HSBC Horror Stories

CG in Michigan said: “i have been trying to get some information from my account with no avail. How am i supposed to pay my bill if i can not even get in?”

MR in Arizona said this informative copy of his long letter: September 13, 2008
Arizona Department of Financial Institutions and all in CC list.
2910 North 44th Street, Suite 310
Phoenix, Arizona 85018

RE: Loan number: (redacted) HFC-HSBC
• Predatory Lending Practices
• Misrepresentation of lending […]

AO in North Carolina said: “I paid off my HFC (Member HSBC Group) in May. I paid the online balance of $8507.11. Subsquently I have received bills for finance charges. In the ensuing months I have received bills for finance charges on the finance charge. I have called numerous times […]

HD in Florida said: “At Northern Tool we accepted what we thought was a ‘1-year same-as cash’ credit line. HSBC starting sending us bills that reflected it was a regular credit line with 28% interest. We attempted to call them on eight occasions to discuss/pay the bill. Everytime we called the telephone […]

SK in Maharashtra said: “Though Kranti Khaire selected one person for the role of a technical writer and asked the person to join on September 1 in HSBC GLT Pune Centre, the requirements of the clients changed suddenlyas per Kranti, and the person was told at the 11th hour that she can’t join.

Kranti just […]

CH in Minnesota said: “I too have contacted the ‘company’ of HSBC for moving due dates and charging late fees to no avail. I am horrified that Herberger’s is using such a scam! Contacting them did nothing as they ‘have no record’ of my ever calling them. Have spent over 2 […]

RN in Minnesota sent the following analysis: “I tried to open a HSBC direct savings account for $25,000.00 On July 1st I filled out an application online and submitted it. On July 8 two small deposits were made to may account by HSBC. I received an email on July 10th from them which […]

JH in Pennsylvania said: “I pay our GM card online and in full monthly. This month I checked the statement and noticed a ‘nominal apr’ of 30.99%. I went through the past 6 months of online statements and saw it was as high as 31.24%! I e-mailed and requested a lower […]