Bank of America Credit Cards

Worst bank ever. Worst customer service ever. Worst automated phone service. If you want to constantly have to call for mistakes on your account on their end, this is the bank for you. Auto-payments always coming out late with fees, random unexplainable fees, auto-system for customer service is crap and constantly it tries to direct you to the app that it fails to even connect with. To top that, the customer service is always terrible and the people are always condescending. They never help and constantly transfer you; usually to the wrong department. This is the worst bank I’ve ever had the displeasure of having a card with. I have to call at least every month about some mistake on their end on calls that take up to 2hrs. Associates tell you different things and contradict each other. They are horrible. Do not bank here or open a card here. I would give -1000 stars if that was an option.

I have a number of credit cards and have never had such a hard time with a bank as I have with BOFA - they are hard to reach (you have to call and then wait to talk to someone) and their online systems are full of errors (e.g., I had a very hard time setting up autopay correctly). I cancelled this card.

Today I was unable to file a transaction dispute online. Had to call 866 number instead and speak to someone who requested my login information, my Social number, along with information about the transaction that I am disputing. So that my neighbors could hear all this. Then I am told to send the sensitive information to Texas by snail mail or by fax. This puts my identity at risk and I am not doing this. This is how Bank of America treats their longtime loyal customers who have never missed a payment and have excellent credit score. I am very disappointed and will stop using credit cards with this bank altogether. I do not recommend this bank to anyone; there are far better choices.

For years, I have routinely made phone payments through Bank of Am's automated system on two credit cards. Today when following the usual routine to do so, I was shifted to customer service in Atlanta Georgia and asked strange questions to verify my identity so I could make a payment. When I told her how odd this was, she told me that this was standard operating procedure and I was wrong. It was impossible! After 15 minutes of nonsense of the person asking questions that were not even close to my address where I have lived for over 30 years or persons I did not know with my last name, I told the person I was an attorney and wanted to speak with a supervisor.

I came to BOA for a credit card 18 month interest free so I transferred another credit card balance to take advantage of this service. I set up my payment accounts to make online payments, made my first payment from my savings account. BOA processed my payment as a checking account payment which caused my bank to refuse payment, which caused BOA to charge me a late payment fee. All things in this process are understandable BUT when I went online with BOA to get my card paid I was totally locked out of my account.

Their terminology on credit card eBills are at odds with the ones on the statement. For example if you were to map “Account Balance” on the eBill to mean “Current Balance” on the statement then you would be wrong. If you were to map “Amount Due” to mean “Statement Balance” then you would be wrong again. I do not believe that these are innocent mistakes.

While this credit card works fine most of the time in the United States, it has been useless while traveling internationally. The usual response is for the transaction to be declined and an alert to show up on the BoA mobile app. To complete the transaction I use the Barclaycard Arrival+ card which works every time and sends me an email notification of the transaction so I can detect any possible issues. Very different and far superior approach to that of BoA. I like BoA for my other banking needs. They just fall flat in this area.

I waited 30 minutes to get customer service. They didn't apologize or anything even after I mentioned that I waited 30 minutes and asked them if they had server issues. Chase and Capital One are much better! The longest I wanted was 2 minutes to get to customer service.

I've been trying to find out if I'm even covered for an issue I had with a hotel reservation not refunding me for a last minute cancellation of their own sponsored event. This was my whole reason for even using my BOA Rewards AMEX and not my debit card to begin with, in case God forbid something happens. SO now I have spent 2 days and several hours later and still have zero help. I called the number on the back of my card which connected me to BOA, they told me I had to talk to AMEX, then I was transferred to AMEX who told me I had to talk to BOA. Then this circle went on forever, in my 2nd call trying to resolve this and just get an answer I was transferred 6 or 7 times between BOA and AMEX. So I guess no one knows what they are doing and even though your card is supposed to come with benefits you can't actually ever utilize them since no one knows anything.

In September on a trip to Rocky Point Mexico, I bought Latisse from a local merchant. When I got the product home and opened the sealed box, I discovered that the a portion the seal on the cap of the plastic bottle inside had been broken; the plastic top of the small bottle had been cut off; and the bottle was completely empty. I called Bank of America credit disputes and got a temporary credit for the purchase. Despite sending pictures and offering to mail in the fraudulent product, the credit card company is making me pay for the product. Their reasoning is that they cannot prove that the merchant sold me the product in this condition. Needless to say and even though it is not a large amount of money, I am furious that a merchant can (deliberately) sell a fraudulent product and the customer has no recourse.