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Gift from Halifax
daisiegg
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Came home from work to see a smart-looking square cool box type thing sitting on my doorstep, with 'Halifax' emblazoned on the side...
Opened it to find a 'welcome to your new home' card, a bottle of wine, chocolates, shortbread, fancy teabags and coffee, nice handwash and lotion, a mini tool box and a bag of picture hooks!
Totally wasn't expecting that. Do all mortgage companies do that? It almost makes me feel better about giving them all our money each month...
Opened it to find a 'welcome to your new home' card, a bottle of wine, chocolates, shortbread, fancy teabags and coffee, nice handwash and lotion, a mini tool box and a bag of picture hooks!
Totally wasn't expecting that. Do all mortgage companies do that? It almost makes me feel better about giving them all our money each month...
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Wow! NW certainly didn't!0
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I only got a welcome to your new home text message. I was rather impressed that they'd timed it so we were walking down the drive having just picked up the keys. No chocolates, but they didn't take my first months mortgage payment until the end of the month even though we'd completed on the 12th so no complaints there.0
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Seems Halifax is pretty generous..I suppose they can afford to be, with the interest rate we're paying!0
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I was really surprised to get this too.
We also got our B&C insurance with them which was a lot cheaper than any on price comparison sites but we got a free bluray rental each week for a year and a £50 cashback cheque from them. If you add all that up its actually worth more than the cost of the insurance so we were really pleased.0 -
I got this too. Still not used the hand wash stuffMF aim 10th December 2020 :j:eek:MFW 2012 no86 OP 0/2000
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Gosh, when we were with C&G they certainly didn't do that...........hope you're settling in btw
Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
Over £40,000 mis-sold PPI reclaimed0 -
I received one of these, the straw stuff they use to pad it made a right mess though when I opened it!
Nice little touch from Halifax.0 -
isnt this like the new homeowner box that your agent can order for you if they are feeling nice?0
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Came home from work to see a smart-looking square cool box type thing sitting on my doorstep, with 'Halifax' emblazoned on the side...
Opened it to find a 'welcome to your new home' card, a bottle of wine, chocolates, shortbread, fancy teabags and coffee, nice handwash and lotion, a mini tool box and a bag of picture hooks!
Totally wasn't expecting that. Do all mortgage companies do that? It almost makes me feel better about giving them all our money each month...
Want a photo of it!0 -
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