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Originally Posted by shake
Yes, my first business bank shut down my account when we started doing serious revenue each month.. first they thought we were laundering money for terrorists (this was just after 9/11) so we got letters faxed from reality kings and another sponsor, then they shut us down because they don't like porn  Fortunately we had no trouble finding other banks who like money. Nobody else in business has cared about the porn (accountants / lawyers etc.) and I don't tell a lot of people in my personal life. |
I had bank issues once as well. This was with Washington Mutual. I had been banking with them for a little more than a year when one day I get a letter in the mail telling me that they have good information that a check I deposited might not be good and will bounce. I assumed they really knew what they were talking about. It turns out the check is from a company I had been getting checks from for a long time so I was pretty confident they were not going to bounce the check. When I went in and asked why they thought the check was no good the manager pulled me aside and told me that since it was from an "adult" company the odds were it was no good because those companies are notorious for bouncing checks. I told him that in the three years I had been doing this I had never had a check bounce and most of the money I deposit there is from adult and it has never bounced he just shrugged his shoulders.
After that I got the cold shoulder a few times going in there and when I wanted to open a separate business checking account I was told I would have to wait and jump through a bunch of different hoops to make it happen. It was pretty clear they didn't want my money so I closed my accounts and went elsewhere.
The funny thing was when I closed my accounts suddenly they seemed like they cared about me and didn't want me to go. In the end, as we all found out during the housing crash, Washington Mutual turned out to be a scumbag bank so leaving them was a good thing.