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Co-Op bank - £200 if you switch to them

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  • YorkshireBoy
    YorkshireBoy Posts: 31,541 Forumite
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    chambta wrote: »
    All set fair to recieve my £200 next month now after paying in (and removing) my third £800.
    I've only just made my second (qualifying) credit.

    I applied in branch on Monday 24th October (only a week after launch), and they gave me a 'completion' date of the 27th November. This meant my months ran from 27th to 26th of the following month, so I've paid in during Nov/Dec and again just now in Dec/Jan.

    How did you manage to get a month head start on me?
  • WhiteHorse
    WhiteHorse Posts: 2,492 Forumite
    If someone gives away £200, it's because they expect to get it all back later.
    "Never underestimate the mindless force of a government bureaucracy
    seeking to expand its power, dominion and budget"
    Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union.
  • Cash_Flow
    Cash_Flow Posts: 1,103 Forumite
    chambta wrote: »
    All set fair to recieve my £200 next month now after paying in (and removing) my third £800.

    I'll almost feel guilty closing it.

    My completion date was 17th of November I have made the first two funding requirements. I am due to get my hands on £200 in march by my calculations - Why are you so far ahead of the rest of us?
  • Cash_Flow
    Cash_Flow Posts: 1,103 Forumite
    WhiteHorse wrote: »
    If someone gives away £200, it's because they expect to get it all back later.

    They will get the £200 back just not from me:money:
  • YorkshireBoy
    YorkshireBoy Posts: 31,541 Forumite
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    Cash_Flow wrote: »
    My completion date was 17th of November I have made the first two funding requirements. I am due to get my hands on £200 in march by my calculations
    Every chance of it in February though, being as credit 3 will be going in shortly after 17th January?
  • samwsmith1
    samwsmith1 Posts: 922 Forumite
    I've only just made my second (qualifying) credit.

    I applied in branch on Monday 24th October (only a week after launch), and they gave me a 'completion' date of the 27th November. This meant my months ran from 27th to 26th of the following month, so I've paid in during Nov/Dec and again just now in Dec/Jan.

    How did you manage to get a month head start on me?
    My completion date was around the time you applied for your account as I was an existing customer so would have thought that's maybe the reason people are ahead?
  • Shark
    Shark Posts: 1,003 Forumite
    Anyone know where to find your completion date? I had paid £1000 into my account on the 6th of every month so far...If I keep doing that I hope I am due. Don't want them squirming out of giving me money I am owed.
    "And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row."


    – after beating Jimmy Connors at the January 1979 Masters. Gerulaitis had lost their previous 16 matches.
  • 10_66
    10_66 Posts: 3,499 Forumite
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    WhiteHorse wrote: »
    If someone gives away £200, it's because they expect to get it all back later.

    They won't be getting anything back from me (other than having £800 in my account for a few seconds each month until I get my £200 when I'll be closing the account).
    Shark wrote: »
    Anyone know where to find your completion date? I had paid £1000 into my account on the 6th of every month so far...If I keep doing that I hope I am due. Don't want them squirming out of giving me money I am owed.

    The completion date is provided in the letter they send out to you shortly after openeing the account. The letter confirms that they've arranged the "switching" of your standing orders and/or dd's.
  • chanz4
    chanz4 Posts: 11,057 Forumite
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    my third credit is jan, completion was around the 17th also.
    Don't put your trust into an Experian score - it is not a number any bank will ever use & it is generally a waste of money to purchase it. They are also selling you insurance you dont need.
  • Gromitt
    Gromitt Posts: 5,063 Forumite
    I remember making a payment in October, just in case. Didn't think it would be counted, but for the 2 minutes it took, why not?

    26th for this months payment.
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