Boris-The-Blade
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So here's what happened to me, with my withdrawal. 
I initiated a withdrawal back on September 1st. I opened an alt account with my bank for the deposit specifically, being an international payment. On the 10th, as a just-in-case (maybe speedup the process?=fail) I opened a support case to check the status of it. Unfortunately nothing had gone through of course, or even was looked at.
The MA support staff emailed me back with the usual copy/paste line of 30day's. Of course I had to try it! So after 20day's I did actually begin to get worried, still nothing had gotten through. I decided to email them again, just to ask them if small withdrawal's indeed carry shorter times, as many upon many of these payment thread's indicate. A few day's later I received a response.
The response said in essence, yep another copy/paste line, that 30day's was the maximum amount of time, and also that it meant 30business day's. Shame on me for jumping the gun no doubt, but after 20 day's I was a bit worried. Ringing true however, the payment finall, on the 32nd day, or 10/2/2010 the payment hit commited status finally.
Anxious, I logged into my bank account to check and see if it was on file yet, noticing I couldn't successfully log in. This had never happened before and took me by surprise. I thought for sure that I just didn't remember the password, so I called the bank.
Turn's out, the payment had taken so long (32day's total), that the bank account shut itself down due to inactivity. I was furious. Basically on the 29th, the account closed itself for not being used, despite me calling the bank, then actually going in to double check when I opened it, warning them the first payment into the account would quite possibly take a month.
Panick mode ensued as you can imagine, and some cross word's flung wildly across the cell phone to the bank. After then calling online support 3/4 times, and trying to find a branch manager on a Saturday to simply hit the damn open button back on the account, I found no avail. I was doomed.
Turn's out, after speaking (in depth I might add) to over 7 represenatives, and 2 branch managers, international payment's are the ONLY payment's usually with a bank that do NOT allow re-routing services. The enter through federal channel's, and must be deposited into the specific routing number as originally pasted. Generally, as almost a given rule, you cannot get payment's from that initial routing number, forwarded to another main account, or any account.
It's been a nightmare, and I wrote MA back to say I was ridiculously displeased with it. Informing them that it was not in truth their fault, but however I felt it was 50% or so. When it take's so long to get a payment, that a bank account (generally unsaid rule of 30day's with no activity, as I know now from my extensive calling) shut's itself down, is way to damned long to await getting your payment if you ask me.
For small withdrawal's, much like what this one is, the 700ped fee, the 15USD (varies) international fee, and the 10USD standard fee all over again, is a true bitch. I lost a good chunk of my withdrawal, and never even got to see my own money. Perhap's I am the only one that see's it this way, but I seriously doubt it.
I have written MA again, explaining in detail what happened with the bank, and requesting upon returned that it be sent to yet another account, after they charge there glorious fees of course, and received a email back just yesterday. Basically it stated that MA was indeed sorry to hear the loss and headache, but in the future maybe I could find a bank that better supported it's customers, and they indeed would charge me the standard fee's for returned payment's.
Fucking unfortunate really. At the time I was beyond furious, i debated legalities, lawyering up and the works. Since then I've had a chance to calm down quite a bit. As I can't point the finger as mentioned above totally at MA. I wrote them back swiftly explaining that instead of practicing advice on my banking account, they should consider expediting payment's a little more swooftly.
Now here is my real concern, finally putting this behind me. What do you want to bet, it will take them a lovely month again to re-send the payment? A while back I commented on a powerhouse thread about the total inadequacy of MA's ability to respect consumer's time schedules with expedited payment's, in which everyone was debating exactly what takes them so long. The one thing that never crossed my mind, and now does is : Could they honestly hold until the last day for exactly this reason? If generally as a rule, a new account will close with no activity in 30day's, and fools such as myself don't know this : I truly wonder how many times this has happened to other users who just didn't know better such as myself. Regardless, it seems like a small margin, but could be part of a whole somewhere.
Mark my words on this,
It won't be long before someone does get pissed off enough to open a class action lawsuit, and it won't be hard atall to find enough people cruising around the forum's here to accomplish it in record time. Quite a few are furious on this issue, and have had far worse a time than myself. That may be the only thing to look forward to forcing MA to ever become interested in speedy payments.
I initiated a withdrawal back on September 1st. I opened an alt account with my bank for the deposit specifically, being an international payment. On the 10th, as a just-in-case (maybe speedup the process?=fail) I opened a support case to check the status of it. Unfortunately nothing had gone through of course, or even was looked at.
The MA support staff emailed me back with the usual copy/paste line of 30day's. Of course I had to try it! So after 20day's I did actually begin to get worried, still nothing had gotten through. I decided to email them again, just to ask them if small withdrawal's indeed carry shorter times, as many upon many of these payment thread's indicate. A few day's later I received a response.
The response said in essence, yep another copy/paste line, that 30day's was the maximum amount of time, and also that it meant 30business day's. Shame on me for jumping the gun no doubt, but after 20 day's I was a bit worried. Ringing true however, the payment finall, on the 32nd day, or 10/2/2010 the payment hit commited status finally.
Anxious, I logged into my bank account to check and see if it was on file yet, noticing I couldn't successfully log in. This had never happened before and took me by surprise. I thought for sure that I just didn't remember the password, so I called the bank.
Turn's out, the payment had taken so long (32day's total), that the bank account shut itself down due to inactivity. I was furious. Basically on the 29th, the account closed itself for not being used, despite me calling the bank, then actually going in to double check when I opened it, warning them the first payment into the account would quite possibly take a month.
Panick mode ensued as you can imagine, and some cross word's flung wildly across the cell phone to the bank. After then calling online support 3/4 times, and trying to find a branch manager on a Saturday to simply hit the damn open button back on the account, I found no avail. I was doomed.
Turn's out, after speaking (in depth I might add) to over 7 represenatives, and 2 branch managers, international payment's are the ONLY payment's usually with a bank that do NOT allow re-routing services. The enter through federal channel's, and must be deposited into the specific routing number as originally pasted. Generally, as almost a given rule, you cannot get payment's from that initial routing number, forwarded to another main account, or any account.
It's been a nightmare, and I wrote MA back to say I was ridiculously displeased with it. Informing them that it was not in truth their fault, but however I felt it was 50% or so. When it take's so long to get a payment, that a bank account (generally unsaid rule of 30day's with no activity, as I know now from my extensive calling) shut's itself down, is way to damned long to await getting your payment if you ask me.
For small withdrawal's, much like what this one is, the 700ped fee, the 15USD (varies) international fee, and the 10USD standard fee all over again, is a true bitch. I lost a good chunk of my withdrawal, and never even got to see my own money. Perhap's I am the only one that see's it this way, but I seriously doubt it.
I have written MA again, explaining in detail what happened with the bank, and requesting upon returned that it be sent to yet another account, after they charge there glorious fees of course, and received a email back just yesterday. Basically it stated that MA was indeed sorry to hear the loss and headache, but in the future maybe I could find a bank that better supported it's customers, and they indeed would charge me the standard fee's for returned payment's.
Fucking unfortunate really. At the time I was beyond furious, i debated legalities, lawyering up and the works. Since then I've had a chance to calm down quite a bit. As I can't point the finger as mentioned above totally at MA. I wrote them back swiftly explaining that instead of practicing advice on my banking account, they should consider expediting payment's a little more swooftly.
Now here is my real concern, finally putting this behind me. What do you want to bet, it will take them a lovely month again to re-send the payment? A while back I commented on a powerhouse thread about the total inadequacy of MA's ability to respect consumer's time schedules with expedited payment's, in which everyone was debating exactly what takes them so long. The one thing that never crossed my mind, and now does is : Could they honestly hold until the last day for exactly this reason? If generally as a rule, a new account will close with no activity in 30day's, and fools such as myself don't know this : I truly wonder how many times this has happened to other users who just didn't know better such as myself. Regardless, it seems like a small margin, but could be part of a whole somewhere.
Mark my words on this,
It won't be long before someone does get pissed off enough to open a class action lawsuit, and it won't be hard atall to find enough people cruising around the forum's here to accomplish it in record time. Quite a few are furious on this issue, and have had far worse a time than myself. That may be the only thing to look forward to forcing MA to ever become interested in speedy payments.
. My advice open an regular account with a big well known bank. Not sure where u live but these are but a few that operate in the UK; Barclays, HSBC, Santander, Llyods, Halifax. For me 30 business days means that they operate from monday to friday so thats about a six week wait, ur lucky you got it quicker. Weekends are not working days as I remember it, banks never used to open on saturdays or sundays. Again real sorry this happened to you & I'm glad you see that MA was not totally at fault here.
