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Our banking blues have finally ended 🙂
Yesterday, our banking blues finally ended. No thanks to HSBC, for we haven’t heard from them in a really long time. In my desperation, I got in touch with employees of HSBC through LinkedIn. One of them tried to help me. She gave me the name and email address of a Jane Doe who works…
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Banking blues 6: the fat lady keeps very quiet while I could scream with frustration!
I am most definitely not amused and becoming increasingly frustrated, angry and feeling powerless. Why? I’ll tell you why. Because HSBC doesn’t do what they say they will do and it seems impossible to get through to them. Let me get you up to date since I last wrote about this: Still no email from…
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Banking blues 5: it ain’t over till the fat lady sings
Triodos Bank didn’t end our banking blues. On the contrary, they just added insult to injury. On May 15, we received a polite email from them with the following message: “Thank you for your recent application for a Triodos Bank account for Just Go Pink! LLP. Please accept our apologies for the delay in contacting…
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Will Triodos Bank end our banking blues?
When we first looked for a bank to open an account, we discovered that Triodos Bank has branched out to the UK. They are originally Dutch and are one of the few genuinely ethical banks in existence. We were thrilled to find them and wanted to apply for an account there. However, at that time,…
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Banking blues part 4: PLEASE don’t call us, we will (not) call you
It’s been six weeks since we completed the application for a business bank account with HSBC. When we were there, in London, our contact person made copies of our proofs of address and our passports. Afterwards, he wrote us an email saying all was well, our application was complete, and we just had to wait…
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Banking blues -3-
After having been introduced to Bella and the apartment we are now taking care of, we went out and looked for a place were we could work. That is, someplace with a free WiFi connection. We ended up at Swiss Cottage Sprinkles Gelato on Finchley Road. We ordered hot chocolate and cake with warm custard…
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Banking blues part 2: TransferWise incompatible with PayPal and Stripe
“If it were easy, everybody would be doing it”. This is something we say to each other very often. Currently almost on a daily basis. So we thought we had found an affordable and easy solution for our banking challenge in the form of TransferWise. It worked with PayPal, right? And we only had to…