Debt pronWatching TV the other day we caught one of these "Bank of Mummy or the Wife" type shows and we thought, "This is Debt Pron." I.e. peoples financial problems exploited for the voyeuristic pleasure of others. Then we thought, "We bet lots of people on B3ta have massive financial problems. Let's exploit them." So, confess them all. Dodgy credit cards, lending money to some bloke in the pub, visits from the bailiffs, using one card to pay off another. We want to wallow in your fiscal pain. So, what is your biggest money fuck up?
(
rob, Thu 23 Nov 2006, 19:50)
« Go Back
The World's Local Bank - my arse.Slightly off-topic, but thought as HSBC are generally getting a good kicking on here I'd put in my two penn'orth.
Mum and dad bear emigrated to Malta this year. On selling the house in England, they needed a swift transfer of funds in order to purchase the bigger house they'd agreed to buy in Malta. Easy peasy. Their account in England was at HSBC, and with a handy branch at the end of their road in St. Paul's Bay, that's where they opened the account in Malta.
Except Malta HSBC wouldn't accept the funds transfer from England HSBC because "we just can't". Whether it's because it's not the same bank, they fell out at last year's christmas party or just couldn't be arsed, we couldn't get to the bottom of. Much panic and fear ensued - if the same bank wouldn't transfer the funds, how the hell would they get hold of their retirement fund and the money they needed for their house?
Simply by taking their business to titchy Bank of Valletta as it transpired, who managed the transfer of funds seamlessly.
HSBC? Cunts, the world over.
(
weebear1974 discovering the joy of cat rape since, Fri 24 Nov 2006, 13:48,
Reply)
« Go Back