Marcus is live!

ColdIron

I can see how that would be a problem. I suppose it's a matter of continuing faff vs one off faff

alfista

It's Goldman Sachs - I reckon they will extend their retail offer in the future and hope they can come up with some decent interest rates for savers.

d63

has anyone received any paperwork about opening their marcus account?

supposing the worst and it does indeed all go pear-shaped how would one go about proving they even had an account with them at all?

not that i'm worried, of course. definitely not.

etienneg

Did you not receive a welcome email from them when you opened the account?

SpanishBlue

d63 wrote: »

has anyone received any paperwork about opening their marcus account?

supposing the worst and it does indeed all go pear-shaped how would one go about proving they even had an account with them at all?

not that i'm worried, of course. definitely not.

It's probably about as likely as Cardiff City winning the Premier League this season, but if you really are worried, you could always take a screenshot.


Also your nominated bank account will have a record of your transactions.

d63

etienneg wrote: »

Did you not receive a welcome email from them when you opened the account?

yes got the email, but there is something reassuring about having a piece of paper with ones name and account number on to put away in a box-file.
i suppose it does save a tree being cut down somewhere but this new paperless world i confess makes me a trifle uneasy.

d63

SpanishBlue wrote: »

It's probably about as likely as Cardiff City winning the Premier League this season, but if you really are worried, you could always take a screenshot.


Also your nominated bank account will have a record of your transactions.

i'm not sure about football but i still remember one year long ago a horse called foinaven won the grand national because all the others fell over. not quite the same odds admittedly
your point about the nominated bank account is a little more reassuring though. they at least do still send me nicely printed statements every month, though for how much longer is anyones guess. no doubt i will get a letter soon with words to the effect that "we have been listening to our customers and . . . "
curious that they never seem to listen to me
thank you

EachPenny

d63 wrote: »

yes got the email, but there is something reassuring about having a piece of paper with ones name and account number on to put away in a box-file.
i suppose it does save a tree being cut down somewhere but this new paperless world i confess makes me a trifle uneasy.

As I go through the online application process for financial products I take a screenshot of important information and save that onto a USB stick. I could print the information onto a piece of paper... but have you seen the price of ink these days.

I pay special attention to getting a screenshot of the step where it says "You application has been successful here is your application ref/account number".

If there is ever some form of query on an account I can dig out the memory stick (or the backup one), find the application and get the details from that.

The method of getting a screenshot varies according to the device you are using, but for example a windows laptop or PC usually involves pressing a key combination including the 'PrintScrn' button, and then saving the copied image into a jpg file. It usually only takes a few seconds to do.

soulsaver

Now, like you I'd prefer a downloadable (at least) statement...

..but you can use the 'download transactions' or the 'print transactions' options on the rh side of your ac screen.

To save paper & ink I print to a ms pdf file format which should be an option in your print options.

soulsaver

EachPenny wrote: »

The method of getting a screenshot varies according to the device you are using, but for example a windows laptop or PC usually involves pressing a key combination including the 'PrintScrn' button, and then saving the copied image into a jpg file. It usually only takes a few seconds to do.

One of my fav facilities in win10 is you just hit 'print screen' and it saves a screen dump to your 'one drive' and dates and numbers it.
You can go in and rename it and/or save a copy elsewhere so its easy to find.. it is sooo convenient I use all the time.