Bank of America

9 times out of 10, the DEPOSIT option on the ATM is unavailable. Since there is only one ATM and no lobby at this location, it’s a major FAIL. This is the closest location in my neighborhood and still half a mile away with no car. Schlepped over there 2 days in a row to make a deposit. Thanks for wasting my time BOA.

There’s a bum that sleeps in here regularly and it always smells like cigarettes. I would stay far away from this ATM.

Super convenient ATM that lets you deposit checks and only once have I been there that it ran out of cash when I wanted a withdrawal.
It’s not A/​C-​ed or heated (or poorly if it is) but it’s a quick stop. How much time are you spending at an ATM anyways?
If only it vended quarters for laundry day…

It’s the only BofA ATM anywhere near me, because they have banks at vaguely inconvenient places throughout my area, but nothing on Western or Chicago, so I’d have to take an equally long bus ride or slightly long for walking, short for busing trip to North and Milwaukee otherwise. At least this is a one stop kinda trip, and I’m antisocial anyway.

Well, the scary Rainbow store and it’s ’80’s K-​mart era signs went away and then the red glowy BofA signs popped up and I thought, «well, gosh, that’ll be convenient».
It only got worse from there. A hokey «GRAND OPENING» balloon thing showed up on top of the building and I realized that the BofA is not a BofA but a BofA ATM closet within another cheapo Chicago Avenue clothes/​shoes/​suntan lotion/​crackers/​everything you could get at a dollar store but wouldn’t store. It’s been open for near a month now and there are plenty of scary people hanging about outside, the pens have all been ripped off their security wires, and I think a few people are living in there. I heart West Town or whatever they’re calling my neighborhood these days.
So, poor planning on BofA’s part, no big surprise there. They thought we would love them more than we loved Filter. Egotistical conglomerates. But, that’s not why I gave all their stars to the homeless guy who asked me for money on my way out. It’s the f*&(&^g bl#%$y useless «image ATMs» that won’t take my pre-​printed checks. You put it in. It spits it out. You put it in. It spits it out. You put it in. It spits it out. You can get away with that once or twice but, after that, all you are is a tease. And nobody likes a tease!
FYI: Once these are installed everywhere and you can no longer deposit a check in town, you can still send deposits to PO Box 29 966, Phoenix, AZ 85 038‑0966 via the Pony Express.