Possible £100 Halifax switch offer starting 4/8/20

masonic

tel_ said:

masonic said:
So then the statement:

"You won't qualify for the Switching offer if you:

• are switching to a Basic Account, a Student Account or a Youth Account.
• are a Bank of Scotland bank account customer switching to Halifax."

relates to the switching service only, and rather than not qualifying for the £100 offer, it's that a BOS bank account cannot be switched at all using the switching service according to that term?

The box containing those terms ends with "For more information about our switching offer, please read our Terms and conditions", with the Terms and conditions link going to the T&Cs of the £100 offer. So it's very inconsistent use of the term "Switching offer".

Even more confusing given I've received a SMS message yesterday for my switch from BOS stating "We confirm your switch will complete on 13/08/2020..."

I received my activation code this morning and logged in. To my surprise, the switch from my BOS account had already taken place. Also, my BOS account number & sort code have been transferred over to the Halifax account. Even the BOS name & logo also appear on the new Halifax account details.

No £100 switch has been paid yet, so I very much doubt that any of us chopping in our BOS accounts will receive the switching bonus  .

I have 2 switches from BOS to Halifax ongoing:

Switch 1, started 1st August (before I knew about this offer), confirmed 3rd August: Standing orders and Direct Debits now visible on my Halifax account, BOS account still active, due to complete 11th August

Switch 2, started and confirmed 5th August (switching to a newly opened Reward account and hoping to receive the incentive for this one): No sign of Direct Debits yet, BOS account still active, due to complete 13th August.

It seems your account was converted, not switched. Was your BOS account accessible via the same logon details used to access your Halifax account or different?

Edit: based on your second post it looks like your switch is still in progress, but both accounts are associated with the same logon details, whereas mine remain separate.

colsten

tel_ said:

masonic said:
So then the statement:

"You won't qualify for the Switching offer if you:

• are switching to a Basic Account, a Student Account or a Youth Account.
• are a Bank of Scotland bank account customer switching to Halifax."

relates to the switching service only, and rather than not qualifying for the £100 offer, it's that a BOS bank account cannot be switched at all using the switching service according to that term?

The box containing those terms ends with "For more information about our switching offer, please read our Terms and conditions", with the Terms and conditions link going to the T&Cs of the £100 offer. So it's very inconsistent use of the term "Switching offer".

Even more confusing given I've received a SMS message yesterday for my switch from BOS stating "We confirm your switch will complete on 13/08/2020..."

I received my activation code this morning and logged in. To my surprise, the switch from my BOS account had already taken place. Also, my BOS account number & sort code have been transferred over to the Halifax account. Even the BOS name & logo also appear on the new Halifax account details.

No £100 switch has been paid yet, so I very much doubt that any of us chopping in our BOS accounts will receive the switching bonus  .

To me, this sounds like no switch has taken place at all yet. It is totally normal that you can see your BOS accounts through your Halifax login, alongside your Halifax accounts (and the other way round - you can see your Halifax accounts through your BOS login, alongside your BOS accounts).

colsten

tel_ said:

tel_ said:
I received my activation code this morning and logged in. To my surprise, the switch from my BOS account had already taken place. Also, my BOS account number & sort code have been transferred over to the Halifax account. Even the BOS name & logo also appear on the new Halifax account details.

No £100 switch has been paid yet, so I very much doubt that any of us chopping in our BOS accounts will receive the switching bonus  .

I have now logged in via Halifax's app, and both my Bank Of Scotland and Halifax accounts appear separately. So I do have a new sort code and account number from the Halifax. All my previous transactions from BOS haven't transferred over yet it seems. 

This further confirms that no switch has taken place. You won't have got any new sort code and account number - it's still the details your BOS account has always had.

A CASS switch does not create any new account. It switches an account into an existing account, and it closes the account you have requested to be switched.

S_uk

Out of interest, has anyone who opened the reward account on tuesday and started their switch the same day been paid the £100 today?

Herbalus

S_uk said:

Out of interest, has anyone who opened the reward account on tuesday and started their switch the same day been paid the £100 today?

No, have you? I opened an account in the late evening though, around 10pm.

S_uk

Herbalus said:

S_uk said:

Out of interest, has anyone who opened the reward account on tuesday and started their switch the same day been paid the £100 today?

No, have you? I opened an account in the late evening though, around 10pm.

No not today, just thought I'd check if anyone else had though! I opened the account and started the switch Tuesday morning and picked switch date of 13th. Had activation code. I assume the earliest the payment will be paid is Monday now.

masonic

S_uk said:

Herbalus said:

S_uk said:

Out of interest, has anyone who opened the reward account on tuesday and started their switch the same day been paid the £100 today?

No, have you? I opened an account in the late evening though, around 10pm.

No not today, just thought I'd check if anyone else had though! I opened the account and started the switch Tuesday morning and picked switch date of 13th. Had activation code. I assume the earliest the payment will be paid is Monday now.

The suggestion from Halifax CS was that it would be there by the switch date, but might be a day or two earlier. I'm sure there are many just waiting for the opportunity to inform the thread they've received the incentive.

vixen1500

Hiya,  just wondering  when you get the option of choosing your reward?  Thanks 

Ghostcrawler

vixen1500 said:

Hiya,  just wondering  when you get the option of choosing your reward?  Thanks 

got it after applying and making switch, alongwith that also got to create my online banking user name.  But once your account is fully set up and you are able to login to your account (online or app), you can set up the reward if not done already, very easy to do

Hasbeen

vixen1500 said:

Hiya,  just wondering  when you get the option of choosing your reward?  Thanks 

You get the option at the time of applying and setting up the switch?
But if you have actually missed that, then choose when you have access to account.
We chose the £5 per month option to make up for the no interest.