Useless Alliance & Leicester e-Saver

SavingSteve

Just following up on my post above.

I have eSaver2 & DirectISA witl A&L, and they will only allow withdrawels to my linked current account, and am unable to add more payees.

IF I were to open an A&L current account then I would be able to send to anyone I want?

Few questions - as an existing customer will my account opening be pain free or will I need to jump through 'identification' hoops (I appreciate a Credit Check will be done).

How does their Current Account work? Do I need one of those Card Reader things or is the CA painless in that regard?

savetilibleed

All the A&L current account cost money to run as far as I can see. If you are happy to pay them for the privilege of them having your money, fine.

SavingSteve

Where did you get that from?? As long as you pay in £500 a month it's free

If anything I see they pay YOU £100 to sign-up plus free travel insurance;
http://www.alliance-leicester.co.uk/current-accounts/premier-current-account.aspx

Nothing on their fees page which suggests it cost anything either
http://www.alliance-leicester.co.uk/current-accounts/interest-rates-and-fees/premier-current-account.aspx

savetilibleed

SavingSteve wrote: »

Where did you get that from?? As long as you pay in £500 a month it's free

Sometimes I don't:embarasse

masonic

savetilibleed wrote: »

Sometimes I don't:embarasse

Well, you could get your Premier/Premier Direct account converted to their bog-standard current account, which is free and has no funding requirements.

[Deleted User]

I am closing my A&L account because of problems with Firefox and not being able to pay in money at the Post Office since they replaced my debit card with a Santander one.

The Santander card is also on the list of worst debit cards to use overseas. I couldn't log in to my Santander credit card account for weeks either. That didn't work in IE either, although I can access my current account in it. I cleared all my cookies etc. - it is just their website being rubbish.

I am no fan of HSBC either but at least their stuff works and they have a branch near where I work. I only got the A&L account to get the £100 deal and £50 cashback. It was okay when I could pay in at the Post Office but now that doesn't work it is too much hassle to go into their branch in town.

[Deleted User]

PS. I think the logging in problem could be related to Flash. For some reason they use it on the verification page. I had problems logging in via IE 32 bit which has Flash but not with 64 bit which does not. Clearing Flash cookies will probably fix it.