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On Monday 20 June 2005 12:29 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> My suggestions for a bank: |
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> HSBC: 1.800.975.4722 (originates outside the US, so possibly better) |
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> citi: 1-877-528-0990 |
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> We'd be looking for small business accounts. |
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> Could somebody call these folks and see if they can meet our needs? |
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> Cshields, could you look into whether or not paypal will verify these |
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> banks (or post paypal contact info so that somebody else can ask)? |
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Called paypal.. jumped through hoops to get to talk to a real person (their |
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system kept wanting the last 4 digits of the bank account associated with our |
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paypal account, which is why we're calling. how funny). |
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HSBC and citi are both verifiable. Basically any bank with a brick-and-mortar |
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face to it they can verify. HSBC has a branch in Portland so I could hit |
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that up for identification purposes if necessary, but from the sounds of the |
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Paypal conversation, lack of in-face checking is what did netbank in. So |
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depending on how HSBC does it, I'm assuming you have to visit a branch in |
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person to be added to an account. If this is the case for any bank (that |
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would be verifiable by paypal), then HSBC might be our best bet given the |
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worldwide coverage. |
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Thoughts? I haven't been able to find what the minimum or opening balance |
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with HSBC is yet.. |
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Corey Shields |
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Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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