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What's wrong with Bank of America's website, and new Disney in 3D

This final note on the way out today. Something's rotten in Charlotte, and Bank of America's not talking.

It's five days in a row now that B of A's website has been sluggish. A spokeswoman today said little other than to deny that the country's biggest bank is being hacked and that they're continuing to asses the situation. Also didn't say when it would get better.

The error message you get says try later, or visit an ATM.

And in other news that might excite a few of you, or perhaps cause you to roll your eyes. Coming off the whopping success of "The Lion King 3D," the Walt Disney company announced it'll roll out of few more of their modern classics in three dimensions.

Four films to be exact, starting with "Beauty and the Beast" in January 2012, followed by "Finding Nemo," "Monsters Inc." and, of course, "The Little Mermaid."

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Noreen Ryan - Oct 18, 2011

Zhanara-Agree! With the fact that they didn't go far enough in this report. They just made changes over the weekend and they are awful. 1) they were supposed to show pending transactions, they do but with no info about the payee. 2) Before this last weekend I could easily download my account info. to Quicken and now I can't import into Quicken like I used to. The answer I get from a chat on Customer Service is the claim that when I signed on to an account a few months ago I agreed to a $9 charge to download to Quicken. Then they go on to offer 3 months free and to get an account i.e. savings with minimum balance. I told them I will be canceling my account ASAP. It was such a hassle to change to BofA to have my re-occuring payments made, i.e. mortgages. I only signed up for BofA to get miles with Alaska Airlines. Not worth it! I used to frrelance for BofA in San Francisco in creative services, they close the entire dept. I vowed to get rid of BofA when we moved to WA state. I did, I went with Wells Fargo. Now I am thinking of switching the the state employee credit union since my husband is a professor for a state university.

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Zhanara Scherer - Oct 7, 2011

The little tidbit on BOA's website woes did not go far enough. BOA has totally revamped their online banking and it's just terrible.
Not only is is slow, it doesn't provide the content and information as easily as it did before, if at all.
However Merril Lynch is prominently displayed... coincedence?
You all should do a follow up on this... I don't find anyone else doing any research.
Thanks!