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Sean B

1 reviews | Active since May 2025

26 May 2025, 12:49

FNB excess fees and poor secure chat facility

Excessive penalty fees charged against my account due to the banking process between merchants and bank being delayed. SO I get penalized for transactions I execute when there are funds in my account, and due to a faulty or delayed process, the transactions are processed when the funds are not available. FNB then process the transaction, but penalize me heavily with an excess fee penalty. These transactions go into a "Pending" state in my account, Surely they should be deducted from the available balance and held in reserve for the transaction to be processed? Highly unfavorable as this affects my cash flow and my credit rating. Tried to get assistance from FNB, secure call does not get answered and secure chat is administered by people who decide to end the conversation when they don't feel like assisting anymore. Took me over an hour to go around in 5 circles and still not be directed to someone who could assist. Just cut me off!

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Sean B's update29 May 2025, 11:01
Reviewer Update
Thank you for your response. Having been "informed" of the excess fee policies several times via email and once telephonically, it seems you are just throwing a book at me, without actually taking the facts behind this situation into account.

I am being penalised financially because a system is failing. Exactly what I have mentioned to all respondents the same thing:

I swipe my card only with available funds, I CANNOT swipe if there are insufficient funds.
The system for whatever reason fails, due to merchants and banks not synchronizing.
The merchant processes at whatever occasion suits them, and I then have to pay PENALTIES for these late transactions.

I will be taking this further with the ombudsman, if you did this to 5% of your clients everyday, how much revenue will you create ?

Sincerely
Sean de Bruyn