Washington Mutual

Pros: Free checking; Every service imaginable
Cons: Takes a long time to get in and out; Won't process third party checks

I have had the opportunity to use many banks in my lifetime, both for business and personal purposes. Most of them have a few good things to offer, usually balanced by an equal number of bad qualities. My most recent banking adventure seems to fall along ...

Pros: bank was only 2 walking minutes away
Cons: everything else

This epinion is about the friendly tellers at Washington Mutual in Capitola, corner 41st Ave/ Clare Street. I see that the average rating of Washington Mutual (WaMu) is 3.5 stars out of 5, recommended 74% of the time. Let me see if I can bring that down....

Pros: Under 500 yards from my house, had all the qualifications we needed from a bank
Cons: JOAN the teller, a lying manager and an 11 day hold...is that enough?

Due to our recent move to Florida, my husband and I needed to open up new checking accounts with a new bank. We’ve been using Union Planters for years up in Tennessee, but once we moved, we realized there are no Union Planters in Central East Florida....

Pros: Convenient branch locations.
Cons: Everything else! Definitely not for the average banking customer!

I’ve been a Washington Mutual customer for about four years. In the beginning all was wonderful in my world of banking. I enjoyed a bank where I wasn’t just an account number, where the tellers and manager were personable, where I incurred very few ...

Pros: My checkbook balanced out every time.
Cons: They lost my money.

I'm out of bed again, to write once again!

I joined Washington Mutual in November of '99. I had so much trouble with Wells Fargo (see review) and Washington Mutual, still being fairly new in my neck of the woods was still being heavily...

Pros: Good for basic withdrawls and deposits
Cons: Undertrained personnel waste time and energy

Washington Mutual took over for Home Savings in San Diego as it did in many other parts of the country. My experience with the front desk people at Home Savings was that they were friendly and well trained. They knew what they could do, and knew when to...

Pros: Several accounts with no discrepancies
Cons: Sounds like it's not so good outside of Washington state

Twelve years ago I opened up my first "grown up" checking account at a Washington Mutual branch near the university I was about to begin attending. At the time, Washington Mutual was mostly a local bank. It had yet to become the object of nationwide ...

Pros: Many choices, starting with free checking, friendly employees, real voices on the phone
Cons: None

I first opened an account at Great Western Bank in 1991. Great Western eventually became part of Washington Mutual. I was calling around out of the yellow pages, trying to find a bank that was close to me, and one that had certain little features that I...

Pros: benefits are improving over time
Cons: still not cost effective in many cases

There are a number of benefits that Washington Mutual has that epinionites have been writing about. Free checking account, Plus package, and pc banking. I called my bank to see if all these wonderful things that people were posting were really true....

Pros: Customer service; branches are close to get too.
Cons: Them handling mortgages.

I have been with Washington Mutual for many years. I have four accounts - one personal, two business, one savings. I have not had any bad customer service in either branch, I have visited here in Marysville, WA. They have been very friendly and ...

Pros: great service, friendly tellers, free checking
Cons: none

When I was little my mother set me up a bank account. I had no control over this, as it never was really My money. It was in my name, deposits were made from small amounts of money given to me, but never did I have a say in where the money in this...

Pros: Customer Service
Cons: Parking at my local branch

We all laugh at those cute little Washington Mutual advertisements. You know the ones -- where two men have named their baby's after their friendly teller from Washington Mutual, or the one where "Tom" (off hand I can't remember his name) left...

Pros: Free Checking, nice staff, good savings account,Visa Debt Card and many locations
Cons: None

I opened an account with Washington Mutual also known as Wamu. Here is my experience:

I was researching online for a good bank that does not charge the monthly fee to use their checking account. Washington Mutual met the criteria that I was...

Pros: Air conditioned buildings with free parking
Cons: REALLY substandard security: money stolen - they never caught it and never apologized

If you bank with WAMU - RUN to any other banking firm. If you don't, I hope my tale with dissuade you from EVER considering banking with them. I shan't be vague at all. I have had it with banks in general. After what WAMU put me through, I hope ...

Pros: plenty of branches, free checking account
Cons: website

After moving to California from the east coast, I had to change my bank as First Union has no branches here.

I looked at the three main options:
BofA
Wells Fargo
Washington Mutual (Wamu)

I went for Wamu because it...