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Combining HSBC Credit Cards Question

kjm79 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:51:18 GMT

I recently app'd for the Best Buy store card. Was declined because I have the max numebr of HSBC cards allowed. Didn't realize that Best Buy store card was also HSBC until I got the inquiry alert. Yeah! Anywho's, couldn't get the card I wanted becuase of cards that don't really do anything for me anyways.

I have:

HSBC Platinum Visa - CL of $700

HSBC Mastercard - CL of $600

HSBC Best Buy Rewards Zone MC - CL of $500

All carry a zero balance. I'd much rather have one card with a limit of $1800 than 3 cards with lower limits that are going nowhere. Anyone been successful recently with combing their HSBC accounts? If so, did it create a whole new account (lowering AAoA)?

Re: Combining HSBC Credit Cards Question

vish1 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:15:05 GMT

You already have Best buy card so you should have probably read the terms. Anyway, this is a kind of oversight which happens all the time to everyone (probably a bit more often with me).

You should try calling HSBC to see if they will combine your cards or pc one of them to BB store card. I don't know what other cards you carry, but if you have some good cards, you may be able to get rid of one of their cards and apply a BB store card.

Re: Combining HSBC Credit Cards Question

kjm79 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:35:47 GMT

Yeah, I completely missed the fact that the BB store card is also backed by HSBC. Grrrr! And was punished with an unnecessary inquiry, losing a point with EQ.

I also have a Juniper/Barclay Card, Macys, JcP, Dell, Target, MilStar. So I don't NEED the HSBC cards. They were rebuilders and went to cancel them a year and a half ago and they waived the AF's so I kept them. No CLI's since then. I rotate them and charge one tank of gas every month then PIF. Started at 500 on the MC and Visa and 300 on the BBRZ, go them in 2007. As you can see, not much has happened with them. If I close them it'll mess with my uti as I have balances on a couple of the other cards. I honestly really don't want the BB store card now knowing it's backed by HSBC. Just opened a savings account with NavyFed so I think I'm going to wait a few months and build some history with them and bring my current uti (47%) down and app for one of their cc. I was just curious if anyone has had any luck combining their HSBC accounts, and their experiences in doing so.

Re: Combining HSBC Credit Cards Question

Lawstudent007 — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:30:28 GMT

Bumping because I'm also interested in combining my 2 HSBC (Orchard bank) cards. Both are gold visa cards; one CL is 400 and the other is 500.