current account soft checks

andrewsimpson2

hi guys,

sorry if this is the wrong board for this, but i am toying with the idea of switching from lloyds to either hsbc first direct or maybe barclays. i wondered if any of them do an eligibility check similar to the credit card ones?

thanks in advance.

andy

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No current accounts don’t offer eligibility checks.

Use the Bank Accounts board as well for questions on this subject matter

eskbanker

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No current accounts don’t offer eligibility checks.

This will probably seem really pedantic but there should be a comma after 'No', which would eliminate any ambiguity about what the sentence means - if left unpunctuated it can be read as a double negative, i.e. '[there are] no current accounts [that] don't offer eligibility checks', which is the exact opposite of what I believe is meant here!

badger09

eskbanker wrote: »

This will probably seem really pedantic but there should be a comma after 'No', which would eliminate any ambiguity about what the sentence means - if left unpunctuated it can be read as a double negative, i.e. '[there are] no current accounts [that] don't offer eligibility checks', which is the exact opposite of what I believe is meant here!

Or, to be equally pedantic, a full stop. 'No. Current accounts don't offer eligibility checks.'

andrewsimpson2

sorry for the wrong board and thank you for the replies