HSBC ripped me off 28 August 2010 at 11:38AM in Reclaim bank & credit card charges 4 replies 1.1K views

dragon56

Hi
Hope someone can give me a bit of advice, I have moved to New Zealand and unfortunately took my eye off the ball and was caught out by plummetting exchange rates.
HSBC direct debited my account to pay off my credit card which put me into unauthorised overdraft (£2600.00) I wrote to tell them that I was awaiting a tax refund and would use this to repay rather than lose even more money on exchange rates, we were touring at the time and so only had intermittent access to accounts. They did not reply but sent me a series of ever more threatening letters, I wrote twice more but have never received a reply even though they are using my new address so must have got at least one. the result is that they racked up £700.00 in charges and interest so that when the rebate came through eventually it was not enough to clear the overdraft.

what hurts most is that prior to moving we sold our house and they had £210,000.00 of our money for 6 weeks and paid no interest and the following 6 months over £10,000.00 and again paid zilch so how can they justify £700.00 charges for £2,600.00 over 4 months.

Sorry for the ramble, I guess what I really want to know is do I have a case and given that phoning is difficult can I pursue it from here?

Thanks

dunstonh

what hurts most is that prior to moving we sold our house and they had £210,000.00 of our money for 6 weeks and paid no interest

That would only occur if you held it in a non interest paying account.

so how can they justify £700.00 charges for £2,600.00 over 4 months.

Thats the way it is currently. Most will agree the charges are heavy but there is little that can be done about it other than try to avoid them in the first place.

dragon56

dunstonh wrote: »

That would only occur if you held it in a non interest paying account.


Thats the way it is currently. Most will agree the charges are heavy but there is little that can be done about it other than try to avoid them in the first place.

It did attract interest but only .05% which was the best anyone would pay at that time, that was more than eaten up in charges to transfer to NZ so effectively no interest.

They also charged £32.00 for renewal of credit card a week after they wrote to tell me it was cancelled and to return it. If they had not used the current ac to repay the credit card I could have just paid the minimum on that and would not have had a problem.

Premier_2

dragon56 wrote: »

It did attract interest but only .05% which was the best anyone would pay at that time, that was more than eaten up in charges to transfer to NZ so effectively no interest.

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Oh that's terrible.

I didn't get paid my wages this month by my employer

Well I did get the usual money in my bank account from them, but by the time I paid all my bills for the mortgage, council tax, leccy, credit cards etc, It was all gone, so effectively they didn't pay me :cool:

dragon56

Oh that's terrible.

I didn't get paid my wages this month by my employer

Well I did get the usual money in my bank account from them, but by the time I paid all my bills for the mortgage, council tax, leccy, credit cards etc, It was all gone, so effectively they didn't pay me

Sensible criticism is always helpful, childish sarcasm is best kept for the playground. Your analogy would only be relevant if your deductions were made by a "Company Store" or you were "Sharecropping".