How many of you agree that Maybank its a lousy bank?

Question

i have many bad exeperince with them, and which local bank you think is good?e.g. public, hong leong, cimb and etc...

miss butterfly have a point and it happen many time with different people as well. look we are a modern country and this kind of service is total unacceptable for largest bank in malaysia

Answer 1

My friend went to Maybank branch in kk early this month to open a saving account with them but was told to come again next month with appoinment.How crazy is that you have to wait 1 month just to open a saving account???duhh...

Answer 2

I have been with Maybank for the past 12 years, even my company account is with them, never any problems only always best and swift service (no huge turn-over, I am not a 'big' client)... so I cannot complain at all. But I heard that 'with appointment in one month' open bank account, and found it terribly strange. Why, they don't want our money? Last week I went and opened another account for one of my staff (all got Maybank), and I had absolutely no problem, it was processed immediately.

Maybe in Sabah it is different?

Anyway, what I currently like most about Maybank is their internet portal which allows me to do virtually all non-cash based transaction and I never have to leave the house!

Answer 3

as long can get credit card from there its ok

Ice-crayon : their international debit card only work at vendors with the mastercard electron sign ..u can purchase things but the vendor need the mastercard electron logo sign ... its not good coz only certain places have that ... but do u have the normal maybank atm card? that should be useable in other countries to draw cash at any maybank terminal

Answer 4

Maybank quite convinient when it comes to auto teller & cash deposit machine..

but when in comes to inside service.. quite terrible & frustating.
the set back :-
-u need apointment to open account.
-u cannot bank deposit in counter.. they'll ask to deposit in the CDM.
having said that.. they are offering quite low interest..

Answer 5

looks like Maybank is the famous one...maybe you should check out RHB now since EPF has taken oven...

Answer 6

It seems CIMB is leading in this race. I mean most of the ads are taken up by them look at "American Idol", etc. They've a clever marketing team that knows how to target to their clients.

Answer 7

I prefer BCB_CIMB anytime. But we have many other good banks, maybank is one of them, as well as OUB and HSBC.

Answer 8

i go with you. maybank lousy.
best bank is public bank

Answer 9

i visited malaysia early this month... i was expecting that my international debit card will be accepted in their atm machine... sad it didn't work... i almost had nothing to spend.

but my cards work in other countries i visited

Answer 10

Let me share with you my experience.

Early of January ’07 I deposit coins into my "saving account" with Maybank. To my surprise the chief cashier told me that every 1,000 pieces of coins they will charge me “RM10”. It the purpose for security charges to send back to Bank Negara and other miscellaneous charges. It does not make sense at all as though they will specially just deliver the coins I deposit. After the coins went through their coin machine, I just have only 500++ pieces. Luckily. The chief cashier also told me not to keep or collect coins any more. I asked her does it mean that they do not encourage kids to save??? As you know how kids save their penny from their pocket money they get for school. She just smile (how sweet) $#%@$^!%&#@X!

Let say you been keeping or collecting 1 cent coins from shopping bills or miscellaneous bills.
Remember 1,000 pieces = RM10.
1 cents X 1,000 pieces = RM10.
That means you are giving your hard collected money to the bank and not even a single cent will be credited into you account. It really does not make sense at all.

After I left the bank I call up other banks to check on the procedure and found out that there’s no such thing. Not satisfy I call up the same maybank branch and enquiry again and the same old excuse they gave me. So for future if you have lots of coins to get rid of go to the market and the seller at the market will be glad to exchange cash with you without even a single charge imposed on you.