New HSBC Direct Opening Bonus - $25 Best Buy Card
It looks like HSBC is now offering a $25 Best Buy card (expired) for opening an HSBC Direct Account, currently paying at 4.65% 5.05% APY. Please check out my HSBC Direct Opening Review for what to expect. Thanks to Camilla for keeping me in the loop!
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June 13th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
In the fine print:
Must be a Best Buy cardholder to qualify for gift card offer.
It appears that though HSBC isn’t affiliated with Best Buy, this deal is rather two-way.
June 13th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Not so good as it seems at first look. read the small print. Have to be a Best Buy card holder.I’m not and have no intention to apply for one.
“Must be a Best Buy cardholder to qualify for gift card offer. Offer expires 11:59:59PM ET 8/31/06, is subject to change and cannot be combined with other promotional offers. For questions regarding this gift card offer please call 1-800-365-0292.”
June 14th, 2006 at 6:30 am
Where do you see 4.65%, web site says 4.25%.
June 15th, 2006 at 7:22 am
Jonathan, some of the cards that offer rewards have fees, but if you use them a lot, they pay off. What’s your take?
June 15th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
Look on the website again.
June 16th, 2006 at 7:00 am
The 4.65% is right there on the website. The original message above goes right to it.
http://www.hsbcdirect.com/1/2/bestbuy
June 16th, 2006 at 7:50 am
how, you have to be bestbuy cardholder, that sucks, is this only for new customers of hsbc?
June 16th, 2006 at 9:08 am
Yers it seems to be a good offer, if you intent to get rewards.
Your HSBC Direct Opening Review is a real help.
Thanky for sharing it with me.
June 19th, 2006 at 7:33 am
HSBC bank-to-bank trasnfer is garbage:
They pull the money from your account and hold it in limbo for 3 days. This it totally unacceptable and banks should be forced to pay intrest for holding money like this.
My suggestion: never use HSBC to pull money from an account, only push money to it.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Has anyone signed up with Citibank’s new online savings account? It looks pretty good - 4.75%. The only thing I can find is that you need a checking account with them, too. Then, the checking account needs 2 transactions/month. Other than that, it looks pretty good. I’m trying to decide between that and HSBC.
June 20th, 2006 at 7:42 am
HSBC is back to 4.80%
March 12th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Beware, HSBC makes a free bank to bank transfer.
What they don’t tell you is that it take about a week.
Guess what, all the increase from 5.5% to 6% interest was lost due to the lost week. They took the money out of my account quickly enough, they just didn’t credit my account with HSBC for 6 more days. When I move my money back it will happen again. Figure I really made about 3% on my money.
Be careful, if they don’t do wire transfers…. don’t jump for the BS 6% offer
March 12th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I also have Citibank 4.75, it works absolutely great!