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Those hard working ladies are probably now tucking into a nice slice of Bara Brith and a cup of tea.badger09 said:
I’m bored this afternoon & keen to get MONBS up & running & 1 Sept SO set up before I go away for 3 weeks this weekend. ‘Pending’ has now disappeared so assume they’re busy crediting yesterday’s FPs. Got a mental picture of ladies in full Welsh National costume, entering figures in a huge ledger in beautiful copperplate script.badger09 said:
My £500 sent yesterday morning is not yet showing in MONBS RS account. Account just shows ‘Pending’, but no balance. I had expected it to be credited today.schiff said:
Signature letter dated 21/8 (day of application) received today and sent back today. Added the account successfully to the home page and sent £100 by FP today, intending to add £400 once it shows. Optimistic that it will be done and dusted in August for adding to it next month.badger09 said:MONBS RS
I applied for this 22/8 & received signature letter today. I’ve added account to ‘My Accounts’ & sent initial £500 by FP this morning. I’ll post signature form tomorrow & set up SO from 1 Sept as soon as £500 appears.
My Exclusive 1 matures on Friday but I wasn't prepared to risk waiting.Honestly, I’m not normally this obsessive & I do really like MONBS & Principality, even if they are a tad old fashioned.I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
The windows are small and the walls almost bare,
There's only one bed and there's only one prayer;
I listen all night for your step on the stair.0 -
WOT they’ve knocked off early before entering my £500😡trickydicky14 said:
Those hard working ladies are probably now tucking into a nice slice of Bara Brith and a cup of tea.badger09 said:
I’m bored this afternoon & keen to get MONBS up & running & 1 Sept SO set up before I go away for 3 weeks this weekend. ‘Pending’ has now disappeared so assume they’re busy crediting yesterday’s FPs. Got a mental picture of ladies in full Welsh National costume, entering figures in a huge ledger in beautiful copperplate script.badger09 said:
My £500 sent yesterday morning is not yet showing in MONBS RS account. Account just shows ‘Pending’, but no balance. I had expected it to be credited today.schiff said:
Signature letter dated 21/8 (day of application) received today and sent back today. Added the account successfully to the home page and sent £100 by FP today, intending to add £400 once it shows. Optimistic that it will be done and dusted in August for adding to it next month.badger09 said:MONBS RS
I applied for this 22/8 & received signature letter today. I’ve added account to ‘My Accounts’ & sent initial £500 by FP this morning. I’ll post signature form tomorrow & set up SO from 1 Sept as soon as £500 appears.
My Exclusive 1 matures on Friday but I wasn't prepared to risk waiting.Honestly, I’m not normally this obsessive & I do really like MONBS & Principality, even if they are a tad old fashioned.0 -
The hard working gentleman was not doing that when I went in branch at 4.40 today. I phoned them earlier to find my online application from last Wednesday had gone walkabout. Went in and 10 minuters later had a new shiny passbook with £500 deposited. Normally it would take longer but as one lady said if I have already applied online I would have already seen the T&Cs.trickydicky14 said:
Those hard working ladies are probably now tucking into a nice slice of Bara Brith and a cup of tea.badger09 said:
I’m bored this afternoon & keen to get MONBS up & running & 1 Sept SO set up before I go away for 3 weeks this weekend. ‘Pending’ has now disappeared so assume they’re busy crediting yesterday’s FPs. Got a mental picture of ladies in full Welsh National costume, entering figures in a huge ledger in beautiful copperplate script.badger09 said:
My £500 sent yesterday morning is not yet showing in MONBS RS account. Account just shows ‘Pending’, but no balance. I had expected it to be credited today.schiff said:
Signature letter dated 21/8 (day of application) received today and sent back today. Added the account successfully to the home page and sent £100 by FP today, intending to add £400 once it shows. Optimistic that it will be done and dusted in August for adding to it next month.badger09 said:MONBS RS
I applied for this 22/8 & received signature letter today. I’ve added account to ‘My Accounts’ & sent initial £500 by FP this morning. I’ll post signature form tomorrow & set up SO from 1 Sept as soon as £500 appears.
My Exclusive 1 matures on Friday but I wasn't prepared to risk waiting.Honestly, I’m not normally this obsessive & I do really like MONBS & Principality, even if they are a tad old fashioned.
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Am I to understand that they had lost and/or had no record of your account opening? I applied last Wednesday and haven't heard anything from them. I may just go into a branch tomorrow.FishInGlass said:
The hard working gentleman was not doing that when I went in branch at 4.40 today. I phoned them earlier to find my online application from last Wednesday had gone walkabout. Went in and 10 minuters later had a new shiny passbook with £500 deposited. Normally it would take longer but as one lady said if I have already applied online I would have already seen the T&Cs.trickydicky14 said:
Those hard working ladies are probably now tucking into a nice slice of Bara Brith and a cup of tea.badger09 said:
I’m bored this afternoon & keen to get MONBS up & running & 1 Sept SO set up before I go away for 3 weeks this weekend. ‘Pending’ has now disappeared so assume they’re busy crediting yesterday’s FPs. Got a mental picture of ladies in full Welsh National costume, entering figures in a huge ledger in beautiful copperplate script.badger09 said:
My £500 sent yesterday morning is not yet showing in MONBS RS account. Account just shows ‘Pending’, but no balance. I had expected it to be credited today.schiff said:
Signature letter dated 21/8 (day of application) received today and sent back today. Added the account successfully to the home page and sent £100 by FP today, intending to add £400 once it shows. Optimistic that it will be done and dusted in August for adding to it next month.badger09 said:MONBS RS
I applied for this 22/8 & received signature letter today. I’ve added account to ‘My Accounts’ & sent initial £500 by FP this morning. I’ll post signature form tomorrow & set up SO from 1 Sept as soon as £500 appears.
My Exclusive 1 matures on Friday but I wasn't prepared to risk waiting.Honestly, I’m not normally this obsessive & I do really like MONBS & Principality, even if they are a tad old fashioned.0 -
Monmouthshire RS maturity interestsimonsmithsays said:
I have a message which says they will adjust it, the interest, so 🤞chris_the_bee said:
Monmouthshire RSsimonsmithsays said:
I hope you're right.chris_the_bee said:
Yesterday was a Bank Holiday so they will not have processed the maturity/withdrawal until today. Should appear in your MONBS online tomorrow (Wednesday)simonsmithsays said:Monmouthshire RS
Anyone else have a RS mature yesterday and yet they are still showing as unmatured today?
Seeing two both as RS the day after maturity isn't normal for the dozens of other RS I have - even with the BH considered.
Hopefully they received the postal maturity instructions as they once again didn't advise me.
It's a shame the maturity instructions online aren't a little more sophisticated to include all permutations.
I'll be interested to see that the final bounced £300 (and recredited) payment has accrued the correct level of interest too.
You may not receive interest on the lost 5 days. I complained and received compensation plus lost interest:Reimbursement based on 7% for 5 days of interest on £300.00 - £0.29
Reimbursement based on 8% for 5 days of interest on £300.00 - £0.33
Figures on £3900 were:
£154.19 and £176.22 on the 7% and 8% respectively and added online today.3 -
I've been waiting a week today for something in the post.mattojgb said:
Am I to understand that they had lost and/or had no record of your account opening? I applied last Wednesday and haven't heard anything from them. I may just go into a branch tomorrow.FishInGlass said:
The hard working gentleman was not doing that when I went in branch at 4.40 today. I phoned them earlier to find my online application from last Wednesday had gone walkabout. Went in and 10 minuters later had a new shiny passbook with £500 deposited. Normally it would take longer but as one lady said if I have already applied online I would have already seen the T&Cs.trickydicky14 said:
Those hard working ladies are probably now tucking into a nice slice of Bara Brith and a cup of tea.badger09 said:
I’m bored this afternoon & keen to get MONBS up & running & 1 Sept SO set up before I go away for 3 weeks this weekend. ‘Pending’ has now disappeared so assume they’re busy crediting yesterday’s FPs. Got a mental picture of ladies in full Welsh National costume, entering figures in a huge ledger in beautiful copperplate script.badger09 said:
My £500 sent yesterday morning is not yet showing in MONBS RS account. Account just shows ‘Pending’, but no balance. I had expected it to be credited today.schiff said:
Signature letter dated 21/8 (day of application) received today and sent back today. Added the account successfully to the home page and sent £100 by FP today, intending to add £400 once it shows. Optimistic that it will be done and dusted in August for adding to it next month.badger09 said:MONBS RS
I applied for this 22/8 & received signature letter today. I’ve added account to ‘My Accounts’ & sent initial £500 by FP this morning. I’ll post signature form tomorrow & set up SO from 1 Sept as soon as £500 appears.
My Exclusive 1 matures on Friday but I wasn't prepared to risk waiting.Honestly, I’m not normally this obsessive & I do really like MONBS & Principality, even if they are a tad old fashioned.I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
The windows are small and the walls almost bare,
There's only one bed and there's only one prayer;
I listen all night for your step on the stair.0 -
A rough guide, but everyone's will be different as it will tell them in the maturity instructions and those amounts are certainly not the maximums of what could be earnt.simonsmithsays said:
Monmouthshire RS maturity interestsimonsmithsays said:
I have a message which says they will adjust it, the interest, so 🤞chris_the_bee said:
Monmouthshire RSsimonsmithsays said:
I hope you're right.chris_the_bee said:
Yesterday was a Bank Holiday so they will not have processed the maturity/withdrawal until today. Should appear in your MONBS online tomorrow (Wednesday)simonsmithsays said:Monmouthshire RS
Anyone else have a RS mature yesterday and yet they are still showing as unmatured today?
Seeing two both as RS the day after maturity isn't normal for the dozens of other RS I have - even with the BH considered.
Hopefully they received the postal maturity instructions as they once again didn't advise me.
It's a shame the maturity instructions online aren't a little more sophisticated to include all permutations.
I'll be interested to see that the final bounced £300 (and recredited) payment has accrued the correct level of interest too.
You may not receive interest on the lost 5 days. I complained and received compensation plus lost interest:Reimbursement based on 7% for 5 days of interest on £300.00 - £0.29
Reimbursement based on 8% for 5 days of interest on £300.00 - £0.33
Figures on £3900 were:
£154.19 and £176.22 on the 7% and 8% respectively and added online today.0 -
You're very welcomeWheres_My_Cashback said:
A rough guide, but everyone's will be different as it will tell them in the maturity instructions and those amounts are certainly not the maximums of what could be earnt.simonsmithsays said:
Monmouthshire RS maturity interestsimonsmithsays said:
I have a message which says they will adjust it, the interest, so 🤞chris_the_bee said:
Monmouthshire RSsimonsmithsays said:
I hope you're right.chris_the_bee said:
Yesterday was a Bank Holiday so they will not have processed the maturity/withdrawal until today. Should appear in your MONBS online tomorrow (Wednesday)simonsmithsays said:Monmouthshire RS
Anyone else have a RS mature yesterday and yet they are still showing as unmatured today?
Seeing two both as RS the day after maturity isn't normal for the dozens of other RS I have - even with the BH considered.
Hopefully they received the postal maturity instructions as they once again didn't advise me.
It's a shame the maturity instructions online aren't a little more sophisticated to include all permutations.
I'll be interested to see that the final bounced £300 (and recredited) payment has accrued the correct level of interest too.
You may not receive interest on the lost 5 days. I complained and received compensation plus lost interest:Reimbursement based on 7% for 5 days of interest on £300.00 - £0.29
Reimbursement based on 8% for 5 days of interest on £300.00 - £0.33
Figures on £3900 were:
£154.19 and £176.22 on the 7% and 8% respectively and added online today.1 -
mattojgb said:
Am I to understand that they had lost and/or had no record of your account opening? I applied last Wednesday and haven't heard anything from them. I may just go into a branch tomorrow.FishInGlass said:
The hard working gentleman was not doing that when I went in branch at 4.40 today. I phoned them earlier to find my online application from last Wednesday had gone walkabout. Went in and 10 minuters later had a new shiny passbook with £500 deposited. Normally it would take longer but as one lady said if I have already applied online I would have already seen the T&Cs.trickydicky14 said:
Those hard working ladies are probably now tucking into a nice slice of Bara Brith and a cup of tea.badger09 said:
I’m bored this afternoon & keen to get MONBS up & running & 1 Sept SO set up before I go away for 3 weeks this weekend. ‘Pending’ has now disappeared so assume they’re busy crediting yesterday’s FPs. Got a mental picture of ladies in full Welsh National costume, entering figures in a huge ledger in beautiful copperplate script.badger09 said:
My £500 sent yesterday morning is not yet showing in MONBS RS account. Account just shows ‘Pending’, but no balance. I had expected it to be credited today.schiff said:
Signature letter dated 21/8 (day of application) received today and sent back today. Added the account successfully to the home page and sent £100 by FP today, intending to add £400 once it shows. Optimistic that it will be done and dusted in August for adding to it next month.badger09 said:MONBS RS
I applied for this 22/8 & received signature letter today. I’ve added account to ‘My Accounts’ & sent initial £500 by FP this morning. I’ll post signature form tomorrow & set up SO from 1 Sept as soon as £500 appears.
My Exclusive 1 matures on Friday but I wasn't prepared to risk waiting.Honestly, I’m not normally this obsessive & I do really like MONBS & Principality, even if they are a tad old fashioned.
I had gone through the account opening process online on the evening of the 21st. When nothing had arrived in the post by today I called them up and after some time on the phone they said they would look into it further and call me back. I missed the call but they left a message on my voicemail that they had no record of my application and suggested that I apply online again. As I live close enough to be able to go into a branch I decided to restart the process in person instead.
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MonBSI also had my online application disappear to be told to apply again, perhaps their system doesn't like the first time you apply for an account with them? I sent them a message via their website and requested a call back however only received an email to be told that they didn't have me on their records and to reregister, so I made sure that I took a screen shot at the end of the process and sent it in a reply email, then didn't hear anything till I received something in the post a week or so later.Applied on 20th June where it said they needed to "do electronically checks"Sent message via website 11th Julyreceived a reply the next day 12th JulyGot a letter to sign on 18th JulyPosted it 23rd JulyReceived passbook on 31st July1
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