How soon to apply for the second tesco account?

fun4everyone

Got accepted for my first Tesco current account (for the 3% interest). Had to send off some signed form, did that and got a text message today saying my account was open. Not received the debit card in the post yet or activated it.


How quickly should I apply for the 2nd one? Technically I guess I could do it immediately but that might trigger something untoward due to the frequency of applications and searches. I will at least wait until I have the debit card and confirmed everything is working.

colsten

I applied for both of mine within 5 minutes. I would recommend you wait until you have online access (which I had already) and apply when logged in. Otherwise they'll allocate a second lot of online access data to you and you'll have to call them to merge your online access.

fun4everyone

colsten wrote: »

I would recommend you wait until you have online access (which I had already) and apply when logged in. Otherwise they'll allocate a second lot of online access data to you and you'll have to call them to merge your online access.

Thanks, this is very good info and helpful of you to reply with. Appreciated.

Dan83

As said above, wait until you have online access. I applied for my 2nd the other day and got a message in the screen saying because I'm already known to them, they may not do the financial checks again, weather or not they did, I don't know, but if they didn't suppose it's better for me.

Also if you wait until you have your card and pin, it's means there is no chance of a mix up