Alliance & Leicester Current Account

cornerclose

Before you open one of these, open yourself an account at rpoints. They are offering 2500 points (£25) for opening this account until end March 2006 (£15 after that). As you'll also get £5 for opening an rpoints account and they pay up at £25 anyway you don't need to do anything else to bag a free £30.

grumbler

1. You can easily get £50+ for opening A&L account:
Bag £100s in free cash from current accounts
Sticky: FREE Money (For Opening Accounts) - Referrals

2. Look to the top of the page:

WARNING: .... Posting links for personal gain is strictly prohibited, except in the 'referrers' section

tri_boy

A friend of mine has recommended me (filled in the A&L form) for an A&L account and I also want to use the Rpoints link. Will this work? Will my friend still get their £50 and will I get £75 (£25 via Rpoints plus £50 via the firend scheme)?

Thanks,

tri_boy

5times

Should work fine, rpoints give you the cash via clickthrough and for the refer a friend you just fill in a voucher and post it off afterwards.

cornerclose

Sorry, Grumbler, didn't mean to break any rules. I'm not very good at computers/internet/websites - it took me a month to find this forum and another week to work out how to post anything. Have removed the offending link.
Please be nice to money savers who are only trying to help.
P.S. Earning £50+ is easy if you have friends who are interested in that sort of thing, but I have to do most of it on my own so finding 1 person who will not laugh at opening a new account or joining rpoints is a big deal for me.

grumbler

cornerclose wrote:

...finding 1 person who will not laugh at opening a new account or joining rpoints is a big deal for me.

To get £50 you don't need to recommend anybody. You should be recommended. Many people here (see my link above) are ready to recommend you (or PM me).
And I think you cannot open account through any cashback site and than get extra £50 for being recommended by a friend - just because £25 offered by Rpoints (for example) is part of the same £50 that cashback site gets from A&L for recommendation. I think you can get either £25 trough Rpoints or full £50 for applying directly and then sending 'recommend a friend' voucher.

gorilla

rpoints don't seem to be offering cashback on A&L accounts now.

innovate

Quidco just added it @ £50. It's a manual claim, though, like it was on Rpoints, and I am yet to get convinced that you can get both, the referral and the cashback payout. Happy to get convinced, though

tri_boy

I applied for a Premier Direct account on-line, on Monday evening, after clicking through the link from RPoints. On Tuesday I got an e-mail from A&L saying my application had been successful. I'm waiting to get details of the account number before I can send in the 'recommend a friend' form.

In the meantime, having read recent posts in this thread, I just called A&L's new account customer services and asked if my friend would still qualify for their reward even though I had opened the account through a third-party, cashback site. The A&L rep assured me that it would have no influence at all on the (positive) outcome of the 'recommend a friend' scheme, so long as I fund the new account with required amount within the required time, etc.

I think the A&L site says that it can take up to 8 weeks before the rewards are added to the respective accounts so it could be quite a while before I can confirm, either way, what the outcome was. Watch this space!?

tri_boy

carebear_4

I am new to this site so not sure if this is where I should be posting question?

I want to do Alliance and Leicester current account and deposit £1000 for 2 months and get £50. Do I have to have my salary paid in or can I pay a cheque in for this amount?

If it has to be my salary, would they be happy if this was paid in then I immediatley transferred to my Abbey savings account (as 6% interest earned there)?

Any one know if this would be ok?

Thanks

angelica

You can make a deposit by cheque, standing order, direct debit or electronic transfer from your main bank account, keep the money on your A&L account for a day and after that transfer it anywhere you want, e.g. Abbey saving account.

Or you even can transfer immediately after money appears on your A&L account.