Easy free £10 for Egg customers, fiddly free £10 for everyone else

MSE_Martin

What's this all about.

If Egg credit card or savings customers (but not those who only hold ISAs) use its 'Money Manager' tool for the first time before the end of July, it'll pay them £10. As this involves doing virtually nothing, it's an easy free tenner. Yet even if you don't have any Egg products already, you couls simply open up a savings account with £1 and then grab the free cash.

It's a little piece of software that allows you to monitor all your accounts in one place; allowing you to see what you owe on all your cards, or have in all your savings and bank accounts in one place. It's actually quite useful, but even if you're not interested, it's still easy to grab the tenner. To qualify to get the free £10 all you need do is download the Egg Money Manager and add a non-Egg account to it; then after a few weeks it'll be credited to your account.


Egg customers: £10 even if you don't want the Money Manager

The terms state that you only actually need add one non-Egg account to get the tenner - so just do that. This could be an old defunct credit card that you no longer use. Then once you've got the £10, just delete the account you've added, with the cash now in your pocket.

The offer specifically states it closes on the 31 July 2007, but its been on before and has been extended many times, so its possible it will be open longer than that.


How can non-Egg customers get the tenner?

Quite simply you need to become an Egg customer. The main products are either the Egg Savings account which can be opened with just £1 or the Egg Money credit card which gives a decent cashback rate (see Best Cashback Cards article).

The savings account is probably the quickest to set up, and you could just pop £1 in there. Then once it's running use the Money Manager and get your tenner so you'll have £11 in the account. There is a slight chance you won't get everything done before the month end - but even if that happens - Egg very commonly runs this promotion so you'll be able to access it then.

So why does Egg offer this?

There are two main reasons (though of course this assumes you use it properly, not the short cut version).

• It captures Egg customers. Users of this service are now much more likely to return to the Egg site more often. Thus it can communicate with you, you see its adverts and its promotions and it hopes to gain business.

• It knows your products. Now it knows what you've got, it can try and offer you 'its own versions' at a better rate. Most good MoneySavers will be beating these anyway so this isn't an issue. And it can't delve into your accounts to analyse your use, it simply looks bluntly at the products you have to see if they can be beaten.
  
  Martin

PS. This is a new version of a very old thread for previous incarnations of the deal. I wanted to start a new one as some details have changes - thanks to the bionicwoman for spotting it way back when. You can see the old thread here which goes into various people views of the security issue pros and cons.

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gelato_cat

Where do they credit the £10 to? My only Egg account is an ISA which I have already maxed out for the year.

Suze

YorkshireBoy

Suzey wrote: »

My only Egg account is an ISA.

Then you do not qualify for the £10 reward...

£10 Egg Money Manager reward is available to Egg Card customers who have activated their Egg Card, Egg Money customers who have activated their Egg Money card and Egg Savings customers (excluding Egg Cash ISA customers unless they also have an Egg Savings Account, Egg Card or Egg Money card).

http://new.egg.com/visitor/0,,3_48814--View_845,00.html

ampersand

When I click to apply for an Egg Savings Account I receive this message: 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage'.
I have run all the checks etc. for this and find no solution.
Any help, please?

JMaples

because the bank whose accounts you add can use your disclosure of your account details to a third party (Egg) as a reason not to reimburse if someone subsequently manages to take money out your account. That is what Royal Bank of Scotland told me when I asked them.

Nosnarc

Hi,

I downloaded this piece of software a few months ago, unfortunately it only works on IE. I use Firefox for web surfing, and it doesn't like it.

:mad:

David Cranson

GentleGiant_2

I use some software to change the rendering engine within Firefox to IE - works fine then
I think it is called 'IE Tab' - have a look on the extensions page for Firefox

You can also set the properties that whenever it opens egg.com it automatically shows in IE.


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GentleGiant_2

BTW - Martin

Easy free £10 for Egg customers, fiddly free £10 for everyone else

isn't true if you already have Money Manager
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mbhatton

JMaples wrote: »

because the bank whose accounts you add can use your disclosure of your account details to a third party (Egg) as a reason not to reimburse if someone subsequently manages to take money out your account. That is what Royal Bank of Scotland told me when I asked them.

RBS arn't being particularly straight with you then. Your login details are stored on YOUR computer, and the bank account details or transactions are not sent to Egg at all. You can prove this by going to a new PC and logging onto Egg. You would have to set it all up again. All egg would know is you usually use EMM, and it should have (for example) 2 HSBC accounts and a Credit card elsewhere. It will then make you enter the security details again which are encrypted and stored on that PC.

jtk_2

Does anyone know whether this is safe to use, and would a bank or credit card company know that you were using it?
Thanks

geriatrix1

GentleGiant wrote: »

I use some software to change the rendering engine within Firefox to IE - works fine then
I think it is called 'IE Tab' - have a look on the extensions page for Firefox

You can also set the properties that whenever it opens egg.com it automatically shows in IE.

Thanks for the info about IE Tab - works well, cheers.

Could you tell me exactly how to go about setting the properties so that it switches to IE automatically - Thanks a million