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Special_Saver2

Hi Folks,

I cannot find anything that has changed for this weekend's update.

I will do another update next weekend.

SS2

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planteria

patientperson wrote: »

Hi planteria,
Building Society Regular Saver funded by DD.
Progressive BS .. Clockwork RS
Monmouthshire BS .. Saver Plus (2)

Thank you pp. i had missed this, apologies.

yes, Monmouthshire is the BS that i save with. apparently they will not allow DDs on newly-opened accounts, but if you are already onboard they assure me that they will allow DDs to continue, and for new ones to be set up.

i have an account with Progressive, but not a regular saver. thank you for drawing this to my attention. i see DDs are one of the payment methods. from £20, and pays 2.75%. will give them a call this morning.

patientperson wrote: »

Probably there are more out there.

i'm interested if there are.

patientperson

planteria wrote: »

Thank you pp. i had missed this, apologies.

yes, Monmouthshire is the BS that i save with. apparently they will not allow DDs on newly-opened accounts, but if you are already onboard they assure me that they will allow DDs to continue, and for new ones to be set up.

i have an account with Progressive, but not a regular saver. thank you for drawing this to my attention. i see DDs are one of the payment methods. from £20, and pays 2.75%. will give them a call this morning.

i'm interested if there are.

Good luck with your DD planteria.
The 2 mentioned happen to be part of my regular savers .. hence in the know. All the others are by STO.
If I come across any other regular saver funded by DD I will let you know.

Kazza242

I thought this might be helpful to those who can't get to a Nottingham Building Society branch:

The Nottingham have opened the 5% Special Saver regular savings account for me by post. I am an existing customer.

patientperson

Kazza242 wrote: »

I thought this might be helpful to those who can't get to a Nottingham Building Society branch:

The Nottingham have opened the 5% Special Saver regular savings account for me by post. I am an existing customer.

Very interested Kazza242 .. are you able to identify this friendly branch?

ctdctd

Kazza242 wrote: »

I thought this might be helpful to those who can't get to a Nottingham Building Society branch:

The Nottingham have opened the 5% Special Saver regular savings account for me by post. I am an existing customer.

Hi Kazza,

Did you send to head office?
And what form did you use?

TIA

Ed-1

Kazza242 wrote: »

I thought this might be helpful to those who can't get to a Nottingham Building Society branch:

The Nottingham have opened the 5% Special Saver regular savings account for me by post. I am an existing customer.

Did you send an application form to head office?

Kazza242

patientperson wrote: »

Very interested Kazza242 .. are you able to identify this friendly branch?

ctdctd wrote: »

Hi Kazza,

Did you send to head office?
And what form did you use?

TIA

Ed-1 wrote: »

Did you send an application form to head office?

I was going to be in the vicinity of one of their Harrison Murray agency offices so I rang them to find out if they could open the account for me. They said that they weren't currently set up to open savings accounts (though they would be doing this later in the year).

The adviser took my telephone number and said she'd pass it on to a branch adviser. An adviser (from the Nottingham branch) rang me the next day. When I told them I was an existing customer, they said they would open it via the post for me. They posted me the application form which I returned with a cheque. The passbook was sent to me earlier this week.

patientperson

Kazza242 wrote: »

I was going to be in the vicinity of one of their Harrison Murray agency offices so I rang them to find out if they could open the account for me. They said that they weren't currently set up to open savings accounts (though they would be doing this later in the year).

The adviser took my telephone number and said she'd pass it on to a branch adviser. An adviser (from the Nottingham branch) rang me the next day. When I told them I was an existing customer, they said they would open it via the post for me. They posted me the application form which I returned with a cheque. The passbook was sent to me earlier this week.

Following is a link to the HM agency network http://www.harrisonmurray.co.uk/ where green identifies Nott BS agency is on site and red is a pure HM office. A lot of pure HM offices to choose from over 5 counties. All green in Nottinghamshire though.

Kazza242 .. you struck gold but where?.

Kazza242

patientperson wrote: »

Following is a link to the HM agency network http://www.harrisonmurray.co.uk/ where green identifies Nott BS agency is on site and red is a pure HM office. A lot of pure HM offices to choose from over 5 counties. All green in Nottinghamshire though.

Kazza242 .. you struck gold but where?.

Yeah, I know which branches are HM only and those that have joint HM and Nott BS facilities - I checked this before ringing them . I just thought I'd ask as I was going to be near an HM agency and see if it would swing things in my favour.

The Nottingham adviser (who rang me the next day) was very apologetic, spoke to his manager, who then gave him the go ahead to open the account via the post for me.

All four of my existing Nottingham (branch-based) accounts have been opened by post.