Wisetechie’s Top Five Tips to Save on Car Insurance
My top tips to ensure you are always paying the best rate for your car insurance....
A new kind of Paypal scam – No they wont find it in your favor
When I was growing up the narrative around online shopping and safety was quite simple. Paypal was supposed to be the best company to buy stuff with. They always sided with the buyer and had the most buyer friendly policies in case of disputes. Things have changed drastically though....
HDFC Bank to start charging service fee to its best customers
In a bizarre move HDFC Bank has decided to charge its preferred customers Rs.100 quarterly fee just for having the preferred status. The move seems bizarre since preferred customers must already put a lot of money in the bank to qualify in the preferred program. Moreover according to the...
Flex your rights : Fighting fraudulent Credit Card transaction charges with Standard Chartered Bank
Lets start from the beginning of the timeline. Its October first week, I am in the US. Out of OCD and habit I check my Indian credit card by Standard Chartered. I see that there is a charge of almost 30000 rupees which I don’t recognize. I immediately call...
Standard Chartered will charge me interest on a transaction which is under dispute ? WTF !
Ok, so its no news to people that most banks in India are pathetic to customers. I think I am going to see some of that first hand. I woke one October morning seeing an abnormally high balance on my Standard Chartered India credit card. I was here sitting...
Homestreet Bank : Good Riddance !
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, chances are that you may have heard of this bank called Homestreet Bank, well in all probability you haven’t and neither had I. They did however offer something called a Seahawks checking account and I was intrigued. Being a hawks fan and...