Santander £130 switch offer

soulsaver

I'm not checking it for you, but if 2.3.3 is verbatim (exactly as) from the terms  - then it doesn't have to be external source.

gozaimasu

If you have £1000 in the account you want to switch over, does this cover the £1000 paying-in requirement as the balance is transferred during the switch?

tg99

Has anyone sought clarification from Santander regarding whether you are eligible for this offer if have previously participated in the refer a friend Amazon voucher incentive a couple of years ago?

YorkshireBoy

tg99 said:

Has anyone sought clarification from Santander regarding whether you are eligible for this offer if have previously participated in the refer a friend Amazon voucher incentive a couple of years ago?

I did, and I wasn't alone. Person I spoke with said she'd taken many such calls. Receiving the Amazon offer will make you ineligible for this offer.

But...switching team answering phone could not see if I had previously received an incentive, and suggested I check myself!. However, they can see one of my accounts was opened within the Amazon offer window. 60 day checking will be carried out by back office staff, who have access to emails sent regarding the Amazon vouchers. I changed my email address shortly after the Amazon offer ended, so i couldn't check whether I'd received one.

I figured I'd nothing to lose (I have a dozen or more spare accounts) so have switched into both my Santander accounts, with Co-op (DDs switched) going to my Everyday account and a spare TSB (DDs not required) going to 123 Lite.

Really is a case of heads I win, tails I can't lose.

soulsaver

gozaimasu said:

If you have £1000 in the account you want to switch over, does this cover the £1000 paying-in requirement as the balance is transferred during the switch?

Maybe - take it out and put it back to be sure.

soulsaver

YorkshireBoy said:

tg99 said:

Has anyone sought clarification from Santander regarding whether you are eligible for this offer if have previously participated in the refer a friend Amazon voucher incentive a couple of years ago?

I did, and I wasn't alone. Person I spoke with said she'd taken many such calls. Receiving the Amazon offer will make you ineligible for this offer.

But...switching team answering phone could not see if I had previously received an incentive, and suggested I check myself!. However, they can see one of my accounts was opened within the Amazon offer window. 60 day checking will be carried out by back office staff, who have access to emails sent regarding the Amazon vouchers. I changed my email address shortly after the Amazon offer ended, so i couldn't check whether I'd received one.

I figured I'd nothing to lose (I have a dozen or more spare accounts) so have switched into both my Santander accounts, with Co-op (DDs switched) going to my Everyday account and a spare TSB (DDs not required) going to 123 Lite.

Really is a case of heads I win, tails I can't lose.

If you click on (each of) your acs you get to the statement page; underneath the account number it shows product name.
If the product name has 'switcher' in it you've had a switch incentive.

If it's not there on any of your accounts, it doesn't necessarily mean you haven't - but if it is, you deffo (might) have. 
ETA 'might'. See later posts.

wiseonesomeofthetime

gozaimasu said:

If you have £1000 in the account you want to switch over, does this cover the £1000 paying-in requirement as the balance is transferred during the switch?

I am in the same position as I CASS my Virgin Money account.

The terms say £1,000 deposit. To me, that CASS is shown in the deposit column.

That said, as suggested by @soulsaver, above, I shall be transferring the money out and back, albeit in £500 chunks, just to make sure I reach the criteria, and also not risk the account being frozen, or transaction blocked, due to being new and large money transfers.

Seen too many posts where people have moved £1,500 in and out of new accounts, or tried to, and ended with unnecessary hoops to jump through, or visits to branch.

I do it over a number of days too, not within minutes.

Each to their own though, as to what tactic they use for movement of their own money in this current banking KYC environment.

YorkshireBoy

soulsaver said:

YorkshireBoy said:

tg99 said:

Has anyone sought clarification from Santander regarding whether you are eligible for this offer if have previously participated in the refer a friend Amazon voucher incentive a couple of years ago?

I did, and I wasn't alone. Person I spoke with said she'd taken many such calls. Receiving the Amazon offer will make you ineligible for this offer.

But...switching team answering phone could not see if I had previously received an incentive, and suggested I check myself!. However, they can see one of my accounts was opened within the Amazon offer window. 60 day checking will be carried out by back office staff, who have access to emails sent regarding the Amazon vouchers. I changed my email address shortly after the Amazon offer ended, so i couldn't check whether I'd received one.

I figured I'd nothing to lose (I have a dozen or more spare accounts) so have switched into both my Santander accounts, with Co-op (DDs switched) going to my Everyday account and a spare TSB (DDs not required) going to 123 Lite.

Really is a case of heads I win, tails I can't lose.

If you click on (each of) your acs you get to the statement page; underneath the account number it shows product name.
If the product name has 'switcher' in it you've had a switch incentive.

If it's not there on any of your accounts, it doesn't necessarily mean you haven't - but if it is, you deffo have. 

As I speculated back on 13th September:

1. Did they only start this "switcher" labeling during the Amazon promotion?
2. If one switches in to an existing account 'genuinely', ie without an incentive being paid, do they still mark it "switcher"? 

I still think it's worth a punt.

Ed-1

YorkshireBoy said:

soulsaver said:

YorkshireBoy said:

tg99 said:

Has anyone sought clarification from Santander regarding whether you are eligible for this offer if have previously participated in the refer a friend Amazon voucher incentive a couple of years ago?

I did, and I wasn't alone. Person I spoke with said she'd taken many such calls. Receiving the Amazon offer will make you ineligible for this offer.

But...switching team answering phone could not see if I had previously received an incentive, and suggested I check myself!. However, they can see one of my accounts was opened within the Amazon offer window. 60 day checking will be carried out by back office staff, who have access to emails sent regarding the Amazon vouchers. I changed my email address shortly after the Amazon offer ended, so i couldn't check whether I'd received one.

I figured I'd nothing to lose (I have a dozen or more spare accounts) so have switched into both my Santander accounts, with Co-op (DDs switched) going to my Everyday account and a spare TSB (DDs not required) going to 123 Lite.

Really is a case of heads I win, tails I can't lose.

If you click on (each of) your acs you get to the statement page; underneath the account number it shows product name.
If the product name has 'switcher' in it you've had a switch incentive.

If it's not there on any of your accounts, it doesn't necessarily mean you haven't - but if it is, you deffo have. 

As I speculated back on 13th September:

1. Did they only start this "switcher" labeling during the Amazon promotion?
2. If one switches in to an existing account 'genuinely', ie without an incentive being paid, do they still mark it "switcher"? 

I still think it's worth a punt.

I can put this to bed.

I know someone who switched their main account to Santander 123 in 2012 and has never had a switch incentive. Their account is marked Switcher.

soulsaver

YorkshireBoy said:

soulsaver said:

YorkshireBoy said:

tg99 said:

Has anyone sought clarification from Santander regarding whether you are eligible for this offer if have previously participated in the refer a friend Amazon voucher incentive a couple of years ago?

I did, and I wasn't alone. Person I spoke with said she'd taken many such calls. Receiving the Amazon offer will make you ineligible for this offer.

But...switching team answering phone could not see if I had previously received an incentive, and suggested I check myself!. However, they can see one of my accounts was opened within the Amazon offer window. 60 day checking will be carried out by back office staff, who have access to emails sent regarding the Amazon vouchers. I changed my email address shortly after the Amazon offer ended, so i couldn't check whether I'd received one.

I figured I'd nothing to lose (I have a dozen or more spare accounts) so have switched into both my Santander accounts, with Co-op (DDs switched) going to my Everyday account and a spare TSB (DDs not required) going to 123 Lite.

Really is a case of heads I win, tails I can't lose.

If you click on (each of) your acs you get to the statement page; underneath the account number it shows product name.
If the product name has 'switcher' in it you've had a switch incentive.

If it's not there on any of your accounts, it doesn't necessarily mean you haven't - but if it is, you deffo have. 

As I speculated back on 13th September:

1. Did they only start this "switcher" labeling during the Amazon promotion?
2. If one switches in to an existing account 'genuinely', ie without an incentive being paid, do they still mark it "switcher"? 

I still think it's worth a punt.

I agree it's worth a punt, I'm punting it myself.
Was just saying there's a clue to having switched in the Amabonanza... but @Ed-1's subsequent post shoots that theory down anyway.
I'd never recalled  seeing 'Switcher' mentioned before said incentive.
And I wasn't thinking when I said 'deffo' 'cos should have had 'think' in there ...