Free £20! Urgent, just open a savings account

Grade_A_Reject

[quote=[Deleted User];19416599]So wonder what percentage of the 2.9 million went for the £20. Thats not including those, like me, who look at the website first thing wendesday morning.

OK, so say 10% of those who got the emails did it. Thats approx. 300,000 people x £20 for IMG = £6 million !!!! Gulp....:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:[/quote]

That's only if everyone waits for the £20 to credit then immediately withdraws it. Many will open the account, fund it with £1 then leave it there happy that when they view the balance online they see a "balance" of £21. Others will open the account then out of either a misplaced feeling of guilt at having "scammed" the bank or a genuine desire to use the account will place further deposits into it.

I don't think it's a marketing mistake or a hack as some others have suggested. I received the offer by post last year.

elsie52

My cheques have gone out of my bank account , so hopefully should have a welcome pack from ING this week, and await my £20......

chuckley

I saw this at 9am on weds, buit decided to 'wait until lunchtime' incase it was a long form filling thing online.

peaked back on here at 11 and noticed it closed. GUTTED!!!!!!!!!!

adambro

Those who are saying their cheque has been banked, could you also say when it was you posted it? Cheers.

vernall

adambro wrote: »

Those who are saying their cheque has been banked, could you also say when it was you posted it? Cheers.

posted cheque weds afternoon so they would of got it thursday,my cheque is showing as cashed(well is on my online statement as mondays date) but money has left my account

JimLad

I just logged in using the customer number and pin i set up and it looks like my £1 is there but waiting to clear.

I think i might actually use this account as 3% is a lot better than the 1.5% i currently get with abbey!

Does anyone know how fast it is to transfer to and from an ING savings account. If i needed my money in a hurry would i be screwed?

ahai1

I am a bit confused as I thought it took 3 days for cheques to clear. I can't find the place on the site to log onto. They had to verify my ID so it might be a bit longer for me.

freddysmith

Have just logged onto my account and I have £1 credit showing from the cheque I sent. :j

Andystriker

I applied on Tuesday night and sent my chq on Wednesday Morning.

The Chq has been presented to my Bank

I have just logged on and my Account is set up with the £1 showing.

It took me about 5 minutes to apply and about 5 minutes to write out a chq and post it.

For the benefit of peabrain and supermankelly my conscience is clear.

Thanks Martin.

sh856531

Free £20! Urgent, just open a savings account

I don't think I've ever seen so many people go quite so nuts over quite so little money...

:-)