You Can Have Your Hat Back, Emigrant Direct
Posted by Cap in Customer Service on March 17, 2006 |Remember how I got that baseball hat from Emigrant Direct?
In it, they enclosed a nice letter telling me about their “commitment in delivering outstanding value and providing exemplary customer service.” They enclosed the hat as a “token of their appreciate for my business.”
Remember how my account was closed without warning by Emigrant Direct?
I guess they didn’t really care for my business after all.
So I figure I’ll send the hat back, along with a badly written complaint letter.
The gist of the complaint letter is: closing accounts without warning sucks and not disclosing your policy sucks. I didn’t really ask for a resolution, it’s been much too long and I’ve tried too many times already.
1. The Baseball Hat

2. The Whiny Letter

3. The Shipping Label

4. The Delivery Confirmation

The package’s delivery confirmation is 9101805213907103706638.
Let’s see how long it takes for it to reach New York from California :)
Update:
Woah, it took only 1 business day? USPS must be on steroid this weekend. Strangely, the item still hasn’t been delivered yet. No one home? A Notice was left, so now someone from Emigrant Direct will have to go pick it up at the postal office. I should have just sent the hat to Emigrant’s address in NYC instead of the supposedly brand new, “state-of-the-art” Customer Service Center.
Neato tracking map provided by isnoop.net!
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March 17th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
That’s awesome, way to go dude!
March 17th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Good for you! That should get “somebody’s” attention in the Ivory Towers.
March 18th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
That’s funny, I want to see what they say…
March 18th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
hmm yeah lets see if they respond.
I’m going to bet no, but we’ll see.
March 27th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Any word yet?
With all the trouble you’ve been having I think I will go with HSBC for now. Once April hits, do you think the APY will drop below VirtualBank’s current 4.60% (per MyMoneyBlog)?
March 28th, 2006 at 4:45 am
nah nothing yet. it has been delivered but I doubt they’ll respond. I didn’t really ask for one though so I don’t expect one. I guess its silly trying to make a point w/o making sure the point got across…
I think rates will most likely stay at 4.80% at HSBC, but there’s no guaranteed. The feds will raise rates soon again near summer, so HSBC may keep their current rate. I just transferred some new money to HSBC instead of ING, since their promo rate will last longer, and HSBC has a better track record of keeping up with market rates than ING Direct.
I only wish HSBC’s transfer rates are faster.. the transaction speed is the only drawback (IMO) in HSBC Direct.