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Great bank for students

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5 Jan 27th, 2003 

15 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
Great for students, excelent customer service, easy to use online banking

Disadvantages:
Nothing as yet .  .  .  .  .

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Hi, i'm rach, I live in Bristol and like motorbikes, music, reading, playing games and watching film...

Member since:27.01.2003

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I've been with the HSBC for 2 1/2 years now, since I started at Uni. I originally joined because they did the best deal - free Student railcard for 4 years!!
I have since found them an excelent bank.
Telephone + Online banking are both extremely easy to use and to sign up to. If you forget your password (as I do on a regular basis) no problem, phone them up, answer a couple of questions and re-set it.
If you lose your card, no problem, phone up the lost cards phone-line and they will sort it all out for you and send a new card to your nearest branch.
The only problems I have had from HSBC were when I was working during the summer, and lost my card. My nearest branch doesn't open on a saturday, and as I was working at 2 different places I couldn't organise to pick it up from a branch near work. I also had some discrepancy's in information between the telephone customer service and my branch, according to arrival dates for my card.
However, I complained, via email address obtained on the online banking website, which was later followed up by an email, a phonecall, a letter and a nice little bonus in my account.
This is the only problem I have had from HSBC, and I was extremely happy by the way my complaint was followed up.
So, happy banking, and I would definately recommend banking with HSBC. 

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Comments about this review »

Marts71 27.01.2003 17:28

Well done, a good first op!

tomhughes78 27.01.2003 14:56

hey and welcome to ciao - good first opinion, well done!

daniellesadler 27.01.2003 12:41

Great op, 4 year railcard sounds good, I wasnt that sensible when I joined I chose the free £50! X



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