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Reviewed Sept. 6, 2018
I have been banking with BB&T since before with Susquehanna Bank. I have never been very happy with BB&T, especially since no one in my local branch with whom I had a relationship is still there. I had opened a savings account 2 yrs ago for the specific purpose of transferring money into it from my Vanguard account. Money never stayed in the account and it was almost always at a zero balance. This purpose was explained to the banking person who opened it. For almost 2 yrs there was never an issue.
10 days ago, I transferred money from Vanguard. On Tuesday, I checked my BB&T accounts on-line and the account I set up to accept the money from Vanguard was gone. Upon calling my local branch, I was told it had a $0 balance in it for 2 months and at the discretion of the bank, it was closed. I was furious. I had never been contacted. I had never been told I needed to keep any amount of money in the account or I would have. Now, what is really egregious is that the money has still not been rejected by BB&T and returned to Vanguard. It will take up to 2 weeks to be returned to Vanguard!!! So, they can sit on my money and make interest. I was not able to use the money for the purpose for which I originally transferred it. And, I am not able to make money on it in my Vanguard account. I would be very careful if deciding to bank with BB&T to find out what exactly you are getting into.
Reviewed Sept. 5, 2018
Bank sent my money card to wrong address. It was activated and used. Took 600.00 out of my acct. Contacted fraud department. They canceled card. Put purchase from card under fraud. Then came back 10 days later. STS card was activated using my phone #. Advised them phone is off... then stated employer gave them my phone # when direct deposit app was taken. Advised them again that a lie... refused to replace my money stating because was activate using my phone # they are not going to replace money... what do I do next?

Reviewed Aug. 27, 2018
I gave a merchant my credit card details when I made an appointment for a $59 HVAC service. They NEVER provided that service (or any other service), but charged my card $137!!! I disputed the charge with BBT Credit cards. After making me jump through hoops and present all sorts of evidence regarding the false charge, they awarded the merchant the money anyway "because they said they provided the service". The merchant also presented a false invoice, and I presented irrefutable proof that it was falsified, but BBT found in favor of the merchant anyway. I am suing now BBT for malphisis and anything else I can find that they did wrong in this process. I am NOT letting them get away with it!!!
Reviewed Aug. 25, 2018
I have been a customer of BB&T Bank for 5 years and have always kept a high savings account and a lower checking account information. I signed up for the student account which is suppose to provide protections for your account and no minimum balance or monthly fees. I signed up for overdraft protection which is suppose to stop payments from being made from my checking account that could overdraft my account and also a link savings and checking protection plan which takes money from my savings to my checking if I fall short of money. That way I will always be covered I assumed. However, I woke up one day to 3 returned item fees of 36$ a piece.
And when I called and asked, "What happened?" They told me they didn’t see any of those protection plans listed in my account. I told them, "This is how I set up my account in 2013. Why has this not been shown," they couldn’t provide me with an answer and told me nothing could be done but to try to enroll me in those protection plans again so that it can be done in the future. They refused to refund the $108 dollars in returned items fees that have been lost. BB&T has the worst customer service and has lost a customer.
Reviewed Aug. 24, 2018
I can't believe I cannot speak to someone in the bank. I have been on hold for over an hour. Thank God for speaker phone. I had dinner, and guess what, I'm still on hold. Can you imagine if this was fraud alert. And this is at all hours. You can never get someone on the line immediately. So guess what, after 10 years I'm done. I'm taking my money to another bank. I'M DONE WITH YOU.
Reviewed Aug. 18, 2018
I decided to purchase a pre-owned vehicle from a dealer I have used 4x previously. The payoff amount exceeded my liquid reserves so my loan officer obtained a small loan for just over $5000 @ 3.90%. At 12 months that cost me $272 in interest. The only downside was that the lowest rate available was at BB&T. Shoot me now. I have NEVER received ANY communication from BB&T to date even though the loan 37 days ago. No welcome letter, no payment book, no anything. When I called Customer (In)service I was told that my service address was incorrect on BOTH loans. BOTH loans? I have never used BB&T in my life (partially due to reviews such as these).
When I do further, I discovered that BB&T had assigned a $30, 000 truck loan to another couple living 50 miles away who purchased it in another state. We have no similarities in name, address or anything. Meredith ** from Whiteside NC ("where ALL automotive loans are processed") assured me that this was not a case of identity theft but a simple "internal error". Three "absolutely will be fixed by" dates have gone by. The fraudulent loan still shows on my profile. Meredith does not respond to ANY correspondence. My local branch just refers me back to Meredith. NOBODY has told me anything even resembling the truth - all for a few measly dollars saved in finance charges. And I thought Bank of America was bad... I will move the remaining amount on my loan to pay off these scam artists and NEVER do business with them again. They are simply: Incompetent, unprofessional, and unethical. Is this where you want to do business???
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2018
The system automatically charges $5 from my saving even not one billing period. It happens not one but very often. When I tried to claim back I have to put request form, wait for 3 business days to able to process blah blah... but when the system charged the money, it happens right away. Decided to close account right away.
Reviewed Aug. 11, 2018
A total disaster in customer service!!! I did apply for a construction loan in 2018 and I told them that as a Certified / insured Home Builder, I want to build a house for myself. I own the land and I've almost 30% of the construction as cash deposit in my BB&T account and I was qualified for the loan. BB&T Mortgage group are very slow in processing, very conservative in qualification process, their interest rates are higher than anyone else in the market and also the loan officer that I was working with, had no idea about the construction loan.
On top of these, BB&T won't pay you any money in advance and they ask you spend out of pocket and then get reimbursed which causes more delay. I double checked with other home builders, none of them had a good experience with BB&T's construction loans. Overall, I'm not recommending their mortgage program since I've applied three times and always end up finding it cheaper and easier somewhere else. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH BB&T.
Reviewed July 31, 2018
I've been with BB&T for many years and have had several different kinds of accounts. But the customer Service has gotten so bad the within the last year, that I will be changing banks. The local branches don't even have managers that are trained in the banks policies and therefore are unable to answer questions or assist clients. Occasionally there will be a teller that can help but for the most part they can't either without calling the corporate headquarters. Where they are put on hold. This is the same thing you get if you call customer service number. They always have at least a 1 hr wait. Customer service at banks should be their #1 Priority but with BB&T their #1 Priority is holding on to YOUR money. And their latest policies basically deny you access to your funds.
Reviewed July 28, 2018
I have been charged for 5 overdraft fees when I had money in my account for all but one of them! They told me that the available credit did not account for pending transactions which took my account below where I thought it was, however even the pending transactions that came out of the presented balance got overdraft fees! How can a transaction get overdraft fees if it came out successful with money left over? I really gotta figure out how to live bank free because these banks will rip you off and swear you are the one doing something wrong. I know the difference between a negative and positive account. If an account is not yet negative, then no transactions that took place BEFORE it became negative should incur a fee. The people at BB&T don't seem to agree. $200 of my hard earned bill money (over 2 full days pay) gone because they are allowed to do this kind of thing.
Reviewed July 22, 2018
I have with BB&T since 1987 (prior to the acquisitions). It is my opinion that the Bank is using dirty tactics to add to their profits. First when you arrive to deposit money via check or cash, you treated like a criminal. That is the verification process is ridiculously. Particularly when you have money in your account to cover the cost.
Recently, a check came into my account for $100 dollars, they stated I was $2 short. So the check was returned and I was charged $36! I was not short, this was deliberately action on their part and you cannot get them to understand their mistakes. The bank reps are clueless and simply do not understand their own banking processes. Of the rep had to call a number and ask me to step out while the explanations was taking place. I refused as I too wanted to explain what the problem was. Well that did not work and it was explained to again, incorrectly the error. I ask for the $36 to be refunded to me. No was the answer, because they can only forgive fees every 24 months. Again, not my error. I am so frustrated by this bank and I will be cutting ties with them shortly. But people need to know what is going on.
Reviewed July 21, 2018
Avoid this bank at all costs. I opened an account late June for a settlement I received. They put a 7 day hold on the check, even though it would have been a simple verification of funds. Almost a month later I deposited a personal check given to me on a Saturday. The teller tells me that it’s going to be a 7 day hold because my account is new. Fast forward to Monday they still don’t have the check posted. When I call there’s no comments in the system that I made a deposit so they need to call me back. She calls back and leaves a message that my check will need to be held for 7 business days. This is strange because my settlement check was held for 7 calendar days. These people make up their own rules to hold your money hostage. I will be closing out my account once my money is released. BB&T it’s my money and I want it NOW!!!
Reviewed July 20, 2018
I am extremely disappointed with the attitude of the lady that I interacted with this afternoon, at the BB&T branch in Bluffton, SC. My parents (who I must say have been loyal to BB&T for more than 30 years) live in the area. I reside in Alabama but am here for vacation. There was an issue with my account that I needed to handle. While this customer relations representative seemed to know what she was doing, her poor attitude towards me and my father (who visits this bank on a weekly basis) was disrespectful at best. It’s evident that she isn’t pleased with her profession and it’s best that I refrain from dealing with her as often as possible. The branch manager is a wonderful person and have no doubt they will handle this issue. Out of respect, I will not put names on this consumer review. However, I will say that this female who looks to be in her mid to late thirties needs to work on her professional etiquette.
Reviewed July 17, 2018
My wife and I opened a joint account. We went into a branch, presented our IDs. They locked my wife out of our online account after 4 yrs of service. She called to unlock it and said her information was incorrect. That's the banks fault. Now we have to take time off work to go in and correct their stupid ** mistakes. I filed a complaint through email. Auto response said we will contact you in 15 days. Good luck, we will be banking with someone else by then. This bank is worthless as a far in the wind!!!!
Reviewed July 14, 2018
This bank is a mess. I go deposit paycheck pm Friday. She gives me the receipt back and says 2-day hold. I asked her why. I deposited this check 2 weeks ago and they told me no hold. She asked me for the receipt back. I went and got another lady. They were typing on the computer. She gives me a receipt and tells me I'm good, no hold!! Well I'm sure you know what happened. There is a hold even though they told me no, my receipt says no hold. And of course today Saturday that branch is not open. The 1 800 BB&T people cannot help me or any branch that's open. I have to wait for this Branch to open.
I also figured out by these people telling me the branch puts the hold they told me before so it's automatic generated. That's a lie! Just like they told me yesterday it was a lie or they're incompetent and didn't know how to fix their own hold they placed on the check! The part that infuriates me is at if I overdraw my account or mess it up I am held responsible AKA all these fees right? But when the bank messes up all they do is apologize, "We're so SORRY..." REALLY! Why is it the consumer can be held responsible via money but yet the bank and just apologize? That is the million-dollar question. So now I have to wait till Monday morning to go to that branch to figure out why they either lied to me or why they messed up and it's wonderful that it's on a weekend. I appreciate that. UNBELIEVABLE.
Reviewed July 7, 2018
I recently opened an account at BB&T. I deposited a check from my account in Florida. Ray signed me up and was deceptive in his info. I deposited $700.00 from my account in Florida to BB&T. They put a hold on the check for 10 days. I had to pay rent and they said they would pay my rent since I had overdraft. Nevertheless they returned my rent check after telling me by three different people that they would pay it. I was trying to develop a relationship with a bank because I have more funds to bring up from Florida. BB&T failed me and I am now forced to cancel my account. Beware of BB&T as their employees cannot be trusted. Check them out. They have only earned 1 star for customer satisfaction. I should have done my homework. Don't make the same mistake I did.
Reviewed July 6, 2018
First, let me say, that my husband and I decided to apply for a HELOC with BB&T because we had an auto loan with them, and we never had an issue with our auto loan. I have since closed out my auto loan, and will be transferring my HELOC as well. I feel that BB&T used false advertising and deceptive lending practices when dealing with out HELOC. There was a distinct ad on their front door (the branch we used) stating: (NO CLOSING cost, NO fee loan). Well, this wasn’t true, and we were hit with over $600+ geez to pay after closing our loan. Of course, this was NEVER stated during the underwriting phase, not upon closing. We were also charged a $50.00 fee for setting up a fixed option only payment.
Second dishonest, and hidden practice, was setting up two separate payments for our HELOC, when we were never advised that this would occur. One payment, is interest only, and the other is a fixed payment. When I call to get info. regarding my loan, NO ONE ever has an answer to ANY of my inquiries as to way this is set up this way, why we were never advised, etc. Oh, yes BB&T did send me a letter dated 4-14-2017 (which I never received until May, 2018) stating that there was a $50.00 fee to set up our fixed payment portion part of our HELOC. What a joke!
My biggest, and most infuriating complaint, is: I have been making payments, well above the amount due for each loan payment category, with the understanding that any extra amount of the payments were to be applied to the principal balance only of these two payments. Did BB&T do as requested, and apply these extra amounts to my principal only portions of my HELOC? NO they have not been applying these extra amounts to principal only, which is my entire reason for writing this review.
I’ve reached out to customer service, who did not and could not, would not do a darn thing to help me rectify this situation, reached out to the executive complaint dept., again without any resolve, the mortgage dept., which again couldn’t explain anything about how the loan concept works, or why my payments weren’t getting applied as directed, and sent me back to confer with the originating branch.
Guess what, the originating branch manager left BB&T the min. our loan had closed, so now, I find I have to deal with a branch manager that has no idea what happened during our loan, as she wasn’t there. Not really fair to her to get stuck with all of this, but even she didn’t try to resolve this issue, and I was placed in the hands of another employee, who had only been with the bank for 6 months, and had no training or experience with the bank's HELOC product.
I’ve spoken with this employee a couple of times, emailed him copies of my statements, with my questions regarding these statements, and while he assured me he would help me take care of my issues, has yet to call me back with any help, or information about getting the extra payments switched over to my principal balances. i’ve been very nice, cordial, and patient with this bank, and its employees, but now I’m just angry. I called today to speak with the young man who is now supposed to be taking care of my loan issues, and he’s on vacation. Really, a vacation after 6 months of employment... must be nice!
Lastly, I called the retail banking side of this bank, as I was told by the new employee ‘helping me’ HA, that this is the department I need to speak with, in order to get my extra payments transferred to principal only. I called, and there was a 51 min. hold time, so I opted for them to call me back. 51 min. hold time? Seems I’m not the only customer that is experiencing a need to clear up issues with this bank.
If you are in the market for a HELOC from BB&T, my suggestion... READ EVERY last word of your contract, and do not sign if you feel the least bit confused about how this loan works. At closing I always read everything very carefully, and yet we were hurried out of the branch every time we were there for anything. The former branch manager, who originated our loan, always had a reason he needed to get out of there, and it made us feel like we were bothering him and the bank, to want to take our time reading over the contractual agreement. He kept saying we would get to those question at a later time, and of course, that never happened, as he left the bank! I think he just wanted one more loan product in his cap, on his record, before he began his next position with another bank. Let’s hope, that the next bank I transfer this loan to, is not employing him. I don’t want to go through this mess ever again!
In closing, let me just say, it’s a very sad and disappointing day indeed, when you learn that employees of a business can’t, or won’t answer the most basic questions about a product or procedure, with regards to whatever their products or procedures might be. BB&T needs to supply their employees with the means to know inside and out, backwards and forwards the loan and other banking products BB&T is offering its clients, customers. The failure of BB&T to do this, gains them less than even 1 star in my opinion.
When the retail side of banking calls me back today, (if they really do) they better have answers for me, and they better transfer my extra principal payments over to my principal side of my loan, or I’m going to seek help thru whatever means necessary to get those payments back. I’ve never dealt with a less competent bank, and bank departments. Oh, and when the CEO customer service complaint department got in touch with me to try and resolve my unhappiness with the bank... Do you think anyone from the executive branch contacted me to help me with the issues, even after the rep. for this dept. took all sorts of notes? NO, NOPE, NADA... So, what does this tell me? Well, it just tells me that the Bank doesn’t give a rip about their consumers, or customers, and I’ll never bank with them again!!!
Reviewed June 30, 2018
Been banking with BB&T for many years with multiple accounts. All I can say is that over the years this bank has really turned for the worth. Not only did they close down my local branch but now my only was to do all my deposits online delaying was once was a 1 day delay to now 3-5 days. I believe the only reason this bank stays afloat is from the shady practices they use to obtain fee's from hard working individuals. Not easy moving 5 accounts to another bank and I have been putting off but enough is enough BB&T. You guys hands down win the award for most unethical banking practices. I would love to talk to someone nearby about a charge but oh that's right you can't today because it's Saturday and almost every branch is closed. Ugh!
Reviewed June 28, 2018
BB&T have continued to steal my money and have the policy of never returning bank fees. They charged me overdraft fees when my account had a positive balance, made adjustments to my account (without my permission or signature) to incur fees and return payments. When I confronted them, they said that they did not do it. BB&T actions continue to cross the line of morals and ethical behavior. It is time for the FDIC to investigate this bank and end this criminal activity like they did for Wells Fargo.
Reviewed June 26, 2018
They change the mortgage payment address and do not let customers know, charge extra fees and cause credit issues? Every BBT employee should be drawn and quartered for allowing such despicable behavior. I am moving away from and never recommending such an underhanded bank! Is there not a requirement to notify customers prior to changing an address or is BB&T just being thieves desiring fees?
Reviewed June 25, 2018
First of all the hold to reach a representative is too long. They say fifteen minutes, you are on hold for thirty. It does not what time you call, early in the morning or in the evening. My issue is that my payments have been reversed for the past six months because my account info was incorrect. I never changed anything. I opened the account in 2016; what happened in January! This is very frustrating!
Reviewed June 25, 2018
When I first had BB&T, I thought! It was great - Now not very much at all. They don't have your back with anything. I have lost money to them. CC on the ATM - Oh well??? Yes, card stuck in the ATM unit. I am told, “Well, nothing we can do.” Went to bank- filled out papers etc. Their customer service sticks altogether. Meaning, you have to talk to a minimum of 4 people to get to right place, after LONG LONG wait times. I am switching ASAP... DONE, I kept saying, now I will do it.
Reviewed June 12, 2018
I recently had to open an account for a small non-profit I volunteer for. When the bank opened the account they made a few errors. Instead of providing me with an account for my local group, they put me on access to see the entire organization's financial records, from all the regional offices. So, I had access to hundreds of different accounts. What a mistake! I had to call and tell them!
Then, not once but twice they sent me 2 different ATM cards which were supposed to be my account but who knows who the other ATM card linked to. I turned the first two back in (disposed of) and they said they would send me a new card, yet they once again sent out 2 ATM cards, different numbers. What a joke! Every single time I try to log in there's a issue which prevents it, their phone banking is always have issues too. When I do get thru, it takes 30 minutes to an hour to try and get person on the phone. They never recognize my SSN. It's just the most horrid bank ever and I will NEVER, EVER open an account here again.
Reviewed June 12, 2018
Every time I call customer service, they give different information. They make every task a challenge even processing a simple loan payment. I have 2 loan accounts with them, and they frequently apply payments to the wrong account even with the account number included on the payment. They reversed the application of a payment with no notice, funds were available in the account used to process the payment, and then had them never to charge me a late charge. This is customer service at its finest!
Reviewed June 4, 2018
The loan officer informed us before doing the application that we could not afford a home and we would be forever renters. My husband had an account that was a trust fund at this bank and wanted to use it for a down payment. We had to get the President of the downtown Hickory NC involved and got the mortgage and paid it off 6 years early.
Reviewed June 3, 2018
I recently experienced an extraordinary event where my father was suddenly stricken with a serious health issue which ultimately took his life. I lost track of my checking account during his hospitalization which lasted from 05/07 until 05/31. During that time several charges caused my account to become negative, despite continuing weekly payroll deposits. For the amount of $872 I was charged $824 in interest. Though cleverly disguised as fees and charges specifically crafted to circumvent the law, it was clearly usury at a rate of nearly 100% on the outstanding funds. While the branch manager dutifully recited the bank’s policy, he refunded only $112. Criminal usury in Pennsylvania is defined as an interest rate greater than 25%.
Reviewed May 31, 2018
Be very careful of BB&T's stated available account balance information shown online. I deposited cash into my account after 6pm. I logged in online that same evening and was shown an available balance that reflected the same cash deposit I had just made. My available balance was enough to cover upcoming transactions as well as a payment I decided to make to a BB&T credit card. I scheduled the transfer to my credit card (that wasn't yet due) because again, my available balance was enough to cover it.
The next day they slapped me with an overdraft fee as they said the order in which I had written checks, my made transfer and deposited the money gave me a negative balance. To me an available balance is money that is at my disposal and available for use. But yet the same available posted balance I saw online the night before, was somehow not enough to cover all my transactions, including the transfer I decided to make. The BB&T rep said it was the order in which their system processes that gave me a negative balance.
This contradicts the available balance I saw as "available" online the night before as it was enough to cover all pending activity. They managed to get an overdraft fee out of me for this and I believe Wells Fargo was involved in a class action lawsuit for this very same reason. In addition, I received a letter in the mail from a Client Care Resolution Senior Specialist regarding the situation and in the letter she states she tried to contact me on multiple occasions. I then called her on the phone, she said she tried to call me on my cell phone on a certain date to which she simply did not as I have no missed calls that day nor did I receive a voicemail from her. When I asked her why she didn't leave a message, she didn't have an answer.
Surely I can't be the only BB&T customer to have this experience. Simply stated, BB&T gives false available account information online and processes transactions to their benefit; taking advantage of their customers. I would close this account if possible, and transfer to Home Trust Bank, but unfortunately, am stuck for now.
Reviewed May 22, 2018
It took me having to find the EVP for the region for me to get a call back from the branch manager - this was after calls and 2 emails - advising that I was closing my account. The attitude of the branch manager was dismissive. I would had stayed with them, notwithstanding their fees, had the branch manager cared to provide attention to their customer. Always have several bank accounts at different banks so you can easily switch. Most people stay with the same bank because it is difficult to switch if you have all "your eggs in one basket". Your most powerful weapon is having a diversity of banks so you can move. Also send letters and complaints to their managers, especially when they fail to get back to you. Employees are still rated on their customer service and enough complaints, or praises, gets them moved.
Reviewed May 19, 2018
I Closed my Checking Account because of their $10 charge Minimum Balance Requirement! My Question/Concern is why does BB&T Charge a fee of $5 for a New Card? Now, I have a Savings Account but NO Card and paying BB&T for my Inconvenience. :( VERY DISSATISFIED CUSTOMER. '(
Reviewed May 18, 2018
I am an independent contractor who gets paid by personal check from a variety of clients, who bank at a variety of financial institutions. Whenever I cash checks at banks with which I do not have accounts, I simply provide multiple forms of ID...Wells Fargo even has me put my thumbprint on the check (smart). NO BANK ever charges me a fee to cash a check...EXCEPT BB&T.
Today they charged me $8 to cash a $278 check. This is outrageous and is nothing more than ROBBERY in my opinion. When I complained to the teller, she stared at me like a dead fish...didn’t say a word. I see BB&T has many many complaints against them. Hopefully they will fold soon and we will be rid of these parasites. Until then, I will be requiring my customers to add $8 to the amount they pay me if they bank at BB&T. Thanks a lot BB&T for faithfully serving the community and helping out the small business folks...NOT!! I would give this bank Zero stars if this website would allow me.
Reviewed May 18, 2018
For years now BB&T has found any reason to charge overdraft fees. I have put up with this behavior because I thought these were the rules, but after having been hit up with OD fees too often now I decided to call and find out. I am going to deal with my last experience only as not to bore you all. I get disability so check is automatically deposited each month and my bills are all automatic payments. I check my account balance every day to make sure all is well. My auto payment is scheduled to be paid on the 17th of each month. I noticed that my account was short $7, so on 5/17/2018 I ran to the ATM after a procedure done that prevented me to get to the branch. I deposited $50 cash through their ATM at 9.25 p.m. Got my receipt which stated my available balance was $221.32 as of 9.25 pm 5/17/2018.
The next morning 5/18/2018 I received a low balance warning so I immediately checked my account. Mind you I was told cash deposits before midnight are immediately posted to your account. My account showed 167.20 (auto pmt) 5/17/2018 OD fee $36 posted 5/17/2018 deposit $50 pending 5/17/2018. I am on a very limited income and immediately called customer service. Their response, "You did not make your deposit at the branch before 6 pm." And because the computer refunded me an OD fee in April 2017 I did not qualify for a reversal because you are allowed 1 every 2 yrs, and they cannot override the computer's decision.
I waited for the branch to open and spoke to the branch manager who was more than rude. The explanation was, "Your car payment was processed on 5/17/2018 at 3:15 am and the deposit was made at 9:25 pm 5/17/2018." We argued back and forth but the computers made the decisions, so 3:15 am on the 17th they took the 167.20 and overdrew my account then the OD fee of $36 and the deposit CASH had not posted yet it was pending.
This has been done to me on many occasions and even though it's wrong the bank managers don't have authorization by the computer to refund you your OD fee and they really don't care either. I made calls to 5 different departments at BB&T and even one lady who handles complaints stated she would file a complaint for me but not to get my hopes up. Now I have reached the end and am going to open an account elsewhere and call all companies with automatic withdrawals as well as my disability check department to give them my new bank info.
I read a response from an employee at BB&T who replied to a complaint website post made by many consumers and stated the reason we are treated so poorly by BB&T employees is because working for BB&T is so stressful they just can't deal with the work policies and workload. WTF. Is that a good reason to rip us of and use that as an excuse to treat us as customers in a horrible way. If you are considering opening ANY account with BB&T think again because they will find a way to take your money.
Reviewed May 17, 2018
Vendor dispute: I documented many times through letters and verification invoices I should not have been charged $900 from Nuisance Wildlife Rangers (Pest Control). Despite BB&T ruling in my favor for the credit, they refused because of elapsed time from the incident. I even wrote to the CEO. BBT - please if you are reading this, find a way to credit the $900 back.
Reviewed May 10, 2018
When I bought a new car in 2017, I chose BB&T to do my auto loan. I was delighted with the service and a very user-friendly interface for the online and the bank app. Just this year, I decided to switch my bank because they were offering a better APR and there was no problem with that. My new bank notified me that I made an overpayment of $545.47 and probably should contact BB&T for a refund check. While getting no notification about an overpayment on BB&T I decided to call them. To my surprise they were aware of this issue. The first customer agent told me that they sent the check to my old address and I did apologize to them by not providing my current address. They said it was fine and that they will mail my check to the new address.
Everything sounds normal up to here but after three weeks of waiting I got nothing. I called them back and they said that the check was still not mailed out because if the refund check is over $300, a loan officer must verify it. I never heard of this nonsense before but I decided to go with it. I waited 3 more weeks and they told me that it's been mailed out and I should receive it within couple days. It has been two weeks now and I just called them back and they said the check was mailed out on the 18th of April and was in awe that I still didn't receive it. It has been 3 months now since I waited for this check and it seems like nobody tends to give a ** about customers after they switch banks. I do not and will not recommend BB&T to my friends or family because this is unbelievable. I will take my money elsewhere.
Reviewed April 23, 2018
I decided to switch from BofA to BB&T for my merchant services as BB&T is an active Plano Chamber member and I wanted to do business with another Chamber member. After the first meeting with my "personal banker", she had me call to get my AMEX merchant ID so they could get it set up in their systems to be able to process payments. After several calls to them to find out why I wasn't able to process certain transactions, not just AMEX, I was told it was something with the other bank I was trying to charge to and I would have to contact them. Thankfully I hadn't shut my service off with BofA yet and tried them and payments went through with no issues. I tried to contact my personal banker many times and would not receive return calls and someone else in the bank would tell me to contact merchant services. I had to discontinue using BB&T due to these and other issues and went back to BofA where there were no issues.
I am very upset in the fact that due to their errors that I was still charged an early termination fee of $195. I cancelled my service with them in August of 2017 and just now in April of 2018 am receiving a bill for this $195 even though it's $100 less than they would normally charge, I don't feel I should be paying anything due to their issues and causing me to lose business. I never agreed that I would pay even the $195, but was repeatedly told that I signed their contract, so I owed it... As they didn't fulfill their end of the contract, I shouldn't owe anything. I guess this is how BB&T is making extra money for doing nothing but causing heartache to a small business owner.
Reviewed April 20, 2018
The worst banking experience I have ever had and I have removed all my accounts from this bank. Most times I have entered the office to do banking, they don't know how to do the transaction and have to call for help. They offered me free checking, then 4 months later automatically started to charge me $30/month. I needed a payoff statement from them, it has been more than a week, still no payoff statement and it has delayed my closing. I called customer service to get help, they literally hung up on me when I said it was unacceptable not to get a payoff in a week. They need to be investigated for poor business practices. Stay far away.
Reviewed April 19, 2018
Over the past few years that I’ve been with BB&T I’ve had nothing but displeasure. I’ll start from the beginning, around May of 2015 I opened my account with a woman named Jackie, very nice lady, she asked me if I wanted to be opted in to overdraft fees or not, I said, “No I didn’t want that” so I was supposedly opted out. I was also told that I would receive a debit card in the mail in 3-5 business days. 2 weeks go by and no card! I call the branch and they tell me she messed up my address, so they sent my debit card to the wrong address with money in my account because I deposited $50 or $100 when I started. If the wrong person would've got that, that would’ve been my money down the drain. Thankfully that didn’t happen.
So 3 days later I got the card, now let’s skip past a few months, BB&T’s way of charges being on the account is awful. It takes days of pending to post for some things whereas other things just show up one day posted. It can be tricky knowing how much you actually have available, So I made a mistake and got $10 in gas and I didn’t have it, my card didn’t decline so I thought nothing of it. I check my account the next day as always and boom, an overdraft fee. Call the bank and told them I got an overdraft fee when I have overdraft protection SUPPOSEDLY and they tell me that the lady who opened my account is no longer with them so they can’t verify with her BUT that she was very accurate so they don’t think she made an error.
I informed them on the debit card incident and asked how accurate she really was (the number was 59, she put something like 14 or along the lines of the two not sounding similar). So finally the lady tells me to come in and sign a document to opt me out and I asked if there were other options due to my job schedule and they said no, it has to be in person legally, said ok. I got there and signed it so phew no more worries! Right?! Wrong.
Skip to July 2017, BB&T took the same bill out two times which resulted in a negative balance which led to guess what?! ANOTHER OVERDRAFT FEE! Oh but not one! Not two! But three!!! Of them! $108 in total. Long story short on that situation it was found as bank error and I was credited back not only my 2nd bill and the $108 but also all the money being charged to my account from calling them! You have 2 free calls in a month and if you call a third time they charge you $2.00 a call and don’t tell you that! I was calling back because it took them 2 months to return all my money back to me, they kept claiming it would be there in 2 days and then it was 4 days and then it was tomorrow and so forth but at the end of the call they always said, “If it's not there by ___ give us a call back again!!!” I didn’t hear anywhere that said “if your money isn’t there by __ give us a call back but it’ll be $2.00”. Smh!
So needless to say I was extremely annoyed. I only kept the account further since the first scenario because of the job I had, they only offered direct deposit but at this point I’ve had it. I go down to PNC because I've heard they were fabulous so I apply for a bank account, I got denied. Now me only being in my early 20’s and BB&T being the only bank I've been at, I didn’t even know you could get denied for a bank account, I've always had great credit and I figured that’s what it would rely on, but nope, they said I could open a starter account with them but it would charge a high interest rate for 2 years because my bank credit was so bad and he explained due to all the overdraft fees I had, I couldn’t get approved. (Now you know I'm furious at this) Of course even explaining to him there wasn’t anything he could do. So I was stuck.
I started a new bank account with Simple, they have no fees or anything, I started only using BB&T to transfer funds. I was at peace with that and felt alright staying with them, until 3 days ago. Now this is April 2018, I got paid on Friday, I paid my bills with Simple but I put 3 through on BB&T because I needed to save some extra money on Simple and it has an option to do so, I check on Saturday, nothing posted just pending payments, I had an incoming transfer that’s supposed to have been cleared on Monday, so skip to Monday. I look at my account and I have -$240. Mind you my paychecks are not light, I put half in BB&T & half in Simple, I had near $500 in that account on Friday and $130 coming on Monday. Somehow BB&T has no record of my money transfer and it didn’t go through, so I received 3 overdraft fees totalling $108.
Completely baffled I call in, you won’t believe it! I have not been credited since the FIRST incident in 2015 because in 2017 they claimed it was such a “hassle” (FOR TWO MONTHS) because I hadn’t hit my 2 yr mark from credits yet apparently. It has now been over 2 yrs so I figured maybe they’ll have no problem reversing the 3 overdraft fees, I told them if they could please do so I would come and deposit the money in person instead of transferring it, they can’t waive it. Why? Because they claim in November of 2017 I was credited 8 FREAKING DOLLARS which used my credit for the next 2 yrs!!! Here's the thing! It gets better, I have no recollection of calling in November for $8. November 2017 was a very very hard year for us, we lost my boyfriend's grandmother who we’re living with, and he was away and had to miss her funeral. I didn’t have time to deal with the banks b.s. during November.
What I suggested to the very rude SUPERVISOR who was huffing and puffing every time we accidentally talked at the same time, I even apologized and let her speak, is that maybe I called because of some sort of issue and got phone call fees removed or something similar and she told me, “No. There was no way it was a partial overdraft fee credit”, I said to her, “Maam if I called in for an overdraft fee to be waived and they said only $8 will be given to me, I'm telling them to keep it. I get 1 credit for 2 years and I'm not wasting that credit on $8”. She escalated to research department and told me she couldn’t do anything and said they'll be in contact in 24-48 hrs. I was very upset.
Next day, 2 more overdraft fees. Get a supervisor again, she seemed nice at first, and then I started to notice she was not listening to what I was saying, only hearing. She talked the whole time and would not give me a chance to speak. I kept quiet and let her talk for a while, she started saying things that were incorrect so I tried to politely interrupt to correct her so she didn’t spend another 10 minutes explaining something with wrong information, she would not stop. So finally I said, after being so calm and patient because I too am from customer service I say to her sternly, “Ma'am please give me a minute to talk please” and she finally let me, then interrupts me to talk again and this time I talk over her and say, "Ma'am you are interrupting me when I asked for a moment to talk" and she says she’s ending the call and hangs up. Nice. I never cussed at her, used profanity, insulted her, or anything but be stern after being patient and nice. No warning, no nothing.
Now while we were on the phone I recorded the conversation and told her I was recording which she consented to, during our conversation she informed me the supervisor who claimed I was wrong and didn’t get a phone credit fee put in the notes it was a possible credit from a phone fee that an agent put in incorrectly and that’s why I'm having this huge problem. She also tells me I will not be receiving any more overdraft fees. At this point they are all current and up to date, and that it's not 24-48 hrs but 3-5 days to be contacted from the research department. Now today, (yeah I'm not done) I check my account once again after seeing in my email this morning I got 2 more overdraft fees, people we are up to 7 total overdraft fees. My bank account is at -$340 and that’s after adding $35 in.
Called back. Get another supervisor, tell her I'm recording and she tells me that she does not consent to me recording because of policy, I ask to see the policy and tells me I'm not allowed, she tells me the other supervisor shouldn’t have consented. I ask for a different supervisor as she tries to hang up on me, I get someone new. She told me she didn’t consent and I told her how bad of business that is because if they were doing nothing wrong in the first place and not giving out false and different information, why am I not allowed to record? They’re recording me!!!
So I ask if I could get the recording on their end sent to me, she says only if I get a lawyer to do so. Ridiculous. So whatever, continues the call and I explain to her how I have 8 items total and 7 overdraft fees but had almost $500 in the account beforehand. The difference is $130 which is what was being deposited. I could understand 2 fees but 7?! Get out of here. If they don’t do anything about this they’re going to get another headache from me.
Reviewed April 19, 2018
BB&T restacked my debit card transactions to assess NSF fees. I watched and documented it as it was happening and finally called them out on it. I went back and forth with them via email and they have not admitted it and kept telling me it "could" be this, it "may" have been that, it is "possible" of that... I never got a straight answer from them as if they didn't know what to say. Finally I ordered a transaction report from their system and it shows all the transactions were in fact restacked and not in the order that they came in per BB&T online banking. Legal charges are now pending.
Reviewed April 14, 2018
I opened an account in January and put in 50 dollars to open the account. Within days I tried to access the funds and they informed my account was "blocked" because my address could not be verified. I more than 5 times had to jump hoops to provide proof of my address, I could not get through customer service because my account was blocked and had to keep going to the branch, I gave my lease agreement, pay stub, credit card statement, utility bill, all of that to a teller in the branch for her to scan to the "fraud" department. Are you kidding me? I even provided them with their own bank statements that I received on the blocked account at the address they have on file.
How can I get their statements if I don't live where they mail them? One day I open one of the statements and they had charged me 12 maintenance fees on a blocked account that had never been used. Not only that but the teller I gave the documents so she could scan them to the "fraud" department quit and never sent any of the documents through... Just now 3 months later the account is finally unblocked and usable and I got the fees reversed but I cant get through customer service because I have the wrong pin. I never set up a pin to begin with... This bank specializes in blocking accounts, keeping your money hostage and charging fees, the customer service is nonexistent. Do yourself a favor and bank somewhere else!
Reviewed April 13, 2018
My savings account was closed by the BB&T. This account was set up for my direct deposits. I went into the branch to find out my options. They advised me to open a checking account to make transfers from my savings and that would keep the saving account active. However; those transfers ended up closing the saving account because you cannot do 6 transactions per month from savings.
I was not aware of this information. I informed the branch manager that I have direct deposits that will be coming through that closed account. She told me to call the 24 hour customer service number and explain the issue. They told me to go back to the branch because they had no power to transfer money from a closed account to an opened account. I was bounced back and forth for 10 days and I was charged $2 for each call I made to customer service. I will be closing my account with BB&T as soon as possible. They are horrible in the way they treat customers.
Reviewed April 10, 2018
What’s the point of setting up a bill pay & it comes out 5 days before it post on your account. So I set up a bill to be paid out of my account on Monday 04/09/18. That bill pay was then sent to pending on 04/05/18. I had a direct deposit set to come into my account within hours of setting up the bill pay. The next day I notice I was charged for an overdraft that had not even happened yet. Contacted the bank wondering how could I be charged for something that hasn’t even post yet. That bill wasn’t posted to my account until 4 days later. The bank then refuse to refund me the overdraft. I could see if I always get overdraft fees on my account but it’s only happened twice including this time since I’ve open the account.
I don’t understand the whole mobile device if your money don’t post accurately. The overdraft fee was posted way before the bill pay came out. I told the banker I was dissatisfied in how things were being handled. Even considered closing my account. They told me to make show all pending payments post and then come inside to close the account.
Reviewed April 7, 2018
BB&T Construction To Perm Loan disaster - For a company the size of BB&T, not very well organized and extremely slow in their process and paperwork. Not friendly/helpful employees for the most part with a decent one here and there. My builder won't even use them on new jobs and will pass on the work.
Reviewed April 5, 2018
I sent a Zelle payment the other day and I have sent and received multiple of them before. They have not put the money back into my account even after them sending me an email saying that it had failed. They have also locked me out from being able to see my online and mobile account. I can’t see my purchases and they won’t let me log in. When I went into a branch the guy I talked to was very rude. He told me that I needed to leave because he needed to call someone and I couldn’t listen? I have yet to receive a call or email telling me what I need to do. I DON'T recommend this bank. Go somewhere else. I now have to call and get an automated call and not able to get a person.
Reviewed April 3, 2018
Yes folks, these slimy ** double charged an already completed transaction and placed the second charge in "pending" status!!!
Another example, my 16 year old son started a savings account with a card attached to it. He opted OUT of the overdraft protection... just to receive a total of 3 overdrafts thus far. When we approach the bank, they come up with some cockamamie reason for the charge. They simply call it something else and steal $36, from a ** kid. Folks if you're looking for a bank, please heed my warning and the many others you'll find and stay, no, run as fast as you can away from BB&T. Not to mention the actual bank tellers in store are extremely rude and stupid. Trying to save a few shekels by hiring morons I guess. Go anywhere else, please.
Reviewed April 2, 2018
I hate BB&T. This bank will make you want to make you lose all peace. Every week I've been getting a late and return fee even when Iknow for a fact I had the money in my account. It's taking them 22 days to post payments! Even when you used debit. For example I had a payment to sos.ga.gov for $50 on 3/20. On my bank status it says posted, I called this morning, the lady tell me that the payment is still pending and when it goes through it will be 2 freaking payments for $36, one for a late fee and the other for a return fee! Yes I'm pissed! Because this is gauging and stealing!
WHY in the hell the payment didn't already go through!!! It's April 2nd now! I feel like something is wrong because this has happened at least 3 or 4 times to me since January and I know for a fact I don't use my card unless I have the money on it. BB&T IS THE WORST BANK TO EVER BANK WITH! A lawsuit will come soon because it has to be some sort being done with this bank!
Reviewed March 28, 2018
OMGoodness. These guys are a rip off. I'd post a -10 star rating if I could. I understand amortization, reverse amortization and yada yada yada... But this is terrible. I won't get into too many specifics, but they make it HARD to make a large payment on your car loan. Then you can only make a certain # of payments in a certain time frame. What? I'M TRYING TO GIVE YOU MONEY. HA! So I call the phone # to speak w/ someone, on hold for 27 min... "Nope, sorry sir, you'll need to mail in your payment." WHAT!!?? So I mail in a payment, which isn't due now for another 4 months with a check specifically stating to post on my principal balance only. So I check my account a few days later, yep. They charged me more interest! Hahaha! Never again with these clowns. NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN.
Reviewed March 27, 2018
So I recently applied for BB&T Visa CC. I transferred two balance, 1) 6K 2) 4. Total $10K. So I get my new card and guess what the credit limit was. RIGHT. $10k... Card is virtually useless. I begin to be embarrassed at stores who are declining my card. So I contact "my banker" and ask them to increase my credit limit by 1 or 2 thousand dollars, I think that is a reasonable request... They proceed to do a "hard credit inquiry" which has lowered my credit rating (thanks BB&T).
So this is a bank that has known me for 20 years, I have two checking accounts, a line of credit I can use up to $3k and they refuse to increase the card limit because I have one had it for 1 month. I get it, but if you are going to issue a Visa CC to pay off balances, wouldn't it just make sense to enable the customer to use of card! Did I mention that they have known me for 20 years, starting the Raleigh, NC and because I was loyal, I thought I would maintain our mutual relationship. Did I mention that BOTH Equifax and TransUnion rate my credit EXCELLENT. This is nothing but a small time bank that could care less about their customers. I will be moving all of my account to CHASE or BOA, BB&T Sucks!
Reviewed March 27, 2018
I was assessed an overdraft fee due to a pending item that would result in an overdraft when posted. Ex. 2/18 $100 posted balance. 2/19 $75 posted item + $36 overdraft fee for a pending item that has not yet posted (-11). 2/20 pending item posted $30 + overdraft fee for same item that put me in the negative to begin with. Can you say double Jeopardy? When I asked, “What if the pending item never posted would you refund me the fees”, The response was, “No.”
Reviewed March 24, 2018
Bank likes to set 'due dates' for payments on dates that they will not accept payment. They are fond of setting Sunday due dates when the closest day payment can actually be made is 2 days prior (Friday). So you can make a payment the day before the due date (a Saturday) and they will still collect a late fee from that customer who actually paid 24 hours BEFORE the payment was due. This seems shady - done on purpose to collect 'late' fees from people who made their payments before the due date.
Reviewed March 22, 2018
They hold onto certain transactions to cause you to overdraft. Some take a week to come out, others a mere few minutes. I really DO NOT understand them. They scammed me out of 242 dollars. Thank you so much but I will be taking my business elsewhere. I keep opting out so I don't get overdraft and surprise surprise I'm always opted back in to let them pick and choose what to let overdraft my account.
Reviewed March 21, 2018
I had this bank from October 2017 until February 2018, and it was the worst experience. Between my account stating I had “x” dollars, but really not having any, being accused of fraud, and having to deal with RUDE customer service, it was an awful experience. They closed my account without consent, even though it being overdrawn WAS NOT MY FAULT. I will NEVER recommend this bank to anyone!
Reviewed March 21, 2018
I have been with BB&T Bank of Southlake, 270 Kimbell Blvd. Texas for only 2 months. I applied with them in February of 2018. The initial guy that open my account was very pleasant and nice. I was excited to get started. However that is not his normal branch. Two weeks of having my bank account open $60 came up missing out of my account overnight. I received a message from the bank saying that there was some type of glitch in the system and that everything will be corrected. However that never happened. Two more weeks went past and another $109 came up missing out of my account. I immediately went to the branch office to sit down to try to figure out what is going on. The guy that assisted me his name is ** he was very impatient and didn't seem to know what he was doing. He called a lady named ** in the back office. ** was very rude and could not give me an explanation over the phone as to why my funds were missing.
Today March the 20th $34.44 more is missing out of my account. I went into the branch today to talk to ** to figure out why. ** could not give me an explanation. Instead he secretly emailed ** while I was sitting at the desk speaking with him. ** calls and demands that the call be put on the speakerphone. I tried to go over with them to see what was going on with my account. I said if things don't get figured out I will be filing a suit. ** panic and said, "I will be shutting your account down immediately. Your services are no longer wanted here and I can exercise that right." ** told me I had 10 days to get my money out of her bank account and she told me to leave that branch immediately.
First of all I have never ever in my life had a bank tell me this. It seems to me as if though they have something to hide. I am an ** lady. I feel like I was racially discriminated against as well as violated. And my moneys are still missing. I need help. This branch has been so unprofessional and each time I walk into the bank they make me feel unwanted. As a ** I am not trying to pull the race card but it is what it is in this situation. Very unprofessional and they do steal your money.
Reviewed March 19, 2018
Had wind damage to our home March 3 and got the adjuster to come out and look at the home. Received the check on 3-19, took it to the bank and they said they couldn't cash it because we were due on our mortgage. The people that done the work was waiting on their money and now they won't get paid. I told them to just take the payment out of the check. They said they couldn't do that. BB&T is terrible. Wish we could go somewhere else.
Reviewed March 14, 2018
My wife and I are customers of BB&T. We have direct deposit every month that amounts over 10000 dollars. Our credit scores are good and our accounts are always paid on time. I'm so disappointed that every time I go to get a loan from my bank I have to get it elsewhere. This to me is not building any relationship with the customer. We have 3 car loans, a mortgage, and 2 personal loans. None of which are through this bank. It's for these reasons we will be looking for another bank especially with my growing company to use. Again just such severe disappointment that this bank can't help a loyal and always current customer. Just not a good bank!
Reviewed March 9, 2018
First I keep a ledger of my account balance. I also have the BB&T online so I can see my balance and pending transactions which coincide with my ledger. I had a positive balance. I went to the store, used my debit card twice and looked at my new balance which was accurate. Next day I went to the bank and used my card for gas; next morning I wake up and see I'm negative $166 and I was charge $36.00 overdraft fee 4 times. I went to the branch met with the Branch Manager. He said he investigated it and the vendor had put my transactions through but then backed it out which caused my account to be negative but then ran the same transactions again.
This is not something as a customer we can see on our transactions. It only shows pending and the balance is accurate. So why should I have to be hit with fees when it was already calculated out of my positive balance. I live pay check to pay check and now I'm in a tight financial position because BB&T will not accommodate the customer. I'm moving my account and will be spreading the word to as many people as possible to not bank here. I work in the Financial business myself and have never seen this type of funny business and cheating people out of money. I will go to the Corporate Office and discuss these tactics further. My $166.00 means a lot to me. I work hard for my money; not to just give it away due to scams like this.
Reviewed March 5, 2018
My 18 year old daughter had thought she misplaced her ATM card so she borrows her mom's who was on her account as she is primary on our account and our kids as secondary. She notified BB&T when she realized the misplaced card was stolen and being used. l or a duplicate was being used. Then she starts getting charges NSF charges on the fraudulent withdrawals. She makes minimum wage at Zaxby’s and works 22 - 30 hrs per week. She now owes BB&T close to $2200.00 for the fraud and NSF as BB&T denied the fraud claim, because they think she had something to do with it.
They don’t have proof and they didn’t lock down her account when she notified them. They continued to let it remain and kept charging $35.00 NSF charges that they refuse to waive. This organization is terrible and we have banked with them for 18 years including a mortgage. Adios to you thiefs at BB&T. Your fraud dept is useless and your customer service is just as bad. Hire investigators that work and not someone that just threatens them client/victims.
Reviewed March 5, 2018
On February 22nd, 2018, the bank lost outage and left customer out dry until the February 27,2018. Due to some technical online issue, the bank cards, ATMs, and even deposits were not submitted. My IRS check was sent to my account February 22, 2018 and today is March 5, 2018. I’ve called this bank over 50 times, sent every form possible, confirmed the amount just to be informed we can’t do nothing about that yet have they already apologize to every customer about the outage that lasted 4 days but my money not being in my account but in space is not there fault. I’m facing eviction and nothing has been confirmed to me by this bank. I feel used, betrayed, disrespected for me to put my trust into a company and receive nothing, no sense of ownership taking to resolve a matter which was not dictated by me.
Reviewed March 4, 2018
We have been having an issue with them holding certain transactions and not others to what seems like cause NSF fees and from reading other reviews, we aren't the only people having this issue. It seems to be their #1 complaint from consumers. That they are absolute thieves. They just had this huge system crash and nobody could see their accounts for days. They said they were working to restore everyone's accounts and make things right so, let's go over how they made things right for me. We have 2 checking accounts. One that rarely ever gets used and the other as our primary. Well, during this process, the one that never gets used (we don't even have a card tied to it) had about 20 different balances over a 4 day period. Which we knew they were having the issues they were having so we thought, “Hey, give them a chance to fix it and no worries right?” WRONG.
I'm currently setting at a $-734 balance in a checking account that we don't even really use. I got 3 NSF fees for $100+ a piece. Now, if I had went wild and blown my money, ok I earned that but that couldn't be further from the truth. Moral of the story is, BB&T are absolute crooks and do some very shady stuff with your money to make sure you have to pay them fees. I'd rather go to Wells Fargo and have my identity stolen than pay these jokers thousands of dollars just because it's amusing to them. Do not use BB&T if you enjoy keeping the money you work for. I urge everyone to find another bank. They are awful and unwilling to make their mistakes right.
Reviewed March 3, 2018
I'm still dealing with the aftermath of this "collapse" and today I'm in the negative when I deposited money on Thursday? Money transactions missing from my account then reappearing days later. Today customer service claims they cannot remedy the situation bc on their end the deposit wasn't in there yesterday, it's scheduled for Monday, then try to blame the vendor. Yeah a decade of loyal service in leaving today. @BB&T just lost another customer and will be reported to the BBB and whomever else needs to know.
Reviewed March 2, 2018
This is the absolutely worst bank ever for a business account! Their level 3 banker knows nothing and can’t even explain the difference between availability and posted balances. We have over 1k floating around that no one can explain where it’s at!!! Is one star the lowest because I rate them a flat ZERO.

Reviewed Feb. 28, 2018
I cannot stress enough. Do Not Bank Here. These guys are absolutely terrible. Somehow they managed to change my payoff quote on my mortgage into a 45k+ increase to my loan balance. Their customer service flat out lies and after a week it’s still unresolved with no glimmer of hope it’s going to be resolved. Do not use them. For anything. Use a loan shark instead. It would be less stress or bury your money in your yard. Literally anything is better than BB&T.
Reviewed Feb. 28, 2018
All customers are having problems with this bank. On Monday Feb 26, 2018 I had over 80$ in my bank account but due to an unknown BB&T error I am -40$ in my account. I called the bank that day and they said there was a bank error and that everything would be fixed by that night. Two days later I am still negative in my account. I called them again to report fraud on the company and their department had a waiting list of over 37 mins at 8 am in the morning. When they answered they had no helpful information besides that they would have problem resolved by tomorrow morning. This is fraud. I have no gas money to get to work, to eat or to do anything. Can anyone help me with a class action lawsuit because I'm not the only person that got screwed over here. There are thousands of people with this problem. Help us!
Reviewed Feb. 25, 2018
Boycott Big Banks! Hey 3rd day no access to my hard earned money! On 26 Feb, I will open an account with a small local bank, then after I’m paid the money I overpaid to the IRS, I will close my BB&T account plus 3 additional accounts I have at this bank! We are the people. We have power, let’s show how much power by depleting BB&T pockets during the next week! This is ridiculous. At least in Europe you receive an alert, plus the banks face big government fines? What’s going on in our country, this is theft! Maybe we can call the police on BB&T, that they have stolen our money the same as your everyday crook!
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2018
I get so tired of BB&T taking money from me. Mind you, I admit that sometimes I may have a check returned, but why do they make you pay for it over and over. They have taken $400 from my account because of 2 checks in the amounts of $15 and $20. That is highway robbery. I do not have a lot of money and I really try hard not to overdraft, but with my limited income because of retirement. There must be a limit on this practice of taking money in the name of bank fees. This time it is $300 because of a $50 check and a draft for $50 that did not make it. Please tell me this is illegal. I have direct deposits coming in monthly.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2018
Wow, I've considered changing banks for a while but really didn't want to deal with it. After today however I'm over it. So you have a "system malfunction" on payday so my direct deposit that happened at midnight last night isn't there. You don't answer or return phone calls and when I go by the branch I get no answers. Now it is 3:41 in the afternoon and I have no money, I guess I'll tell my kids it's cereal for dinner because the money I worked so hard for all week isn't there because of BB&T's "system malfunction". I'm sure they are all knocking off right on time today too.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2018
Let’s first start off by saying, "DONT BANK HERE. You’ll save yourself the stress!" The online system and the phone system has been down for the 2nd day now! There is no way of finding out your balance or anything unless you go into the branch which is time wasting because even once you go into the branch they take forever and they are unprofessional! This is not the first time the system has been down. One day I went to 4 ATM’s at different locations and they were all down! They don’t email you to let you know anything! They don’t post your ACCURATE transactions! Don’t bank here. I would close my account today but I need my bank card for Uber but tomorrow I will be closing my account!
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2018
As I write this on 2/23/18 at 10:15 in the morning all avenues to access BB&T accounts via web, phone and ATM are down. This is the worst experience in banking I have ever seen in my 58 years. Feed the squirrels, crank the handle, do whatever it takes to keep your antiquated system up and running. These folks are behind the times.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2018
BB&T for the last 4 hrs in my area have reported the website down, mobile app and phone automated systems are down. They are not saying anything, not providing any updates or anything. It's just amazing on the day that the tax deposits went in they are having systems issues.
Reviewed Feb. 22, 2018
Disgraceful that their phone menu does not even have an avenue to talk to an actual human being... I am so mad about this that I will be finding another bank to deal with my home mortgage! Really BB&T not cool, I will tell everyone what a joke you are!!!
Reviewed Feb. 21, 2018
Recently financed a vehicle thru BB&T, called for a pay off to move the note to my credit union. Good luck getting a person to answer. They will not give you a ten-day pay off over the phone only by mail. POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE, RUN DON'T WALK AWAY FROM THIS BANK. They will only send by mail so that they can per diem you and get that last bit of money from you. Even if you sign up online and access your account you cannot get a payoff from your account info. This is by far the worst experience I have ever had with a financial institution!!!
Reviewed Feb. 18, 2018
Each time I have tried to pay association fees at BB&T it has taken 15-20 min at the window and inside the bank as well. I don't and won't bank there ever. Just need to pay association fees without taking my entire lunch break to do so.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2018
Time is worth money and that goes for a future customer. Clueless branch manager and staff in opening an account. One hand did not know what the other was doing. Instead of giving them fancy offices and name plaques, possibly hiring staff who know basic banking and computer skills might do a world of good. Bermuda Run branch horrible and Clemmons branch no better. Find skilled labor and pay them accordingly. You not only lost me as a potential customer but also my business accounts. Very happy that I now found an excellent bank that listens and has skilled staff to take my transactions.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2018
I was questioned by Deanna ** an employee at Nicholson Branch Bank in Independence about being on FMLA because she heard that I was off work from of a co-worker who was a relative to someone who sat next to me where I was employed. Apparently, they have no privacy act in place with their employees. That is a severe violation of my privacy and she should not be discussing my private or work life to anyone. I highly advise changing to another bank since corporate won't do anything with this big mouth. Seriously, don't she have anything else to do at work except for gossip. Stay away from BB&T if you want your privacy invaded. They also use this as a selling tool. Get your information and try to shove their services down your throat. They are a sinking ship. Do your due diligence. I closed all my accounts with BB&T.
Reviewed Feb. 9, 2018
I changed to BBT Bank partly because the company I work for uses the bank and were offering a promotion and also because I am moving to NC where the bank has a strong presence. I have had accounts there for several months now and started to experience some odd things happening, things that I had never come across in years and years of banking at B of A and Suntrust.
Their online system is OK nothing out of the ordinary, but I did notice that a lot of charges are simply listed by an address not the business name which is unusual. Makes it hard to figure out what is what when you have a lot of charges, especially when traveling. Just a nuisance, but not the end of the world I admit. I also noticed from the getgo their branch buildings are kind of dank, not very pleasant, dull colors, smelly. I have been in several of their bank buildings locally and they are all pretty much the same. The people working in them don't seem very happy either.
However, what really started to tick me off was when I brought in a Bank Cashiers Check to deposit in my account from closing Suntrust. The teller said the funds will not be available for several days. I believe it actually ended up being close to 8 days. When I asked why this was I was told of some banking regulation or other. I protested and said this is a Bank Cashiers Check - it is as good as cash. Why do I have to wait? Again, same regulation was the response. Again I protested and said I don't understand, I have never heard of, or experienced, this before at any other bank. Anyway, I let it go.
Then just today, I deposited an expenses check from my company and was again told there was a hold. A portion of the check would be available in 48 hours and the balance sometime after that. Well that was it for me. I demanded to know why that was - the check was a BBT check from my company. Again, some regulation or other. I protested saying this was not right. The teller went off and came back a few minutes later and apologized and said she did not realize it was a BBT check (it was stamped right on it in big bold letters) and said the funds will be available before close of business that day. We shall see.
I know exactly what it is they are doing, and it is not good - they are taking my (or your) money and using it to make money themselves. Remember, these are not personal checks, they are named bank and BBT checks that should be as good as cash. Holding other people's money is a common practice in business, particularly the contracting business, and this temporary positive cash flow is used by companies to make money for themselves as it flows through their books. I have just never heard of this being done by a bank. I think it is very unscrupulous. The first day I move to NC I am moving my money elsewhere. I don't trust them. I wish I had done a little more research before putting myself in this bank.
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2018
Worst bank ever. Can anyone tell me if it is legal for them to charge $8 to cash a check that was on their bank then wouldn't cash a check that was on their bank. I could understand a check that's not on that's just they said. Had to have the guy that wrote it to me to come out and tell. Cause him a trip out. That's not the first time. I recommend everyone stay away from that bank. Nothing but trouble every time I’ve been in there.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2018
I don't agree with their overdraft fee practices. They take as much overdraft fee as possible. They will take their time to post a transaction even though you have the funds and keep a positive balance on your account. They wait for an opportunity for another transaction to go in so that your account is negative. At this point is when they decide to post your early transaction so that they can charge you for two overdraft fees. It happened twice to me now. I have been a loyal customer for many years, but no more.
Reviewed Jan. 31, 2018
I have been with this bank briefly and I’m not happy at all. I've never been with a bank that takes days to post transactions. I keep a tight eye on my account but since I’ve opened this account I’ve paid over 8 overdraft fees. I’m not understanding cause I’ve banked with Chase and BofA and have never had this many issues with overdraft fees and transaction being there and then not there and then reappearing. Like I wish I could say it was me and first few times I thought it was. But I’m doing nothing different than I did with previous accounts.
I deposited a check today prior to cut off and a hold was placed which is cool. I called the customer service number and was advised not to worry. My funds would be available in the morning. I check my account and there is a exception/administrative hold on my check. Never have I ever experience this so now my account is tremendously overdrawn and I’m waiting on a direct deposit and have things to handle. I’m so over this bank. As soon as they release my money I’m closing that account down. I don’t want anything to do with BB&T. I’m beyond livid with this bank.
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2018
The reason I first loved BB&T was because they did not rearrange your transactions to take the largest bill out first like their competitors. This all changed in 2017. Now they rearrange your transactions so they can take as many overdraft fees as possible even though you had enough money for 9 out of 10 of your transactions. They also hold "Previous Day overdraft fee" for weeks! When you call to complain they give you the classic "well you should have a ledger and keep track of your account". As soon as my tax return is deposited I am canceling my account. I am SO disappointed. This once amazing company has become greedy and robbing its loyal customers blind.
Reviewed Jan. 25, 2018
I went to close my account, the agent advised me to take out as much as I needed but wait to close it until I switched everything to a new account. They charged me $12 a month for 8 months until I realized it! They 100% didn't tell me if I didn't leave $1500 or more in it then I would start to be charged monthly. Such a sneaky way to rob people. I used BBT for almost 10 years, but I will never go back.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2018
Refused to give me a 10 day payoff, refused to give me my lien release. I am done. I will make sure they will never get a referral from me! I want my lien release sent to me, it's not anyone else's! Why are you sending it to my job who had to call and get the payoff because I would have had to wait 15 days.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2018
The online banking system is horrible. I am constantly having to change my username and password. It tells me that my password is incorrect and to call the bank to unlock the account. I wait on hold for 30 minutes for them to unlock the account. I log in one time and then I'm locked out again. I'm so, so tired of this happening over and over again. I'm looking for another bank.
Reviewed Jan. 21, 2018
I wish I had read the reviews about this bank earlier, then I would not have to deal with this. Long story short and I was charged overdraft fee twice because their really slow system. All the money is there, never one cents short, I swear. While they were already charged me $36 first time, I called and they told me this is only one time courtesy refunded. The Representative told me, "I have already made a reversed fee to your account". While on the phone with her, I checked my online banking. I told her I have not seen any changed. She told me to log out and log back in to refresh the system, So I did. Nothing changed. She said it 's already in the system, she already saw it on her monitor.
I also asked her, "There will be a deducted amount money tomorrow that I already paid someone with my check. Is it ok for them to withdraw". She said "Yes, no problem! You are fine." My point is after I talked over the phone with her the all the minimum money would already be there. I just found out today, they charged me for the overdraft fee $36 again. I was beyond frustrated. I called them again. But you can guess what came afterwards, that there is no use. They are not listening. All they said is they cannot do anything about it. She recommended me the solution "Just use debit card, then you won't be overcharged for the fee again". I told her "My solution is I will get out of here and close my bank account down first thing tomorrow morning". My recommendation, don't even bother thinking about doing business with this bank. I learned my dumb reason, so don't make the same mistakes I do.
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2018
I am a BB&T customer and have been for a many of years. I have never had real issues with this bank until the chip enabled changeover of the atm machine was put in at my location. I am a server, and am constantly making cash deposits on a daily basis. My issue is that the atm is non-functioning 80% of the time leaving me unable to make the deposits that I need, then charging overdraft fees. The new maintenance fee just seemed to pop out of nowhere and it falls on different days of the month keeping me guessing which day it will be coming out. I am just not a happy customer anymore and looking for a new bank.
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2018
If I could give this bank negative stars, I would. My account was hacked from out of state. BB&T allowed the hacker to keep making charges over a two day span putting my account into the negative. When it was all said and done the hackers charged over $1000. BB&T response? Tough luck. I am a single mother who lives paycheck to paycheck. Every penny I have in this world I entrusted to BB&T. Now I have to wait up to 20 days to "possibly" get my money back. This means I do not have money to pay my sitter, my car, my rent, buy food for my 3 year old, etc. With no sitter I have no job. With no job... etc.
I spoke with a BB&T representative and then a supervisor, neither cared and read to me their script how they are "sorry but there is nothing we can do". "We understand... blah blah blah". You are sorry and you understand? Really? Then why are you keeping MY money? The customer service could not care any less than they already do. I was not only raped by the ** that stole my money, but I was raped by the bank that I trusted to protect my money. I have had minor to more major issues with BB&T (from not getting me my debit card to withholding funds) but I have stayed with them despite my better judgment. No more. This latest incident is unforgivable. I am a real life human being whose life you are destroying. But it is clear that you do not care.
Reviewed Jan. 16, 2018
Recently I opened a new bank account with BB&T. I made two deposits one in cash and one with a money order. The money order deposit was made on 1/12. As of this date 1/16 I still don't have access to the full amount of this deposit. I was told that since Monday was a holiday no postings occurred and I would have to wait until after midnight to received full access to this deposit. In the meantime the bank manager will not return calls to discuss releasing funds. This local bank is located in the Dunn Loring area in Vienna VA. If I had known this would be so complicated to get access to my own money I would have never opened an account with BB&T. My advice stay away from this bank.
Reviewed Jan. 10, 2018
This is a bank kill you with overdraft fees and doing very bad business practice. Sad part is our lawmakers allow them to charge whatever they want from customers whenever they want, nobody to regulate those charges they put on consumers. My experience is I had $140 on the checking account. I made a payment using my debit card for $127.00 expecting to cover the amount. Then same day evening I made a another payment for $23.00. Bad part is I got $36 overdraft fee twice. One for $127.00 then the another for $23.00. When I call them back their explanation is both payment came same time. Go and figure it out. I have no words to explain more. Beware of this bank. Looks like bunch of crooks working in the back office. I hope somebody come up with class action lawsuit against their overdraft policy. I am more than happy to share my experience with them.
Reviewed Jan. 7, 2018
We opened our account at one branch in FL and had huge problems for the branch putting in the wrong address in both accounts. It was beyond frustrating but fixed with a different branch in the same city. Using the second branch, we had a wonderful experience locally for 3 years. Hurricane Irma destroyed most everything we had so we returned back to NY. We had very little problems but opened a different bank there as the closest BB&T to us was in PA (Shavertown). We received a large wire transfer from a property of ours in Italy into this account and were using it to purchase a home and literally everything you can need for a home as we were staying in a motel until we could find a home and close.
We had to drive out 3 hours on closing day to get our cashiers check as well as a cash withdrawal to help us. We called ahead to be sure with ID etc and questions re the account. We have two different accounts with a spending limit of 3k each but had a lot of difficulty making online purchases the prior two days for furniture, etc. and there was no reason. We had gotten all our info updated and straight. When we arrived in PA to request our cashiers check, the teller was extremely unhelpful to the point of awkward. My husband brought his green card and social security card along with my ID but the teller was acting suspicious and unfriendly. After some time, she asked for a supervisor and it was taken care of in a very painful process.
We were on a time limit, had just driven in blizzard conditions and were becoming very agitated but kept quiet. We asked if we could have our limit put up for just a day as we needed to purchase furniture for the home. Both women were extremely awkward and would not give any kind of real answer. We asked if we could at least withdraw an amount of cash and what the limit was but had a very suspicious response by the supervisor of what exactly were we wanting to withdraw. At this point, we were extremely stressed and hassled. We asked of 5k, the cashiers check and asked at least why our purchases were not going through for some stores but fine with others. The teller responded professionally but was acting as if she didn't want to bother with anymore and did a very quick verification. Any other request she responded only with "I don't know, must be the store" without even glancing at our account.
We finally left and I spent a lot of extra time we didn't have with work, new schools, getting dishes and at least beds, etc. going all over a new town since our credit cards were being denied by furniture stores. My husband and I finally figured out that the bank was automatically stopping transactions over a certain limit. We tested this by purchasing all our furniture at the stores but one smaller item (end tables or cocktail table, etc).
We were unable to purchase anything seemingly over 1k but the same store, credit card and info went through fine online with a smaller purchase. However the bank will not verify this nor investigate what the problem is. We are going once more to close the account and bring it local. I dread this like the plague. I can't say how much extra stress this put on a family that already had an extremely stressful past months (we passed Christmas still waiting in the motel to close and just get to a home). Sometimes you can get a great location with great people with this bank while other locations are simply horrible to deal with and actually work hard to make it more difficult.
Reviewed Jan. 6, 2018
Today is Jan 5, 2018. Between cold weather and some things breaking in my home my accounts have dwindled a bit. I have always and still do keep a very good eye on my accounts. I check every day sometimes multiple times a day depending on where I swipe my card. Over the past couple of days I kept a very close eye as I was very close to over drafting but kept my checking in the positive. Last night (Jan. 4, 2018) I checked my accounts and still seen a positive number. Wake up today and check to see what my paycheck was and find out I have 4 in total overdraft fees. First dated on the 3rd and then 3 more got tacked on to me on the 4th. If I would've seen the first one I wouldn't have spent what I did when I did on the 4th.
I called customer service this morning and waited forever to speak with someone. When someone finally answered I ended up dropping the call. Immediately I called back and held again for over a half hour. I then tried again and again after that. I got fed up with waiting and decided to email them. I am still waiting on a reply. I don't understand how I ended up in the negative and then got nailed with all those overdraft fees when I checked constantly yesterday and made sure I would stay positive. I also don't understand why it is so hard to get ahold of someone so I could at least be explained to what happened. I would love to get at least 2 of the 4 fees back.
I could accept one of them cause maybe somewhere along the line I missed something or miss counted but to be whacked repeatedly with a total of 144.00 in fees is ridiculous. Especially when I had no warning at all. I even visited a BB&T branch yesterday and they didn't say about my account being negative because it wasn't. Then all of a sudden Friday rolls around and I'm negative 2 days ago and getting fees constantly. I never heard of any other bank doing that to people. I seen some reviews on here and apparently I'm not the only one getting taken over by this bank. I think a class action is in order. Or better yet for everybody BB&T needs to stop their garbage service and treat their clients better.
Reviewed Jan. 3, 2018
I overdrafted my account $40 last Thursday just to have gas and food to payday. Mind you I only had about five left. Just a little person, (don't make a lot) and I went to check my account this evening because I have direct deposit (set up to be paid tonight). Find I have been charged 8 overdraft fees of $36 a piece. I'm sure they rearranged my transactions just to get every bit they can scam you out of. Then they tell me they can only refund $36 of almost $300 they took. All they said they could do was set up a case file and send it to someone higher up who could easily just say no to refunding me the majority of my paycheck. Pending transactions my **, my BB&T app knows exactly what I have in my account in real time, but they can't give my hard earned money back on some ** pending excuse? Do not bank here, the whole thing is a scam. THEY DO NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS, JUST WHAT THEY CAN TAKE FROM YOU.
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2017
The company is garbage. When they take payments auto withdrawal from my checking account, they put it in an escrow account. They leave it there until the payment ends up late and then they charge me late fees. This company has rude and uneducated individuals for customer service. I'm so sick of this company. They should not be in business. Because of this my credit score has dropped badly and I can't refinance and go through a better company.
Reviewed Dec. 8, 2017
If you are looking for the worst customer service team in the mortgage/banking business, then BB&T is your bank. For the Records. We both have a credit score of over 760. We were putting down 40% (money coming out of one of our accounts in the BB&T bank). We were buying new construction home. We had more than enough money in the BB&T system to cover the mortgage balance two times over. That said, we spent: 6+ weeks of watching them drop the ball, 6+ weeks of broken promises. 6+ weeks of doing the same exercise over and over again, 6+ weeks of listening to them passing the buck, 6+ weeks of rescheduling movers, painters and having to delay the sale of our home (so we were not homeless).
Was not all... We opted for an auto-withdrawal (gave us a lower % on the load). BB&T then pulled the money from the wrong account (we have - had 6 in their bank) causing more issues, FYI... They did not ask us which account to use. Their massive delays and poor service caused us $4000 in penalties from the sellers. Their massive errors caused us fines with the moving company, as they had their team ready to work and we had to cancel.
Even today, 7 weeks later, we cannot get a confirmation of the first monthly payment (taken from the wrong account), I called them and they said I could pull the info from my bank account. Just to let you know, no one's bank records can give you the interest paid, the principal paid, the taxes paid etc. I guess they want us to run our lives like they run their bank. This may be hard to believe, but every word is true and can be verified. Do yourselves a favor... Use Quicken Loans, you will be done in 3 weeks and have a very pleasant experience.
Reviewed Dec. 7, 2017
BB&T bank took over for National Penn here in Pennsylvania and it has been a disaster. We were with National Penn since 2009 with all of our personal and business accounts. The branch managers don't have a clue what’s going on, only corporate controls everything. The fees for every little thing are outrageous. They are looking to steal and rob their customers with fees. This bank is a scam and in 2018 I will finally shred this institution, by the way who has come into the state of Pennsylvania and is doing business but is not governed by PA Banking Laws. This outfit can do whatever it wants in this state. Shame on you PA for letting this bank steal from PA residents. I'm sure someone on a yacht or vacation home is literally laughing all the way to the bank. STAY AWAY FROM THIS BANK. IT WILL BE THE BEST BUSINESS DECISION YOU WILL MAKE.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2017
Charged me $110.00 for a $19.00 mistake. Call the bank 2 times to talk with customer service with no satisfaction...just excuses. Very dishonest, computer clears charges before deposits to maximizes NSF charges, does not care about their customers.
Reviewed Nov. 9, 2017
BB&T is the absolute WORST bank that you can bank with possible. I have banked with other organizations previously and have NEVER had an experience like the one I have had with BB&T. This is by far the most underhanded, unprofessional and unethical company I have ever dealt with!!! A company has several unauthorized charges on my card. They have let the company take out thousands of dollars out of my account which ended up in me being charged tons of unauthorized overdraft fee on my card. They have refused to refund the charges and will not stop the unauthorized charges on my card.
They have now also reported my account to collections and have reported my account to the credit bureaus. They also will charge you 2 dollars for every time you call their customer service line to get the charges sorted out. The staff is totally unprofessional and rude. Totally unsympathetic and unhelpful. I will be taking these charges to court and suing this sorry excuse for a bank. They have closed several branches near me without warning their customers. I see this "bank" closing down in the very near future! DO NOT DEAL WITH THEM, YOU WILL REGRET IT!
Reviewed Nov. 8, 2017
This is a horrible bank. They made changes to our account that created service charges that we did not agree to. Their banking system is a mess. We closed all our accounts with them. We closed our home equity line of credit 8 months ago. However they never took the lien off our property. Now we are trying to get another loan from another bank but we can't close because BB&T still hasn't taken the lien off. It's been over a week and no success. Unfortunately we may have to sue the bank to get them to correct this matter. What a mess. DO NOT BANK WITH BB&T. YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!
Reviewed Oct. 20, 2017
We were getting ready to close out our checking acct. @ BB&T and I had checked the acct. online early one morning and noticed we had been charged an acct. maintenance fee. I called the bank and was told "our statement had been pulled" on the 18th of the previous month and that there had not been any direct deposits to the account since then and I was calling on the 19th of the current month. Well... a direct deposit had gone into the account on the 20th of that prior month from soc. sec., which was just 2 days after the beginning of the new month for the bank, but, and I still don't know how they managed to discount THAT deposit, but they did! We got charged an account maintenance fee of $10 and I could not close out the account until it was paid. Very poor business if you ask me. Would NOT refer anyone to them. Worst interest rates anywhere around also! No wonder they are one of the largest banks in the country!
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2017
I hate this bank and have since the moment they took over my old bank that I had been banking with since literally getting my first job. For the minor annoyances, let’s start off with: they use Visa instead of Mastercard. They sent me a letter saying that because my account hadn't been used in a while that I had 90 days to do something to activate it or they were going to close my account. Now for the major annoyance: When they bought out my old bank, I was enrolled in online banking, just so I could see my account balance. Upon them buying out BoK they sent everyone a letter saying that everything would stay the same. That was a lie.
I haven't been able to get into my account for online banking since a month after they bought out my bank. I'm still enrolled, but I can't actually access it. I have changed my username and password at least three times all to get into it and every time I'm only able to access it once and then they want me to answer some security questions upon logging back in EVEN THOUGH I SELECTED THE "REMEMBER ME" option! I have seriously been considering joining US Bank or even an online bank because this has gone beyond nonsensical. I hate this bank, I hated this buyout and I can't stand trying to do anything with my debit card or online account.
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2017
I recently received a post card alerting me to 2 overdraft fees of $36 each. I have text and email notifications set up as well as my accounts are linked for overdraft protection. I figured this must be a mistake. In addition my local branch usually calls if something is coming through that would cause accounts to go in the red. So again, I figured this must be some mistake. I log on to my account to find another $180 in fees that have been charged! I called and the customer service department. The representative tried to help me. She said I had no notifications set up! When I said that I most certainly had them set up I was told, "Well you must have deleted them." No, I would not delete something like that. She then said, "let me put it in the calculator to see if we can get those fees removed."
Well... Seems that I had this courtesy extended to me in January of 2016 and therefore, "no one can override the calculator." Seriously? I always got notifications. Why did 6 things go through? I had a deposited check bounce that my son had written to me... His account was hacked so he moved his money until it was rectified. I explained this to them. He had thought the check to me had already cleared. It was a mistake. I don't go around bouncing payments! I spoke to 2 different people whom all said "no one can override the calculator." Who is this almighty calculator... The great and mighty Oz???
I will not be keeping my money with this bank after these circumstances. I hope the calculator is worth losing my patronage and that of anyone and everyone I can reach with my negative review. I always had notifications set up. My phone number is on my online account profile... I would not put it on there if I wasn't going to have notifications texted to me. VERY FRUSTRATED.
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2017
My nightmare began about three years ago from today, 10-19-2017. I first received this notice from BB&T that I had late/overdraft charges to the amount of 500.00 on my mortgage. I inquired at my local branch, and they gave me a phone number in Greenville, S.C. They also curtly informed me that the local branch could not assist me, since mortgages were handled from afar. When I called the number, this man answered, who passed me to this woman, who passed me on to three more people. The last one was a man. This man told me that he wasn't seeing where I had any overdraft charges added to my mortgage, so I figured that the issue was resolved. A month later, however, I received a letter informing that they were still active.
This time I go into my local branch, and I speak with the lady in the loan department, who also knows the computer well there. She goes through my files and sleuths out these withdrawals on my account, and finds that somebody had misappropriated my last two mortgage payments, but could not indicate as to who specifically was responsible. She makes a few phone calls, and after three long agonizing hours, we get the issue resolved, so these people informed her from Greenville, S.C., and so I understood.
Two months later I get a notice that my charges had been raised to 1000.00. I go back to my local branch and ask about this matter, and the lady inside the loan department argues with these same people in Greenville S.C. Another two hours pass, then finally they claim that they had misappropriated funds from my payment, toward homeowners insurance which had gone dead due to nonpayment. My big problem was the reason why they did this without my permission, and why did they do so in a way to cause me problems in my mortgage.
After we argue in circles about this matter with no definitive answer, I asked them how much I owed on the insurance payment, and I was told only 20.00. I then became very irate, I demanded to know why they did not inform me that I owed only 20.00 and waited two months when it had ran up into a 500.00 charge. They never gave me an answer. I refused to pay until I could get answers to my questions that I felt I was owed. I kept on making payments, however, on time and every month. Now three years later they are refusing my payments. They say in one letter that I only owe two thousand dollars. In another letter they will say that I am five thousand overdue. Then finally they claim that I am behind 10 thousand dollars, only to claim 5 thousand the following month.
We are at the point now that they are telling us next month they are going to file foreclosure against us, even though we have made every payment up until the time that they refused to take our payments. I call their central number today and the man tells me that there is a notice of foreclosure listed, but no specified month, day or time.
Reviewed Oct. 17, 2017
I have been with this bank since they bought out Bank Atlantic. Never have I had a problem till the other day. I deposit my check into my account and the teller says there is going to be a two day hold on the check. Never happened before so why now? She argues with me so I tell her I'm calling customer service. Doing so, a representative says my funds will be available by 6:30 am the following morning. Well they weren't. Back on the phone with customer service the next morning and they can't do anything about it. Only the branch can. I will be removing my funds to another bank as soon as they are available and never refer this bank to anyone!
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2017
If I could give negative stars I would. This bank has a $135, yes, one hundred thirty five dollars, interest in my house with an equity line and when I come in to get an insurance check endorsed for a roof they make it as difficult as possible. The manager is on lunch every single time I come in and this is the THIRD time!!! When my husband asked her about coming in on a Saturday when the branch is open she said "Well, I may not be here, I have a personal issue to handle." Unreal! And of course NO ONE else that works here can do anything.
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2017
I've been a client of BB&T since August of 2016. Recently, I have been tight on money. I decided to finally overdraft my account in order to pay for my siblings to go on their first field trips (they're in elementary school). BB&T charged me a $36 overdraft fee not once, but twice. I called and tried to get all of this sorted several times, and noticed my bank had once again had money taken out. I have been charged $2 per phone call I've made with them, plus another $36 overdraft fee because my account balance was negative for five consecutive days. I called and tried to get the fees waived, but they only allowed one, and won't allow another for two years. I recommend finding another place to bank completely, unless you're trying for savings.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2017
I am now join the long list of people who are getting ripped off by these overdraft fees. I open my account literally 3 weeks ago. Because one direct deposit did not go in on a Friday. They actually got my online username Wrong by adding an extra number that I don't use and I couldn't set up the parameters once I was told what was going on. I then had a returned check from someone that wrote me for $109 which they never told me it came back so all the transactions that I did for that hundred $9 was now being charged at $36 a piece. So a deposit of $272 was eating up and charges on top of that another $290 in fees. I am now taking my complaint to a TV station Wavy TV news on your side which investigates complaints like this crap. I will post who I'm talking to and get their email and if anybody on this site wants to join the complaint I will have it displayed here hopefully in a couple of days.
Reviewed Sept. 19, 2017
I've had a couple of savings accounts for several years for my kids at BB&T Bank. I have money direct deposited into each account every month. The accounts were considered "dormant" because I haven't withdrawn any money from them. BB&T charged me $7.50 per month for each account without my knowledge. In my opinion, depositing money should make the account active and I feel it is an unfair practice for these fees. I have respectfully requested my money back but seriously doubt I will get it. I closed both accounts and moved money to another bank. Ridiculous!!
Reviewed Sept. 18, 2017
I have had so many negative experiences with this bank from extreme long wait periods on the phone for someone to talk to or problems with merchant account and agents lying and giving inconsistent information, never calling or emailing back when they say they would. Placing holds on large check deposit amounts which causes them to default. Double charging on overdrafts and they resist paying back where long amount of time is spent on the phone trying to get it back to a point where you may say "screw it, or just keep it" out of frustration. Just stay away from this bank and remain happy.
Reviewed Sept. 15, 2017
Very horrible banking company that does not stand behind its customers, they post my paychecks and money in a late manner that has cost me overdraft charges and sometimes my money doesn't show up for almost a week!! Also ATMs are always down or malfunctioning! Beware of this bank like the plague!!!
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2017
I brought some Series I Treasury Bonds into an Austin, Texas branch, and they had no idea how to cash them. They began the process by pulling up my account and stamping every single Treasury Bond with a date stamp. After that, they phoned into their assistance line for guidance and had me fill out the backside of the bonds. Once all the bonds were completely filled out and stamped they told me that the bonds could not be cashed until they held for 365 days. That was fine. What bothered me is that they had already prepared the bonds to be cashed, and had me stamp them and fill them out before they actually knew how to cash them. THE MANAGER said, "here's the number to the Treasury Dept. You will have to call them to get this fixed", and did nothing to rectify the situation.
I joined this bank because I was in a networking group with one of their local branch managers. Over the past five years, they have continued to disappoint me with their insane banking fees, complete failure to provide exceptional customer service, old school technology, and complete and total lack of competence. I haven't always had money to invest, but now that I do, I can promise you that BB&T will never get another dime of my money. Capital One Bank is terrible, but at least they have up to date technology and decent customer service. Word to the wise: DO NOT BANK WITH BB&T.
Reviewed Sept. 1, 2017
Never bank at BB&T. I’ve banked at BB&T for almost 3 years and today. I received the worst banking experience in my 41 years of life. On August 29, 2017 at 6:00 PM, I deposited a check into the Oxon Hill, MD ATM - a $3,000.00 personal check from Suntrust bank that was a personal loan and I admit I had a negative balance of $119.00 in my account. It was at 6PM and the bank was closed but I knew from past experience that it would clear the next day. However, I’ve never deposited this large amount and not ever from the check writer before and I never had a negative balance while depositing a check. This time around, I chose to use a bank near my local neighborhood (in the wrong side of town apparently) and not near my job where I have a personal relationship (the right side of town). But I never thought twice about it.
Fast forward to today, August 31, 2017 and I’ve been on an emotional roller coaster all day long where I kept being lied to by the banking officials at Oxon Hill, MD branch. At 9:30 am, I called my personal bank in Crystal City, VA to explain that there was a hold for 8 days on the money and requested to remove it. This is when I was informed that only the Oxon Hill, MD bank could remove it since they were the ones that placed the hold on the money in the first place.
I called Oxon Hill, MD branch and spoke to Mr. C. **, Branch Manager and he lied and told me that they couldn’t have it remove and that I had to wait 8 days before it cleared. I then called back and spoke to someone else and let them know that I had two large payments that would be posted to my checking account tonight and asked, “What can I do about it?” Then they lied and told me that since I had a relationship with the bank near my job, I could have the Crystal City, VA bank to remove it.
I visited the bank in person near my job in Crystal City, VA and was told again that only the Oxon Hill, MD bank could remove it. I then called the bank back while seated inside of the Crystal City Bank and nearly begged Mr. **, the Oxon Hill, MD branch manager, and pleaded with them to remove it or how can I proceed to have it removed sooner. Then they lied again and by telling me that they couldn’t tell if the check had cleared or not and the only option is to process a stop on the check and to have the person that wrote the check to rewrite a new check to me so that I can cash it at the check writer’s bank. I then thanked them and told them I would.
I then went back to work and was called back by Mr. ** at the Oxon Hill, MD bank and he instructed me to have the person process a stop payment because they couldn’t stop the payment on their end. He also lied by telling me that they couldn’t return the check to me because the check was currently in a lockbox inside of ATM machine when I requested to return the check to me. I then drove to where the check writer worked and picked them up and drove to Suntrust bank where they verified that check had indeed cleared and actually had cleared on August 30th. That’s when I lost it! I couldn’t believe that the entire time that the Oxon Hill, MD bank manager was lying to me!!
Once I called back to the Oxon Hill MD location, the branch manager “wasn’t available” but I was told to contact the Fort Washington MD bank to have their branch manager remove it. I called and spoke to Rodney, the Branch Manager at Ft. Washington, MD and then he said that he needed to call the Suntrust bank to speak to their manager to verify that the check cleared and actually told the Suntrust manager that they needed to make sure that the person who wrote the check knew about the check!! Unfreaking believable. There has to be an easier way to handle this and no one I personally know actually banks there and now I understand why. So, if you made it through all of that- because of the awful experience that I had with Oxon Hill, MD branch. I will be closing my BB&T account.
Reviewed Aug. 31, 2017
Absolutely awful service at this bank. They acquired National Penn Bank, which I banked with for 9 years prior. I've ran several hundred thousands of dollars thru it over the years, had their credit cards with 25K limits with them (that are now down to $5,000 and $3,500 respectively...) since BB&T acquired and switched it to their "bright" credit card. THIS takes the cake though. Grandma Jeanie passed away and left me a substantial sum of cash.
I go to deposit the CERTIFIED check from Wells Fargo at the bank when they tell me there may be a very large hold. I said OK - a few days is not a big deal. The lovely teller said, "No I'm sorry, probably 30+ days because you never had this kind of money in your account before." Ended up having to get a lawyer involved. What a JOKE this company is. Also every one of their branches have ATM's that don't even have chip readers yet and can't deposit cash instantly, instead have to use outdated envelope. How is this stuff allowed?
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2017
Pet peeve is receiving boiler plate answers to online questions. It's as if they don't even read my question. BB&T's computers isolate one word I used and give answers accordingly.
Reviewed Aug. 15, 2017
I was a victim of an employment scam wherein I was issued a fraudulent check. I was able to provide my bank with the details of issuer and other pertinent information. My bank was able to recover the money that I paid out from the check and refund me the money. I was truly thankful for the efforts of BB&T's fraud protection program as would have lost over $2,700.
Reviewed Aug. 14, 2017
BB&T's overdraft fee system and the amount of time things take to clear the account suck. They usually have no idea what's going on when you call them for answers.
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2017
Our local BB&T branch bank is very strong customer service. They have always been able to solve any problem I have had. We have been with this bank 21 years, and have been pleased.
Reviewed Aug. 12, 2017
This bank is awful. I had a checking account - I just requested for it to be closed. I accidentally used this account to pay a bill online. (I have another account I should have selected) Because the money to cover the bill was in the other account. This past Monday the charge went thru. I am told and was returned -unpaid by BB&T. Still no alert was on my dashboard showing the pending charge. On Tuesday I received my text balance alert which was a positive balance. On Wednesday I received my first email saying I had an overdraft fee. Upon calling the bank I was informed of the payment I made on Monday using the wrong account.
My argument was and is valid - why was the charge never showing as pending on my online banking? If it were showing I would have realized my mistake and immediately moved the money into BB&T account to clear the charge. In addition to this why did the text message Tuesday reflect a positive balance? A supervisor (who I insisted on speaking to) told me I need to be careful keeping my balance straight and to not rely on the online system because it is not always up to date.
Really? I was under the impression part of the responsibility of being a bank who offers online banking is to keep the finances accurately and in realtime. I demanded to speak with whoever was above her and was provided the CEO phone number. I called and explained everything to them and was told it could be 8 days before I get a reply. Needless to say I am finished with this bank. I would not recommend this bank to anyone. My other account is with Chase. The service comparison is not matched.
Reviewed July 24, 2017
My wife and I keep between 5k-10k in a checking account with BB&T for the past ten years, we also have a saving account that pays pennies each month so we had not added anymore to the savings. BB&T then hit us with a $7.50 charge for dormant activity saying that after 24 months it is their right. Not once, except maybe in the small print ten years ago when the account was created, were we notified that this was their right. The banker assigned to us won't even return a email or telephone call. Needless to say we are closing all our accounts with BB&T and feel everyone should know of this. BB&T is far from the friendly farm bank created years ago in Whiteville, NC. They strive for their own greed to be a big bank. Please share with your family and friends this poor customer service.
Reviewed July 22, 2017
I arrived at the ATM at BB&T. I deposited my cash of 400.00. The ATM shuts down, suddenly, and takes my 400.00 in to the machine. The ATM does not give me a receipt. I called the 1800 number on the ATM machine and explain the situation to the customer service representative. The customer representative didn’t seem to care. He stated that my money would deposit into my account within 24 hours at 6 am. I waited until the next morning. Of course no money was deposited into my account. I had bills to pay and couldn't because BB&T’s ATM decided to scoop my funds in their account and not credit my account according.
The second representative said my funds should now appear within 48 hours. I became very livid because as far as I am concerned this company has a hold on my funds to no avail. Now, I have to take time to go into the branch and have the branch research why the ATM took my money and won't deposit it back into my account. My advice to everyone… beware of the depositing funds into a BB&T account… especially large amounts because your funds may be kept on hold until an undisclosed amount of time!!! Very unsatisfied customer!!!
Reviewed July 20, 2017
I should probably start by saying that I, myself, have worked at a local bank in New Jersey for quite some time. I am also a business owner and have been trained extensively in customer service. BB&T on Garden Road, in Finland, New Jersey has the WORST customer service possible. Shawn ** and Rodney (not sure of the last name) Are the rudest people in customer service I have ever met. It's a joke that Shawn is the "manager." My fiance did not have a check with him, so he asked a teller for withdrawal from his account that had about $5000 in it, instead she made the mistake of withdrawing from an account without the funds and overdrawing the account. Okay, no HUGE deal, right? Stuff happens.
I call in regards to this and Shawn's response is literally "I know RJ (my fiance) and I know he doesn't carry around his account numbers, so where's the responsibility or accountability on his end, should the teller really be responsible for this?" REALLY?!? As if they don't have a computer screen with all accounts and balances in front of them... Mind you, If I had done this working for the bank I had or even cashed a check overdrawing someone's account AT ALL, I would have been reprimanded, and the customer would have at the very LEAST been apologized to, while the matter was corrected.
Fast forward a few hours, and I call the branch on Chestnut Road in Vineland where the transaction took place, and spoke with Melissa, everything was resolved and taken care of within 5 minutes. I don't even want to go into the irritable and pushy guy (Rodney) we dealt with when opening new accounts... Let me just say again, the most unprofessional, rude people I have ever encountered in a bank atmosphere. We, and both of our families are closing all accounts and all business accounts here and they'll be losing millions in business from us alone, although with this customer service, I'm sure they already have.
Reviewed July 19, 2017
I am so disgusted with BB&T and would not advise anyone to get a mortgage loan or home equity loan from BB&T EVER. I have had nothing but problems with them since getting this. Now I am on SSN only and this has been one hassle right after another. Every time I call them about the issue, they give me a different answer. When I make a payment and want to apply it to principal only then they want another payment in addition to what I am already paying which is more than what they say I owe for the month. Over and over again and they keep adding late assessments because they said I wanted my payment to apply to principal... How stressful, in 3 yrs I have been made a widow, diagnosed with Leukemia and lost my job due to a RIF...
Reviewed July 17, 2017
I have a BB&T credit card. I was notified that my card was compromised. After a detailed discussion about the charges I receive a call from customer service about a survey I filled out. I find out at this point nothing is done and I have to redo everything again. This BANK has the worst CUSTOMER SERVICE, I am going to cancel my service with them. Stay AWAY from this INCOMPETENT BANK.
Reviewed July 7, 2017
In January I received a refund for a Cuisinart food processor from Amazon and the same day I called about this food processor they said they would refund the $147.00 and it would take 3-5 business days for my bank to make this transaction and show up on my statement. Well, I am not good at all at following up on things because I trust people way too much to do what they say and to resolve any matter as thoroughly as it could be. So I did not check on this for several months. Anyway, when I did the bank said they never received the $147.00 into my account from Amazon.
Obviously BB&T does not keep a record of the bank cards they issue such as when one expires and a new one is automatically issued. If they had done just this one thing the mystery of my missing $147.00 would have been corrected as I had all my information from Amazon's transaction with me on this refund. Needless to say BB&T does a piss poor job of hiring people with integrity! My grandmother worked for a bank for over 30 years and she would have never allowed such an oversight to have happened to one of her customers. Shame, Shame BB&T. Obviously you have lost your morals.
Reviewed July 6, 2017
Two months ago I had called to receive my 401k benefits, which was a $10,000 check!!! It took TWO MONTHS for them to even send me the check. After the check had been sent the idiots misspelled my address and apartment number after I had SPELLED IT CORRECTLY FOR THEM!!! Then they were forced to overnight the check which took them FOUR DAYS!? So how was it overnighted if it took FOUR DAYS? I will never do BUSINESS with a lying, scamming company like BB&T EVER AGAIN!
Reviewed June 29, 2017
Whatever you do don't do business with this co. 1st I wanna say after my 94 year old grandma been with this co. for ages they forced her to close her acct. Every chance they get they're trying to manipulate the system. Reorganizing transactions and doing things that make no sense just to get an insufficient fund fee. This bank is garbage.
Reviewed June 21, 2017
I actually had two separate experiences as a BB&T customer... One more awful than the previous. Several years ago I was running my own small business, and being a fairly "local" bank with several branches in my area it seemed like a solid choice to bank with them. However, as my time with BB&T progressed, I became aware of service charges and other "fees" that had not been disclosed to me upfront, nor when I had asked about such fees during the initial opening of my accounts; they just began to appear on my accounts.
To make matters worse, I received 2, yes 2 bank statements the entire time I was with them. This was before online banking became popular. No one was stealing them out of my mail (I had a work P.O. Box at the time), and when I asked them about why the lack of statements they made it seem like it was my fault. I needed these statements to keep proper track of my books for my business and for tax purposes in a time before good online banking, and they couldn't have cared less. After 3 years with them I closed my account and went with BofA, who was 100% better at everything! This long running incident could've been overlooked on my part if not for the 2nd incident I incurred at the hands of BB&T.
Fast forward several years. I had been with several banks for both business and personal accounts, and all were pretty much the same... They treated you like any bank would, which is to say it's 50/50 whether or not you'll receive good service on any given day. The cost of doing business though. I took on a side job and decided to open a new bank account just for the purposes of depositing the money from this new job into this account, and basically use it as a savings account and for emergency purposes, etc... I had heard from a few people that BB&T had improved and gotten a lot better, customer service had improved and they were now offering some great new services, etc... So, reluctantly I decided to give them another try after more than a decade away.
I was pleasantly surprised when I went to open my account in person at one of their new local branches and was greeted by a great team of bankers who seemed very interested in walking me through all their banking options, what they offered, asking me what I was looking for etc... The thing that I liked the most was that the account I was going to open came with "zero fees for as long as I had the account, with no minimum balance and no required amount of transactions per month", which was perfect for me, because I basically wanted to deposit money in the account and not touch it unless it was an emergency or for an investment. So I signed up.
For the first couple of months things seemed to be ok. No problems and no complaints. However, After about 4 months I moved to Colorado and informed BB&T both over the phone and in writing that I was doing so, but intended to leave my account open, and continue to make deposits into it. I informed them of my new address so that they would not flag my account if I was using my ATM card outside of the traditional area, and basically covered all of my bases with them.
When my car needed repairs after I got to Colorado and I went to pay it, my card was declined. I checked my account balance and sure enough there was plenty of money to pay the bill. But for some reason I couldn't run my card. I called BB&T and they explained they had put a hold on my account since it was being used in Colorado. Of course I had to run back through with them that I had moved, it really was me, etc, etc... They said my account would be released immediately for use and sorry for the inconvenience. The truth was that they did not fix the problem for 4 days, and I had to use another card so I could get my car out of the shop... embarrassing and a real hassle. I can chalk it up to their efforts for "fraud prevention" but what a hassle it was to work with them.
However, the real kicker came even a few months later. I was still living in Colorado, and still had my BB&T account, which I was still depositing money into and using for things such as gas, occasional misc. expenses and emergencies. I ended up in the hospital for 6 months, having to undergo multiple surgeries and chemotherapy. During this time I never touched my BB&T account, with no deposits or withdrawals, and just a steady balance in there. After finally walking out of the hospital after fighting for my life for the past 6 months I needed to pay a few misc. hospital bills, and decided to use my BB&T account to do so, since this is what the account was for in the first place. The day I got out of the hospital I tried logging into my BB&T account online and was denied access. I tried several times, thinking maybe I had just forgotten the password or something, but to no avail.
Finally I called the "Customer Service" (and I use this term very loosely) hotline. I was greeted by a very surly gentleman who sounded like he was being bothered by even having to pick up the phone. When I explained my situation to him he explained that my account had been shut down for lack of use. This made no sense since I was specifically told when I signed up that there was no minimum transaction activity required for this account. He then went on to gruffly explain my account had over drafted. Again, when I explained to him that this account had no fees associated with it, and I had not used the account since I was in the hospital the last 6 months, he kept cutting me off saying that I had over drafted and hadn't paid the over draft fees and therefore my account had been shut down.
Finally after several attempts I was able to get into my old account to see all the transactions. Sure enough, there was no activity from me, but there were "maintenance" fees and surcharges from BB&T that I had nothing to do with, and had caused my account to overdraft with no warning or documentation from BB&T either by mail or online. Nada. Nothing. When I tried explaining my situation to the service rep again, he again kept cutting me off telling me there was nothing they could do, I should've been aware of my account, etc... When I offered to fax him over a copy of my account agreement that stated in black in white that no fees would ever be charged for this account, and showed that I had overdraft protection on this account, he flat out refused and said he was not interested in seeing any documentation I had and that the account was closed and I would have to pay the fees to have it reinstated (which amounted to more than $500 by the way).
After trying to figure something out, all so I could pay some of my hospital bills, I guess he was at the end of his day and wanted to go home, because he yet again cut me off and I kid you not stated "Well, if you would just make more money and be more responsible this would've never happened." And then proceeded to hang up on me abruptly. Needless to say I was blown away by the service, or lack of service I received, and how rudely I was treated by this bank. I know I'm not their richest client they have, but I was always a good customer of the bank during my time with them, never made a fuss, etc... But for them to treat me like this, after I had just gone through chemo and had been fighting for my life was unthinkable, and I know I'm not the only one they have treated in this manner.
Never again will I do business with this bank, or recommend this bank to anyone I know. I would rather put my money under my mattress before I let these people within a mile of it. There are some genuinely good people who work as tellers there, but the majority of the rest, in my experience, will do anything and say anything to get you to open an account, and then will be rude and belligerent when you catch them in their lie, and will never try and rectify the situation. Consumer beware... If you can bank anywhere else besides BB&T then do it!
Reviewed June 20, 2017
Today I had to call BB&T because I opened an account with them on may 30th and still haven't received my card in the mail. Today is JUNE 20th!!! I called card services at approximately 11:30 am. It is now 12:37 and I'm STILL ON HOLD!!! Wth!!! BB&T really need to do something about their hold times because this is crazy. The average person does not have an hour+ to hold on the phone. I am really regretting opening an account with them!!!
Reviewed June 20, 2017
This is one of the worst banks I have ever dealt with in the processing of overdraft fees. They do everything they can to make sure the debit comes out causing fees before a credit is put in. They do not care that their poor business practices are hurting their customers. I made an error and used the incorrect card to make an online payment. The charge for this payment was pending and I have asked the online vendor to reverse the charge, but I took the cash to the bank to make sure it was covered just in case. The charge is still pending but I am being charged $36 for an overdraft charge. When I called to ask why they advised that the pending charge, caused a charge that cleared to be insufficient.
When I argued that the cleared charge, had more than enough money to cover it on the day it was entered, they said "yes, but we still charge a fee because this other one will go thru and cause an NSF." So they charged me $36 for a charge that had enough money to go thru, then are going to turn around and charge me another $36 on the pending charge because the NSF fee put me even more negative. I was advised this was how their processing system works. When I asked if they cared how this type of thing affected customers, she said again "this is how our processing system works." Telling me that they do not care at all about their customers, only that they get as much as they can in fees.
I have other bank accounts and have never been charged an NSF fee because of a pending charge. Pending charges are in pending status because they may be reversed or the amount may change. A bank should not be able to charge a fee on something that may or may not go thru. A fee should not be assessed until the time the transaction clears the bank. This is how almost every other bank I have dealt with works. I am a small person with very little money, but I will be removing my business from this bank. I will find one that values its customers, more than the dollar bill.
Reviewed June 20, 2017
I've been with this bank for almost 4 years and after instructing them TWICE to not overdraft my account they have multiple times. I've probably spent at least $200 in overdraft fees because the "many forms of overdraft protection" this bank offers, mean absolutely nothing. So this morning, I log on to check my account and I was charged $144 in overdraft fees which is almost triple what my account went over by. So for the third time, I call to see why it is over drafting after I've specifically instructed them not to and she tells me that she sees where I've instructed them not to but that they can only refund me $72.
So you're telling me that I've been a loyal customer to this bank for 4 years and all you can do is give me $72 back for YOUR mistake? Wow. Then I asked to speak with a supervisor and after being told multiple times there's nothing he can do for me, I continue to wait. 30 minutes later, I'm hung up on. I work in customer service, I know how it is. But, I would NEVER screw someone over the way this bank has done to me multiple times. I work a part-time job making minimum wage and you want to screw me out of $144? I'm lucky if I make that in a week. I drive 20 miles to school every day, Monday through Friday and that right there is four full tanks of gas. But apparently you guys need it more than I do.
Reviewed June 17, 2017
First off it takes forever to get into contact with them when you want to call them about any information. I had an overdraft of 3.48 and I look on my account that I have a negative balance of -204.61. And no one can help me. This company is a complete joke. I knew this company was a joke when they had me waiting on the phone to talk to someone for about 30 minutes. I will be closing my accounts taking my business elsewhere.
Reviewed June 16, 2017
On 6.13.2017 a wire transfer of $40,000.00 was wired to my account. On 6.14.2017 the wire was approved and I should have been allowed to withdraw money from my account. I along with my 7 year old son went to the Campcreek BB&T branch to withdraw money. The teller looked upset. As I was approaching her she never smiled nor greeted me. I informed her that I need to withdraw about $39,000.00 some odd dollars. She then picked up the phone and called Jenny ** whom had the teller asking me inappropriate questions like, "Who sent you this money, what are you buying with this money, why did they send you this money, what kind of business do you have," etc.
The approval process turned out to be an interrogation. They then both decided to go back through my account about 2 months and noticed that my fiance had been having his paychecks direct deposit into my account. They wanted to know who he was and why was he doing this. I informed them who he was and let them know that the money was for bills and to take care of my son. Again inappropriate questions. They informed me that it was against their company policy to have his money going into my account. I informed them that we did not know this was their policy. This had nothing to with my wire withdrawal.
I stood at that counter being interrogated for about 20-25 minutes for the teller to come back with a lie and state that she could not give me any money because the wire was still pending. She stated that it could take up to another 24 hours to be approved. After she lied to me and told me that there was nothing else she could help me with, she directed me to Keith a bank loan officer. He called Jenny ** whom by the way was being rude to him.
I wanted to know what was going on with my account. She informed him that she had placed a block on my account until further notice. She refused to give me a eta on when the account would be unblocked. While Jenny and the teller had me standing at the counter thinking that they were processing my request they were actually profiling me. I walked inside a bank with an approved wire that was approved by the wire department and walked out angry because I had been treated like a criminal and discriminated against.
The money that was wired to me was to complete a construction project. I needed to buy cabinets and also plank floor for 22 units. Not that it was any of their business. I have placed a complaint with the BBB, FDIC, BB&T corporate office, 15 emails to their customer service department, and filed a discrimination complaint with BB&T as well. As of 6.15.2017 no one from BB&T has responded. Jenny even refused to tell Keith how the bank would contact me. I was told that since I had never had $40,000.00 in my account it looked suspicious. I guess I can not have $40,000.00 in my possession. My account is still block with no answers.
Reviewed June 7, 2017
AVOID opening a business account with this bank! After promising that I would have an account with no monthly fees, I learned that BB&T charges you $15 a month to download your transactions! The bank will block online access to keep programs like Quicken from working unless you pay them this fee. It costs the bank absolutely nothing to allow online access, since they have the transactions online, anyway. But you can't download any data, unless you pay them a monthly fee. This saves the bank money of printing and mailing statements, and most banks do not charge such a "software fee" to access your data online. I have half a mind to go into the branch and get a list of my transactions each week; BBT should encourage online banking, instead of charging customers extra to access their data online.
Reviewed June 5, 2017
I have been having problems contacting a merchant that is billing me for services that I no longer use. I get this associate Carlos, who tells me that I have to cancel my card. When I ask him why, since it's obviously one rogue merchant who has a number that is out of service and others on the web are having the same contact issues. His answer was "Well, that's our policies and procedures." I ask him to tell me why. We go around and around but he obviously had no idea as to the why and kept repeating the same answer, and to boot literally said "I'm going now and hung up the phone". Poor customer service. Great job BB&T.
Reviewed June 4, 2017
BB&T makes a practice of calculating debits before deposits to illegally incur excessive overdraft charges. This happened to my boyfriend but not to my account because I did not opt-in for overdraft protection. None of my deposits ever went into pending status because I did not opt-in. That is how you avoid their nightmare theft period. If you have overdraft protection any deposits that you make whether you make them cash or checks will all be considered mixed deposits allowing them to be put in pending status for average of three or four days which means that anything that comes through as a debit will probably overdraft and incur an overdraft fee of $36 each. So by the time your deposits are factored in you will be significantly in the hole.
I compared my account to my boyfriend's and I was never charged a fee. None of my deposits went into pending status and I would recommend anyone who wants to fight back to opt out of overdraft protection and do straight accounting or get another bank. This bank makes millions of dollars in interest on those overdraft fees, billions of dollars, so consumers need to stop opt-in for overdraft protection and your deposits will never be in pending status and they can't make overdraft money on you.
What's amazing is they offer overdraft protection but it's trickery. It is a bait and switch tactic at its worst and they will literally screw you with what they offer as protection because opting in puts all of your deposits in pending status and then all of the debits come in pretending there's a zero balance causing an overdraft after each and everyone before the deposits are even added in and pending can happen on average for 4 days so you're really screwed. It is such an unethical practice to grow billions of dollars in theft and interest on that stolen money. Oh my God how does the FDIC allow these shysters to be in business.
They penned cash deposits and call them mixed deposits so they can play that game too but they won't do it two accounts. They don't opt into overdraft protection. My account is straight accounting and I've never had anything like that happen but my boyfriend's account has incurred 700 in overdraft fees. It's three or four months because all the deposits gets set aside as if they don't exist and each debit comes in first incurring individual overdraft fees then deposits are factored in even cash. It is so disgustingly illegal.
Reviewed May 24, 2017
BB&T has charged mine and my husband's account for our son's negative balance when I tried to put money in the account before a check cleared that he (our son) deposited that I felt would be NSF. The bank entered the check wrong (entered as a cash deposit) and told me I did not need to transfer money. That it was a cash deposit (they argued on the call that it was not a check deposit when I stated it was. I was only taking care of this as my son ended up in the hospital, he is 18). The local branch nor corporate would admit their mistake even though I have the documents to prove they entered the deposit wrong and gave me misinformation (because I was trying to keep fees from accruing). BB&T will NOT accept ownership of their mistake or reverse the charges. If I could give them zero stars, I would!
Reviewed May 22, 2017
I had a checking account with BB&T. I had a negative balance on my account that I was in the process of paying off. I was a victim of identity theft and 1,700 dollars was withdrawn from my account at an ATM teller without my authorization or knowledge. I reported the incident to BB&T right away and I was told to provide a police report before they could help me with this matter. I then contacted BB&T centralized fraud department with my report and claim once I obtained it.
I was told the bank had footage from the ATM of the suspect that used a blank deposit slip to deposit into the ATM and withdraw 1,700 dollars from my negative checking account. I was then contacted by BB&T's fraud department by mail with a letter stating my claim had been denied because the statement that I gave the bank and the police report that I gave the bank didn't support my claim. I was a victim of identity theft and I had insurance coverage with BB&T to protect me from situations like this and they did not protect or assist me in handling this issue. I would not do business with or recommend anyone to do business with BB&T based off of these facts. I am still dealing with this issue until this day. Beware of banking with BB&T. If you want protection on your accounts DO NOT bank with BB&T.
Reviewed May 20, 2017
Tried to close deceased mother's account. I already proved to them I am executor on account and gave them death certificate. I was told I have to hire a lawyer to provide them with proof that I am executor with the same Will which costs about 300.00 dollars. There was only 104.00 left in the account. They REFUSED to close the account unless I paid to have a document that a lawyer sells me. Her will was NOT accepted.
Within 2 weeks they have depleted her account with maintenance fees and left only 32.00 dollars in the account. I'm sure within the next 2 weeks she will owe them as they keep taking out fees that they ARE STEALING from my DEAD mother's account. NOT one person can tell me what these fees are for. WORST BANK IN THE COUNTRY. They should be ashamed of themselves for STEALING DEAD PEOPLE'S MONEY. This bank should be shut down. How are they getting away with this? Run from this bank. They are pros at stealing account holders money. I can only hope that they are shut down for taking monies that are NOT theirs to take. It's really sad this is how they make their profits. Run from this bank! They are nothing but thieves and will suck every cent they can from their account holders.
Reviewed May 12, 2017
BB&T, upon merger with Susquehanna Bank, switched over my mom to a checking account with an attached $15 monthly fee. Account has been incurring these fees since June 2016 and I discovered this 2 weeks ago. They refunded 2 months of fees and refuse to do the right thing by an 85 year old, income-constrained, senior citizen and refund ALL incurred fees because "this is our policy and we need to be consistent for all our customers."
Guess what? Policy CAN be changed, especially when said policy borders on the unethical. I say "unethical" because mother was signed up for a free checking account at Susquehanna Bank. She should have been transitioned over to an equivalent account during the merger. If you transition a customer to a new account that has the POTENTIAL for fees, you should require a written acknowledgement from that customer, not an assumption that the customer understands there will be fees because you sent out a mailing. Yet, because you sent out mailings, you assume I knew. I didn't know. What logical person would think you would transition over a elderly woman with limited checking funds (and overall BB&T funds) to an account that incurs fees and requires either a $15,000 balance or a mortgage that makes up the difference. It's shady. It's a "let's try and get away with it" mentality. She's 85 years old, of course she doesn't have a mortgage.
I would honestly like to know which of the CEOs that supposedly "reviewed my case" are actually in touch with reality, as they rake in their 7 figure salaries. BB&T is a huge financial institution. Parting with ~$135 to "do the right thing" would be transparent to them, but parting with $135 is not transparent to my mom. It's easier for BB&T to hide behind their "policies" than to actually take action here and make things right.
I was told by the customer service person how they welcome my feedback at BB&T. Of course they welcome it. It's just all lip service. What good is providing constructive feedback if nothing changes? On top of it all, when I initiated my complaint with the local branch, the person I talked to put all the blame on me because I "should read my statements." I do read my statements, just not with a fine-tooth comb. I was also told the manager, Tamara, would call me back. She never did. Upon being dissed by her, I called a general Customer Support number and was directed to the "CEO line." Going forward, I now need to reconcile what happened. Clearly canceling my accounts is among my first steps. BB&T should be ashamed of themselves.
Reviewed May 8, 2017
I've owned a BB&T account for just about 15 years now and I am shutting it down. I have moved to another bank because of convenience. BB&T charges you 5$ maintenance fees every month regardless of the amount in your account. Other banks will waive the fees if you have over $10,000 in the account and they can have ATMs across the nation. Since BB&T is primarily East Coast located it's extremely hard managing them after moving to the West Coast. Their phone app only allows up to $2000 in remote check deposits every so many days despite their website stating otherwise. You also cannot make any wire transfers to accounts outside of BB&T unless you have a "business account"... needless to say it was time to drop them.
Reviewed May 5, 2017
Beware banking with them as they don't post transactions in timely manner. Hence, your balance may be much lower than anticipated making you very susceptible to overdrafts. Once you start racking up those charges, they keep all but one. Worst bank and should be avoided.
Reviewed May 1, 2017
This has to be the rudest company I have ever dealt with. Tried to set up online payments for my new truck with no avail. Called for assistance, woman was rude and had no desire to help me at all. I was put on hold twice and finally after 15 minutes I hung up. Nice start to a new relationship with this bank (but they don't seem to care). I wouldn't even give this bank a 2nd chance.
Reviewed April 26, 2017
I love bb&t. I've been banking with them for about two years, and only just recently have I decided that I love my bank. I have both a savings and checking account and a debit card. I appreciate that they always handle my ATM transaction charges! I like using the U by BB&T app on my phone. It's simple to use and you can just submit check deposits through the app instead of having to go into the bank. The app also makes transfers between my accounts really simple. I recently traveled overseas and had no issues with using my card at ATMs in Japan because I called in advance and let the bank know my travel plans.
The day after I got back, I was checking my bank account and saw my debit card number had been stolen and more than $600 had been charged to my account. I called bb&t and cancelled my card, filed fraudulent claims, and went to a local branch to pick up a temporary debit card. It took approximately 48 hours after my claims were submitted, but I was completely reimbursed for every fraudulent charge on my account. The way BB&T handled that situation for me made me a committed client for life!
Reviewed April 21, 2017
I was originally with Nation Penn Bank, so far I have not had personal issues with BB&T on my own accounts today. However today I did have to deal with a situation my girlfriend was having with them. Turns out they charged my girlfriend a total of 9 overdraft fees at $36 and 3 negative balance fees at $8. On her payday she started using her card after the BB&T banking app stated she had funds available. They ended up charging her 2 overdraft fees even before the account was overdrawn. They stated it was because the account was overdrawn before the money was posted to the account. However, the money was posted to the account at 8am and she did not use the bank card until later in the afternoon.
We went to the bank to talk to them about the issue and I asked them to give me everything in order as they saw it step by step. I asked for a pen and paper and wrote everything down as they told it to me as it came out of the system. Turns out with that order of events my girlfriend should have only been charged 1 overdraft fee, and 0 negative balance fees. They told me I must have done something wrong. They then switched up how they were telling me events and started again. This time all that should have happened was 2 overdraft fees and 0 negative balance fees. They seemed puzzled. They called someone on the phone to talk about it.
After 15 minutes of them being on the phone they changed their tactic up stating that because of an order that was placed on Amazon.com the money available was technically on hold and that caused the account to go negative. However, they failed to understand the concept that the date that the funds went on hold was actually after the date that they started tacking on overdraft fees too early. (Again before the account was in the negative.) After basically 2 hours of sitting there arguing with them on how their fees are all wrong and they need to make this right, they ended up saying they will refund 1 overdraft and 2 of the negative balance fees as a favor for the misunderstanding and that there was not anything else that they could do to help. I told them that they are liars, thieves and full of **. The bank ** up and if the bank will not make this right they will have a lawsuit on their hands.
I asked them how much their lawyers cost, they seemed puzzled. I asked them again because I have a lawyer who would gladly take this to court for free to get his name out there because he was family. So even if we lose and we have to pay for the overdrafts, they will be out more money in the long run from having to pay a lawyer. They stuck to their guns, didn't refund the difference. Let's see how much they like it when I call their bluff.
Reviewed April 18, 2017
I had heard stories about BB&T but for some strange reason decided to give them a try. Boy am I so sorry I did. They operate in smoke and mirrors to get fees out of you. Very deceptive. They are in the business of hiding transactions and making everyday banking into some crazy algebra equation. I knew something was up when every time I use their card for gas and do debit they only withhold $1.00. Debit is supposed to come off within 15 mins but it NEVER does with them. They lie on the phone too. Told me I had time to put cash in my bank to cover a check because I had accidentally used the wrong account to pay a bill and then they had returned the check already. LIES AND DECEPTION.
Reviewed April 18, 2017
This bank is the worst bank ever. They are crooks, they charged me 117.00 overdraft on 9.00. And balance from ATM was not correct, Anyone banking here should find another bank as soon as possible!!! This bank is run by greedy crooked, evil people. I'm 70 years old, on SS, a small check each month, but they don't care if they take your last dime. They should be investigated!!!
Reviewed April 18, 2017
I had accounts for my under age children, they didn't make a deposit since BB&T took over and they closed their accounts without proper notification. I realized it was closed when I went to make a deposit into their accounts and they told me that they have a 0 balance... So not only did they close their accounts but they took all of my kids' money and have no answers for me as to where it is or if I can even get it back!!! What kind of bank does this? Where was the notification? Where is the money that I had deposited into my children's accounts over the years??? So basically if you don't touch an account, it can become dormant and they can close your account and take your money without proper notification?! I would think twice about letting this bank handle my money again!!!
Reviewed April 14, 2017
OK so one of my issues with BB&T's overdraft fees is all the banks in my area close at either 5:00 or 6:00 PM. I work a normal 9:00 to 5:00. With that being said it's extremely hard to get to a branch in time to deposit money. With that being said yesterday I tried calling BB&T's customer service line to let them know my auto-deposit from work will hit my account early tom morning. So here is a recap! I went over $-9.50 I was hit with 100.00 fee for a total $9.50!!! My auto deposit hit so I was only in the negatives for around 24hrs. I called & emailed customer service did everything I could to help the situation or stop it from ever occurring. BB&T DID NOTHING to help! Told me, "Sorry I don't know what to tell you, maybe leave work early." LOL I almost fell out of my seat when she told me to leave work early. SMH!! They want you to get hit with these fees! This bank IS THE WORST!!! I need to go back to my old bank!
Reviewed April 7, 2017
Ok. I have been banking with BB&T for sometime now I have two accounts. My banker suggested using the new banking app. For the life of me I can't seem to understand why am I being charged double late fees two days before my direct deposit every two weeks. I'm being told some lame story each time I inquire about my money.
Reviewed April 6, 2017
Phone service is consistent lies with consistently conflicting information and rudeness, even from the telephone supervisors. The automated system shouts out your new pin number when you change your pin to a new pin (UNSAFE, UNSECURE, MORONIC, AND EVIL). Their training is about zero for their phone reps, even for the supervisors which is highly unusual in the banking industry. The wrong information I was given cost me about 3000 dollars. Friends don't let friends bank with BB&T. STAY AWAY. I worked for years as a banking professional. Get some other account somewhere else, ANYWHERE ELSE IS BETTER THAN BBT.
Reviewed March 29, 2017
I had a gym membership billed to this account monthly and I recently changed it to another bank account I have now. Before this, there was a charge from the gym on the account and my account was in the red for a bit and they kept piling on more return fees and overdraft fees even after I changed the bank account on my gym membership.
My balance was now nearly -$100 all for one $19 charge or so. I angrily called these people up and said I'd be closing my account if all these fees weren't removed immediately. The representative on the phone was able to remove most of the overdraft fees and return fees, but there was still a -$28 fee left over and she claimed the system wouldn't let her remove it. This was an absolute farce and I am still this close to having my account close and having any direct deposits moved over to the other bank I do business with. It is absolutely ridiculous for a bank like this to keep piling on these heavy fees even when there haven't been any other charges made. I kept telling them I wouldn't have a direct deposit until tomorrow and they still want me to put money into the account in case they decide to pull this stunt again. Absolutely terrible. Run away from this bank if you ever hear about it.
It's not the first time they've done this either. For months, I had been getting all these heavy overdraft and return fees and it was really affecting my balance and how much of my Social Security benefit I'd actually get into the account at all. These are still some very tough times and BB&T and the people there are not making it easy.
Reviewed March 26, 2017
First off their fee's are ridiculous! They bounced a check once even though online and on the phone it said my available balance was way more than the check. I was told to not pay attention to available balance never rely on it! WHAT? I also got caught up on debits being deducted before deposits are credited. $36.00 bucks here, $36.00 bucks there, they have refused each time to credit the fee's back! Oh this bank is awful and really needs to be investigated, their practices suck! My old bank "Colonial" was wonderful but then it was taken over by these God Awful Vultures! I'm out of there!
Reviewed March 24, 2017
I have had many problems with BB&T. First of all, I have asked for a new debit card three times and 6 months later I still don't have one!! This is not my primary checking account as I live out of state, but if I ask THREE TIMES I better get one. No word on when I will, I keep asking... Next major problem is that I set up a WIRE transfer. I had to call five or six people to figure out why it was taking a week to go through. I specifically asked each about the WIRE. They all failed to tell me that I couldn't do a wire transfer online and had to sit in a bank to get one done so they mailed a check without asking me. What?! Then they locked me out of my account without notifying me when the wire did finally go through. I have my primary bank account on BB&T account and here's a fun one. You can only move $5k at a time and only $5k every 30 days??? Good luck if you need to get anything done. Nobody knows what they are talking about. I hate this bank.
Reviewed March 20, 2017
After banking with CITI for so many years, I wasn't given the option to switch to BB&T. Since the switch it has been one fee after another. Even though I didn't sign up for overdraft protection they still charge overdraft fees for ridiculous charges, such as Netflix or Ipsy which is automatically deducted from my account. If the money is not there, BB&T still charges $35 for Netflix or Ipsy for overdraft fee. I have disputed so many times with these people however there has been no change or refund.
My last straw is with my payroll check which they placed a 7 day hold on! The bank rep, Megan **, informed me that the hold had nothing to do with the check, or the bank the check was from, however was because of my history of overdraft fees! She also informed me that although "SHE" could release it, she wouldn't because of my overdraft fees history! She is holding my hard earned money, because "SHE" can! I am officially done with this bank and will take my money to the credit union which is what I would've done when I first moved here, however for the convenience I haven't.
Reviewed March 7, 2017
This is the worst bank for customer service. They can raise your escrow account without even giving a reason. And when you try to lower it you have to go through a nightmare. They gave a free checking account for having a mortgage with them. Then they charged me $12.00 a month for maintenance and I closed it. They gave me a BB&T Visa and charged me $25.00 fee even when there was no balance. Had to go into their bank twice to get it off my account. Closed that account too. Being a senior citizen they should have the best customer service. I would cancel my mortgage with them if I could.
Reviewed March 4, 2017
Comcast withdrew money from my checking account without my knowledge. I tell multiple representatives of BB&T and Comcast about this personally and over the phone before 2/18/2017. I am then given a new checking account (due to fraudulent activity from Comcast) and then told to transfer all of my funds from my old to the new account. I do exactly what I was told, meaning that my old checking account had a ZERO BALANCE. Comcast/BB&T already obtained my money for this bill prior to me opening a new checking account. The next day, I am given a $36.00 fee from BB&T. Today I do business with neither and now I do business with lawyers. Have a good day BB&T and Comcast.
Reviewed March 2, 2017
BB&T 'relationship managers' will court you & promise your business the world. Once you sign-up, the party is over, and you're left holding a bag of snakes. Let's start with outrageous fees ($36 returned item fees). This is a terrible problem because BB&T puts onerous holds on all non-cash deposits, well after 6 months of opening! Make a deposit, it gets subtracted from the source account that evening, but doesn't show up in your account FOR DAYS! BB&T is basically floating your money. I had one $20k deposit they put a 10-DAY HOLD ON. This wreaked havoc with my AP & then they had the audacity to charge me multiple NSF fees!
Then there are mysterious junk fees that show up with no explanation as to what they are, or why you were charged. Many of these are dubious, and some they claim are not theirs (so whose are they then showing up on our statements???). Let's shift to inability to speak/chat with anyone in real time. Don't have your phone PIN handy, you can't use their phone system. Need a new one, you have to go to a branch. Want to resolve an issue? Nope - you must go to a branch. Then there is no ability to transfer money into/out of your business checking without paying for an additional ACH service. Want to move equity into your business account online? Nope! Not possible. You have to make a mobile deposit which will be held, or visit a branch.
How about the unethical process of posting charges before credits. Make an online payment, then deposit money that same day (or even before since deposits are held), debits will ALWAYS be processed first, and if your account is short (awaiting processing of your deposit), you guessed it, $36 NSF fee. Make a formal application for a business loan, despite excellent credit, solid assets, and earnings? If they deem your business 'risky' (mine is a craft beer & wine startup), they will simply and informally tell you 'not interested'. You will not receive any written notification of denial of credit whatsoever (which I believe is a violation of several laws). You will also get pestered by BB&T employees trying to sell you overpriced merchant services.
How this bank isn't investigated by state DA offices of the Treasury Department is unbelievable. Their processes are unethical at best, illegal at worst. They are no ally of small business, they are your worst enemy. Run, do not walk away from BB&T. Your business and sanity will thank you for it! I have made it my personal commitment to warn as many people as I can about this bank and it's utter contempt for small business owners.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2017
I have a BB&T checking account with overdraft protection. I recently made a small purchase that overdrafted my account in the amount of $5.88. I also had three other debit card transactions that were previously pending. They posted the three debit card transactions, which after they posted, I still had a positive balance. The bank then assessed me two overdraft fees. I called customer service and asked them why I was being assessed two overdraft fees when at the end of the posting, I have a positive balance. They informed me that the bank deducted my pending transaction for the small purchase before posting the other three transactions. This caused the assessment of the overdraft fees. On what planet is this type of math kosher?
I told them it was absolutely ridiculous that I would be ultimately assessed $108 in overdraft fees for an overdraft of $5.88 in my account when all the purchases posted. Because when the small purchase posts, I'll be charged another $36 overdraft fee. Customer service said "That's the reality." Doesn't it sound more like highway robbery? They agreed to refund one overdraft fee; however, that still leaves me paying $72 for a less than $6 overdraft. I am far from happy with this bank's practices. This bank bought out National Penn Bank. I never had these issues with National Penn. The customer service with National Penn was wonderful. This bank is horrible.
Reviewed Feb. 22, 2017
If you try and close your account they will come back 2 years later trying to tell you that you owe them money and that it has been sent to collections. They won't be able to give you the information as to what you are being charged for or why you even owe money and won't transfer you to a supervisor. If you go to close your account make sure they give you a form confirming that they closed your account for your records and that no other fees will be applied to your account, otherwise the amount will keep racking up and you'll be in debt.
Reviewed Feb. 21, 2017
We have 3 business accounts with BB&T and for the most part all has gone well for about 13 years. Two days ago we were hit with what the Police called cyber- terrorism. It was a terrifying experience involving threats and blackmail. My first call after the police was to BB&T. The fraud people were understanding as I was very shaky and upset. I authorized the closing of two of the three accounts but did NOT authorize the closing of the operating account as I had to get to Atlanta ASAP to say goodbye to my father who is in Hospice. I already had plane, car and hotel reservations made and would need the debit card when I arrived in Atlanta. The attack happened on Saturday night of a 3 day weekend and the banks were closed today being Monday. The fraud people were explained that I would have to go in person to the bank to get a new card and since the local branches didn't open until 9 and I had to be at the airport by 9.
I was given the address and phone number of the branch closest to the Atlanta airport. It was agreed that BB&T would keep the account open until I picked up the rental car in Atlanta and got to the Branch to pick up a temporary card. I thought all was well until this morning when I tried to get gas and discovered the account was locked. I have spent the entire day trying to get BB&T to unlock the account. This morning at 10 I was told by customer service that he would have to investigate before opening the account but that he would call me no later than 2 PM.
When he didn't call I tried to call again to discover that he had left for the day. Around 4:00 I reached someone named Jose who said he was a supervisor in customer service and that it was his decision not to release the account and that he had notified the fraud department of his decision. He then disconnected the call. In a panic, I called the fraud people back and explained that after multiple calls, always getting different people, being on hold until the call disconnected. I was getting desperate.
IN the meantime I found out that my father was worse. I considered delaying the trip one day but without the card I can't change the reservations and now realized that if I didn't get there tomorrow afternoon I might not see him alive. The fraud people said their hands were tied. Vanessa stayed over an hour after she was due to go home trying to get someone to release the account without succeeding. We are nuns and this is a business account. We don't use credit and have no other cards. We have only the money in our pockets. I have no way to get to the branch in Atlanta without a car. It is beyond belief that the bank has no one on call with the authority to handle this kind of emergency. I feel like first I was victimized by the terrorist but even worse now I am being victimized by the bank I trusted. Whose side are they on?
Reviewed Feb. 18, 2017
I have a loan with BB&T and trying to pay it off early so I am doubling my monthly payment amounts in an effort to pay more towards the principal. Instead BB&T is collecting the same interest and crediting my payments forward, in other words it shows 8 months ahead. I contacted BB&T last month and was told to make the payment on the 17th and it will reduce my interest amount. Great, it worked but this month it didn't work. I called BB&T today and the girl kept repeating the same thing which made no sense to me. I asked her to explain why last month's advice worked but it didn't work this month. She was rude and continued to state, "You're not listening to what I'm saying." She should not be on the CS phone. I will go see the branch manager on Monday to pay off my loan and never use BB&T again.
Reviewed Feb. 15, 2017
THIS ** bank has screwed up my mom's finances in SO many ways! RUN!!! Whatever you do, don't go to this bank! This bank forced my 83 year old mom out of their bank, sent her a letter threatening that whether or not she had her money out, the account would be closed on September 1 of 2016! THEN!!! After she dragged herself out to the branch and took ALL her money elsewhere to appease them, BB&T left the account open with 1 cent in it, and let VA and dad's firefighters pension go into an account that was "closed SEPT 1 2016" according to BB&T's so nicely written letter from corporate office.
NOW, without any notice of a new balance or any other correspondence from them to my mom about the account still being open... for months, after mom passed, we were trying to tie up loose ends when we discovered that VA had paid retroactive money to my mom, but the VA wouldn't tell us where they sent the money! After numerous calls to mom's new banks, and lots of headache and MY time, it occurred to me that the only place the money could have went was to this old account!!! Lo and behold, there it was, in a "closed account"...
BB&T tells me, the executor of mom's estate, "we can't talk to you about her account." After going to the courts to get papers to give BB&T proof I was the executor, they copped a attitude with me because I demanded answers. First of all the money should have never been in their bank. Second of all, if the account had been closed on the day my mom did it, no other deposits would have taken place.
NOW, I have 3 checks for the beneficiaries of the BB&T account and I need to pay the VA money back because mom died. BB&T refuses to take their OWN checks back so that VA can get the amount owed to them PLUS there is a extra few thousand that is included in the checks they cut for the beneficiaries that has to be divided as well. BB&T WILL NOT even tell us what the deposit amounts were so that we know how much to send back. I can't cash the checks or pay back VA without sending the total amount to VA!!! THESE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD!!!
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2017
Customer service is awful. Deposit terminal is often out of service or takes the deposit and then doesn't credit account. Recently, my debit card was charged twice for the same transaction and BB&T fraud claim is taking forever. When I call, I stay on hold for 10+ minutes and then get a rep who provides no help. I'm closing my two accounts.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2017
My sister is a wealth mgt VP and I emailed her asking what would be something good to invest 80,000 in for my neighbor who is 79 and I am her POA. I have tried to ask her twice. This time by email. She tells me she doesn't know. "I don't know her whole picture," even though I have told her. My guess is that the amount of money is so small she doesn't want to mess with it. This bank also did multiple withdrawals for my father who is 78 and has dementia for him to send over $100000 to scammers. We were not aware until my sister (the banker) looked into it. No one contacted my mother who is on the account to notify her that they had suspicions that my father was being scammed. My father told them that he was paying tax money so he could win 40 million dollars. I was extremely disappointed in this bank that they continued to perform multiple transactions without contacting my mother.
Reviewed Feb. 1, 2017
I am the Treasurer for a local church. The church tellers who take the weekly offerings to the bank, put the offerings in a money bag along with the entire deposit slip book and drop it in the night deposit at BB&T each week. BB&T suddenly refused to return the bag and the deposit book until the elders of the church signed a new "Resolution and Agreement for Deposit Account." The money bags were the property of the bank and with that I'm not arguing. However, the deposit books themselves are the property of the church, purchased from a third party vendor with church funds. The deposit book in no way shape or form belongs to BB&T and BB&T had no legal authority to keep them. But BB&T held the books until the church agreed to sign their document. That, to me, is wrong. I asked the manager "What if I had mistakenly dropped my wedding ring in the money bag? Would you keep my wedding ring until I signed your forms?" Worst bank ever!
Reviewed Jan. 28, 2017
Mishandling of long term clients. Attitude from the staff most of the time. I have given multiple proof driver license number, social security number, address information and last payment etc. That is not enough. You are pushed and treated with total attitude and obnoxious behavior. I am tired of being mistreated by this bank. They do not know how to treat their client with respect. I spoke to Samatha who continued to be so cold and uncaring after I gave her multiple information. Only after her supervisor got on the phone and I was mistreated did I get to make a payment on my bill. Why does anyone have to be treated like this to pay their bill.
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2017
My husband and I have owned our own small business for going on 7 years now, and have banked with BB&T and used their merchant services for the same amount of time. We had no problems with them until recently. We had to update our credit card machine because our old one didn't support chip cards. So this past summer, we bought a new machine that is also itself supposed to be PCI compliant and secure. Well, during the month of October, someone was able to gain access to our SECURE machine, which is connected directly by ethernet, and send through over 21k AMEX authorizations using our merchant account. These were supposedly done at one time, almost all swiped (no one has access to our machine aside from my husband and I. We have no employees.).
So, BB&T allowed these authorizations, and we were contacted toward the end of October about a possible fraud on our account (because of these authorizations, although at the time we didn't realize the extent of it). My husband had been getting calls from people from all across the country saying charges to their American Express cards were showing up with our business name for random amounts (most only a few dollars). So then, we got our monthly merchant statement in the mail saying we owed $3300 (our actual legitimate charges and fees totaled only $184.). After multiple calls to merchant services, we were told that the bank incurred these charges (even though they acknowledged that it was fraudulent and changed our account because of it) so they were still going to charge us.
They did agree to, and ultimately, refund $2100 of the amount, but we have still been out $1000. And we were just informed this morning that since they've already taken the amount out, it cannot be refunded (after waiting for about a month for a fraud claim through the bank). So definitely don't deal with BB&T merchant services. You'll save yourself a lot of hassle. Also, don't forget, whoever you do merchant services with, to add in a clause to have no early termination fee (save yourself $500 because they won't tell you you have one unless you specifically list not to have it).
Reviewed Jan. 16, 2017
More than 3 months ago we refinance our mortgage with another bank. The first flag was that they calculated our "payoff balance" 2 payments higher than actual balance. Even though we never been a single day late for our payments! That made us bring $1300.00 more to our closing (with another bank) - BB&T refunded us overage 3 weeks later. The second (still going on) they took $2200.00 from our escrow for paying our tax which they never paid!!! Nor refunded to us!!!! We had to bring from our pocket $2200.00 more for property tax to a new closing. 3 months later BB&T have not refunded us for $2,200.00!!! So many phone calls to BB&T. They lied that they paid tax. We called Tax Services and confirmed that they did not (we paid at closing), then BB&T lied that they will refund in 2-3 days, 24 hours... we haven't seen dime yet!!!
Reviewed Jan. 16, 2017
BB&T may have more local access available, but better services can be found for your needs. I have had to find out the hard way that I cannot do an online money transfer from my BB&T savings to my BB&T checking on weekends or holidays. Any other day it is immediate. However, my savings acct can be used for overdraft purposes for a $12 fee. Also, deposits made on Saturdays, before the bank has closed, does not post until the following business day. Other banks offer much better services than this.
Reviewed Jan. 11, 2017
In 2008 my wife at the time went in the Carmel branch in CLT and in a period of 2 1/2 months, forged my signature 14 times until my acct was closed. I did not give the bank permission nor did I give my wife to withdraw my 25000. I saved this money for a very long time and I need some sort of closure. The banker that let her have the money was named Copper. What made me more angry was the bank is blaming me.
Reviewed Dec. 20, 2016
They are closing my account in the next 7 days unless I pay them $990.00. They keep adding overdraft fees and I get a disability check every 3rd of the month. I don't have $990.00. They are rip offs. Don't go to them. You will be sorry.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2016
My son has been banking with Branch Bank and Trust for 10 years. He was a full time student pursuing his 4 year degree in education working part time at a local grocery store, so he wasn't making a lot of money, but they required a checking or savings account to direct deposit his check. He would get paid every 2 weeks go draw his money out with his ATM card the next morning after his check went in at midnight. He had no checks. Just a card. He would have the check stub from work with the amount he made and go to draw it out and have less money than what he made. He had a student account since he was a student so no maintenance fees! So he would notice 100 dollars taken out every now and then but when he called customer service they would try and convince him it was a charge he had made from Amazon Prime (for example) that was totally not true!
He finally got his degree started teaching and had to have a note from the Bank for direct deposit since he couldn't give a voided check. Well they sent him a Check card still he writes no checks. The first month he got paid from the State which was quite a bit more money. He used his card a few times and it was online orders. Now this is his account how money and they froze his account because supposedly they suspected "fraudulent activity". Why we don't know. He checks his account everyday and if he thought there was any fraudulent activity he would have called the bank! He proceeds to call his personal banker at the local BB&T and she says there has been someone taking money from inside the bank, so they froze his account and no one else! He was embarrassed more than one time and that is totally not right and pisses me off to no end!
I've had it with this Bank! Here it is Christmas and he has not had time to Christmas shop and has ordered Christmas online which is his BUSINESS IF HE HAS THE MONEY IN THE BANK! All the correct information address, phone number everything possible!!! Today he had one more thing to buy online and his card was declined and his online banking account on his phone shows him all activity debits, credits deposits, he got paid last night and they declined his DAMN card and when he called the BB&T 24 hour automated system the recording said they couldn't give him any information!!!
This Bank is looking at a law suit and he will be moving his money to another bank! I'm so tired of seeing him work his butt off and this is his money and they think they can put a hold on his card anytime they want!!! They will not get by with this! If he wants to shop online in freaking CHINA that's his business as long as he's got the money! This mom is fed up with BB&T! Get these damn criminals that actually do fraudulent crap and get by with it!!!
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2016
It's crazy how just about everyone is complaining about the same things so, this confirms that BB&T need to be investigated for fraud! Their teller did not close out my information after I made a deposit inside and withdrew $100 out of my account into someone else's. I happen to see this a few hours on my online banking after bank hours. Called the 1-800, had them put a freeze on my account until I went in the very next morning, spoke to the nasty bank manager Stephanie, who did say it was a teller mistake but couldn't refund my $100.00 into my account until Monday morning. Come Monday morning no $100.00 but a negative 13.09!
Mind you, I've never overdrawn before and keep good track of my account. She now puts the blame on me on top of all the over draft fees saying I should have known once I put the freeze on the account they put a hold on 3 transactions already made and the $100.00 they never refunded me. I even tried with the regional manager she's just as rude and could care less. Both managers could also not explain to me why most of my date transactions were off, yet I now know why. They tried covering their butts so they didn't have the refund me MY money they have to another customer and created false overdraft fees so, in the end they took my money! Stephens City branch is the worst. Please find another bank. They will truly ruin your credit and put the blame on you!
Reviewed Dec. 13, 2016
My husband and I went to our local BB&T branch to check out a home equity line of credit or a home equity loan. We have had a mortgage with them for 5 years and have never had any problems. Our original loan was sold to BB&T so we had no choice with regards to who was servicing our mortgage. We visited the Vice President of the bank and she explained the difference between the two kinds of loans. We insisted that we only wanted a fixed loan rate with a fixed payment period. Everything she said from start to finish was very confusing and hard to even an accountant to understand. We signed the papers after thinking about it and were told we had 3 days to rescind. She said she could not provide us with the interest rate or monthly payment until the closing. We insisted on something in writing stating these terms and she sent us an email with the necessary information.
After coming home and reading all of the complaints about the bank our gut feeling told us to get out quick and we signed a letter to rescind the loan within the 3 day period. However, the Vice President of the bank urged us to give their bank a chance and to prove to us that they were trustworthy. We relented and took the loan which we assumed was a fixed rate, certain time period loan with a fixed monthly payment. However, what we did not realize, even though she told us she had informed us, was that we also had a home equity line of credit with a variable loan. When checking our account online we saw that it was showing we owed twice as much as we had borrowed, the payments were different than she had told us and the interest rate was different. It has been an absolute nightmare.
We are still trying to straighten things out. Now she is telling us we have to go back into the bank and sign more forms if we don't want the variable rate loan as well as the fixed rate loan. The whole procedure was a flim flam scam and I urge everyone to stay away from this bank. Run, run, run. If you don't you will be sorry like we are. How they stay in business we will never know.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2016
I am absolutely fed up and done with BB&T bank and will NEVER bank with them again nor would I ever recommend them to anyone. They have or have tried to charge me a countless amount of overdraft fees. Often times I have noticed (because I monitor my account almost daily) that they switch and rearrange transactions in an effort to cause these fees and I have even most recently noticed that they charged the max amount of overdrafts for a day which is 5 and then deliberately held 4 other transactions to the next day so they could charge me more. That was my last straw and I literally reported them to anyone possible, the Federal Reserve Bank, the CFPB (currently pending), and the FDIC.
In the past month ALONE they charged me $540 in overdraft fees... in the past year a total of 48 fees and $1,728. I don't know who has the money to just give to a bank like this but I don't. I was not able to pay some of my actual BILLS in the past month because of the amount of money they caused me. I am trying to get my money back and I have already opened an account with a new bank. They are so horrible and they never return calls or inquiries and I have NEVER been rude or irate (although I have reason to be) when I have spoken with anyone.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2016
They claimed I overdrafted 1.69. When I finally received paperwork about this overdraft the fee was already around 170.00. The customer service is horrible. This bank will steal from you, and then try to ruin your credit.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2016
This happened last yr. My brother gave a $100 bill which I was going to deposit in my account. I went to the drive-thru window. They told me to come inside - then told me the bill was counterfeit! I told them my brother just gave it to me. I left the bill and told my brother what happened... He said he got the bill from that very bank! Later I tried to get a straight answer but couldn't. Today my brother said the bank put $200 in my ck. account and he did not get his money back... Somebody should have been in touch with me. I have not heard from anyone at that bank. Seeing my brother today... He said the bank needed me for a statement or something. Darn please help! I had no idea he didn't get his bill back.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2016
Please run away from this bank. I have had my account less than 30 days and had a wire transfer for 3000 and a deposit for 2000. This bank put my account on hold and froze my account stating they needed to know where the wire transfer and check came from so I told them the information that they needed to know. So they unfroze my account for 3 hours. Went to use my card and my account was back on hold. Now they are telling me my account is closed and the company that sent the wire transfer and the check is asking for the money back. So I called both companies and they have no knowledge of these things happening period. So my money is just sitting in this damn bank and they are lying trying to steal my money. But I'm not gonna let them get away with this period. They are a bunch of thieves. Period. And someone needs to investigate this bank. Period point blank.
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2016
I'm not sure where to begin. This bank would definitely ruin you. They did it to me so I'm sure they'll do it to you. I had 2 accounts with BB&T--a business and a regular checking account. Never could I open a savings account cause overdraft fees wouldn't allow me to. I would deposit $300 cash money in the branch ATM machine just so they can hold it and by the next day my account would have a $350 negative balance. They create your overdraft fees for you if you decide to stay on point about how you accruing so many overdraft. You still would never understood how the online site shows one thing while the Mobile app says something else.
I try applying for a credit card once. No one from BB&T called me to say my application was denied. I figured they shred it. I ended up getting a major credit card through a different bank. That's odd. All they good for is controlling your money and taking your money. Poor customer service. You on your own. They treated me so bad for a while. I thought It was just me but after reading so many reviews now I know it's just in BB&T's blood. I'm sorry but I wouldn't recommend this financial institution to no one on this green planet. The way they conduct business is a true shame for any community and it's sad that they get to get away with it.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2016
BB&T is absolutely positively the worst bank in America! Somehow they manipulate bank accounts via as they say the day they are posted in their account when you use your debit card causing many thousands of dollars of overdraft fees the last couple years. This bank needs investigated for the theft they have caused!
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2016
Second time in two weeks this happen. On Nov 11, 2016 I deposit $736 through my BB&T branch ATM. $100 was made available immediately and the remainder was held (typically until the next business day). However, another hold was placed on my account for $73.6. Today is November 15, 2016 and my account reflects an overdraft balance of -795. Both holds are still in place. This is my business account. Ironically they have a billboard down the straight which claims that they help small business.
Reviewed Nov. 12, 2016
At one time, I had 6 accounts with BB&T. After the bank held my deposit, (even though the online log in showed it was available) and caused 10 checks to bounce, causing $250 in over draft fees, the bank finally gave back the money after 2 visits with the branch manager. This caused me to close 3 of the accounts. Now, they have held a retirement check deposited 11/3 until 11/14 stating the hold is normal bank procedure. After bank shopping, I have found a 5 day hold is the normal. I'm done. Closing 3 more accounts and going elsewhere.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2016
About 13 years ago, my husband took out a loan for $30,000 from National Penn Bank. He passed away 11 years ago and so I continued to pay the loan. I noticed that the balance never went down much, unlike other loans that we had. The interest is 7.78%. I went to the NPB and asked if I could refinance this loan or at least make larger payments to it and was told that I could, so I started to do so. Still noticed that the total of what I owed was not really moving anywhere. I went back to bank and asked what would happen at the end of the loan if the payments that I was paying wouldn't satisfy the entire loan. They said that because it was a "balloon" loan, I would have to pay a huge lump sum at the end. Somehow this doesn't seem right, but I still can't change it.
I continued to pay the loan, but not at the higher rate, I changed it to a lower payment because of my circumstances. Fast forward to the present. BB&T now bought NPB. I still notice that I owe over $21,000 on this loan, to which I have paid over $30,000 on. I call the bank and ask them what I would have to pay to clear the loan. They quote the number that is $20,000. Then I ask how many months do I have left on this loan, they answer 32. I total up the amount that I pay each month and ask, OK, if I continue to pay at the rate that I am paying, it totals $6000. You are telling me that if I continue to pay the low monthly payments for 32 months, I will have paid the loan off. They answer YES. It doesn't make sense to me.
I have called at least 10 times about this problem and can NEVER get a straight answer. Since when is it more beneficial to pay a loan for a long time than to pay it off. This bank is screwed up. I have asked them if at the end of 32 months if I still owe $14,000 what are they going to do, issue me another loan? They have no answer. I don't understand and need some help with this. Maybe I should just shut up and see what happens but it seems to me that I should get this in writing, because I sure don't want to have to pay at least $55,000 for a lousy $30,000.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2016
Worst bank ever. I only had it for 3 days and I'm already not happy. Customer service is the worst and the bank tellers do not help you for nothing and also they have a sign that says 24 hour banking and every branch is closed on Saturday when all other banks are open on Saturday. I’m closing my account on Monday. Do not use this bank.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2016
My mom had an account with BB&T. She passed away Sept 2012. I asked for copies of her statements for the year leading up to her passing. They complied within a reasonable time frame. So far, so good. BUT... in reviewing her statements I noticed a reoccurring monthly charge for $12.95. Description reads: **. Does anyone know what this charge really is about? I inquired in a casual, non accusatory manner, if the bank could please explain a little more about it. I asked had my Mom initiated and authorized this monthly charge. I remarked I'm asking because I'm somewhat confused as to why my Mom felt she would need this Privacy protection. She was 82yrs old, never owned a PC or ever used the internet which is really what poses the greatest risk in privacy and identity matters. I summarized by also asking had my Mom requested this service or had the bank recommended to her, the Privacy Matters service.
Since my Mom really was keen on privacy issues, (unlisted phone numbers, PO boxes, things of that nature) I knew there was a good chance that she had requested the service. That being said, I can honestly say there was nothing in my demeanor or tone of voice that could be construed as offensive or accusatory in nature as I inquired for answers. Still, I just wanted to make sure she hadn't been approached by bank employees using a fear mongering tactic encouraging her to purchase the service. I want to interject that though it seems unpalatable to many of us that people and businesses constantly plot and scheme to bilk our elderly citizens in attempts to assault their finances, the sad truth is it's extremely common, and more revolting is the fact that it's mostly done not by street thugs but by educated professional people, such as lawyers, bankers, estate trustees, nursing homes, to name a few.
Do pay attention to that folks, keep a watchful eye out for any elderly you may know. Back to BB&T: As stated, I was calm and casual with my inquiries yet their response nearly blew me to the wall. The way they responded, you would think I had asked them to show me their underwear! They were defensive, arrogant, hostile and evasive. I never really did get my answers! So stunned by their response my mind went blank, I stopped pursuing the answers. Before I go on to the next issue I want to offer my sincere sympathy to the reviewers here that have lost substantial amounts of money to BB&T. I feel somewhat embarrassed in comparison complaining about a $12.95 charge. But it's my Mom, and I think she was taken advantage of. The amount doesn't matter to me. My Mom's estate is not closed and under the charge of a Public Administrator who took over last year after the first one abandoned his fiducial duties.
My Mom had two lock boxes with BB&T. Not being the administrator I did not have authority to close them out. Therefore I have been making the yearly payments to maintain those lock boxes. I have all the receipts. I sent them to the administrator proving BB&T was not owed any payments for the boxes. Yet, he charged the estate $330 to pay BB&T for alleged back payments of those boxes. Since I had sent him the receipts I felt this was an act of dishonesty on his part only. And since, have had a falling out. After reading about all the shady business practices of BB&T it's evident that I misjudged him.
Now the most likely scenario is BB&T sent him an already paid bill, and with assumptions of it being owed, he paid it from the estate. That takes him out of the category of personal dishonesty and just places him into the realm of professional snobbery. He believes a banking institution is above reproach, therefore my receipts must be a fraud. That's repugnant and ignorant, particularly since all of us here know how UNabove reproach this bank is! Thank you for your time in these matters.
Reviewed Nov. 3, 2016
Today is the last straw. Every encounter I have had with BB&T customer service does not end well because they truly do not care about the customer or the problems this bank causes for everyone. I'm sure most banks are this way; but having to experience this for 6 years truly opened my eyes at how little they care to help. ~$250 in overdraft fees for less than 50 dollars in purchases (which they conveniently hold as 'pending' until they can charge an overdraft). Rules they make up on the fly regarding charges. Needless to say this has not been the first time I have had such issues.
Waiting to do a check return - even though sufficient funds were in the bank; they bounced my check anyway for a $2,000 car payment causing a lot of problems. I don't need this stress and simply trying to do everything right by the book but continually get screwed over for staying with this bank. I REPEAT - DO NOT OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH THIS BANK. They are taught nothing more than to scam their customers for as much money as they can get out of you. I'm sure they will argue to the death otherwise but the facts will speak for themselves. All one has to do is read other reviews on here to verify the issues I have.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2016
On 10/24/16 I went to the BB&T at 1860 MT Zion Rd, Morrow GA 30260 and went to the ATM. I inserted my card, entered the pin, selected deposit and inserted $360 which the machine took and it just kept saying "processing transaction" for five minutes and would not give me a receipt or allow me to cancel the transaction. I went into the branch to notify Brenden ** and Alicia ** the machine was broken and took my cash. Alicia checked the ATM machine and it would not work only saying "transaction processing". They called customer service and made a claims ticket ** and they advised me that BB&T does not control or manage the ATM's that Brink's services the ATM machines and they have nothing to do with the ATM's. I was told Brink's would come out on 10/25/16 to service the ATM to locate my cash and then told it will be Friday 10/28/16.
I called bank customer service because I have bills to pay and was told to call the Fraud dept 1-866-802-4955 and I just got the message "to hold and the first available agent would get with me" for 30 MINUTES. My BB&T bank representative called the Fraud dept for me and also had to wait another 20 minutes too and was told they normally take 5 DAYS but MAY get to my claim on 10/27 so I MAY get provisional credit by 10/28. PLEASE BE ADVISED. DO NOT USE BB&T ATM's for deposits as they have serious problems with their OLD EQUIPMENT that is poorly serviced by Brink's Security.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2016
I would never recommend this bank. The way transactions are posted after a weekend is very questionable. I withdrew money on Saturday and Sunday. Each time my balance went down. Come Monday I am $321.22 overdrawn on my account. Each withdrawal I made 7 total included a $36 overdraft fee. Two of the transactions were for $1 each $37 for a candy bar twice I got charged. These 7 withdrawals had already been deducted from my balance. A transaction came in on Monday which my banker said caused account to overdraw. Which funds for my purchases had already been deducted prior to the overdraft. A bunch of crooks. I will be closing my account immediately. Do not do business with this bank.
Reviewed Oct. 20, 2016
For 4/1/2015 to 6/30/2015 period. BB&T Activities: There was service charge for any account. My Argument: when I signed contract with Citibank, my accounts were set up with no service charges. During this period, BB&T abided the contract I had signed with Citibank. At 6/30/15. My request: I made request to transfer all money from my Business Money Rate Savings account to Business Value 200 Checking account and close Business Money Rate Savings account. BB&T Activities: the clerk didn't do it and left the account open with $9.76 although he told me the account was closed. My Argument: why the clerk didn't tell me the truth, whether that was intentionally or just mistake?
From 7/1/2015 to 2/29/2015 period. BB&T Activities: There was a Cash Management Online service charge $35 from my Business Value 200 Checking account. My Argument: I never set up Cash Management Online service with BB&T and even don't know that I have this service with BB&T. BB&T never tells me either by phone or letter anything about this service. On 12/23/2015. My request: I noticed that my Business Money Rate Savings account had not been closed as I requested at 6/30/2015, I asked clerk to close my account. BB&T Activities: Again, the clerk said my account was closed, but actually left open with $9.76. My Argument: I really don't know this is BB&T system issue or clerk issue?
From 3/1/2016 to 5/31/2016 period. BB&T Activities: There were Cash Management Online service charges $35 from my Business Value 200 Checking account each month. There were Cash Management Online Business Banking service charges $35 from my Business Money Rate Savings account which had $9.76 each month. There were Cash Management Online CD Account Maintain service charges $40 from my Business Money Rate Savings account which had $9.76 each month. My Argument: in these three months period, BB&T added two other charges to my Business Money Rate Savings account: Cash Management Online Business Banking and Cash Management Online CD Account Maintain which I never get noticed. And BB&T charged me Cash Management Online CD Account Maintain even I don't have any CD account!
From 6/1/2016 to 8/31/2016 period. BB&T Activities: There were Cash Management On service charges $35 from my Business Value 200 Checking account each month. There were Cash Management Online CD Account Maintain service charges $40 from my Business Value 200 Checking account each month. There were Cash Management Online Business Banking service charges $35 from my Business Money Rate Savings account which had $9.76 each month. There were Cash Management Online CD Account Maintain service charges $40 from my Business Money Rate Savings account which had $9.76 each month.
My Argument: in these three months period, BB&T added one more charge to my Business Value 200 Checking account: Cash Management Online CD Account Maintain which I never get noticed and even I don't have any CD account!
The Keys: Cash Management Online service with BB&T: I never get notice that I have BB&T Cash Management Online service associated with my accounts; I never get notice that BB&T Cash Management Online service has fee associated with it; BB&T charged me total $1158.75 for nothing! BB&T Cash Management Online service charge changes without notice and agreement: At first eight months, the service charge was $35 monthly; then the following three month, the service charge became $120 monthly; and then following three month the service charge became $160 monthly.
There was no notice or explanation why these service charges keep on increasing; I don't have any CD account, why there were service charges for Cash Management Online CD Account Maintain. BB&T put charge on the account I even don't have! BB&T charged me total $75 per month from my Business Money Rate Savings but the money was deducted from my Business Value 200 Checking.
BB&T Customer Services: After found these unauthorized charges, I went to BB&T branch at Houston downtown and talked with Eric **. But I was told BB&T can only refund me $470. I want to know why BB&T decided to refund me $470 and why BB&T decided why not to refund me rest of $648.75? What's the underlying reason for BB&T's decision? When I asked for any document about the service charges on my account, Mr. ** emailed me fee disclosure on September 27th, 2016, which should sent to me on before the first day of BB&T took Citi customer accounts.
The fee disclosure Mr. ** sent me doesn't indicate the charges applied to my account.; After I found these issues and want to discuss with Mr. **, he refused to talk with me about the detail and told me that he can only refund me $470, TAKE IT OR NOT. After numerous arguments with Mr. **, and his manager Andrew **, they agreed to refund me $840 but still held my $318.75 for no reason.
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2016
I was charged an overdraft fee for non sufficient funds when I had sufficient funds in the bank. I made a cash deposit of $60 and a check deposit of $75 on 10-17-2016. There was a debit from AINS PREM UNITED/LBS for $51.35 charged to my account on 10.17.2016. The bank charged me an NSF overdraft Fee of $36 Stating: "Your account had insufficient funds to pay one item(s). BB&T paid the following item(s) AINS PREM UNITED/LBS" - $51.35 on 10.17.2016.
My complaint is that I was charged an Overdraft fee of $36 after I deposited $135 into my account before a charge of $51.35 was debited on my account. My online statement indicate that all these transactions took place on the same day, 10.17.2016. Therefore $135 is more than sufficient to cover a $51.35 charge. I feel I have been taken advantage of by BB&T through their NSF overdraft policies. It is unethical and unfair practices to charge me for not having sufficient funds in the bank when their online documents show that I indeed had sufficient funds to cover the transaction in question. I would like the $36 overdraft returned or reimbursed to me and this unethical and unfair practice be abolished.
Reviewed Oct. 17, 2016
I have banked with this company for years and it gets worse and worse all the time. They have continually screwed up accounts and have shown payments in their system that were set up on an auto pay from my accounts. Days later they will call and tell me they are calling from collections because no payment was made. All I get over the phone is gibberish. I have closed all my accounts and will refi so I no longer have to deal with this incompetent company.
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2016
Have been a customer with BB&T over 10 years now. I have several accounts including merchant. I have my business and my home with them. My business slowed for a month, first time in years I didn't have a high balance. I went to cash a check for several thousand from a huge company with references. They put a seven day hold on it, that is BS! I need the cash in my account now. They won't help at all, even we know people there. Stay away from them!!!
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2016
I've been with this bank for years now. It's gone through 3 different owners: 1# Fed 3 then 2# National Penn and now it's 3# BB&T and in each different time they screwed up in each and every accts. I've gone through to many different accts with the bank to keep count on how many times they messed up. I had just about enough. They breach my contract and said it was my fault and now I'm $571.15 in the negative. I've tried talking to them and they refuse to call me back. They are avoiding me and they can't seem to account for the rest of my money. Please don't get fooled by this bank whatsoever. They are irresponsible. They play around with your money, your credit and your life, and don't want to own up to their faults, and it's not fair to me or my child.
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2016
My bank was purchased by BB&T? My pension check is direct deposited into my savings at the end of the month. That day I usually go to the bank and withdraw some money from savings. I deposit some of it into checking and bring some cash home. When BB&T took over I noticed once I got home that my checking account receipt only showed $100 increase when I had deposited much more than that. I went back to the bank to ask why. I was told it had been entered as a check and the balance would show up the next day. I asked "how could this be if I withdrew cash from savings and wrote the slip up as a cash deposit why would you consider this a check." I was told I needed to tell the teller I want to transfer funds.
This month I went to the bank again, had written up a withdrawal slip and again a cash deposit slip for checking. The teller did a transfer and a withdrawal. She transferred the correct amount but the withdrew the cash I needed from the checking account. Since I had a receipt showing the transfer of funds and the cash I had requested I did not realize she had taken the cash from the wrong account until I got home. BB&T does not offer transfer slips. They just want you to tell them how much to transfer. That gives you no paper trail. What if some teller puts in the wrong account number and transfers your funds without your knowledge? I really do not like not having my signature for actions they take.
I also had a home equity loan with the previous bank which BB&T now has. My payment has always been deducted from my checking account each month. Any month I felt I was doing well financially I would go online and transfer somewhere between $200 and $400 onto the principal. BB&T counts this as your next month's payment and then the next month will not deduct your regular payment. Because I have tried to pay extra on principal I am now several months ahead in payments. Now if I do not go online and make the monthly payment each I will never get ahead. I signed up for automatic monthly withdrawal of payment so I would not have to do this. I think they found a loophole they could use to avoid losing the interest payments when a loan gets paid off early.
Reviewed Oct. 5, 2016
I usually don't leave reviews or complaints for a company unless I know I was getting taken advantage of or something wasn't done right directly affecting my day-to-day living; it's quite seldom these days as they would get fixed appropriately and promptly. I am absolutely appalled by the lack of concern and care for my particular issue at my local BB&T banking branch.The fact that I have to report a complaint on the Better Business Bureau website is indicative of me at my wit's end with this bank.
I went to the closest BB&T near my house in the early morning of Sunday (it was about 1:30-1:40 AM) and had exactly $270 dollars in hand to make and initiate a cash deposit. I went to make a cash deposit at this location: 3620 Tramore Pointe Pkwy, Austell, GA 30106. Reason being, I needed to pay a bill that has automatic payments set up for me on a certain day of the month and it so happened to be the next day. Granted, my deposits usually clear on the same day or following day so I immediately knew that it would have been taken out automatically and paid on time like I did the previous 10 times without any issues.
Continued, I put the cash into the ATM and it spit it out the first time. In my mind, I am thinking that I would need to straighten out the bills in order for the machine to read it and accept and CREDIT me the money - it didn't. Anyone knows based on experience, if a machine spits out a wad of bills, you fix them and reenter them into the machine so it can read the money properly and initiate a deposit. After doing the aforementioned, I was not credited my money and I was left speechless. There was no "out of order" message on the ATM machine. Nothing told me that the ATM couldn't take any cash deposits.
All it said that "it couldn't process your transaction" and went back to the intro screen. There was no receipt given to me either. With a shocked look on my face, I sat there in my car confused for 20 minutes as I couldn't believe this just happened to me. Yes, I sat at the machine for 20 minutes after it happened trying to figure what happened. With the limited support hours with this bank, I found out that I had to wait until 6 AM to call customer support. Anxiously waiting, all they did was put "notes" on my account until I go into the branch where this happened. Great! Just great!
Monday comes (1 full day post incident), and I received the same run-around with the bank branch employees. Does anyone at BB&T not know how to handle these situations? It's bound to happen to someone sooner or later. I was told I will have to "wait" until they have someone count the overage. I was also told that the turnaround for incidents like this is 1-2 days. 3 days later and still nothing, no answers. What's astonishing is the fact that they didn't even give me "credit" to pay my bill that has automatic payments set up. I think this is the main reason why I am upset with this bank - any other bank (Chase, BofA) would have gave me temporary credit while an investigation is going on.
I must incur overdraft return charges and be late on my bills through automatic payment because of the BANK's ATM machine that ate my money? NO! They proceeded to tell me they couldn't "confirm" if I actually deposited my money. OF COURSE you can't CONFIRM it! The ATM machine ate MY MONEY without a trace! How about you find the logs and pull the security cameras to verify what I am saying! Now, I have returned item "overdraft" charges on my account that needs to be refunded right now.
Why should they give me credit you might ask? They should because it is THEIR ATM at that branch that took my money and didn't credit me. There was no prompt saying that it wasn't taking any CASH DEPOSITS nor any OUT OF ORDER alerts. I returned today for answers and all they told me is that I have to wait until Friday to see "if" I can get my money back. IF? It's when, not "if". I want my money right NOW! This is highly unacceptable!
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2016
My husband has been out of work for over 10 weeks now and we are already fighting with CIGNA his short term disability carrier. Now BB&T has held up his loan check from his 401K for over 7 days and will not release any of it to us because they can. After call and asking why it was not released on the date they said a week ago well it will be at midnight so I guess it is technically the 8th day. Do not worry BB&T as soon as it clears I am closing the account and making sure everyone knows how you help out your sick and disabled customers.
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2016
I received a check for a job. I deposit it in my account the next thing I know that it's a fraud so now the bank has froze my account and sent checks back to water company and electric company saying insufficient funds. Mind u I had my own money that would cover them checks now I cannot touch it till they resolved this with the other check. I gave my bank the emails and texts from the guy who was supposed to have me paint his apartment. Now I've got to find the money to pay my electric and water also pay a 50.00 dollars on each check and the banks charging me 36.00 dollars.
I had the money in there to cover my bills before I even deposit that cashier's check. How was I to know it was bad and I didn't get any of that money. I just deposit where my money at and why cannot I use it. It was cash that I put in my account. Something needs to be done with BB&T. When I talked to the fraud department Mike said he was not going to release my money. Didn't care if I was banking there for a hundred years. That's not how you help a customer so now I'm broke and no work coming in and cannot get what's mine.
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2016
BB&T has stolen almost 7000 dollars from my account. I know what teller did it, forged my signature and how it was done. I need legal counsel. I have all proof and verification, I have been interviewed by the bank detective and he was very degrading practically accusing me of lying. They have two bank tellers there that swear I came into the bank after surgery and under medication and signed my name to the check and that is why the handwriting does not match. I have not had surgery and if I did the bank is the last place I would go and the last people I would discuss it with.
I feel I should have my money as it isn't theirs... I also feel I have a right to sue as this has brought up my PTSD, my GERD is so bad I have to sleep in a recliner so that I am not laying flat. Luckily I have not needed these funds for bills or I would be screwed. I am just the little guy here and I need help from those who know what they are doing. The detective for the bank is already telling me my case is not credible. He says I have lied. He says the case is not going to turn out as I plan... this is mental abuse. Please, please, please help.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2016
I've banked with BB&T for years and lately I have gotten nothing but problems from them and to top things today was my first time depositing a check via mobile app. It's Friday and it's telling me my funds won't clear until Tuesday and I could have taken it to an ATM and had my funds first thing tomorrow. This is truly an inconvenience. How is this mobile app suppose to make life more simple and easier when their holding funds for so long. Clearly other bank facilities release part of the funds the same day with the mobile deposit but BB&T does none and it waits until after you've submitted to tell you the release date. I will be leaving to go to another bank because this is ridiculous.
Reviewed Sept. 21, 2016
My husband & I have a account with BB&T in Maryland. We woke up today in disbelief our account was $300 negative which was not possible!! We've never had a negative and watch our account everyday and get email updates. Long story short they told us transactions made from the 15th-17th are just now coming out over a week later!! When we made those transactions they came out of the account so where is my money at!!! We called supervisors and they HUNG up on us! Over $500 is missing and nobody is explaining!! Closing account today!
Reviewed Sept. 16, 2016
I contacted BB&T to inquire about getting my PMI insurance discontinued. I was told by the agent that I was only 4000.00 away from the 80% required to have it removed. I was sent the information on how to do this. I paid them to have the appraisal done. It came in at 79.4%. They sent me a letter stating "It had to be at 75% and we're not going to remove it." I explained that I only went through the process and paid the fee because the agent told me it was only 4000.00. I felt they should refund me the amount I paid to have the appraisal. After about two weeks I received a call from them stating that they would not refund me because in the info I was sent, it stated that if the loan was less than 5 years, it would be 75%. Yes, I should have read more of the small print and had a lawyer look it over, but the point is, the agent gave me bad info and they admitted that. They are the experts, not me.
They were unwilling to back up what their agents tell you. This is just a poor way to treat your account holders. I even explained that I would be refinancing and taking my mortgage elsewhere and they did not really care. The 150.00 appraisal fee was more important that well over $50000 in interest they would be getting over the life of the loan. So not only do they not care about their employees, customers, but whoever made this bonehead decision is not looking out for the best interest of the company. Is 150.00 worth $50000. Hmmm...
Reviewed Sept. 14, 2016
BB&T is the worst bank. I pay my bills. I have money in my account. The bill being paid is trying to come out and then they charge me 30 dollars for a return fee. Every month they do this. They are stealing and lying all the time.
Reviewed Sept. 8, 2016
I opened a checking account a little over a month ago and finally set up direct deposit. Receiving my first deposit today (September 8, 2016). After speaking with a customer service representative verifying that they had my correct address to mail me my bank card and also to reassure I could get a temporary card at my nearest branch until I would receive my permanent card. Feeling confident I would receive a temp card as well as make a withdrawal of 50$ from my account while in my nearest branch. That is not what I experienced at all.
After speaking with the teller and providing my valid Texas ID she made me aware that I would need to sit down with Stan the bank representative to get a temporary card, that she was unable to do so. As soon as he saw me I could see in his face that he was judging me immediately. Maybe my tattoos intimidated him, not sure. But I immediately felt uncomfortable. He goes on to pull up my account and I verify my information to a "T". He begins to question me about my ID saying that the ID number does not match what's on file. I begin to explain it's because that is my DL number which I verified without even seeing it. He then says what's the difference?? And I respond a driver’s license is for driving and your ID is for identification. He becomes more suspicious. Calls customer service and ask if he can issue a temporary ID and for whatever reason he made up I would have to come back tomorrow to get one.
The lack of eye contact and body language said enough. I still kept my composure. I'm now back with the teller getting my receipt and withdrawal I never received initially when I walked in the bank from Aisha. Stan is now calling me back to his desk to sign a document to protect my identity because I initially opened my account online, which is fine. But I knew that wasn't his genuine intent. I leave the branch. Feeling uncomfortable I call customer service to have reassurance everything that transpired was routine. She then advised me signing the document was but I shouldn't have had a problem with using a ID instead of my DL . As long as it was valid with a picture.
No more than 30-45 minutes later I received a call from Stan. The number is not saved and it is a local area code so I don't think much of it. But I didn't expect it to be Stan. I disconnect the call... I'm now trying to calm down because I knew the entire time I was in the branch Stan was judging me and literally did not believe I was who I was saying I was. Even though having valid proof. Yet still keeping my composure. I honestly was shocked that this man called my phone even after the fact, with that even more awkward conversation. I call back 10-15 minutes later and speak with the branch manager Ashley who made up at least 4 reasons why they took so much precaution for me to simply get a temporary card and withdrawal 50$.
1. My ID number didn't match my dl number (but they never asked for my DL to even verify).2. They've been having a lot of fraud going on (but two other Caucasians walked in and made withdrawals with no issue).
3. They've never seen me at their branch (absolutely ridiculous, I guess new customers aren't welcome).
4. My account was opened 60 days ago and I never made a deposit (didn't know there was a timeframe to do as I please with my income), etc etc.
I've already called corporate and filed a complaint and definitely will take further action. My experience was superficial & racial bias. I have never experienced anything like that in my life. You would have thought I was attempting to withdrawal thousands of dollars. And it was for a 50$ withdrawal and a temporary Debit card. The only person I spoke with that was genuine was Gina at corporate and hearing my experience I could hear in her voice how shocked she was. And even starting I shouldn't have had a issue with my valid TX ID. I wouldn't recommend this bank to my worst enemy. I will be withdrawing my funds and closing the account. I must add my direct deposit was from State Farm, my employer, a nationwide company. That is beyond easily verifiable.
Reviewed Sept. 6, 2016
NEVER EVER DEAL WITH THIS BANK! WORSE EXPERIENCE EVER!!! BB&T bank is the worst bank I have ever worked with in my life. I would never recommend to anyone to waste their time and do any business with BB&T. I was a client of CitiBank and after BB&T acquired Citi in Dallas, I automatically became a client of this low grade bank. I have a startup company and just recently I was charged $720 in overdraft fees for processing 2 (TWO) dollars!
Our developer was testing our software using our BB&T debit card by making 10 cents transactions, and for some reason we didn't know that there was no money on our card, so BB&T charged us $720 fees just for processing $2!!! Most banks (best practices) at least have a limit on number of overdraft fees that they can charge per day, BB&T charged us 17 times in one hour! Most banks will send you SMS when there is no money on your account, BB&T will never do that, because the way they make money is NOT by creating added value and serving their clients by providing new, innovative services etc, but just by robbing their clients in hidden fees and by using poor practices and after they'll just refer you to their stupid policies; this is the most mediocre bank with incompetent staff working there. It looks like worst performers that were fired by all other banks are working at BB&T.
I was so disappointed and I couldn't sleep for 7 days because of this situation. I almost lost my business because I planned to pay those $720 fees for our hosting facility fees and this bank just took those money from our account as overdraft fees. I called branch and as always they were useless, so I called to Chairman Line that branch manager gave me (their phone number is 336.733.2000) and I got same lame, mediocre response "because of our policies, there is nothing that we can do". They don't care about their clients and their feedback.
I paid over $5,000 in fees to this bank for the past few years, because we were sending a lot of wires etc, and now this is the way how they treated me. BB&T's reviews all over the internet are less than 1 star and their management and CEO doesn't give a ** about it! How their CEO even has this job?!! That guy is useless, he is so busy that he can't go and read reviews of his bank, he doesn't realize that he and his team are making their salaries because of their clients that are posting reviews on sites like this one, and they don't care about it.
This bank is the worst thing that ever happened to me as a startup founder, and I would NEVER recommend to anyone to spend even one minute to deal with BB&T. Everything about this bank is HORRIBLE, mediocre and substandard: their customer support sucks, sometimes they won't even respond to your emails, because they know that nothing will happen to them, because there is no performance review or controlling procedures. Everything is so complicated, dumb and unsatisfactory. Please don't make same mistake dealing with this low-grade, beneath standard bank.
Reviewed Sept. 2, 2016
I wish I had known what a terrible terrible company this is!!! We financed our load w/ what we thought was a reputable company only to have it close and our loan was sold to BB&T. They have done NOTHING but steal money from us!!! They bought us insurance even when we already had insurance. And then refused to give it back stating it's no longer in our account. However they can't seem to find the missing money of $1500.00 either!!! They raise our payment yearly "due to change in escrow" BUT no matter when we call our escrow is always in the negative!!! ALWAYS!!! This company is stealing hard working people's money everyday!!
I just called and my balance according to the automatic line is in excess of $3500. However when I spoke w/ an account manager once again our escrow account has a "negative balance". Really??? She did offer to "change the payment". Uhhh nooo thanks!!! I got a pay off balance today and will seek another institution for financing. This is the last year they will STEAL our money. Thieves!!! Please do NOT FINANCE WITH THEM!! Leave from us so that our situation can help at least one person!!!
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