{"id":1001065,"date":"2008-03-22T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/finance\/2008\/03\/22\/wamu-25-checks-for-life\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T16:45:32","slug":"wamu-25-checks-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/finance\/2008\/03\/22\/wamu-25-checks-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"WAMU: $25 Checks for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note that Washington Mutual&#8217;s advertised &#8220;free checks for life&#8221; is a lie. After opening an account with them, they did indeed send me some free checks. However the checks they sent were incorrect and not what I ordered. When I attempted to replace them, they wanted to charge me $25 (more than I would pay through a 3rd party printer) and flatly refused to honor their promise of free checks for life. <\/p>\n<p>If they lie about something this trivial, what else are they lying about? If they can&#8217;t even get a basic check order right, do I really want to trust them with my money?<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, WAMU doesn&#8217;t support Quicken for the Mac (again, despite telling me they did).  Time to look for a new bank. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note that Washington Mutual&#8217;s advertised &#8220;free checks for life&#8221; is a lie. After opening an account with them, they did indeed send me some free checks. However the checks they sent were incorrect and not what I ordered. When I attempted to replace them, they wanted to charge me $25 (more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1001065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}