AL: Premier and Premier Direct - can you have both?

finder

Hi

Wondering if someone has two Alliance & Leicester accounts: a premier and a premier direct. I have a Premier account but I'd rather have a Premier Direct because of the interest. I have read in the forums that you can swap them over but before I did that I wondered whether I could actually:

1) Refer myself as premier account holder and open the premier direct. Would that work for the £50 incentive, £25 in each account?

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Edit - Sorry, I can answer this myself now. This is NOT possible
*Eligibility Criteria
This offer is valid for 30 days from the sent date of this e-mail. No incentive will be paid for applications received after this date.
Recommend a Friend
Offer only available to existing Premier customers who recommend new Premier customers. The person being recommended must not have held any Premier account in the 3 months preceding the application to open a new account.

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2) I could also go through quidco and open the premier direct while being a premier account holder. Has anybody tried this?

3) If you can keep both accounts (I would problably close the premier account once I had received the incentive), would £500 internal transfers from one account to the other be enough to satisfy the accounts funding requirments?

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Thanks Baldur (below post). Your are right. Section 26.1
26.1 If We tell You that Your Account has to have money paid in regularly, You must pay
the amount We agree with You into Your Account each month from a non
Alliance & Leicester account.

Baldur

finder wrote: »

....would £500 internal transfers from one account to the other be enough to satisfy the accounts funding requirments?

From memory, check the Ts & Cs, the minimum funding has to be from an external source.


<Edit> - see Section 26 - http://www.alliance-leicester.co.uk/customer-service/pdfs/Current-Account-terms-and-conditions.pdf