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  • joe134
    joe134 Posts: 3,336 Forumite
    edited 5 November 2013 at 9:46AM
    claire07 wrote: »
    To go back to the BoS setting up. I've just set up 3 online and also had the problem initially where it wouldn't let me go past inputting my postcode and finding a local branch.

    So I phoned up and explained and was given a Scottish postcode and told to use that. It then let me open them online and they are now showing on my Halifax list of accounts.
    Hi, He gave me a Glagow branch sort code, but it still wouldn, t let me go any further, he apologised and set the first up on the phone, and said I SHOULD be able to use the AYR sort code, on first application, to set up other 2 online, after 48 hrs, haven,t tried yet.waiting for details through the post first, to be sure;;.
    Didn,t realise they would show in Halifax A/c,s as I have them also, that,s good, can view all in one go online.
    Can you operate them in Halifax online??
    IE;;set up SO,s etc.
    Be good if you could;
  • anselld
    anselld Posts: 8,684 Forumite
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    joe134 wrote: »
    FD, is online only and the £10pcm , put me off, ;;
    I have a Hsbc branch 10 minutes walk,

    You can do fairly much anything with an FD account in branch at HSBC (because HSBC owns FD).
    You can also pay in and withdraw at post offices.
    The £10pcm if you mean the funding charge is avoided by depositing £1 in a FD Online Saver.
  • joe134 wrote: »
    NO, The first A/c couldn,t be set up online,no local branch,, that,s the problem, I had to phone them, he said, now he set first one up, 2 others, SHOULD be able to be set up online.
    Given sort code for branch in Ayr Scotland as local branch, given by bloke on phone, when he set first one up.
    Long way to use it:-)
    Opposite to what you,ve just stated?
    BOS that is.
    Lloyds all 3 set up online ok yesterday

    No I don't live in Scotland but my sort codes are also for Scotland branch via Leeds office.
    "Look after your pennies and your pounds will look after themselves"
  • joe134
    joe134 Posts: 3,336 Forumite
    No I don't live in Scotland but my sort codes are also for Scotland branch via Leeds office.
    Hi T, I live in Leeds Esholt( Emerdale):-) to followers;
    I tried again today twice, with no success.
    Even though I set one up yesterday by phone, even though Bank gave me Glasgow postcode,and set up account for me at Ayr branch with sort code,and A/c number, it wouldn,t let me go beyond it;
    I tried again today,24 hrs later, using my own ls20 postcode, stopped me at that stage again.
    Then tried to use Ayr post code, but didn,t get far enough to use it.
    Stopped at submitting stage, "Cannot go forward as dealing with my other application"???
    The mind boggles;
    Received al 3 Lloyds D/c,S today for thier A/c,s, and both Santanders. no problem.
    Wait till paperwork for BOS comes, and try again;or by phone which is a pain, trying to flog stuff I don,t want etc.
    There,s no where on the site that asks if you are an existing customer?
    Might after I set up 1st A/c online?
    Same with TSB;
  • innovate
    innovate Posts: 16,217 Forumite
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    Literally nobody here managed to apply for all 3 BOS and TSB accounts online. TSB is bets done in Branch, and BOS on the phone. I think it's already been mentioned here - 1 BOS account per 24 hours on the phone. They won't sell you stuff you don't want unless you give them the opportunity, but the calls take a long time (30 mins or so) because you will have to listen to reams of T&Cs every time. And answer the same questions that you already answered in previous application.
  • joe134
    joe134 Posts: 3,336 Forumite
    edited 6 November 2013 at 9:26AM
    innovate wrote: »
    Literally nobody here managed to apply for all 3 BOS and TSB accounts online. TSB is bets done in Branch, and BOS on the phone. I think it's already been mentioned here - 1 BOS account per 24 hours on the phone. They won't sell you stuff you don't want unless you give them the opportunity, but the calls take a long time (30 mins or so) because you will have to listen to reams of T&Cs every time. And answer the same questions that you already answered in previous application.
    Hi innovate,wish I,d seen that thread I,ve gathered that nowas , I,ve just re-tried online, using the postcode of the branch in Ayr which is the branch given as wifes succesful first A/c set up on the phone by the guy at the bank, that,s now our local branch, wife comes from there:-).?.
    T said she did it, but she must have been the lucky one, not me unlucky:-)
    That,s what I,m going to do now, by phone.They do try to sell you stuff and try to persuade you to switch, as I listened in on wifes last call, setting up first A/c , and she had to keep asking me questions, as I do all the banking,I even spoke to him,NO switch;; easy for wife to answer question wrong when not doing it regularly;SWITCH, one word and you are in trouble;;;;;
    Fed up filling forms , to be knocked back every time by a "no branch";
    Thanks for info:beer:
    OH won,t be too happy, all in her name, she has to talk to them ,DATA protection act and all that:rotfl:
  • joe134
    joe134 Posts: 3,336 Forumite
    joe134 wrote: »
    Hi innovate,wish I,d seen that thread I,ve gathered that nowas , I,ve just re-tried online, using the postcode of the branch in Ayr which is the branch given as wifes succesful first A/c set up on the phone by the guy at the bank, that,s now our local branch, wife comes from there:-).?.
    T said she did it, but she must have been the lucky one, not me unlucky:-)
    That,s what I,m going to do now, by phone.They do try to sell you stuff and try to persuade you to switch, as I listened in on wifes last call, setting up first A/c , and she had to keep asking me questions, as I do all the banking,I even spoke to him,NO switch;; easy for wife to answer question wrong when not doing it regularly;SWITCH, one word and you are in trouble;;;;;
    Fed up filling forms , to be knocked back every time by a "no branch";
    Thanks for info:beer:
    OH won,t be too happy, all in her name, she has to talk to them ,DATA protection act and all that:rotfl:
    UPDATE:
    Just received my 3 Debit cards and pins from Lloyds, and BOS D/c, pin to follow;.
    When I logged into Lloyds before I received these, it said I could Log in/out of A/c but couldn,t use it until I received Activation key??
    Is there a separate Key to come, to allow me to set the £5k transfers in and SO,s set up, OR, are the D/cs the key??
    Nothing saying debit cards have to be activated before use, which was the norm??
  • innovate wrote: »
    Literally nobody here managed to apply for all 3 BOS and TSB accounts online. TSB is bets done in Branch, and BOS on the phone. I think it's already been mentioned here - 1 BOS account per 24 hours on the phone. They won't sell you stuff you don't want unless you give them the opportunity, but the calls take a long time (30 mins or so) because you will have to listen to reams of T&Cs every time. And answer the same questions that you already answered in previous application.

    Nobody is incorrect as I opened 3 BOS online and 1 TSB. Okay, I had to go to a branch to show my passport for the TSB, but I still opened online. Lloyds I opened 1 online and 2 by phone. So it is possible, my applications were at weekends.
    "Look after your pennies and your pounds will look after themselves"
  • claire07
    claire07 Posts: 671 Forumite
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    I opened the 3 BoS online (the only glitch happening when it wanted a local branch so I had to telephone and was given the Edinburgh postcode) and the TSB also went fine online.

    I didn't have to go in to a branch with any ID, although it may have helped that I was an existing Halifax customer (for the BoS) and an existing Lloyds customer (for TSB).

    My only suggestion would be that all of them I did 24 hours apart which might have helped.
  • Well that makes 2 of us!!!
    "Look after your pennies and your pounds will look after themselves"
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