HSBC card declined

Well I was very embarrassed when my card got declined at the Hedonizm Record Sale yesterday. Luckily I dusted off my old Credit Card and remembered the PIN number first time. The same thing happenend to me in the Windmill pub which is when I started to think that something was wrong with my account. A quick check online when I got home and a call this morning showed that my account was fine and that there had indeed been a problem with HSBC’s Switch/Maestro system.

You would have thought that the fact that over 3 million people couldn’t use their cards on Sunday would have made national news but the most I’ve heard of it is from this article at The Register. It seems that HSBC ATM’s were swallowing all sorts of cards too. UK Businesses could have lost millions of pounds but you won’t hear much talk of it at the www.ft.com.

I did buy some classic tracks from the house music sale. Lion Rock’s first 12″, Leftfield’s Song Of Life – Underworld mixes, The Moody Boy’s King Of The Funky Zulus, Outrage – That Piano Track on Junior Boy’s Own, Mickey Finn’s She’s Breaking Up on Fokus Recordings and some Touche 12″s.