Continuing my story on attempting to merge two HSBC credit cards, I received a letter from HSBC asking me to fill out an account consolidation request which basically was information similar to a new credit card application. So it is not so very easy to merge cards, inspite of the fact that I manage them online under the same login.

[...] I mentioned the procedure of merging HSBC cards before here and finally sometime last week or the week before that, HSBC merged my credit cards and the new limit is the combined limit of the cards. Yipee! [...]