Chase

Location

330 E Street

and nearby spots

Hours

Mon-Fri:9-6, Sat:9-4

Phone

(530) 756-8350

Website

http://www.chase.com

Owner

JPMorgan Chase

Established

March 2009

Chase is a bank located in downtown. It has an ATM and a talking ATM at this location along with one ATM in the MU Games Area. There is a Chase ATM machine at the East Covell CVS Pharmacy. Chase began installing Chase atms at CVS and Target stores in the Summer of 2009.

This location was previously a Washington Mutual. WaMu remodeled in 2007 to update their look, moving the front door from south-facing to west-facing and added an indoor ATM area accessible at all hours via card swipe. The people there are generally very friendly, if this isn't the case at all commercial banks.

WaMu was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2008. All California WaMu branches were rebranded to Chase in March 2009.

On March 8, 2009 all WaMu credit cards converted to Chase cards.

By mid-September 2009, the interior of Chase was remodeled to look more like a traditional, but modern, bank. The banker islands common at WaMus were removed and replaced with the more familiar banking counter.

On October 25 2009, all WaMu accounts finally switched over to Chase. WaMu Free Checking is now called Chase Free Extra Checking. Chase created this account so that WaMu customers can still keep the benefits of Free Checking. It is still fee free just like WaMu free checking. You have to make a deposit or withdrawal every six months to avoid any fees. WaMu Online Savings accounts have been converted to Chase Premier Savings accounts with no monthly fee.

Chase also offers a Free Chase College Checking account for new customers who are students.

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2009-07-24 15:56:00   After Chase bought Wamu, a smile sort of became more expensive in this Wamu/Chase branch as well. Many of them were celebrity look-alike when they smiled (if you notice carefully, there is one Jason-Mraz look-alike....seriously..lol.). I wished they would give away more smiles now. Anyhow, the services are still high-class, except for one thing-they didn't let me use colorful pens....JK. —superdavis

2009-10-25 09:54:01   Quite a downgrade on the online-banking interface front. And furthermore, I can't tell how my checking account is now classified so that I know if they're charging fees that WaMu never charged (Free Classic Checking classification isn't on their fee schedule). Lame. Guess talking to a CSR is in my future. —RyanMikulovsky

2009-10-25 15:11:53   My WaMu Free Checking account changed to a Chase Free Extra Checking account. Chase created this new account so that WaMu customers can still keep the benefits of Free Checking. It is still fee free just like WaMu free checking. However, you have to make a deposit or withdrawal every six months to avoid any fees.

The new banking interface works fine for me. It now combines all of my accounts on one website and it doesn't even need to load a pdf reader to look at check images. —MaxLucas

2009-10-26 13:02:25   The reward point program is worse in multiple ways now, in comparison to WaMu. They automatically transferred the WAMU rewards into the flexibility points or whatever Chase calls it. WAMU would give you a 1% reward back. Chase gives less unless you wait on cashing it in... '3500' points is only 25.00 dollars! You don't get the even ratio back unless you spend at least '10,000' points (for $100). Points also expire after a few years, so if you're not a big credit user or you're a student, you get less benefit from Chase than you did under WAMU's "same plan". Pretty crafty on Chase's part, as it definitely encourages credit over cash payments, which is also probably a bit detrimental to some businesses and riskier for many students. —EdWins