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Originally Posted by safari
Last year I went to the bank to withdraw $21K with a cashiers check to pay off my car loan. The manager asked me why I am withdrawing so much money. I asked her why they needed to know, and she said they don't like losing that money and she wanted to know if there was anything they could do to keep the money in the bank. I transferred money there a day before from an online savings account just so I could withdraw it, so it wasn't their money to begin with.
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I had the same exact thing happen to me a couple of months ago. I had a jumbo CD with Citibank that had just matured, and I rolled it all over into a money market account.
I went into my local branch one day, and requested a cashiers check for $65K, as I was then going down the street to a local WAMU branch to open up a new promo CD paying 5%, this being after interest rates had plummeted to 4% or less.
Anyhow, I swear there must be some sort of trigger for things like this, like when you see cashiers pressing the red alrm button underneath their counter when they are being held up? The reason I say that is, no more than 1 minute after I make the request to the teller upfront, the Bank Branch Manager comes swooping over to me from all the way across the bank.
Same as you, she didn't want to see the money go. I told her point blank that I was opening up a CD at WAMU becuase of their greate promo rate. She then tried to sell me on service, etc. Like many of you, I visit the bank maybe 4-5 times per year, so that wasn't working.
Anyhow, when I read your post, it was like deja vu all over again!