HSBC Chat

[jmap (John Mapley)]

My HSBC story. This happened over 10 years ago when there weren’t many alternatives. Can’t think of a reason to be using them now.

A banking horror story

Reminds me of my experience arriving in Tokyo and trying to withdraw some cash to pay my first month’s rent to my landlord, only to find my card didn’t work (I had told them I was travelling). My landlord let me use their phone to call the bank (otherwise I would’ve been 18 and homeless in a foreign city at this point in the story), who told me that there was no block on my card and I should try it again. That, about eight (seriously, 8) times, running between different ATMs and the phone in t…

Also, I’m sure we’re talking about HSBC UK here but I just got an email from HSBC Taiwan informing me that many of the online banking features from that account will be unavailable for “essential upgrades”, until April 2020