was told I would have to pay a fee. I told them I did not have the fee. The women said in broken English "Don't worry. You don't have to pay that. We change date now." I soon received a letter asking did I forget my payment due on the first. I immediately call and they state "Yes you are 27 days past due" trying to over talk me. I was told the due date is now the 22 of February. I tried to get a deferred payment for that payment and they denied saying "You have to make a full payment." If I had that I would not be asking for deferred payments.

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    Reviewed Feb. 25, 2015

    I read comments where ALLY purported to negotiate with the consumer and in the process of doing so, they repossessed the vehicle. Well, the same thing happened to me. Admittedly, I was late with payment due to loss of employment and illness. Not only did I make the negotiated payment as promised, the promised extension paperwork did not come to my residence until over two weeks later. I did not hear from anyone during the interim and usually, ALLY calls consistently when there is a problem.

    Well, ALLY came and repossessed the vehicle on a Friday evening. Since you cannot get to anyone until Monday, we had to sit and wait. Monday, I got a hold of the account manager who negotiated the extension and he claimed that he called me and left messages. There were no messages or calls indicated from ALLY in my phone queue. When I tried to explain this, he proceeded to overtalk me. I then asked him what would happen if I showed him that the funds were taken out my account. He insisted that there was nothing he could do. He then called back later and asked me to fax the bank statement, which I did. He then called again to say that I needed to take it up with my bank because they could not find the money. I protested and he insisted that there was nothing he could do.

    I filed a motion in the Federal Court and the Court granted me an emergency hearing, I served the papers upon them by fax, as permitted by the Court. An operations then manager called me and proceeded to tell me that they could not find my payment, and I then asked her what was the purpose of the call.. She proceeded to argue with me and overtalk me in a loud, aggressive tone. She first said that she called me and then said that no one could call me because I had a cease and desist letter. I replied that I found that interesting because notwithstanding, they did call me. Also, her statements were inconsistent. We went to Court the next day and the judge asked ALLY's attorney if they returned the vehicle. He said that ALLY agreed to release the vehicle and remove any inference of repossession from my credit.

    Of course, when I called the repo man to tell them that I was coming to get my vehicle, they indicated that they had not received correspondence from ALLY. I called ALLY and the same operations manager comes on the phone and has the nerve to say that we could have negotiated the matter but I chose to take matters "that far". I reminded her that she repeatedly told me that there was nothing she could do and she was conducting herself in a manner that was going to cost the company some money. She was unprofessional and hostile and apparently they train their people to act accordingly.

    Although we did not have to pay the repo fees and excess charges, ALLY was dishonest, and engaged in a deceptive practice designed to separate the unwitting consumer from their cash. They do this because most people are so thrown by the event of repossession, that they either lose the vehicle or end up paying fees. This is a permanent black eye on this company.

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    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2015

    We have a 5th wheel financed with Ally. We contacted them in Nov. about having someone assume the payments. They indicated there would be no problem. They did send an Application for Transfer of Equity to us. We finally got someone who wanted to take up the payments and we faxed the application to them. To date their customer service people cannot tell us what is going on in the process. Each time I call I get a different answer. These people do not know what they are doing. When I ask to speak to a manager, they tell me that they cannot forward my call. No manager available and other excuses. There is no phone number to call and speak to anyone else about this matter. My husband has had a heart attack and now has been diagnosed with Cancer since we made this purchase and we need to have this matter resolved. We are under enough stress without having to deal with something like this.

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    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2015

    I have been paying extra on my car loan and Ally would pay the interest first then any fees associated with the account before applying my payment even if I am paying more than the monthly payment. I have over $300 dollars in late charges...sometimes is $17.00 to $58.67 in late charges. I have called to resolve this issue but the company refuses to return the money or credit my account. ALLY is unfair. ALLY has refused to resolve the issue. Don't get a loan with ALLY.

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    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2015

    I leased a 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport for my wife on 2/27/2012 with a sticker price of $32,783.00. We put down $5000 as a cap reduction cost and first month payment PLUS TAX and had 36 monthly lease payments of $334.26, which we made every month without fail. Also in the contract was a "Purchase Option at End of Lease Term" (line 9 of the contract) which stated we could purchase the vehicle at the end of the lease term for $21754.00. Our mileage limit on the lease was 30,000 and we went over a bit on the mileage, so we calculated it would be better to try to sell the car rather than turn it in and pay the mileage charge plus unknown "wear and tear" charges.

    We received a certified purchase offer from CarMax of $22,000 which exceeded the specified buyout amount by $246.00, which to us was a win-win since all of the online trade-in values also exceeded what our buyout amount was. We decided to accept the offer from CarMax only to learn that when they called to verify the buyout amount, they were quoted nearly $3000 more than the amount stated on our contract. When I contacted Ally for an explanation, I was told the buyout number on the contract was only if I wanted to buy the car at lease end. If a dealer bought it, they would have to pay "market value" for the vehicle.

    This is an absolute scam and just another way for Ally to rip you off. I was also told I would have to pay tax again on the amount of the buyout, which amounted to an additional $1855.09. So the only way could avoid paying the mileage, wear and tear, etc. would be to buy the car from Ally at $23,603.09 (including tax) and THEN accept the $22000 offer from CarMax, essentially LOSING $1,603.00 instead of walking away with the $246.00. It is absolutely ludicrous that we can't sell the car for what we would purchase it for ourselves and the dealer would actually pay MORE for a car than I as the lessor would, even though it's a wholesale deal.

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    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2015

    I have an auto-loan with Ally Bank, I have had my loan for 4 years now, never been late because I had automatic payment. One month, when I switched banks, the automatic payment never went thru. By the time I found out about it, I was late. So I was truly late for one month. I checked my credit report 6 months later to find out that they had reported to the credit bureau that I was late for 7 months in a row. This was not true, which I proved to them by sending them bank statements showing that my bank account was debited every month on the same day for the correct amount.

    When I called customer service, EVERYONE I spoke to sounded like they were from a 3rd world country, were EXTREMELY rude and unhelpful, and ultimately denied my appeal. Keep in mind that I proved to them that they had made a mistake. Also, one month they debited my account for $800 on top of my $400/mo car payment, I called them to tell them that they were wrong and that I was only late one month, but they refused to put that $800 to the principal on my loan. They basically stole $800 because I was not late for the 7 times they told me I was.

    Please keep in mind that I had printed out my bank statements for each month that they said I was late. They ultimately refused to report to the bureau that they made a mistake, now I have 7 late payments on my report that are complete b.s and it has drastically lowered my credit score (by over 150 points). They have the worst customer service, hanging up on me multiple times and being very very rude in their broken English. Please stay away from this bank or else you are sure to get b.s. fees and no help whatsoever.

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    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2015

    Ally is claiming false property damage and threatening collection and false credit reporting if I don't pay them what they are asking for. I am planning on filing a class action lawsuit against the company for extortion if they proceed with their threat. Anyone with a valid claim please join me.

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    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2015

    I got an email telling me that my account had been closed because it's "suspected" to be a business account. I had called a few weeks ago because my savings account had been closed and I didn't know why. In the middle of the call, the agent OUT OF THE BLUE asked me if I had a business account with them. I said yes, then said, "Actually no. I use it for personal reasons." Apparently from that statement, my account went under investigation (where they should have seen that I was using it for gas, groceries, etc.) Still I got an email today saying that the account had been closed. When I called to find out why, I'm told it's because I have a "business account." They claim to have sent me a letter warning me about this, but I never got it. But of course, that didn't matter and there's nothing I can do about it. Currently researching online bank competitors.

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2015

    I agree 100% with all of you. I wish I had never done business with Ally financial. They are not going to help you out in any way. Their customer service is incompetent and pathetic. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!! I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH!!!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2015

    I had a loan with Ally in early 2010. At that time they were a great company. This is not the same company. I am guessing different ownership. Not counting cable tv it is the worst company I have done business with. In 2010 I received a payment book. Not this time. I knew right there it was trouble. I requested one to deaf ears. Never, never do direct deposit except to your personal bank. I know better so didn't. Even if it is over 1% do it if you value your credit. By the time you finish with Ally you will pay more and lose your credit score. Anyway my first payment was due on 9/02/14. I made a $14,500 payment applied to my principal. I then made my first payment on 8/19/14 for 723.67. They credited me 647.34 on my payment and applied 76.33 to my principal. I didn't know this till I got my payment history I have been requesting for months. Finally just received it after telling them I was turning them into the IRS because I got no statement of interest for 2014. It was as bad as their monthly statements.

    Anyway I made my next payment on 9/05/14. A month ahead right? No so, because of their fraud of putting part of my payment into the principal I am a month behind not a month ahead. I have been doing 1000.00 on each payment and I thought a month ahead for my credit. I now have an unpaid balance of $907.95. Huh? Paying almost 300.00 a month over my payment. Cannot even to figure that one out except the 14,500 I paid on the principal made them furious and they were going to get the interest back one way or another. Somehow they must be applying interest on my principal for the life of the loan and the fraud of $76.11 in the beginning. How else can I have an unpaid balance of $907.95.

    I have called about 6 times. All I get is some that cannot add or divide, honest, I tried. They just read some gibberish off of a paper that has coined replies that do not even relate relate to the question. Good old human resources or whoever made them up. It does no good to talk to these people so this is what I will do since I am in MN I will contact the MN Insurance Commissioner. Any complaint stays in a file on this company forever. Just think if everybody here sent a copy of their complaint to the MN Insurance Commissioner. Sent your paperwork with it. Do it!

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2015

    I purchased my car in November 2011. My credit was not good at the time so the car dealer hooked me up with Ally Auto. I've had wonderful experiences with them up until November 2014. Because my business gets very slow over the winter from about Thanksgiving until February, I have several times delayed payment. I did the same thing again in November 2014. I did this on 24 November; on the 25th I would be 15 days late and receive a late fee. I was told by the customer service rep to pay $86 plus and the balance the following month. I went online that day and scheduled a payment for $120 deciding on my own to split the payment in half.

    I have done this on several occasions before with no problem. In early December I went into the Ally Auto website and noticed I had been charged a late fee. I called Ally Auto and was told by the representative that the system couldn't handle the $120 payment. The guy told me he would have the late payment taken off.

    I went into the website several days after that to check to see if the late payment was taken off. It was not. At that time I was about 31 or 32 days late. I called and spoke with another representative about the possibility of my alleged late payment being reported to the credit bureaus. She said she did not know if it had been reported or not. She said she would send a request to management to look into what happened and told me that the initial deferment request was never processed and there was no record of the request in the system. She said it would take at least a month to process. I called back in early January to find out what was going on because I had heard absolutely nothing from anyone at Ally. That representative told me that it takes at least 60 days to process and to call back in early February.

    Yesterday, I received a letter from Ally showing the length of the loan and indicating that I had one late payment of 30 days. I was absolutely livid, and called customer service. I told the woman I was extremely upset that this was ruining my credit record and that I wanted this taken care of immediately and also threatened to sue Ally if it was not taken care of. After several periods of being on hold while she looked at my records, she came back and said that I would hear from somebody within 24 to 48 hours. I asked her if that was so, even though tomorrow was Sunday. And she said yes someone would call me within 24 to 48 hours. I then asked her so I can expect to hear from somebody by Monday by close of business and she said yes. We will see what happens!

    I have been working so hard at getting my credit record straightened out. I had a huge problem with my mortgage company that was not my fault and had finally gotten that straightened out. And then to have this happen right after that just really infuriates me. If this is not taken care of by tomorrow evening I will be filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.

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    Reviewed Jan. 30, 2015

    I sent a complaint to Ally in regards to being denied a checking account. Below is what I sent to them, hopefully it will help someone else if they are going to apply. - I am filing a complaint. I find it disturbing that Ally is prejudice against folks with low credit scores to open a checking account. It doesn't make sense. I was denied to open a checking account due to a low credit score. I'm not asking for a loan, or a credit card. I'm asking for a checking account to put MY money in your bank.

    When I called to asked why I was denied I was given some random answer about the patriot act. Yes if you want to run my credit you can. But to denied due to a low score is not a way to do business. You're saying my money or people with low scores money is not good enough for your bank. That's a horrible way to be. But I'm glad not all banks believe as you do. And they want my business and money despite that I have a low score. They value me as a person. A human being who's had some bad breaks that have nothing to do with banking. You need to advertise that you only cater to people with high credit scores.

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    Reviewed Jan. 30, 2015

    I sent a payment to Ally is error. They would not refund the payment and it does show up on our account. When we have called, we get different operators that give us different information each time we call. I have created a webpage entitled "consumers defrauded by Ally". Please go to that page, I believe that if we can get enough people we can get some resolution legally. They are not operating legally.

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    Reviewed Jan. 29, 2015

    I have tried this service from Ally twice in the last year. Everything works OK until it does not and then it's difficult to get the correct information and the correct description of the problem. Ex: Sent a PopPayment to two friends and was told by email that both had been "successful" but, the people who were to receive the money did not receive it. You call Ally and ask the them what is going on and you get bizarre stories of third party companies screwing up or, incorrect verification blah blah blah.

    Account information on the website does not reflect actual up to date information. For instance right now I should have $120 in my account from a PopTransfer that I made and that was returned but that money is not showing in my account and is in a kind of virtual space with no one responsible for it. Bottom line, this service is not ready for prime time...stay away.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2015

    I had an Ally loan which I admittedly fell late a payment on and even though there were a number of miscommunications that led to this I accept responsibility for. I began receiving 6-8 calls a day from an overseas collections agency claiming to be Ally financial. I was told different things depending on the particular caller. I began asking to speak with an Ally financial representative in the US. I made payment arrangements and all was well but I still kept receive these harassing calls from overseas. Many times they would tell me "I needed to listen to them", my account was in their hands now.

    Ally in the US does not deny these folks work for them. I just find it ruthless that GM gets bailed out by American tax payers dollars and they have the nerve to allow this. Just read the other complaints. The defunct GMAC who I bought and paid for 5 vehicles over my years now runs under the Ally banner and we are harassed by a foreign collections agency out of control with no ethical standards. Always a good ole American Chevrolet guy but I now have a brand new Ford pickup in my driveway and hope to never again desire to buy a GM product bad enough to give into the Ally financial overseas band of thugs.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2015

    We called for a payoff amount on our vehicle, they gave us the amount. We paid that amount. 3 weeks later, when we still hadn't received the title in the mail, we called to find out why and they told us we still owed another $176 in finances charges. They couldn't tell us why or for what, just that the first payoff amount wasn't correct. The man on the phone actually asked if we financed through another company or paid it ourselves. Why would it matter? Later I called again and now the finance charges were $177.09 with interest accruing at .03 a day. I don't understand how you can call for a payoff amount and after you send it in, they can change their mind. Even the manager I spoke with could not be trusted, couldn't make up her mind why the extra finance charge. So exactly how do you pay off a new car early??

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    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2015

    Before my next required payment due date, I changed the information on my account to reflect my new bank account as my old account only held $6. I called the next day and confirmed with their representative that the current payment would be coming from my new account. They confirmed the information. Told me my payment would come from the new account I entered. They however neglected to tell me that the payment for that month was already pending from my old account. I checked my old account a few days later to find my account negative over $300!!! I looked at my new account and Ally had taken the payment from that account as well!!!! So not only did they take a payment from an account that was not valid, they took double payment for the month and put me in the hole with my old bank adding late charges, etc.

    I tried to call the Ally and discuss the situation and all they can say is basically I can request a refund from them which will take 10 days or I can dispute the payment with my bank. Either way, they will not refund the late charges my bank charged me. I've been auto paying for over a year and Ally couldn't even cough up $26 to help me out of this situation. I was very satisfied with them until this happened and now I am very dissatisfied. I will be refinancing soon to get away from every having to deal with this company again! It's a disgrace with all the money you have you couldn't accept your mess up and pay $26 to work it out. 26!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2015

    I have tried repeatedly to tell the people at Ally that they posted the payment I made to wrong account. They will not listen to me, and only reply that that "can't see that on my screen". Well, of course you can't see that, you are looking at MY account and not the account where you applied MY payment. They won't do anything to fix the mistake they made and are threatening to "take away" my car over this one payment error which is THEIR error.

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    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2015

    I got my 2010 Ford Fusion in July 2014. I have never really gotten letters about payments only when they are threatening to repossess. Now my car is repossessed. Really need info in how to get my car back. This is affecting my civilian life and my military career. I find it very rude and disrespectful to come to someone's house at 4 AM to repossess their car not allowing them a chance to get their things.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2015

    Paid off the note to my car which was originally finance with GMAC then turned into Ally financial. From day one this company has been a nightmare to deal with! First of all let's be real. I live paycheck to paycheck and no payment were not always on time (as in due on Friday but paid on Monday) BUT I always added an extra 15 to 20 dollars to my payment to cover the late charge if any. Any how I finally pay off this stupid note and lo and behold ALLY claims I owe additional late charges and will be unable to release my title until paid in full. So I go down to Western Union, pay in CASH and now these sorry bastards are telling me they have to hold the title until the end of the month because WESTERN UNION sent them a check! Someone please explain to me how this is my problem? This company needs to be investigated as far as I am concerned.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2015

    This is our first experience with Ally Financial and will NO DOUBT be our last. We leased a 2011 Buick LaCrosse from a local dealership and got financing through Ally. We've never dealt with this company before but the payment was slightly lower and made it attractive. Throughout the entire lease we were never late with a single payment. When our lease was due and we turned in the vehicle into a salesperson at the dealership. We did a walk around the car and told us everything was fine.

    Apparently four days later, Ally sent an independent company out to do an inspection. One week later we received a bill in the mail for damages to the car. There was a scratch under the front bumper. Under the front bumper mind you! They charged us hundred and $176 for paint and metalwork. Really! On the underside of the front bumper! They also charged us $295 dollars for a dent in a rocker panel. A dent that we would have seen at the turn in.

    We have always taken good care of her leases. We have never been charged by any company ever! This is our 11th lease and we've never had a problem before. We called the company for an explanation of these charges. I spoke to young man name Greg who told me that nothing needed to be done until the car was sold. It was only suggested we pay this at this time. So we waited to hear some news. Without any updates we decided to call Ally ourselves.

    We spoke to new representative named Jane, is very nasty. All we wanted was an explanation of how we are being charged these things. All she told us is that we should have read our contract when we first signed it. We also know that the car had been moved between drop-off inspection. At this point I asked to speak to her manager and she told me her name was Carol. Of course she was not in so I left her a message. I actually think it is a made up voice mailbox to direct unhappy customers to when the representatives are tired of dealing with them.

    After hearing nothing from Carol, we made our third callback trying to get some sort of explanation. We talked to a lady named Sheila. She notified me that the car had already been sold 4 days after we turned it in and they had to reduce the sales price because of the damages to the car. I asked to see a copy of the bill of sale and she told me they are not obligated to share that information. What a racket! Everyone that I've talked to about this company says to me, Oh yeah, they did the same thing to me. I will never do business with this company again! The customer service is horrible. There's no explanation of charges. You will not get a call back. And if you do not pay the fee that they mysteriously come up with it will hurt your credit. If I could give them a negative rating I certainly would.

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2015

    Worst customer service. The woman on the phone was not helpful nor was pleasant with me. Auto enroll/payments is a hack. Made payment ahead of time this month and then they pull out money again regardless if you already made a payment for that month. Then charged me $30.00 fee because that money was not in the bank. I am not happy with this company and I just started my auto loan. Regretting going with this bank.

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2015

    I have a vehicle financed by Ally. I have only one year to pay off the loan. Two months ago, I contacted them to request -one payment deferral. The customer service rep transferred me to the appropriate person to set up the deferment and I was instructed what to pay. I went as far as calling the payment line to verify the amount before making the specific payments for the next month. The rep gave a case number and everything was set. I received a phone call today (3 months) later to inform me that the deferment was not set up completely and that I was 32 days delinquent in my payment. I was very upset and angry that I was getting a call because I have a 10 day grace period.

    After requesting to speak to a manager because the representative said that I didn't want to provide her with my insurance company and policy number that I was not cooperating and therefore the deferment could not be granted. This is simply unacceptable. I asked the manager what the information was going to use for and he just said that it was a part of the process. I did not feel comfortable giving out that information so I asked to just cancel the request for the deferment and I will pay and catch up the account. When you need help from Ally, don't ask, you have to give explanations and account information to get approval for a deferment. I just needed one month to get my finances back on track. Where is good customer service when you need it?

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    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2015

    Ally - now in the business of selling cars??? I have a buy-out figure in my lease contract. This figure is computed during the initial leasing of the vehicle. MSRP on the vehicle is $33,665. After all is said and done, including the buy-out, Ally will be receiving $38,235. Not bad profit on a vehicle with MSRP of $33,665. You would think Ally would be happy to be making this kind of money on a vehicle, but NO. My plan was to have a dealer purchase the vehicle and get me into a new vehicle (to avoid paying taxes if I was to purchase as dealers are tax-exempt for resale). I have done this with 5 previous leases (all through "other" banks) and have never had an issue. Ally decides that if a dealer wants to purchase the vehicle, they are going to come up with their own price for that dealer (instead of the cut and dry "contracted" amount). Of course their price is $3,000 more than my buy-out price.

    I'm at a loss at how they can do this. They are actually charging the dealer for the over-mileage costs plus additional fees. What is the difference if I buy the vehicle or a dealer buys the vehicle? And mileage should have no bearing whatsoever. I do agree if I return the vehicle that the over-mileage charges obviously apply as this does affect the residual value of the vehicle and will affect what ALLY can get for the vehicle, but if a dealer buys the vehicle, why does the over-mileage get added into their purchase amount??? The dealer will take the "loss" of residual, NOT ALLY!!!! Something does not seem right with this to me. I'm not a lawyer, but I feel this is borderline illegal and 100% immoral and definitely classifies under price gouging.

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    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2015

    Vehicle was a total loss. The insurance contacted to get "letter of guarantee," in order to pay. Ally's Total Loss department (separate contractor), delayed for additional 4-6 weeks, incurring additional income by extending interest.

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2015

    Beware of taking loans through this bank. Had an rv loan though ally. Sold it cause we were purchasing a new home. Anyone knows who purchased a home understands debt to income ratios and proving that loans have been satisfied is a major part of getting approved for a mortgage. So the camper had to go and I sold it. I called to see where the payoff was to be sent and was told by the representative it needed to be sent to Minneapolis, MN.

    After two weeks it still had not been processed. I called again to see if they had received the payoff and was told no. After talking with the representative I was then notified it should have been sent to Phoenix, AZ. So I contacted the purchaser of my RV and informed her of the mistake. Her bank cancelled the previous check and overnighted another certified check to the correct address on a Friday and was to be there Monday. I called on Tuesday night cause it had yet to be posted. Being told it would take 24 to 48 hours after it was received, and they did tell me they did receive the certified check on Monday, that it should be posted tomorrow on Wednesday.

    I called on Wednesday to ask if they could fax a letter to my bank saying the loan was satisfied. Their rep said, "ok sir the problem is there is a balance on the account. So until that is paid off we would not be able to do that." I explained my situation and she said "I do see they received the check and I could put in a complaint to see if we could get this expedited for you. It should have been posted by now but it should definitely be posted tomorrow." Ok then. I call again on Thursday and it still ain't posted. 24-48 hours was Monday.

    It is now Thursday. I finally asked for a manager or someone in charge. They would not transfer me. Then puts me on hold for 10 minutes and said that when they receive a payoff it is held for the 24-48 hours. Then sent to the loan payoff department which takes another day. Then a day to post and release the title. I want to get this taken care of today cause I would like to close on my home in a week. Now they are telling me possibly Monday. All I need is a paper saying the loan has been satisfied. My bank will not approve the mortgage until this is paid off. I may possibly lose the house I want to buy cause these people want to take their sweet time posting a check they have had for a week now.

    Thank you ally bank. This is the worst experience with a bank I have had in my life. I will never do another loan with these people. I don't care if I have to pay 10% more in interest. Customer service people were polite but completely useless. I have never seen a bank take care of business this way. Every month I sent a payment, It was posted 4 days after I sent it. That includes the time it takes to mail it. So why is it taking them over a week to post a check they already have? Unbelievable. I will tell everyone I know about this bank and avoid them like the plague.

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2015

    I wish they had an option for 0 stars. Worst bank ever. Reported to the credit bureau that I was late 9 times in a row. I called them to prove to them that I wasn't late, I had bank statements to prove money was sent to them every month. They refused to remove it from my credit and charged me over $200 in late fees. Customer service is horrible, no one speaks English. It's sad to see what GMAC has turned into. STAY AWAY!!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2015

    I had set up three payments to come out on certain days for January. The first one came out when it was supposed to, three days later was another for a different amount. I have all the emails on the payments I arranged, they claim I made a fourth payment arrangement three days later. I know this is false because I was in the ER and I don't have any confirmation email for this date. I contacted the fraud department from my bank and instructed them to ban Ally from withdrawing money. I will get a prepaid Visa and pay them that way so they can't pull money as they please. I'll also be speaking with the Dodge dealership I purchased the vehicle from and letting them know of this company’s ** ways.

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    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2015

    Making a car payment online through their website, their customer service is incompetent and pathetic. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!! I can't stress this enough!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2015

    I opened up a set of savings and checking accounts with Ally Bank about 2 years ago, after seeing multiple advertisements about their interest-bearing checking accounts and ATM reimbursement fees. I do have a set of checking and savings accounts at a local bank, but I liked the fact that I could avoid a trip to the bank using my Ally accounts. The thing I haven't liked since day one is the fact that they take 2-5 business days to add funds to your account after you deposit an electronic check or wire money into your account. It never caused an issue for me, it was just really annoying.

    This month, Ally took 6 business days to add a wire transfer into my account. The bank that sent the transfer confirmed it was processed on their end and received by Ally on the same day. This extra-late processing on Ally's end resulted in two overdraft items on my account. This is the only time I have ever over-drafted my Ally account. Again, this caused me to be extra annoyed, but I let it slide. Yesterday, I deposited a check electronically into my account and I received a message saying it's been placed on a hold for 5 business days. I called Ally today to see what was going on. The rep told me that all of my deposits for the next 6 months are now placed on a 5-business day hold due to excessive overdrafts.

    I told him that didn't make sense. In my 2 years with Ally, the only time I have had overdrafts was the 2 I received at the beginning of this month due to Ally not processing my monthly scheduled wire into that account on time. I told the rep that if someone did have excessive overdrafts, wouldn't processing deposits quicker make more sense. I told the rep that it seems like Ally is trying to make people overdraft and collect more overdraft fees from customers by utilizing this policy. I told him I do bank locally as well and the reason I like using Ally is because it saves me a trip to the bank sometimes, but their slow deposit processing and now this incident will cause me to just close my Ally accounts once they do process my latest deposit. He said he understood and placed me on hold to see if there was anything he could do for me.

    Well, there was nothing he could do for me. The rep was nice through our conversation, it's the bank itself that pries on their customers. At the end of the conversation he said he was sorry he couldn't do more to help me and if I wanted to, I could participate in the survey at the end of the call or I could simply hang up. I thanked him and waited to be directed to the survey. He waited for me to hang up. We sat on the phone in silence for about 30-45 seconds and then he simply disconnected our call. Figures. I'm cancelling my accounts with Ally as soon as I can get all of my money out my accounts. The $3-$6 I save on ATM reimbursements each month and the equally measly interest I'm paid on my accounts aren't worth the saved trip to my local bank here and there. Goodbye Ally. Future customers you've been warned!

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2015

    Unfortunately my wife got behind on her car loan payments. She struggled to get enough work and bounced back and forth a few times between 30, then 60 days late. She went 90 and we started looking for extra cash to get it back to 60 but they went ahead and sent her account to collections. They're right to do so in default situations..

    The problem is that their Florida based account manager told her an amount to wire that would immediately cease the repo order and get her back to making regular monthly payments. She sent the cash and that same night they took her car literally seconds after she parked it home from work. Ally supports this lying tactic and I recommend you get a decent local credit union for auto financing. Ally knows they lie, and ruin lives in doing so. How can they sleep at night.

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    Reviewed Jan. 7, 2015

    I financed my 2010 Cobalt through GMAC...they turned me over to Ally. If I had the money, I'd pay this off today and be done with them! Other people have said the customer service is bad...it's HORRIBLE. You can't understand a word they say. They have no respect for customers. I am 70 years old, and these clowns call me by my first name. They bug you so much when you're late with payments, it's unbelievable...even when you call them back, they keep calling you. Just lie to 'em. Screw 'em. Tell them you have a new number or that you're moving...but if you play by their rules, you're going to get harassed if you're late.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2015

    Made a agreement for payment in the month of November. I followed through on my end. They said it would not be on my credit report. Guess what? They got their money and reported me late on my credit report.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2015

    I am completely heartbroken and angry over our year-long battle with Ally Bank. When we got our vehicle in May 2012, our loan was originally with GMAC, and for the first half of that loan, everything seemed fine. I'm later notified through mail that GMAC had sold, turned over, whatever to ALLY. That's when the nightmare started! We immediately started getting phone calls from ALLY to pay our payment on time or they'll repossess our vehicle, even when the payment wasn't even due for 2 more days. I don't take to threats, cause I knew when my payment was due. We would get up to 10 phone calls a day, some harassing and sometimes they would hang up on us. I couldn't even answer my phone like a normal person because it was ALLY.

    The phone calls started to get more harassing over the coming months, and so insulting a representative told me why did I get a loan if I couldn't afford it, and suggested I sell my house to pay for my vehicle!!! Who does ALLY think they are?! Well in our many, many, MANY phone disputes with ALLY over a late payment, we settled to a payment arrangement. Mind you, ALLY had put the fear of God into us that should we ever be late, they will immediately repo our car. We gladly started paying money gram, cause ALLY mysteriously stopped letting us pay online. Long story short, my money gram is MIA. What?! How can a MoneyGram be missing? I have proof. Representative told me I never made it cause it would show in their system, and I was a "liar" so said the representative and I was advised I better make another payment or my vehicle will be repoed. Why do they keep saying repoed?

    OH I KNOW WHY NOW! Well, I caved because ALLY wasn't budging and still insisted they didn't get my payment, and waiting for 90 days to investigate where the heck that money gram went to was going to take too long. I went to Wal-Mart again and took money I couldn't afford to spend at the time, and made yet another payment on November 26, 2014. Furious and mad, I hoped and prayed that 1st money gram would show up, never did, so they say. I called back to confirm they got the second money gram, and after speaking to 3 reps one being a supervisor they finally confirmed they had received it.... but not ending the phone conversation without them telling me I broke the payment arrangement (did not), owe a fee, and am behind.

    In the midst of all this mess, my due date mysteriously changed from the 1st of the month to the 10th, I have no idea because I would ask and they would never give me the same answer. What kind of company is this?! I found out... my husband called them with a payment and they refused to take it over the phone. He told them he can’t make a payment cause he’s in California on detachment cause he works for the military and isn't even near a store to do so. That representative immediately snarked at him and said "You shouldn't get a loan with us then".... Not sure he heard her correctly he asked her "What?" She said, "I don't care where you're at, your country don't need you, you need to make the payment." *click* When my husband called me I don't think he was even able to think straight, he was so upset.

    Fast forward to December 24th, still no sign of the 1st money gram, so they say, and I’m out that $560. We call them to try to pay over the phone, they wouldn't do it. We tell them, “Well our bank is closed and we can’t pull the money out till they come back the day after Christmas.” The representative’s exact words "It will be okay, you have till Monday." Great! Okay. No we didn't. Monday morning, at 5 am, my car was repoed by a rude, hostile man that threatened to yank my car out of my driveway. When I tried to get my things, he pushed the car door on my legs. 6 days now, and Lord knows how many calls I’ve made, my car is still nowhere to be found. Help please, this has caused us so much stress! It’s not fair.

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2014

    Ally Bank insisted on holding their lien on my car title for eighteen (18) days after having cashed my paid account in full check electronically. The way I see it, once they have the funds in their account and my account is paid in full there should be no cause for them to hold the lien on my title. They also have the poorest customer relations system I have dealt with as far back as I can remember. It would help if their customer service people were not made up of English as a Second language population, or not speaking Ebonics. But then crumby company, crumby business practices, crumby help kind of all goes together. Needless to say I will never deal with Ally again and I will share my experience with them to other potential customers every chance I get. What an outfit!!!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2014

    My 2013 Chevy Cruze was financed through Ally Financial. I have always been on time with payments for almost two years. I had a financial set back and was 2 1/2 months late with payments. I called ALLY in late October for a lease extension agreement which they granted and said the paperwork would be mailed within 7-10 days but I had to make a payment of $234.94 which would be for October and November to catch me up, which I did pay online. However, the lease extension agreement never came until almost 4 weeks after I made this payment. I called Ally, several times, to be shifted back and forth from one department to another. I explained my concern as I hadn't received the agreement but I did make the payment. Once I received the agreement I called and it had expired!

    They blamed the US mail, I blamed Ally for poor process of this. I then explained my financial situation and had made an agreement to pay another payment on December 13, 2014... my car was repossessed on December 12, 2014. I did not receive one letter from them indicating this was taking place. I did not receive one phone call indicating this was taking place. I was ready to make the payment and this was taken for repossession one day prior! You would of thought Ally would have discussed this with me in my numerous calls to them. What gets me is to this day, I still have not received one letter or phone call from Ally stating the vehicle was repossessed by them. The towing company is the only party in this matter that gave me a document and that was just saying nothing was left back in the car. How can Ally get away with such wrongful repossession practices? A letter of cure? Nothing!

    I called the police and they said if the car was at the tow yard then they couldn't claim it as stolen. As far as I'm concerned this was stolen! The tow company entered my garage, with the door down, and towed this in the middle of the night? Is this another case of breaking and entering? I am out of a vehicle now, which I can again someday buy another but the thing that bothers me the most is that Ally is getting away with such practices of repossession. I was not notified once nor did I receive one piece of mail prior to this repossession. If someone reads this, please contact me for a class action lawsuit, as I am sure I am not the only one that this has happened to.

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2014

    Receive over 5 phones calls a day from Ally over a loan I'm just the co-signer on. They call my employer + home, have tried to explain that I'm only a co-signer and don't know why my son is late, he lives 1500 miles away from me, only to find out they never contact him. I found my son was late on his payment. They put a 30 days late notice on my credit - dropping my credit score by 3 points. So to try this from not happening again, I caught my son's note up to date, only to start receiving phone calls again every time the loan is just 1 day past due. I guess they figured they got me to pay once, they will keep bugging me, only to talk to me like dirt, every time I try to explain to them to stop calling me.

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    Reviewed Dec. 25, 2014

    In case none of you are aware of this. Ally Financial was investigated and found guilty of discrimination against minorities and forced to pay 98 million dollars. They are still discriminating against consumers but now it's against US military servicemen and women including vets. Ally is charging vets higher interest rates than others while denying credit to active duty military. Many who do get financed through Ally find higher interest rates and that they can't get anything done through customer service. I have read where Ally reports false info to credit bureaus just to hurt those who served. Although the reasons are not known, it is clear when you attempt to speak to Ally customer service. I have not known anyone who can get someone in customer service who does not speak third world broken English. Seems as though Ally customer service must be located in the heart of Iraq. If any other vets have questions about Ally and discrimination, I urge you to file complaints with the CFPB and the DOJ. This discrimination has to stop and Ally needs to pay our vets back for their discrimination.

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    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2014

    I was moving out of the country so had to do lease transfer of my car. Initially it's really hard to find a buyer and finally I found one and called Ally if they can email the TOLO (transfer of lease obligation) form and said they can either mail it to the address which takes 5 business days and fax it which takes 24 to 48hrs. By the time I received the form after a week the buyer was not interested in leasing my car and Ally does not do any pre-approval process. Once the form is sent to Ally through mail it's another 3-5 business days. If pre-approval process in place and Ally can send/accept forms and requests through email my lease transfer transaction might have been done 3 weeks to a month ahead.

    The buyer who wanted to lease my car was on my friends so I have asked Ally if I can be the co-applicant if my friend doesn't have enough credit score (by this time I really wanted to get rid of my car since I have already made my travel arrangements). Ally said you can add the new buyer as a co-leasee so I don't have to do the lease transfer so I thought this must be easy. Guess what again 3-5 business days to receive and email it back to Ally and around $1200 charge which was ridiculous. $595 to remove old co-leasee and $595 to add new co-leasee, it's a total rip off.

    When I leased the car with Ally they hardly took one hour to process my requests and get the approvals and payments done but when I want to get out of the lease it doesn't happen in less than 3-4 weeks. If you want to buy out the car before the lease term they charge you 2k to 3k more than what you have to pay. Customer service was good answering all the questions but all they do is to follow the process which Ally asks them to do so can't really blame customer service reps. DO NOT choose Ally when you try to lease a car and do check these minor things with other banks when they approve your car financing.

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    Reviewed Dec. 19, 2014

    Leased a $50k vehicle from GMC which is through Ally financial. Requested my payment date at the dealer which was not the same day of the month as I was leasing. Dealer said all I need to do is call Ally once an account has been established. So I did on the first day, I received my account information. They wanted to charge me a fee to change my date and not just the interest but an actual fee. I elected to take a survey at the end of the call which the agent knew I was not happy with my experience so while she was "transferring" me to the survey I was disconnected. Typically I would have just let it go but this was my first experience with Ally and I'm paying them a lot of money so I called back in and explained to the new agent what happened and that I just wanted to give some feedback on the survey. She agreed to "transfer" me again and same thing. This company is a joke and the reason I will never own another GM vehicle again. What a worthless company with horrible customer service. My advice: STAY AWAY and if you want to buy American go with Ford.

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    Reviewed Dec. 18, 2014

    Opened up 5 Ally Bank checking accounts. Got my debit cards. I tried to open up 5 more checking accounts. They restricted my account. Asked me for verification documents. I sent them my details. The representative called me back after speaking to her telling me they decided to close down all my accounts and will mail me a check for my balance. When I first opened up my account I asked their representative specifically how many accounts I can open. They said I can open up as many as I want. The representative was also asking me what are my purchases. I told her it's my private details. Basically wanting to know what I'm doing with these companies I'm making purchases from. I told her that's my personal business. I don't ask her if she buy panties/underwear. Basically they were low and trying to find out what I'm doing and how I'm making money or spending it like some industry thieves. And they closed my account.

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    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2014

    Paying online for a car payment with this company is the most frustrating experience ever. I can pay ALL my bills online with no issues ever. This company's website is down more than it is up. If you call for assistance, the poor employees try to assist you, but it never fails that they will end up telling you the system is down and I will need to try again later. This goes on for days and days and days. I will always ask them if the site is still down later, will they take my payment over the phone. The answer used to be "yes", with a $15 service charge. Now the answer is "no, we don't take payments on the phone."

    Mailing a check to them is also a joke too, they have "lost" my payment many times, calling me to have me cancel the check and paying them with another check over the phone. Really, I thought they don't take payments over the phone. They also never note anything on your account after you speak to customer service. How can they assist any customers this way? I will never finance through this company again. I don't even know how they stay in business. And I am just stuck with them for now. It is so stressful.

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2014

    Our vehicle was totaled and Ally has thus far failed to send the necessary documents to the insurance companies in order to get the vehicle paid off...YET they continue to charge us and ruin our credit rating worse yet they apparently want US to fix it? I would love to, just how do we get the documents YOU have and get them to the people who need them?

    This has been going on for 5 months. I have no earthly idea what the additional charges Ally has added to the payoff of this vehicle. Isn't it amazing that both companies are saying that Ally will not send/fax the needed documents and Ally tells me it's not their fault. I don't want anything more than Ally to get the money and for me to be FINISHED WITH THIS MESS.

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    Reviewed Dec. 3, 2014

    I have a vehicle financed through Ally which is registered in North Dakota as I am an Active Duty Military member and that is my home of record. I recently received a bill for property taxes which were assessed in Missouri. I have spoke with four different customer service reps, one a supervisor, and one a "tax professional" all have informed me it is a valid charge and two states can tax me for the same property over the same time period. When I try to question this they all have given me the automated response of “Well because you are currently Stationed in Missouri even though the vehicle is registered in North Dakota and taxed in North Dakota you are required to pay county tax for a county in Missouri on the same vehicle.” I have researched as many laws as I can find and have yet to find any law which requires a person to pay taxes for two jurisdictions on the same property over the same time period.

    I have reached out to the County Tax Commissioner in Missouri with no luck in finding any such law. The illusive tax guidance Ally claims to have received cannot be reproduced and I seem to be the only one finding this situation wrong. I have spent hours on the phone trying to explain the inability of two taxing jurisdictions claiming the same property for the same time period as taxable income but all I have received in return is "I am sorry sir, the bill you received is valid" without proper validation of the laws.

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    Reviewed Nov. 29, 2014

    We bought a new $40000 car and the dealer had the car financed through Ally. Five months later a drunk hit our car and totaled it. The drunk's insurance paid for most of the amount owing against the car. My GAP insurance paid the rest. Ally was notified and knew they would be paid. The entire amount for the car was paid but it took three months for the insurance companies to work it out. Ally was paid in full. When I went to buy a home I found Ally had reported to the credit Bureaus we were 90 days late. I have disputed and Ally continues to lie. We are suing Ally for damages. Stay away from Ally.

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    Reviewed Nov. 25, 2014

    We had our car financed through Ally, and from day one it was awful. The payment information was sent to a physical address in which mail was sent back to them. We had to call them and advise them that we had not received anything about where to send payments to. After talking to someone in customer services we were able to get late fees dropped due to their error. Six months down the line, they come and repossessed the car claiming I hadn't made the first payment nor two others. I stated to the woman when the car was purchased from the dealer, he delayed first payment for two months. She checked the system and verified what I was saying. She then stated that I owed them $35.41 in late fees. Ally repossessed my car for $35.41 of which she was unaware until I told her the fee she previously stated was incorrect. This company is a joke, they took my car and want me to pay almost four additional payments.

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    Reviewed Nov. 25, 2014

    Customer service is the worst I have ever had. Unfortunately it is not the fault of the employee but the practices of the employer. I co-signed for my son for a vehicle. He asked if he could skip payment so I called for details. First rep told me my credit was so good I could skip 3 payments. So I called back to get 2nd rep and she agreed to process my request for one payment. She asked me to make a partial payment so I did same day on the Ally website account manager which was two days before due date of 11/08/2014. I received an email thanking me for my payment on 11/07/2014. She said she would be sending me some paperwork that I need to fax back. I received the paperwork 11/22/2014 and just sent fax today 11/24/2014. When I arrived from work today I received a letter from Ally saying they were going to refer me to the credit agency for a late payment and would be adding late charges to my account.

    I called customer service and the first thing they said was "when will you be making your payment." OMG do they not look at notes. I asked for a manger they transferred me to Julie. I explained in detail what you just read. She said I was charged late fee since I did not return form. Really did you not hear that I just received form. She agreed to adjust late fee that they should have never charged me to begin with. No other bank that I have done business with has requested all this just for skipping one month. She said I would have to call back 24/48 hours to see if form was received since they don't do callbacks. After she was done I asked to be transferred to the survey. She said okay placed me on hold for 5 minutes and hung up on me. I will never do business with this company ever again. Worst experience ever just to skip one payment.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed Nov. 24, 2014

    By law a creditor may not call you before 8:00a.m. I have been receiving dunning calls as early a 7:40a.m. I became behind on my auto lease after the deaths of my daughter and husband. Even though I explained my hardship, I was told they were going to put a lien on my home (Totally illegal). I have made an agreement to pay by such and such a date but still am being harassed. STOP THE INSANITY!!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2014

    Ally has the worst customer service policy. Ally is totally unfair to customers. It doesn't matter what is going on with the customer. Ally refuses to budge or accommodate anyone. Whatever rules or policies they set up, they refuse to budge. They are totally unyielding and extremely unfair. The only way is their way and they do not care about the customers at all. I find Ally extremely offensive and I wish I never had to deal with them at all. Not asking them to bend their rules but accommodate me somewhat.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2014

    Ally told me it would close my account if I did not provide a physical street address. I value my privacy, and I have a post office box which receives all my mail. This is a common practice in the United States and has been so for a very long time. Anyway, I told Ally to go ahead and close the account. There was no attempt to transfer me to an account recovery specialist, no understanding of privacy; it was goodbye to the customer, full stop. This is a despicable bank. That must be the reason why so much official effort is being made online and elsewhere to portray Ally as "number one," as if this bank is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It isn't.

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    Reviewed Nov. 19, 2014

    I move from other country, buy my second car and finance with Ally finances. They have the worst customer services of finance I have go through. The payment process is bad. If you want to pay over the phone, they send you to automatic process. This automatic process is bad something and you ending pay $8 extra for customer support. When the automatic process don't work, wish in not customer people fall.

    On 08/11/2014, I buy a 2011 Audi A4 (21,889 miles) from Central Autohaus in 640 S. Central EXPWY Richardson, TX 75080, finance through Ally. Less of one month, find out (through Audi Dallas & Audi Plano), that this car was in a big accident - have replacement parts, bad mechanical job by trying to fix and other. I went back to dealership, they trying fix 2 times and still in bad conditions. The car is in such of bad conditions that today, 11/19/2014 I am driving a rent car, because my job is 2 hours from home and the car is unsafe to drive.

    I prepare a report, with all the evidences of this car, so I can get a 2 loan to buy a safe car, into a deal with this issue and Ally finances. They don't even want to leasing or see this report. They deny a 2 loan, because my credit is not that good, but prove that I can afford two payment for short moment until I deal with that issue. What type of customer services Ally finance have, that I payment them monthly for my car and they cannot even listen to my case and see any option to support me. I cannot wait to get approve it for a second cars, so I don't have to deal with Ally finance. I don't like to do this, but at the same time, I would like to see good & responsible people going through similar situation, if they have the option to go to other finance.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Nov. 14, 2014

    My wife and I had two checking accounts and a savings account with Ally. I liked them for their low fees, and customer service was pretty good as was their online banking. Out of the blue, my accounts were all closed without notice. I contacted Ally, and they told me that the mailing address on my wife's profile was invalid. I was pretty sure this was untrue, because about a month earlier we got an urgent call from Ally asking her to update her address.

    We have a home in Atlanta and New York City, and both are legitimate physical addresses. Because we are often in one place or the other, we use a mail scanning service in Michigan to which all of our mail is sent. They had the physical address for my wife listed as the Michigan address, and our Atlanta residential address listed as our mailing address.

    That was just too suspicious for them, so they just cancelled our accounts without even contacting us about it, and mailed a check for our account balances to Atlanta, even though we are in New York now. I immediately opened a Chase checking account and loaned some money to myself from our company's checking account to cover bills that are due in the coming weeks. In the mean time, I will have to track down that check sent to Atlanta, and change 15 or so autodrafts with credit card, life insurance and mortgage companies. Needless to say, this is all a major hassle and my time is too valuable to waste cleaning up Ally's mess.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Nov. 12, 2014

    I have a car loan with Ally Bank. They are the worst auto finance company I have ever dealt with. They took an extra payment out of my bank account and when I called to get it credited, I did as they asked and faxed all bank paperwork to show the duplicate payment. The payment was never returned and every time I called, no one had any record of what I was calling about. I kept having to start over. No one ever calls you back. I finally had to file a fraudulent claim with my bank. I received the money back form my bank in a week. This was after fighting to get it back from Allly for over a month!!! Then I got a payment extension in September. I signed the paper and faxed it back. They said I would not have a payment due until November. I had a fax confirmation showing it went through and the girls name I sent it to.

    I then started to receive calls in November. They did not leaves messages. I looked up the number and saw it was Ally. I called back, they said they were about to approve a repossession of my car. They said they never received y extension paperwork and didn't care if I had proof it was faxed. I had to jump through hoops to save the car, even though I did what they asked of me in the first place. They never call you back when they say they will to resolve problems like this and they are extremely rude. They just threaten to take the car if you don't do as they want. A class action lawsuit needs to be filed against this company!!! They are ruining consumers credit and strong arming people to get extra money from them. They honor payment arrangements and then threaten to repossess your car. This bank should be out of business. Someone needs to help us consumers who were unfortunate to have entered into loans with this bank!!!

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed Nov. 12, 2014

    I went to buy a vehicle today and found that Ally would not qualify me for the incentive rate of 2.9%. I already have one vehicle financed with Ally at 0% (from a 2012 incentive) and was trading in a vehicle financed with another company. I also have great credit - no debt beyond my mortgage and a car - and a decent salary. GM should be careful about offering incentives and then allowing Ally to make that decision for them. My loyalty to GM is diminished significantly based on their relationship to Ally which leaves them unable to actually provide their advertised incentives. I will specifically seek out non-Ally using auto manufacturers for all future purchases. I would post this to the GM category, too. Ally is negatively affecting GM.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Nov. 12, 2014

    I bought my car in March of 2014 with a five year loan. I paid the loan off in six months. The day I paid the loan off a negative report was made on my credit, another report was made 4 days later. I called and was told my complaint was sent to the proper department and I was given a case number. I was also told they would be calling me in 48 hours. Five days later I called Ally Bank and was told it would take 6 to 8 weeks to get the report resolved. I have now been turned down for a loan on the house I was in the process of buying before I paid the loan off!!

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    Online & AppReliability

    Reviewed Nov. 5, 2014

    Log in to pay is spotty as far as site reliability is concerned. Will they come for my car because their website doesn't work? How could the auto dealer put my loan through these people? Are they legitimate? I need to refinance this loan ASAP! Warnings to all..... I am very afraid because I am unable to pay because their website is always down...

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2014

    I have received over 5 phone calls every single day from Ally. They are the most rude and arrogant pieces of sick on the face of the earth. First off you cannot understand them because they barely expect English. After I answer the call they ask for my account number which I don't have handy. They then ask for my FULL social security number over the phone which I refuse to provide because of all the things that can happen nowadays. So I politely ask to provide only the last four digits, so they then proceed to hang up on me. When you make a payment arrangement with them they lie about their cutoff times and barely you either way. How has the attorney General or BBB not brought a lawsuit against these filthy animals for harassing consumers.

    Our government bails TM out and this is the thanks they provide to hard working tax paying citizens. No wonder our country is going down the tubes. I want to start a class action lawsuit and bring these people to the front and hold them responsible for their negligence and unethical business practices, and the only way to do it is with support and some help. So if anyone is with me please jump on board and let’s end this!!!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2014

    I am a small business owner and financed a new car through Ally. I began having financial difficulties and became late with my payments. Every time I called before the payment was due, or on the due date, to make arrangements. I met the promise to pay date every time. Once I called and Ally offered to lower my payments, which I agreed. The new paperwork was sent to me and it required a small payment. I was told the paperwork and payment had to be sent via FedEx and they had to receive it by a certain date. They also stated I should call them with a tracking number once sent, which I did. Everything was sent for next day delivery by 10 AM.

    I tracked the package and followed up late morning that day to make sure it was received. It was. Ally received everything they requested within the guidelines they provided. When I called they said the car was put up for repossession the previous day, which was before the timeline they provided. I had to fight tooth-and-nail to save my car. Ally admitted they called for repossession too soon and told me I could keep the car. Since, which has been over a year, I have paid on time. Recently, I applied for a business loan. I was denied because of my credit report. When I pulled my report it shows Ally reported my loan as "CHARGED-OFF."

    Yesterday, I had a conference call with TransUnion and Ally to get this resolved and my credit report cleaned up. The first words out of the Ally rep's mouth was "You have not made a payment for over a year" which was a lie. After pressing him very hard the rep acknowledged I had been making ALL payments on time. Unfortunately, the rep (obviously) has no power to correct my credit report. The other Ally employees who were involved, who do have the power, have yet to return my calls.

    From a credit perspective I have no problem taking it on the chin for when I was late. That was my fault. However, when a prospective lender sees the erroneous reporting of the vehicle being "CHARGED-OFF" the consumer is screwed for 7 years. In addition to that, a small business owner does not have 20-30 hours to get this corrected, but I have to. So, besides being denied credit, which costs money, I lose 3 days of work - on the phone all day, every day - which causes me to lose even more money. Under no circumstances will I ever do business with Ally again. I suspect they don't care since I have a "CHARGE-OFF. " (sigh) Ally, fix my credit report. You are responsible since you reported a "CHARGE-OFF" erroneously. Upon seeing the other comments here, shouldn't there be a class-action law suit to make things right with everyone Ally has bent over?

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    Customer ServiceCoverage

    Reviewed Oct. 27, 2014

    Refinanced my house to pay off high interest loans including 2 cars. Sent Ally 2 checks issued by bank and 1 check on personal account. This covered the full amount as stated by Ally. The payment checks were sent to the processing center in Louisville KY. Ally says they do not have a record of the payments being processed. Try and get a phone number for the processing center - IMPOSSIBLE. I feel like driving there and banging on the door. I called Ally twice today to have them track down the checks and yet I got another call saying "Where is our money? You are overdue." I would honestly rather deal with the mafia than with Ally. At least with the Mafia when you pay off the loan you get a thank you and it is done with.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 25, 2014

    I have a car loan through Ally that I've made payments in timely manner and double payments. When I tried to make a phone payment the past month (usually the manner I do it), I was told that payment would go through Western Union and an $8 charge applied. When I told customer rep that I never had previously paid a charge, she argued that wasn't true. She suggested online payment. I was not able to access or pay online. When another conversation took place without resolve, I said I'd mail a payment. Account was maybe 7-10 days past due now. I was receiving ongoing phone calls, bordering on harassment. I obtained funds and got cashier's check for more than adequate payoff amount. I alerted a customer rep to make note of it. I continued receiving NUMEROUS phone calls. When I tried to get a name from a customer rep to make sure it was documented, she refused. I spoke with a couple of very rude and incorrigible reps. I finally spoke to a supervisor and he said there was no note. I gave him all information again. I would never deal with Ally again!!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2014

    I had asked for an extension this past September. I only needed two extra days but the associate said I would have to do a thirty day extension in which I agreed to. The extension would be granted if I'd pay $92.97 by Oct 7th and $216.72 by Oct 22nd. I met those terms. Today, Oct 23rd as I sit in a seminar I receive a call from Ally, so on my break I call them back and the associate informs me I am two months late and my lateness has been reported to the credit bureaus. I hastily explained to the woman that this can't be right, explained the extension etc. She then proceeds to tell me that on Oct 21st my extension was rejected for reasons that were not specified on her computer screen. She said then my representative should have contacted me and told me. I then told her that I have a letter dated Oct 1st stating Ally was pleased to accept my extension as long as the payment terms were met, which as of today they were. I asked her to transfer me to my representative because this associate really seemed to know little and she did.

    So I explained the whole thing over to my representative and she said it appeared that when my extension application was being typed, the person accidentally selected "no" when it asked if I planned to pay on time. She corrected it and resubmitted my extension but had me pay another $92.97. She then told me to call back tomorrow to check on the extension and that if it was approved I could ask them to report the correct info to the credit bureaus. I told that was a mist for me as I am In the process of purchasing a home. I am livid by this considering I paid them on time for the amounts specified for the extension. I can't believe they would wait so Long to tell me if the extension was rejected and I don't understand why I have documentation stating the extension was good as long as the payments were made. Now I have to follow up yet again tomorrow and potentially have to dispute the credit bureaus and pray that my lender does not ask me to write a letter explaining all this. I feel what they did is against the law in so many ways and that they could be potentially ruining my credit and smooth home buying process!

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed Oct. 22, 2014

    I have been a customer of Ally for almost two years now. I got my car approved through them and everything was going good. Made my payments on time, until I lost my job. I let them know that I would be able to make little payments at a time and they said that was fine. Everything was okay, until today when I got a call from my Uncle saying Ally was here to repo my car. I immediately called Ally and told them that I just spoke with a manager about a couple weeks ago and that we came to an agreement on what I can do. They told me that they had no record of it whatsoever and I never talked to them.

    Also, my pay off is at the same amount of when I bought my car. Which is ridiculous. I have never hated a company as much as I do Ally. This isn't the first time Ally and I have made an agreement and something happened. It's like they never have anything recorded. They are liars and thieves. They just take all your money. I don't know what to do about my car. I have no other option except for them to auction it off. Never, ever use Ally. Most horrible company!

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    Staff

    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2014

    I wish I had never done business with this Ally financial. They are not going to help you out any way.

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    Price

    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2014

    I have an issue with a lease-end charge....I am filing a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau....this is the same government agency that fined Ally earlier this year for charging higher interest rates to minority purchasers....

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 18, 2014

    I got a call the other day looking for a person with the same name that was dead. I was like, "What? I am still alive." Well they said they had the wrong person and I said ok and they hung up. In Saturday's mail I get this letter to the estate of me in care of my address. What is wrong with these people? They are just stupid and should be removed from doing business. My husband passed away last Feb. 2013 so I did a voluntary repo on his car. I did not need 5 cars. I paid all but 136.64 which is suppose to be paid the first of next month. Now I am not going to pay them. I can not believe they are this stupid. I would NEVER EVER do business with these people ever again and anyone that does I am sure you will regret it sooner or later. They call and harass every month even if you are not late. They are just unprofessional, unethical and belligerent. Nothing has been resolved as of this minute but believe me Monday morning they will wish I never called....

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Oct. 16, 2014

    My husband and I purchased a vehicle in Arizona which we financed through Ally Auto. A year ago we moved to New York. I updated my mailing and billing address with Ally as well as had them fax a copy of the title to the NY DMV so that I could register the vehicle in NY.

    A couple of weeks ago I called to make sure that my mailing address was correct since I intended to payoff the loan. I actually called twice to confirm since you cannot see your personal information online. I was told that my NY mailing address was correct. I waited 2 weeks after making my final payment to confirm that the title had been mailed. I was then informed that the title was released to the Arizona DMV.

    I was livid. I was told that I was the co-owner of the vehicle but my husband was the primary owner and since he did not call in to change his address, our original address in Arizona was not changed. The mailing address, billing address and registration address had all been changed to New York. At no point was I told that both my husband and I had to call in a change of address, especially when I called to confirm my mailing address "since I was getting ready to payoff my loan".

    Ally Auto refuses to issue a new title to the correct DMV. AZ DMV will only release the title if I show up in person to sign for it - I no longer live in AZ (neither do I have family in AZ) so Ally has created a huge problem. I JUST WANT MY TITLE!

    To add insult to the whole ordeal, I have called twice now to try to get my title released to NY and have had two different excuses from Ally as to why they sent it to AZ. First time it was because my husband did not call to change his address and the second time I was told that because I purchased the vehicle in AZ, it was sent to the same city that it was purchased. They couldn't even get their story straight. I have no idea how I am going to get my title - I have a $30,000 vehicle paid off but I have no title!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 12, 2014

    When I initially got financed with them for my car loan, the first thing I wanted to do was set up automatic deductions, as making my payments on time is very important to me. They told me that I did not have this option. This struck me as odd in itself. Fast forward 9 months later, the problems began. I made a payment and I believed that month was paid. But they informed me that they couldn't get the money and it was returned back to my account. I got behind on my payments and when I called to make a payment they told me that I was on the repossession list. I received no notification of any kind, however I knew I was behind and I made the payment. I had to pay a third party through money gram which was strange but I just wanted to get caught up. From that time on, I made consistent payments. Fast forward 3 months I simply called to make a payment and they informed me that they had not received a payment in 82 days. I just paid the last month and the total balance on my account a few a months ago, so I knew this was impossible! They proceeded to tell me that I was on the repossession list again! And they gave me an impossible amount that I owed!

    When I asked the customer service representative to read my payment history, because I knew I had made all my payments, they said their system was down temporarily, then when I called back they just hung up on me every time. They locked me out of my account so I couldn't double check myself and they were just demanding payment without giving any information. They wanted me to money gram thousands of dollars again! I cant get any information about my account, no one can explained why I owe thousands and I keep getting someone from the Philippines that are unable to answer any of my questions and explain why they are showing they haven't received a payment from me in almost 3 months! Who am I paying then? Where is thousands of dollars of my money going? I am going to try and get my loan transferred over but I feel helpless! They are coming to get my car and I don't know what to do! I haven't done anything wrong.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2014

    Before I go into my dialogue here about the worst bank I have ever dealt with in my life is Ally Bank, these people should be prosecuted and shut down once and for all. I purchased a used car in December 2013. I have been making my monthly payments on time every month and I have the proof as my bank statements indicate it, as I am in the process of repairing my credit due to a vile divorce. I received no phone calls, U.S. mail or any emails whatsoever. I was getting ready to go to work and it was about 7:30am and I came out the door and there was this ** at the end of my drive way with a tow truck. I asked him, "Who are you...? Identify yourself immediately or I will call the police right now". He said my car "was out for repo and we have to take it due to non-payment." I informed him that was not true and I said "wait here and I will be right back." I came back out and showed my last 3 months of bank statements showing the debits to Ally Bank Auto. He replied to me, "Sir, I can see you paid, however according to Ally Bank you are behind 3 payments and I have to take you car."

    I decided to do one of 2 things, either go back inside and get my Remington model 870 pump shotgun and scare him away out of the area or let him take the car. I surrendered the keys to him and he took the car. I went back inside and got on the phone with this Ally Bank. I was transferred to somewhere in the South Pacific somewhere and explained the situation to them. They informed me my car loan payments were 4 payments behind. In return I informed them "that is impossible as I have the proof here in my hand and give me your fax number and I will fax them to you immediately." I was informed, "Sorry, Sir we do not have a fax machine". I asked "what do I have to do and what do I have to pay here to get my car back...?"

    I was put on hold for about 10 minutes. Finally someone came on from another department and told me I owed over $14,000. I said, "What...!". The person informed me I have to pay the full balance of the loan in order to get my car back. I replied, "I made my payments to you and I want my car back..." I was told "that is all we can do for you Sir and have a good day." Never ever in my life have I ever dealt with such an unprofessional and unethical financial institution if you want to call it that. I proceeded to contact my private attorney over the matter and he has filed a major lawsuit against them due to this episode and it will take time. However I had to purchase another vehicle in the meantime to get to my business and other daily items.

    Folks, I mean this profoundly, sincerely and can't emphasize this enough. DO NOT GET INVOLVED OR DO ANY BUSINESS WITH ALLY BANK OR ALLY BANK AUTO FINANCING AS IF YOU DO, YOU WILL GET SCREWED FOR SURE. IF NOT NOW, THEN LATER. I appreciate you taking out your time to read and review my story and experience here with ALLY BANK.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 8, 2014

    MAC was bought out by Ally. I purchased my vehicle through a dealership in 2008. My payoff was for May 2014. I called and asked for the payoff amount and I wrote the check. This was November 2011. I called a week later to confirm payment and still nothing. This went on for 3 months until Feb. I got a call saying I was 3 months behind and they were going to repo my vehicle. AFTER providing the copy of the check and verifying it was cashed and applied in December, they tried to apply some of it to the back owed and said I had a different payoff amount.

    We went back and forth for weeks and after sending a check for over 12k, they said I was short $30.09. I was furious and asked why that amount wasn't included. They couldn't provide why so I didn't pay and went on with life. Fast forward to present and I am wanting to sell my vehicle but there is still a lien for the $30.09. I paid that Sept 1 and was told I would have my title in 20-30 days.

    I spoke with a supervisor named Terrence on October 1 since I still have not received my title and he said I still have 10 days before they can search for my "lost" title. Mind you on the first he said I should have received it by now and he would see if they could overnight it. I called him Oct 2 and he stated I was lying and he told me Oct 10. If I do not have my title by then I am contacting an attorney to retrieve those tapes and suing them. I will join any class action lawsuit in a heartbeat! Ally needs to be held accountable for falsifying information and mishandling documents.

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    Contract & TermsPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Sept. 30, 2014

    I purchased my car with National Auto finance back in 2008 which at some point was taking over by Ally and I have had nothing but problems with this company. My loan is officially paid off but according to them because I was late making payments I still owe money from some type of daily finance charge for every day over 30 that my payment was late. When I asked the customer service rep where this was written on my contract she told me it doesn't need to be. This was the first time hearing about this and I never signed any papers agreeing to these terms so I asked to speak with her supervisor and she connected me to some man who reiterated what she said and also told me that the monies that I have already paid can be put where they feel like putting them thus making looking like my car is not paid off.

    From the looks of complaints on here and other site they are doing to a lot of people. They need to be stopped cause this company is unethical. I have contacted the BBB and Consumer Protection on them and now I get a letter stating they are going to repoed my car if I don't pay the remaining money they say I owe. So fed up with this company and their games. WE NEED TO START A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 28, 2014

    I was at work. My daughter came home, took a shower. While she was in the shower my youngest daughter answer the door. They gave her a piece of paper and told her to sign it and they were taking them car. She didn't know what it was. They towed it away with all my other daughter's things in it. They would not tell her were it was. She called me at work screaming, "Mom they took my car." I had no idea, no letter and then say I missed a payment in Aug and I'm 80 days late also late charges. I would of paid but of course it was then weekend 600 pm and I had to rent a car for my daughter and it cost me 200 dollars and we don't know where the car is or her things. I guess I need a lawyer.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedProcess

    Reviewed Sept. 27, 2014

    In 2010 we bought our new Dodge pickup, we make our payments on time either we mail it in a week before it is due or pay it over the phone with Western Union. On both types of payments, we have had problems. When we mail them in, they get them on time but are not processed until the due date, and the same thing with Western Union. They do not process them until after it is late. Then I start receiving phone calls from them usually 2-3 times a day. They do not leave a message.

    When I do speak to them, they say that I owe late charges because it was not processed after the due date. I told them they are not getting a late payment because it is their fault not mine. They stop calling after that for a few months then they start up again calling from another number like GMAC or Nuevella auto loans. How many shell companies do these idiots have? I am so sick of them. I can not wait to be done with them but reading the complaints against them, I may never be able to pay off the loan. What can I do?

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 26, 2014

    My loan is close to being paid off. I was told by two customer service agents and one supervisor that they could NOT STOP taking the payments out of my account even when the loan was PAID. They said that only the car dealership where I purchased the car could stop the payments. Unfortunately, my car dealership CLOSED several years ago.

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    Reviewed Sept. 26, 2014

    I purchased a vehicle and Ally was the finance company. I decided to trade the vehicle in and I cancelled a warranty. Ally received a check 2 weeks after the vehicle was paid off and instead of stating they had no interest in the vehicle, they cashed the check and now refuse to refund what is owed to me until approximately 2-3 weeks later. Never use Ally!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 17, 2014

    I made a payment through Ally on august 16th, the day before my payment was late but because it took 2 days for the payment to process. They now show I was late. I called 10 times to talk to someone to help me and all I got from anyone was, "we will report it and get back in touch with you"! They are a bad group of people to have to deal with. I have two loans through them in the amount of $60,000 and this will be the last time I ever have anything to do with them! Can't believe no one was willing to help me when I have an email that says I made the payment on the day before my late day!

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    Reviewed Sept. 16, 2014

    Ally Bank repossessed my car even after catching up on 2 payments. The car was stored 10 minutes from me 5 days after being taken and then moved without notifying me 1 hour away. I've gone round and round with this company to get my car back. Now I have to take a day off of work to get it. This company has been a pain in the ass for many years. I never received any Notices to Cure as they say they sent out. Has anyone else had same problem??? Considering lawsuit. Any interested parties contact me!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 16, 2014

    I opened this bank account under the premise that it would make for easier deposits and checking, despite my misgivings about it being completely online and having no physical access points. After making my initial deposit, I was told it would be over a week before I would have any kind of access to my funds by way of debit card or paper checks. When I started to run low at my current bank and needed access to the funds in my Ally account, I was told it could still be longer before I could use the funds. I was then told that I could make a wire transfer from my Ally account to my local bank same day with no problems.

    When I went to make the transfer I was informed that it would take a minimum of 2-3 days to process, so again I called customer service to see what I could do. They told me they'd waive the fee for same day transfers but that I'd be sending the paperwork in too late to process same day so it'd be next day instead. I figured it'd be fine as I was about to be home for the day and didn't plan on going anywhere else.

    When I arrived at work this morning (the day following the transfer request), I was called by Ally's fraud prevention team and told my account had been completely frozen and that they required my driver's license, social security card, a bill verifying my address, and my pay stub from the check that had been deposited. When I asked why they needed a pay stub I was told that just because my check had posted into my account that it didn't mean that I could use it, which boggled my mind because I thought that's what "posted" meant, that the funds were available to use. Apparently not.

    I was then informed that it would be 7-10 business days for them to verify the check from the time they received my pay stub copy and that I would have absolutely no access to those funds until then. So my same day transfer to a verified local bank account has turned into my account and funds being held hostage for up to two weeks all because I decided I'd made a mistake in opening an account with this bank and tried to fix it.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 11, 2014

    Have got many different payoff amounts. They will not talk to me regarding payoff on my 3 year lease. Only dealer can. Have gone to many dealers only to get multi payoffs. Dealer to inventory ($37000), if I pay off car myself ($34000) and give truck back ($39000). One dealer said they have incentives from ally and can payoff truck at the $34000 and the other dealers can't (all ally dealers) and need to trade truck in at the $37000. Called my bank to refi (I like the truck but want a car). Why can't the dealer pay what I can pay?? I will never lease again. 800+ credit and feel like I am being screwed. Got trade figures of 32k. No problem with that neg. - not ok with another $3700. Thanks for reading, any help will be thoughtful.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 4, 2014

    My daughter made a mistake and signed for a friend so that she could get a car. Ally was the finance company and they never checked the insurance card provided by the friend. It was false and not even my daughter's insurance company. Now the guy is in hiding and not making the payments and we called for them to repo the car. They said they can't cause it is not in our possession. They will not help my daughter in any way so we have to go to court. Never deal with Motor Concepts either, they are thieves and work with Ally. We need help and if a class suit is formed we will be there.

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    Madeline increased rating by 1 star.
    Customer ServiceStaff
    After a positive interaction with Ally Bank, Madeline increased their star rating on Sept. 7, 2014.

    Updated review: Sept. 7, 2014

    I informed Ally Bank that I was typing a complaint to Consumer Affairs and Better Business Bureau about the mishandling of my request for funds to be transferred from my CD to my outside banking institution. I was also going to post to BBB.

    As I was talking to a "supervisor" I hit the send button. Within three hours I was contacted by the "Executive Resolution Team" and assured that my funds would be wired to my checking account before the close of business that day and that any wire transfer fees on their part would be waved and any fees changed by my bank would be reimbursed. Too bad it took 11 days for resolution. I still am going to close out my accounts with Ally Bank.

    Original Review: Sept. 4, 2014

    On August 25, 2014 I requested a specific amount of funds from an 11 month no penalty cd be transferred to my outside bank checking account. Balance of funds be rolled into another 11 month no penalty cd. On September 2nd checked and noted original CD was closed on August 25th and a new CD opened with exact amount of original CD. No transfer made to checking account. Contacted customer service and was told Operations Department did not adhere to my request. Requested transaction be expedited and funds deposited to checking account by close of business on September 4th.

    I have contact Ally's bank customer service department on September 3rd and again September 4th to learn that it will take another three to five business days before my original request can be processed. This will mean that once again, the new CD will be closed and a new CD opened with funds remaining after deposit to checking account has been processed. Everyone at Ally Bank, including supervisors, is blaming the Operations Department for not adhering to my original request, but no one in that department is doing anything to expedite my receiving my money.

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    Price

    Reviewed Sept. 3, 2014

    You cannot get a loan amortization schedule from Ally. So you do not know when due, payment information, interest rate how applied to loan, how loan was calculated nor what happens if send more than loan amount in. Does this apply to all loans they have? You have to give permission to Ally to make an automatic payment deduction from your bank to send payment in online. Not a good idea if you want them not to have whenever they decide to pay your loan payment.

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    Punctuality & SpeedOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 30, 2014

    I have had my car since 2012... I owed about $10,000 a year ago.. still making payments. Every time I go into their website, it STILL shows I owe not $10,000, but OVER 10,000 dollars!!!!!!!!!! No one knows where the extra fees are coming. Even paying a late fee I think it CHARGES you and adds to the amount. I just don't know how to explain this... These people are rip offs and thieves! I can see now I will NEVER be able to pay this car off because they will keep ADDING to the amount... It's come to the point where I don't know if I even want to keep wasting my hard-earned money on this every single month!!!!!!! NEVER EVER do business with ALLY. I know I won't!!!!!!!!!

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2014

    I financed a car for 12,500. I have made 21 payments and owe 12,900!! Asked for a lower payoff, not an option with them!! I have never been late on a payment!! This place is horrible. Never use them. You are stuck upside down for as long as you finance your car!!

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    PricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2014

    I paid my 2007 Tahoe off. Ally extended payments for us a couple times. We were not told about any fees to extend a payment. At the end of the loan after we paid our final payment and requested out title, Ally said the only way we can get our title is if we pay them $1,500 in late fees. We never agreed to these late fees, we never signed anything. The people we have spoken to in particular Alyn ** in customer relations department. She will not allow me to speak to her supervisor and said she is the end LL at ally and no one else can help me. She also said she is the legal head of the legal department. When I questioned the legality of the action she said, "sue us, we are a huge company," and I will never win! The only way I can get my title is to pay the erroneous fees. They also charged off my credit report over a year ago and still want me to pay the fees.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2014

    August 19, 2014, I called in a payment over the phone via Western Union for $8.25 payment fee. I always pay my car payment in this manner. The payment was due August 21st. The automated phone system would not release a confirmation notice so it connected me to a Western Union customer service rep (Louis). She took my information over the phone and said she could not get a confirmation notice. She instructed me to call the Ally bank the following day to see if payment was received. I called Ally Bank, spoke to Melda on Aug. 20th. Marian did not transfer me to another Western Union, she took my information right over the phone, gave me a confirmation number and confirmed that no other payment would go through without a confirmation number. August 21, over $1200 was taken my account including my savings and a $15 overdraft fee.

    Called Ally Bank and they said they would mail me a refund check that would take up to 3-5 days. Could not reverse the over-payment. I called back the bank again and was told the same story. I called my banker and she said never, never give them more one opportunity. Always call your own bank first to see if a payment went through. I had to borrow money to put in my checking for other bills I had coming. In the meantime, my banker reversed the extra charge and told me to contact Ally and tell them to "VOID" the check they were returning to me.

    Guess what! Now, Ally Bank says, oh, we were going to electronically reverse "both" payments on September 3rd, however I would need to make another payment no later than Aug. 31st so not to be past my 10 grace period. I demanded to speak to a supervisor. I had to beg for a supervisor to get on the phone (praying this call was recorded), she said the same thing. Oh, before we hang up, THERE IS NO PAYMENT LISTED ON YOUR ACCOUNT. How can there be no payment on my account when you just told me you are reversing both payments on September 3. Plus you want to charge me a late fee even if I do pay it on August 31st.

    While speaking to Lynn and Julie I received in the mail 2 Western Union confirmation letters. The one I did not authorize and the one I did authorize with Marion from Ally bank. They said they will have the Refund Dept. contact me within 48 hours. It has now been a total of 8 days trying to fix this problem. After reading everyone else's reviews I'm afraid to even think what could happen. I'm thinking about getting on Facebook or call the TV station or something to shake this company up and make them respect their customers.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2014

    Someone that I know was apparently late on a payment with Ally Bank on a vehicle. This person has paid the late payment. HOWEVER, Ally has this in collections with their collections department and has contacted everyone in my FACEBOOK friend's list. I do not have a loan with this company. I do not owe money to this company, and yet Ally's representatives have contacted everyone I know threatening them, asking them personal questions about me and my CHILDREN!!!!! They have told everyone they have called that they are going to call my place of employment making them believe I have done something wrong. Those that they call have told them NOT TO CALL again and yet they are repeatedly calling them, and some are people I haven't seen since I was in HIGH SCHOOL. I want it stopped NOW or I will join with the other people on this and file legal action.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2014

    Look, we all know Ally is a bunch of incompetent morons who took $17 billion from the Government to bail themselves out. To date, they still have not (and never will) pay it all back. So accept the fact that Ally exists solely because of the largess of the US Government and US taxpayers. That said, Ally is unable to keep track of payments, property taxes, titles and other things that lease and loan servicers are supposed to do. They farmed out all their customer service to the Philippines (how's that a slap in the face of the US taxpayers?) and aren't accountable to anyone.

    I just came back from Small Claims court (again). Whenever I have to make more than 3 or 4 calls to Ally to fix something they messed up, I just go down to Small Claims Court and file suit. I guarantee they will call you back if you do that. Tell them you won't waste any more time talking to them. "See you in Court!" The next time they will call you talking about a settlement. It's cheap and easy to file a claim in small claims court. I'm gonna write about a book about Ally's incompetence. (Unless they pay me off again and I sign a confidentiality agreement.) Don't be intimidated - use the legal system that Ally abuses to stand up for your rights.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2014

    This is the fourth year I have had a lease vehicle and Ally Financial. I complain every year when I receive an invoice to pay my Property Taxes. I understand I have to pay the local property taxes and do so. However, I refuse to pay a sales tax on top of the Property Tax. I have never heard of taxing a tax and neither has my local tax assessor. They showed me the invoice that they charge Ally but Ally then places a sales tax on it. I have called multiple times and keep getting the run around. How can they get away with this. If you think about it, it adds up when you do it to everyone that lease a vehicle. Can you say... Class Action Suit. It has been over a month this time and still no response. They keep saying they have to look into it.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2014

    Lien release mistake address for critical sale of vehicle. Lost sale on vehicle due to incompetence of Ally. The address supervisor sent package to was never our home address and have no idea where he got from. Supervisor incompetence for Ally Financial.

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    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2014

    I bought a car in 2010 & I always paid my note. I even paid more than they ask for. So we went looking for a new car in august 7th 2014 & found out we owe almost $8000.00. When we have bank statements that we paid, left us owing a little over $ 4000.00 & to top that, now they charging us $1.50 a day. Now for what we don't know, we can't get no answers on why we owe so much. So I guess we will have to get a lawyer to get to the bottom of this but I will never deal with Ally again.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 11, 2014

    I got suckered into using Ally when the auto salesman told me I didn't have great credit and he couldn't find me any other loans (turns out my credit is fine, and he only tried the one bank because Ally is their main affiliate). For the first several months things were okay. Then they started calling, saying I was behind on payments that had already cleared out of my bank. I sent their "Accounting" department copies of my canceled checks and they assured me it would be taken care of.

    Well, come to find out they issued a repossess order on my car and I walked outside to find it gone. Then I spent the next three hours FREAKING OUT and being unapologetically passed from department to department on the phone before, finally, I was told nobody even had the current status of my problem in the system and I had to call back in 24-48 hours to even let them see what the deal was. Uh, okay but how do I get to work in the meantime and who is responsible for the storage fees wherever they took my car? "Well ma'am I'm sorry but that isn't our responsibility." Bottom line, I've already started the process for refinancing elsewhere and contacted the BBB. Don't waste your time or your reputation with these guys.

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    PricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 2, 2014

    On the last payment we apparently were late. (I still am not sure about that.) Apparently the last payment is not due on the regular payment date, so they called my husband and he said he would pay it in a few days (on our pay day). Well, they said ok, but did not wait. They put us into collection. We were late three times out of 6 years and the last payment they sent us into collections. So we paid the collection guy instead, but now we have a bad rating on that loan. This smells way too fishy for me. This was 2 years ago, and I just today reviewed my credit report. Well, I have learned a great lesson, but now I have to pay much more interest for loans, etc. Wish someone could do something about this company.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedProcess

    Reviewed July 30, 2014

    I am so pissed off right now I could scream. I have been on the phone with these people for over 2 weeks. I get a call every morning saying that I'm behind on my car note (I'M NOT). I have done everything that they have asked for me to do. I have never been late until now. (Because they are taking forever to process my paper work) They had the nerves to tell me that if it reports to my credit that they will have it taken off. ** that it shouldn't even go that far. The Department that process the deferred payments are backed up. So that's why I'm behind. Sounds like BS to me. Ally needs to get it together ASAP. I think the best thing for me to do is find another bank to carry my loan.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 30, 2014

    I purchased a GMC and financed through Ally since they offered 0% interest. I traded my vehicle in and needed a release of lien letter. After 3 days I still do not have my letter. They will not email it, only fax or mail. I chose fax. I have been told twice they are having "system issues" and cannot assist. I have been told twice the fax was sent, only to be told by the next person it is not scheduled to be sent until 4:30 this afternoon. I asked to speak with a supervisor twice and both times they told me they were unavailable. I have now been told I will receive my fax within the next 30 minutes. We will see.... For something that is their business and should be routine, it is extremely frustrating to have to deal with their support groups!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 29, 2014

    We are incredibly upset with ourselves. We bought this car in a hurry and after asking the dealer if anything in the paperwork changed - "oh of course not". We signed for an insane interest rate - ok that's that and we are determined to pay this off as quickly as possible. I made a payment of 100 dollars extra and had to call and tell them I want it to go to the principal or unpaid balance. I was told any time I make an extra payment that's what I have to do. (I was disconnected during this phone call and had to call back). The next time I made an extra payment, I called and was told no problem. This time I made my regular car payment and a few days later I paid an extra $400. My next payment isn't due for over a month. I called them and told them I want the $400 to go towards the principal. I go online to make sure what I said happened and of course, it didn't. $372 went to the principal and $27 went to interest. When I called to correct this, I was put on hold and disconnected. (accident? doubtful) So I called back to wait another four minutes on hold and was told to hold again. When I told the girl that I am always disconnected, she assured me she wouldn't drop the call (strange she can assure that).

    As others have reviewed, there is definitely a language barrier and this girl happened to be quite giggly as she told me that they have a policy that some of the payment has to go towards next month interest. I explained to her that this is not what I have been told in the past - that I plan to make many extra payments over the next year and that this is absolutely absurd. I also suggested she stopped laughing because there is nothing funny about this. I told her that I paid an extra $400 toward the principal and $400 is what needs to be placed towards the principal. Suddenly that wasn't a problem, suddenly it's on my account that ALL extra payments will go towards the principal, suddenly the "policy" doesn't apply because I am up to date on my payments (as if it ever did in the past - as I reminded her).

    So we shall see if my full $400 goes to principal and we shall see what the future holds. But it blows my mind I had to spend 20 minutes on the phone with two different people over 27 dollars explaining things that have already happened on my account, fighting for things that they have allowed in the past. The games and desperation to get any interest they can is ridiculous! I simply had to raise my voice and everything changes?! Was that really necessary?! Unfortunately, I guess so.

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    Customer ServiceStaffReliability

    Reviewed July 28, 2014

    Sent payoff on June 17, 2014 for our truck after logging in online and getting the so-called correct payoff. Received email July 27, 2014 from them. With many attempts to log in with an apologizing for website being down. On July 28, 2014, called Ally! They tell me they did not get the payoff then give the amount of the payoff. Then want me to send proof that I sent payoff which was made through my Bill Pay at my bank. The first lady I talked to said it was $33.11 short and hung up on me. Second lady name Zai stated after holding for 5 minutes, the payoff went up to $33.36 and she could not take payment over the phone due to system being down. She suggested I go on the Ally site to pay balance. She had just said the system was down. Then she hung up on me. Very bad business. Very shady business practices. Oh and I sent $33.99 just in case the payoff change again before confirmation on website of payment received. Called originally to ask where the title was since I had sent payoff in June.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 28, 2014

    You know after reading all of these HORRIBLE reviews I truly regret leasing with Ally Auto. I was two months behind on my payments BECAUSE I was sold a vehicle with a bad Cadillac converter. SO I had to put $700 in the car to repair. I got behind on payments because of this. I never received a letter, email, or phone call... but I got a knock on my door last Tuesday after 9pm. I walk outside to see my vehicle up on a tow truck. They screamed, "Your car is being repossessed due to non-payment". I was told by the NASTY tow drivers I could not open the door to get property out and they want the key. The next morning I call Ally to see what was owed on the vehicle and it went from $512 to $1008. I was never told my car would be moved to another lot. I called back two days later and made the payment, but the tow company had already scheduled a pick up for my vehicle. I called the tow company so I could clean the car before and the man said all of my property was already removed from the car.

    I asked if the car was still there and they said yes. 20min after I went to Western Union the tow company said my car had just left. I live in Richmond, VA and my vehicle was towed all the way to Bel Air, MD. I called the auction in Maryland and first I was told my car was not even scheduled for a pick up yet. Then I was transferred and was told my vehicle would not be in their system until it arrives. The tow company said my vehicle would be in Maryland by Friday so I called back Friday and was told my vehicle still did not arrive so I was unable to schedule a time for a pick up. I am concerned with this company because WHY did they move my vehicle to a different state only TWO days after the repossession? WHY doesn't anyone know where my vehicle is. NOW I have to hunt these people down to SCHEDULE to pick up a car that belongs to me and it's not even at the location it should be.

    I really feel like they assumed I was not going to come up with the 1,008 so they scheduled to auction off my car. I NEVER received a repossession letter or anything, but you come take my car and I pay, but the min before I pay you move the vehicle and now it did not arrive to the location yet? This is VERY unprofessional and I really wish I could give the damn car back and start all over again with another lienholder. I HATE ALLY AUTO.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 23, 2014

    I leased a car at a local car dealer here in Salem Or., this was my first lease and it was through Ally Financial. My lease was finished up in May. Ally sent me a return kit so that we could go over the car and make sure it was up to their standards of normal wear and if something didn't meet the requirements it was cleared that we would be charged. So I got the kit checked everything out and we had a stone chip that was too big, so my wife and I replaced the windshield brought the car back to the dealer ask them if there was something I needed to be aware of because I didn't want to get charged for something that I was not ready for. The salesmen said "oh don't worry about it, your car is in great shape and it even has 5000 less miles than were allowed."

    So we turned our car in and went home, only to receive a bill about 30 days later saying we owe for excessive damage. I went to the page where that allow you to review what you were charged for and was shocked at the picture they were using to say I owed for a dent. My wife called the company and the lady from Ally said "don't worry about, they will only charge if they don't get enough in auction." Couple weeks later we received another bill, I called, left a message nothing, then I called again I think it was July 1st, talked to a gentleman, explained the situation and he said once they make a decision that is final but he would have the department that deals with that call me in the next 72 hours. I never received a call but a week later another bill. I called this morning. The first lady was very rude and said I had one option beside pay the bill given and that was to settle for $112.48.

    I asked her if she seen the picture and she said yes and there is damage and so I asked if it was bigger than 2" and she got angry and said it was not in the same conditions as when I drove it off the lot. I said well that's 'cause it was brand new. Now it's 39 months later. She got more demeaning and loud so I asked to be transferred. She transferred me to a another lady that was very nice but stated also that there was nothing she could do but seemed to feel bad for the situation. So she offered me the same deal. For the sake of my credit and time, I was wasting trying to be heard, I decided to pay. But I wanted it to be known that Ally from the beginning was unprofessional and uncaring and unwilling to even discuss the issue beyond saying I owe. I have attached the photo to show the damage that I'm being charged for.

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed July 15, 2014

    We called yesterday to pay off of my car loan, which, with any other bank have never had an issue. Same crud. They won't give information. Could not understand them. They are all foreign speaking. Will NOT allow you to speak to a Manager. ABSOLUTELY a scam company. I will never, ever, use them again!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 14, 2014

    Nobody you talk to at Ally bank has any authority to do anything. All they do is ask your security questions, then say, they can't do this or that. I told them to stop trying to collect from American Express because I already paid them. They claim American Express is the one trying to collect from Ally bank, and they have no ability to work with American Express. I told them to sue me for the $17 charge for the bounced payments. My balance at Ally is zero after all the problems I had with their bank. I travel frequently, and when I get cut off from my bank account, it creates big problems.

    I encountered more problems with their bank than I've ever experienced with any other bank or institution combined. They also lock you out of your internet connection after two tries. Trying to get them to respond to anything is impossible; it becomes a nightmare. I wasted three months trying to work with Ally. DON'T USE ALLY BANK; YOU'LL BE SORRY. They don't rate any stars, but as a requirement to post, I've given them one star; ANGRY..

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 14, 2014

    No walk in location, which was never conveyed to me when I got my truck loan. Barely spoke English. They take 24-48 hours to even consider faxing you anything like a payoff or lien release. And since there is no walk in location, I had to find someone to MAIL IN $17,000 to an address in KY, and wait for me to hear back to see if the money went through, and the buyer had my truck the whole time, so if they mailed in a bad check I would've been SOL. THEN it took 3 calls to get the lien release faxed, which then took 24-48 hours for them to actually do it EACH TIME. That took 3 separate attempts. I could go on and on! I called a total of 14 times in a week to try to figure out how to pay off my truck! Waiting on hold, getting "disconnected", and transferred around.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 8, 2014

    Originally I leased a 2013 GMC Terrain. Unfortunately my Terrain was totaled by a drunk driver. Unfortunately I also had this car financed thru Ally Financial. I have purchased a lot of cars in my lifetime but I have never financed thru Ally and I will never again. When my vehicle was totaled, I called Ally Financial to find out how much the payoff was. My response from them was that they were not able to give me that information. Hello, I paid each and every month on this truck and this is my right to know what the payoff was. To this day, they would not give me the exact figures.

    I found out afterwards that they would also not give my insurance carrier the exact payoff so my insurance paid them the book value which unfortunately was about $3,000.00+ more than what was owed... I receive a letter stating that there was a surplus. In my books, surplus means extra. When I questioned this, it disappeared. No one, all of a sudden, knew anything about this surplus. I think that Ally has gotten where it is financially due to people like myself who are owed money. They say that I signed a paper stating that any overpayment they are allowed to keep. This is stealing and the last time I looked stealing was against the law.

    Why are they able to get away with this??? Because you can't contact the CEO, You can't contact a supervisor. They all hide because they know how they conduct their business is not right. I think that you should be able to contact the CEO. I think by law he/she should be made to listen to all the complaints that the consumer has. I was told that if the CEO thought my complaint was good enough, he would email me back. He obviously did not as I never heard back. I wish everyone would listen and run from Ally Financial. Do not lease from them, purchase a car through them, have any dealing with them. They are not a nice place to deal with. None of their customer service people are pleasant. They are all trained to lie to their customers. If I could give them zero stars, I would. One star is way too good for this place.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 6, 2014

    I called to get a deferred payment and in California all I had to do was send in $197 on May 30, 2014. So I get a letter about two weeks later saying I'm late on my payment. I called them and they said, "Oh, everything is fine." So why am I still getting letters and now I'm two months behind. I've called these non-English speakers 4 times. I don't know what to do now. DO NOT USE ALLY. Not the first bad encounter with them and I've only had my car 2 yrs.

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    Punctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed June 27, 2014

    My mother made a deferred payment arrangement with Ally on the 6th of the month and today is the 27th of June. Since the 6th of the month they were supposed to send out the proper paperwork so that there would be no late fees however now they are saying there will be late fees because we didn't return the proper paperwork. How could we return something we didn't receive? We gave them a fax number on the 6th and each rep we spoke to said they were sending the papers via fax. That never happened.

    We've spoken to Joselyn, Julie, Melissa, Lilian, Fernando, Joseph and Julie. You mean to tell me out of 7 employees they cant come up with one damn fax? I intend to sue this company on behalf of my elderly parents if any late fees or negative action in the credit bureau occur. I even asked the guy to give me the number to corporate and he said there is no corporate for Ally... ** !!!!!! A big company like this with no corporate. Instead of taking the easy route by getting people from other countries to handle your affairs, hire people in the US that people can understand and can get the point across.... Highly pissed off!!!!

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 27, 2014

    Got my car in Nov. My first pay was due in Jan. on the 5th which conflicts with my rent. First payment was late because I paid my rent but tried to change my due date. Never happened. Couldn't get an extension then. Now I'm 2 months behind. They repossessed my car. Wanted me to send money in and still pick my car up... saying they would lift the repossession if I paid the money. They don't work with you - just full of crap. I surrendered my car and leaving them alone.

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    Price

    Reviewed June 26, 2014

    I have my car payment through Ally. I should have never bought this car because I am in an upside down loan which I have through Ally. I have a 2013 Malibu and it is only worth half of what I owe to Ally. I am struggling in making payments and have talked with Ally 2-3 times and they will not work with me at all. Please pass this onto consumers.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 19, 2014

    Ally Bank has lost a money order I sent them. It was cashed on April 18, 2014. I called MoneyGram and it has been cashed. I get idiot after idiot on the phone. Now, I'm behind because of the lost money order they cashed and I have to pay to put a tracer on this money order that they have. I'm not doing it. You call, get no answers, and they blame me for the missing payment that they have. Horrible, horrible customer service!! I am in the process of trying to refinance through my bank.

    Had no trouble for almost a year.... now it's a nightmare. I wish I would have read the complaints first and would have requested my auto loan somewhere else. My sister and her husband had trouble with them too.

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    Price

    Reviewed June 19, 2014

    My son purchased a truck, was approved, and now cannot make the $1,000 per month payments. The truck is valued at less than half of the original purchase price in less than a year from purchase. There is something terribly wrong in buying a vehicle and the value is less than half in less than one year. I have filed a complaint with a consumer Federal agency and called them for notification purposes. This bank needs to be stopped. Please join a class action lawsuit against Ally Bank. Consumer Affairs, what can we do to create this effort to stop this bank's deceptive practices?

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed June 17, 2014

    I made what I thought was was the full payment to pay off the car. I was assured of that. I then found out that I owed $43 of interest a few days later, which further held up processing the title to me. The processing time for the title for car paid in full is 10 business days. I had a buyer waiting for the car. I could not sign the title over to him for 10 days. And that took four phone calls to Ally, and had to speak to manager in India. Avoid this bank at all possible costs.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed June 15, 2014

    My loan is pay up until January 2015. At times I didn't pay a month. I didn't think much about it because I'm paid so far in advance. All at once I really looked at the monthly bill and my balance didn't change and all of the payment went into the finance charge. Then I get charged $6.00 a day. I have called and talked to them. I can't tell you how many times. One lady told me that I was paid up until November 2014. You can't understand the people on the phone and get no where with them. Ally Bank should be out of business and repay what is owed to all the people they are hurting. I wrote a letter to the President today. I hope he will listen.

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    Punctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed June 12, 2014

    After buying and paying off a vehicle with Ally, with NO late payments, I tried to buy another only to have them deny me an auto loan! This was a slap in the face after my payment loyalty. I truly believe these people when they're saying how sorry and uncaring Ally is! I work my ** off at two jobs to pay my bills and nobody deserves to be treated this way from a bunch of **!

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