halifax monthly £5 reward

anamenottaken

alecsa wrote: »

Thanks. Okay this might be a dumb question, do standing orders count? I have just set up a standing order to make monthly overpayments to my mortgage. (this is separate from the regular monthly mortgage direct debit)

A Standing Order is not a Direct Debit and therefore does not count towards meeting the requirement of having two DDs.

Mr_K

I know these are hard times but all this fuss/effort over 5 quid a month ? You've probably all used that much up in electricity with the amount of posts/threads on this subject.

alecsa

Hello? You're on a money saving forum.

£5 here, £10 there... it all adds up et voila, TV licensing is paid for.

Of course it's not a lot, but there's no effort either.

carpy

Wobblydeb wrote: »

Bah - I didn't get my £5 this month.

Been getting it for a few years now, but never set up any DDs on the account. This is the first month they have caught up with me.

same here!

thing is i had the 2 DD's (tesco savings) set-up on the account but hadn't made them 'active' so therefore i didn't get the reward!

innovate

carpy wrote: »

thing is i had the 2 DD's (tesco savings) set-up on the account but hadn't made them 'active' so therefore i didn't get the reward!

It is possible that 2 DDs going to Tesco are not considered "2 different DDs" - see discussions elsewhere about the OINs they use to establish what's "different".

YorkshireBoy

Mr_K wrote: »

I know these are hard times but all this fuss/effort over 5 quid a month ?

For one account maybe...but I have 4 Reward accounts, and my £240 a year pays for a week in the Canaries every March.

Yes I could afford to pay for it anyway, but it feels much nicer when someone else is paying!

Gromitt

Mr_K wrote: »

I know these are hard times but all this fuss/effort over 5 quid a month ? You've probably all used that much up in electricity with the amount of posts/threads on this subject.

It's doubtful, more like 12p, considering thats the price of a Kwh and my PC draws less than 100W.

It does reduce my mobile phone bill to 58p/month as well, so for the few minutes a month it takes to manage, it's worth it.

Hominu

Lets see,

2 minutes to check the account each month and fund it with 1K,

£5 / 2 = £2.50
*60 = £150/hour

If you can find me a job at £150/hour, I'll glad close my Halifax account

innovate

Mr_K wrote: »

I know these are hard times but all this fuss/effort over 5 quid a month ? You've probably all used that much up in electricity with the amount of posts/threads on this subject.

It's easy to get a Halifax Reward account and to qualify for the fiver if you cba. Just about the only thing harder to do is to jump on a forum and slag off those that are ahead of you.


EDIT: I see Mr K was quite happy to cash in on the fivers for a couple of years, before that "2 different DDs" requirement came in. http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=58691619&postcount=242

So why is it now "all this fuss/effort over 5 quid a month", just because you needed to set up a couple of DDs, which was generally quite straight forward to do? Mr K, I sense some jealousy on your part, for no longer being part of the party (I know you will deny this, so you don't have to).

Dr_Cuckoo3

I got 1p charity D/Ds - pays for the 4 pack of Special Brew from the grey market independent shop