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Wine from Water? - Fidelity ISA - was Virgin I think and I got a free case of wine?

2sides2everystory Posts: 1,744 Forumite

13 May 2011 at 7:16PM edited 13 May 2011 at 7:19PM in ISAs & tax-free savings

I have just received a statement of an old ISA I opened years ago with Virgin I think. The deal was something like invest a minimum of £80 by such and such a date and get a free case of wine.

Well, I did so and after the wine arrived and we drank it I more or less forgot it.

Well, I have just received a statement from Fidelity who took over the Virgin ISA business at some stage and it's now worth £139

I wish all my "forgotten" investments had performed as 'well' as that ... then I might have been able afford a bottle of that government stuff they've been hiding in their cellars

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