Nationwide woe....

mgdavid

OP - had you thought of paying the cheque into Nationwide at your local Post Office?

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/team-blog/2018/06/banking-at-the-post-office/

colsten

mgdavid said:

OP - had you thought of paying the cheque into Nationwide at your local Post Office?

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/team-blog/2018/06/banking-at-the-post-office/

You can do many things at the Post Office. Depositing a cheque into Nationwide is, sadly, not one of them. https://www.postoffice.co.uk/everydaybanking

jsmith9

Well, to be exact you CAN deposit a cheque at the post office - what you need to do is put the cheque into an envelope, address it, put a stamp on it and give it to them

kaMelo

gsmh said:

kaMelo said:

You take the free cash offered from the secondary accounts and, as ethics are clearly important to you, you take that money from unethical banks and use it for more ethical purposes.
All whilst leaving the bank account(s), whose service and ethics you are happy with, alone to carry out your day to day banking.

You are still opening an account with a provider you might not have considered, just because of the incentive. I would rather look at what service the bank offers and whether it would suit my purposes.
To be clear, the only reason I have considered some banks is because of he freebie, the level of service they offer is irrelevant as I had no intention of using them beyond the incentive.

 Yes, ethics are important to me and clearly much less important to several high-profile members on here. I get that. I suppose I have a different mindset than many.  I am not at all motivated by freebies as that usually means you are allowing yourself to be manipulated by the large company.
If I open an account, do the bare minimum to qualify for free money and then clear off I would suggest the opposite is true.
 If I decided to open an account to use as my main account and there happened to be an incentive offered, so be it. 

Same here too. My main account gave nothing when I opened it.