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by toomuchtodo 3331 days ago
Unsure why this is so downvoted? Several banks support turning off the overdraft feature, which just causes debit transactions to be declined (or ACH items returned).
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What about NSF fees? The NSF fee at my bank is 8x more than the overdraft fee ($40 vs $5 + 20% APR). Turning overdraft off would be a poor choice for me even if I anticipated the occasional overdraft.
The problem is that those features don't always work if multiple pending transactions have been submitted, or if checks are used, transactions ordered a certain way (some banks have been in trouble for doing this in the past), etc.