Comments on: The Open vs. Secure Debate: Mint.com and ING Direct won’t play nice

By: Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:40:10 +0000

Gotta love a good call out. Tell those turds who's boss.

Thanks for stoppin by Garret!

By: ryangraves

ryangraves — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:40:10 +0000

Gotta love a good call out. Tell those turds who's boss.

Thanks for stoppin by Garret!

By: Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:23:48 +0000

In reply to Justin's “Tell me another bank thats open 7 days a week 8 am to 8 pm ALL time zones across the US?”:

E*TRADE! Pull your head out of your ass and look at your competition! Just because you're riding the first-mover wave (or maybe you copied E*Trades lack brick & mortar, no fee, 24/7 cust service business model), it in no way means your competitive advantage is sustainable!

Somebody skipped the PR course in business school…

By: ryangraves

ryangraves — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:41:08 +0000

Glad you commented, I've been thinking about this all morning.

I think this is a risk to Mint.com because it may be even tougher now to
incorporate/integrate with other big banks now that intuit owns it.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:49:42 +0000

It looks like all of this discussion is a moot point now as Mint.com was acquired by Intuit. For mint.com, who always said they were anti-bank, they now have to renege on their ideals.

By: DFWDraco76

DFWDraco76 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:22:55 +0000

you bet - thanks for posting this! I tweeted about it earlier this morning: https://twitter.com/dfwdraco76/status/3932692266

By: ryangraves

ryangraves — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:11:08 +0000

I have to agree with the point you've made here most: "There's no reason ING
an't provide the good security that all customers expect, while at the same
time providing the same functionality and access that have become "industry
standard"."

It seems to me that since almost every other bank has been able to make this
work and keep things secure it must be an ING problem. However, I'm not
ready to leave them yet, I will wait also.

Thanks for chiming in!

By: DFWDraco76

DFWDraco76 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:07:17 +0000

There's no reason ING an't provide the good security that all customers expect, while at the same time providing the same functionality and access that have become “industry standard”.

If I thought for a second the security of my accounts were compromised by Mint's read only access to them, I'd never have allowed it in the first place.

By: DFWDraco76

DFWDraco76 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:02:51 +0000

I also just joined the conversation at http://getsatisfaction.com/mint/topics/ing_dire... ;-)

Given Robert Weaver's more polished reply, I'll probably just continue to wait and see what happens.

By: DFWDraco76

DFWDraco76 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:50:58 +0000

Thanks for the post! I just sent an irritated complaint to ING about this very issue, since Mint has been unable to update my account with them for 3 days. It's odd to me how intermittent this thing is — sometimes it updates “normally” for days and weeks at a time, then other times I'm just cut off.

Yours was the first Google hit when I searched on the error Mint shows me.

If this is ING's stance, I, too, may consider taking my money elsewhere.