Hi, open a current account with a Russian bank and instruct them to wire cash here... May take longer but it works! You can not battle with HSBC which is a monster ;-)
Saturday, June 7, 2008, 9:38:31 AM, you wrote: > Hi. I used my HSBC debit bank card in Moscow ATMs without any problems > through Feb 08. Now after 3 long calls, a replacement card, and dozens > of attempts to use the card over the last > few months - HSBC has finally realized that there is a "restriction on > PIN-based transactions" in Moscow. Now, don't you think they could have > figured that out a bit sooner - it took > another hour and 1/2 call yesterday to finally get to that information after > me retelling several people why all there suggestions don't work (I've > tried). I went into Citibank, Alpha Bank > and Sber Bank yesterday and none of them could give me a cash > advance at the cashier counter either. Any chance someone on > this list has figured out a way to access HSBC > accounts from inside Russia? The one and only suggestion HSBC could > give me was to wire funds from my HSBC account to a Western Union and pay the > fees. Nice. > > Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks! _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
