TA in Michigan said: “I purchased items from ArtVan a year ago under a 1 year financing plan. I paid most of it off prior to the deadline. I was short $500 and called to put the remaining balance on my credit card and was stunned to find out that HSBC didn’t accept credit […]
CT in California said: “Purchased a refrigerator about one year ago with the differed interest plan and made monthly payments. Somehow on my July 08 invoice, I missed an alert that said: ‘To avoid deferred finance charges, pay your promotion payoff of $ by xx/xx/…’
Well, I did not pay the payoff amount […]
ML in Florida said: “The interest rate on my credit card began at 18.9% and remained at that rate for approximately four years. Then suddenly, without cause, they raised it to 20.9%, and later 24.9%. They continue to refuse to give a valid explanation to why. Then I missed a payment due to […]
TT in Georgia said: “All started when I signed up for a “Northern Tool” account due to a significant discount on a large purchase. The 1 year same as cash deal was fine and the full payment was received on time.
Later I had to put a small purchase on the charge card since […]
SS in Ohio said: “HSBC??? I will do my homework about them from now on. I will NEVER do any business with them or any of their affiliates ever again. We suffered a hardship and tried working with them to save our home and for the first few months we got nowhere because we […]
RD in Missouri said: “Within the past week, I have received at least 4 separate calls from United Recovery Systems, on my cell phone. The calls came from various 800/888/866 numbers. I answered at least 2 of these calls and told the person they had the wrong number; I told them to […]
BM in Washington said: “My son has an account with Guitar Center. Three payments mailed to GC at the same time as other payments were processed by GC more than 10 days after the others mailed on the same date. We were charged a late fee for those three, although it is […]
An Ohio resident said: “One thing that keeps bothering me in a lot of posts is that they keep referring to Household. HSBC now is the owner and now is responsible for its own actions. HSBC is the troubled lender and from what I read on here, they seem just as bad […]
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