Just Jack

After I went through the pain of setting up a new bank account (a post regarding which is to follow) it now appears HSBC is backtracking (via El Reg) on their plans to charge graduates for their overdrafts. Thanks Ben for the heads up.

While HSBC will no doubt retain many customers that would otherwise have left due the charges, I’m pretty pissed off that they tried it in the first place; I simply can’t believe they were so willing to alienate such a high earning potential group. Rest assured that this Graduate will keep his business elsewhere.

Missed this the first time around.

I just received a text message from 02 that reads:

02: from 28 Sept calls starting wth certain numbers e.g 0844&0845 will be charged outside your incl. mins. & cost 20p/min. Details at o2.co.uk/specialnumbers

The inclusion of 0844 and 0845 numbers was one of the reasons I chose 02. Do I have any recourse for compensation?

Update:
The Carphone Warehouse / 02 terms and conditions state:

15 Changes to the Agreement
15.1 We may change this Agreement and the Charges at any time. If we increase our Charges for the elements of the Service you are using or change the terms and conditions of this Agreement to your
significant disadvantage (in our reasonable opinion), we will give you 30 days’ notice in writing before the change takes place. We will notify you as detailed in clause clause 19.7 below or we may
notify you by text (SMS) to your Mobile Phone number and/or by email where you have supplied your email address to us for this purpose.

This does not undo the fact that they are changing a key feature that I chose their service for. This is not the way to keep my custom.

Pretty good view.

What’s happening over there?

I have somehow managed to disable the T9 predictive text feature on my Sony Ericsson K810i. If I understand the user manual correctly I am supposed to hold down the * key to reactivate it, unfortunately this does nothing. Anyone know how to re-enable it?

Ben, the recent convert to the world of Macs, is selling off some old gear:

• Minolta X-300 SLR Camera
• EPSON Perfection 1200S Flatbed A4 SCSI Scanner
• Complete AMD Desktop PC, 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, 80Gb Hardrive
• 256MB DDR 333 CL2.5 PC2700 LAPTOP RAM

tombo, Jim and Brenda are off to China. Follow their progress here.

Thoe who are thinking of customising their own Wordpress blog might want to read up on The Loop. Thanks tombo for the heads up.