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Selfie picture of a driver with the caption: ATMs be having $4
withdrawal fees talking about
'"cover your pin" mf you the thief.

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[–] 69 points 9 months ago (15 children)

TIL a lot of American ATMs have withdrawal fees. Man is nothing free over there?

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Nothing is free really.

    The only withdrawal fees i've seen are at ATMs not provided by your bank or not in your bank's network.

    If I go into a convenience store, it's gonna be $2-$4 fee for the ATM. It's the only reason why they have ATMs.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    So do European ATMs? I assume it works the same way - if the ATM is "in network" it's free. Otherwise there's a charge.

    These days you can get checking accounts which refund ATM fees, but they are usually the higher end ones which have deposit minimums.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    In the UK the vast majority of ATMs don’t charge, no matter which bank you use. The only ones I’ve seen charge are ones in clubs/pubs where I imagine the thinking is if you need cash for a taxi and you are a captive audience. However I have never seen anyone use one of those.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Mine also has one but mainly because most ATMs are from the "sparkassen" and the one i use has relativly rare "raiffeisen" ATMs        

    Its a bit like two systemsthat do the same

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    Water's free, mostly. McDonald's started charging 25 cents for it, I have no idea why. Most cities and parks have free public restrooms. Gas stations and convenience stores also let you go in without buying anything, but only sometimes, so it hardly counts. Not the best maintained, but it is what it is. You get a free lawyer if you get charged with a crime, if the government's following the law (it doesn't do that a lot of the time, shhhhhh). The stuff that people leave by the curb is free, you can kinda just take it. I'm struggling to think of any more, I'm ngl. Sure there's a few others. I do think that water should be free for everyone, everywhere. Besides that, nothing too crazy, certainly nothing on the same level as healthcare.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    They’re called ATMs because you’re expected to eat shit after they fuck you.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Clerks 2 represented that as acceptable behavior.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely not into kink shaming, but non-coerced consent is key, and a foundation of finance is coercion.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    In the movie, the main character, his love interest and an unassociated but still primary character declare that ATM is not okay.

    Later in the movie, the tertiary character I mentioned is not present and the other two are flirting heavily. The female love interest says "in the heat of the moment, sometimes ATM is okay." (I might be paraphrasing, it's been a lot of years since I saw movie, but the sentiment is correct.) The other character then shows up and shames her.

    Consent is hugely important. Even stuff like CNC very heavily depends on consent - and should. However, in the movie, I don't think it's a concept being challenged.

    However, in case anything I've said implies otherwise ... No means no and begging until you get a yes is not a yes.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Hold on. ATMs in the US have fees?

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Fuck an ATM fee. I keep some money in a Federal Credit Union, then I just look for FCU ATMs which allow you to withdraw without fees, regardless of which bank owns the ATM. FCU density seems regional though so this likely doesn't work a lot of places, YMMV

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Look up credit unions near you part of the co op network. Basically you can use any atms on that network as long as yours participates.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Thanks for saying it better than I did; it probably doesn't matter if they're an FCU as long as they're in the co-op network, it's just that every co-op bank/atm I've found has been an FCU

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I once dated a girl who was with a bank that paid you back any fees incurred at any ATM.

    I don't really remember the details, but I think that bank was super local or had restricted membership or something like that. Still an impressive offer, though.

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