Regular Saver Thread **New and Restarted**

finspaniard

colsten wrote: »

Unless you are lucky enough to live near a KRBS or Saffron branch, or in the Swansea BS, Ipswich BS area. Or if you are a child, or a FTB.

You only need to pop over to a Saffron Branch to open a RS if you don't have any accounts with them. I applied for an E Saver, as it can be opened online, and then apply for the RS with no issues.


Also, Saffron has now a rewards scheme to get discounts and perks: i.e. 3-4% on Sainsbury's and Tesco

colsten

finspaniard wrote: »

Also, Saffron has now a rewards scheme to get discounts and perks: i.e. 3-4% on Sainsbury's and Tesco

This is good if you haven't got access to a better scheme already. Many employers (e.g. NHS) have those sort of schemes, and usually with better discounts. E.g. 6% for Sainsbury's, 5% on Waitrose/John Lewis, 7% Argos and Curry's on mine atm.

Also, on many non-food items, Quidco and Topcashback will often beat those reward schemes - and have cashback exclusives. Once in a while, HotUKdeals beats all of them. It pays to shop around :cool:

colsten

finspaniard wrote: »

You only need to pop over to a Saffron Branch to open a RS if you don't have any accounts with them. I applied for an E Saver, as it can be opened online, and then apply for the RS with no issues.

Yes I know. I opened all my Saffrons online but they have clamped down on some applications and made them Branch only (or Post only for existing customers) after their systems let multiple applications for the same account slip through :cool:

finspaniard

colsten wrote: »

This is good if you haven't got access to a better scheme already. Many employers (e.g. NHS) have those sort of schemes, and usually with better discounts. E.g. 6% for Sainsbury's, 5% on Waitrose/John Lewis, 7% Argos and Curry's on mine atm.

Also, on many non-food items, Quidco and Topcashback will often beat those reward schemes - and have cashback exclusives. Once in a while, HotUKdeals beats all of them. It pays to shop around :cool:

I used to have them with my previous employer (better ones as you said), but not with my current employer. It was a nice addition to their Regular Saver

typistretired

Just received my cheque for balance of maturity and a passbook for my new regular saver with them which matures 31/01/2021. They have kept the same account number as the maturing one which means no need to change standing order details

Gers

finspaniard wrote: »

You only need to pop over to a Saffron Branch to open a RS if you don't have any accounts with them. I applied for an E Saver, as it can be opened online, and then apply for the RS with no issues.

Has this E-Saver been withdrawn?

https://www.saffronbs.co.uk/savings/all-savings-accounts/#refine

veryintrigued

My favourite thread on the forum but now has a lack of timestamp.

Seems that forum posters names are deemed more important?

eskbanker

veryintrigued said:

My favourite thread on the forum but now has a lack of timestamp.

Seems that forum posters names are deemed more important?

Just finding my way round the new setup too - not sure what browser/environment you're accessing it through but viewing on Chrome on a Windows PC, each post has a timestamp (for today's posts) or a date (for previous days), but hovering over either shows the full date and time.

hgt

veryintrigued said:

My favourite thread on the forum but now has a lack of timestamp.

Seems that forum posters names are deemed more important?

Yeah I'm not seeing dates / times either on the mobile view... seems a bit of a backwards step. All about looking shiny and new rather than functionality it seems!

surreysaver

I'm getting an email everytime someone comments on a thread I'm following, rather than one daily email which is rather annoying