So how desperate is Chase Bank?

[Hekate]

58. I have two Chase cards, one of which has been mine since the early '80s

That string of numbers that constitutes my credit account has been bought and sold so many times I cannot even remember which entity first issued it to me. It is of value to me primarily because of its age -- that is, I hope my good history still has some meaning. The other one I got much, much more recently on offer from Amazon.com and I use it for online purchases.

Chase kept offering me $125 for opening a checking account, and I finally bit. I found them obnoxious, though not in the sense of rudeness. One day when I went in there was an elderly lady in one of the cubicles saying plaintively that she had no idea where her money had gone (in context, I believe some dipshit there talked her into an investment that went south) and another day there was a college girl phoning her parents saying that the bank never heard of the money that had been sent to her. I finally closed my checking account. I just have no respect for Chase as an entity.

As for my savings, most of them are in a bank that used to be local, though now not so much. They kept the local manager and we trust him, but I am gradually transferring my savings over to the credit union. If the out of state corporate bosses get rid of him, I seriously doubt my husband and I will keep anything there. The interest rates are so low we might as well be keeping the money in a coffee can buried in the yard.