Current Account Switch Guarantee

colsten

You shouldn't request the switch before the DD shows on your account. If you can't see it, the banks can't see or switch it.

YorkshireBoy

colsten wrote: »

You shouldn't request the switch before the DD shows on your account. If you can't see it, the banks can't see or switch it.

I'd even let my DD(s) pay once before switching it (but I generally go overboard by also letting SOs go once before switching out).

On that subject I did notice a quirk recently when helping someone else switch into Co-op using 2 x Tesco DDs on the donor account. When the switch was completed I noticed two things at Tesco:

1. The old (BOS donor account) DDI wasn't deleted, and

2. The new DDI with Co-op was also called "BoS", even though it had the correct sort code and account number for Co-op.

I'll leave these as they are as the Co-op account will shortly be switched to Nationwide (for £50 each plus whatever is on offer at one of the cashback sites) and I don't want to risk creating a problem!