Incompetence!
My Best Western Credit card transferred from another bank to Mercury bank and I've had nothing but trouble and headaches.
1) I enrolled the new card. I supplied my mobile phone number and received a confirmation email. Then when I tried to login and setup auto payments, it sent a PIN number to my landline phone, ignoring my mobile phone number. Being that I couldn't get online to set up payments, I stopped using the card for now.
2) I got a bill for a $2.00 paper statement fee, even though I wasn't warned and couldn't get online to opt out of paper statements.
3) I called customer service and the woman, who was very nice, rebated my $2.00 fee, but couldn't help me with anything else. She transferred me to their Tech Department.
4) The person from the Tech department asked for the following: My full name, full SSN, birth date, full address and wanted to verify my bank account that I setup at the other bank! I told the person this is too much secure information to give over the phone - especially to what was obviously an overseas call center. She said that getting all that information was their policy. I ended up terminating the call.
5) I decided that after having the Best Western credit card for around 15-20 I would just cancel it do to the poor service from this bank. So, I called in and ended up with the Tech department again. This new person only asked my zip code and last 4 digits of my SSN, and not the full thing, which I was happy about. I told the person that if he can help me, I would keep the card. He signed me up for paperless statements and I received an email confirmation. When he tried to send me a text to make sure that they were using my cell phone instead of home phone for text messages now, he said he got an error. Then the man said that he needed to verify my checking account too! I asked to speak to a manager and was place on hold for around 20 minutes, then the line went dead.
Run, don't walk away from this incompetent bank!
18 October 2025
Unprompted review