Consumer complaint received 2022-10-31
Company: U.S. BANCORP
State: WV
Product: Vehicle loan or lease
Sub-product: Lease
Issue: Problems at the end of the loan or lease
Sub-issue: Problem when attempting to purchase vehicle at the end of the lease

Complaint:
On XX/XX/XXXX I overnighted a check to pay off my lease on a lease end purchase from US Bank on a XXXX XXXX XXXX. The amount was XXXX on Lease Number XXXX. On XX/XX/XXXX, the payment arrived and was signed off - XXXX XXXX # XXXX. 

On XX/XX/XXXX, I received a phone call from US Bank inquiring what I was planning on doing with my lease. I advised that I had sent in all my paperwork and the check was overnighted and received. I gave the person my XXXX tracking number. He had to investigate it and came back on the phone to state that he talked to lease end maturity department and they said they could not process my payment due to the fact that the legal line did not match the amount box on the check. Wouldn't it have been nice if someone had called me? I then asked the representative how I could expedite the payoff of the lease and he advised that he could take the payment over the phone for the lease amount. I provided my routing and account and he came back on the phone to tell me the most he could process was XXXX. I asked if he wanted to take my payment in increments as the money was there. He thought it was better He then provided me the information for a bank wire transfer to US Bank. XXXX XXXX with specific instructions on what to put in the memo section. I immediately notified my bank and they wired the money to US Bank. 

On XX/XX/XXXX, I received a phone call from US Bank asking me again what I planned on doing with the lease. I advised if she could read the notes on my account as I had just spoke with a representative on Friday XX/XX/XXXX and the rep said there were no notes regarding my payment. I then advised of the bank wire transfer and she said the lease maturity department does not take bank wire transfers. I said, why was I provided the bank wire information by US Bank if that was the case. After being transferred 3 additional times, they were able to locate my bank wire payment. And then I was told that they would need to send it back to me and that it could take 5 business days and I would need to send another check. I asked why I would need to send another check when they already had my money? I was given the excuse that it was with another department of US Bank which was the collections department. I advised that the collections department should be able to refund my money to the lease department. And the worst part is that they are now threatening collection actions if I don't send in a check when they are the one 's who have my money. I have spoken with a Senior Rep ( asked for a supervisor ). How can a bank treat a client like this? How can they provide me an expedited payment method through bank wire and then after they have the money refuse to apply the payment to my lease. They told me their procedures were that they can not accept bank wires for lease payments but they clearly did. 

Currently this has not been resolved and have been waiting on a call back all day.

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief