benking.me.uk » HSBC http://www.benking.me.uk The world according to Ben... Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:58:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 HSBC 0845 rip-off… http://www.benking.me.uk/2008/08/11/hsbc-0845-rip-off/ http://www.benking.me.uk/2008/08/11/hsbc-0845-rip-off/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:44:18 +0000 Ben King http://www.benking.me.uk/2008/08/11/hsbc-0845-rip-off/ I have just discovered I have been bitten by the 0845 rip-off. My Orange bill arrived and despite me have 1200 inclusive minutes (nowhere near used), I still had an hours worth of calls ‘outside minutes’. This then transpired to be 0845 numbers, one of which cost me £2.81+VAT for 17 minutes… So called ‘local rate’ calls are far from it.

Anyway an angry message to HSBC got the following ‘national alternatives’.

HSBC Premier (08457 707070) -> 01226 260260
HSBC Business (08457 606060) -> 01226 260878

I suspect there are alternates for all HSBC services.

When will these companies stop using these rip-off rate numbers??

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