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

Sooler

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.

Who told you that?

What account details are disclosed to Egg???

scarey_man

Hmm, says I'm already registered so guess no £10 for me

Milarky

geriatrix1 wrote: »

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

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Just point your mouse at the IE toolbar button and right click whenever you are on a webpage or site that you want to view in IE by default and click 'Add' on the box which appears. You will see that the current page/website is now in a list of sites to be opened auomatically in IE tab.

TallGirl

I have used Egg Money Manager for years and really like it. I have all my credit cards on it, mortgage and bank accounts plus Paypal. So nice only to have to log in once to see everything.

ericthecat

This is an exclusion from my bank's (Barclays) Online Banking Guarantee:
"The loss was not caused by your use of an account aggregation service (ie a service provided by another company that allows you to view all of your bank details on a single website)."

So basically, if something happens, and the information you put into Egg's service gets out (whether its Egg's fault or not) then you're on your own.

Please also remember folks, for those who might not understand the technology, that this is an ActiveX control, not a web page - it is effectively a program you have downloaded and installed on your computer which does this function, rather than an online service.

I guess you have to weigh up whether £10 is worth the risk - personally I wouldn't let Internet Explorer anywhere near my online banking, but then again, I may be particularly paranoid about these things.

ericthecat

(Of course, I've just noticed the other thread that all that as been gone over ad-infinitum - but people, please do read that and be aware of the consequences)

Pav

I already have the money manager in place (got a free tenner the first time they rolled it out) - will i get another ten pounds this time if i add my new current account before 31st July?

matchmade

I just registered for this and added my Lloyds TSB accounts in about two minutes: I use standard IE6 on Windows XP Home and a 2MB broadband connection. It's one of the easiest £10 I've ever received! And the Manager itself appears to work really niftily: I could click through to Lloyds with instant login, and the familiar site opens in a new window, apparently with all functionality working: cool.

It will take some adjustment though to find a reason for using this Money Manager. It's not intuitive to log into a credit card website to see one's overall banking details, and how often, practically, does one really need to be able to see all one's accounts in a single place?

Security issues: I've a web programming background and I have no more faith in Firefox from this point-of-view than I have in IE.

fatbutcher

I've been using the Egg Money manager for a few years and I really like being able to see all my accounts at the same time.

Its worth noting on a security point that the information used to access the 3rd party account is not stored with Egg at all, its stored on your pc within the ActiveX password vault program you download from Egg.

This means that if you or someone else logs into your Egg account from another pc then they will see that you've added accounts, but it will not show thier balances or allow them to log in to the accounts.

You can of course use this on more than 1 pc, but you have to reenter the details of each account on each one.

stuzhunter

I did this last year. £10 was paid without any fuss. Afterwards I removed my external savings account from Egg Money Manager. I have now added another defunt account this month but I do not think I will get the £10 again as I think the T&C says that this offer is only for new people adding a non-egg account for the first time. However I have opened a £1 savings account for my wife & she has added a defunt account too to her Egg money Manager. So £10 for her.

£10 is a great freebie considering that you have to leave £250 for the whole year in a savings account to make £10 interest (after basic tax & assuming 5%AER).