Santander £130 switch offer

Calidad

locky123 said:

Trying to find out if I received an incentive when I originally opened a 123 account in 2012, still can login and have a basic current account, but can see no facility to send secure message or online chat. Looks like will need to download the app.

Did you find out in the end?. I opened an account with them round about the same time and closed it down last year, and can’t for the life of me remember if I joined with an incentive or if it was just because the 123 account was really good back then. 

tg99

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.

Thx, might do the same then….I have two Santander accounts, both of which were already open at time of RAF incentive although think only used one of them for the incentive.

neilgreig

I have just switched 3 accounts over to Santander, 1 for me 1 for my wife and one joint. I am sure that I chose the Joint as a 123 Lite and the other two as Everyday accounts.
All 3 accounts have come through as 123 Lite which means a £2 fee for each.
Does anyone have an opinion as to whether changing two of them over to Everyday accounts will effect the £130 switch offer.
Thanks for any advice.

soulsaver

neilgreig said:

I have just switched 3 accounts over to Santander, 1 for me 1 for my wife and one joint. I am sure that I chose the Joint as a 123 Lite and the other two as Everyday accounts.
All 3 accounts have come through as 123 Lite which means a £2 fee for each.
Does anyone have an opinion as to whether changing two of them over to Everyday accounts will effect the £130 switch offer.
Thanks for any advice.

Shouldn't affect it - 123 lite was a qualifying ac., keeps same sort code & ac number, too.

If you want to be certain, get an answer from Santander. Try chat to save a boring wait on the phone?

eta fix typo

fleemkt

Has anyone set up a completely new donor basic current account with say Halifax, Lloyds, Nationwide etc and then initiated a switch over to Santnader for the sole purpose of the switch bonus after a few days after opening?

That is there'll be no transactions at all on the donor account?  The way I read it is that you don't need to transfer over any DDs, but have them setup on your new Santander CA?

RetSol

Has anyone set up a completely new donor basic current account with say Halifax, Lloyds, Nationwide etc and then initiated a switch over to Santnader for the sole purpose of the switch bonus after a few days after opening?

Yes.  I don't know the outcome yet as I only opened the "target" account yesterday.

The donor account has no dds on it but, for appearances sake, I have put a tenner in there and set up a payee on the account. 

Judging from the comments on here, I doubt though whether all that is strictly necessary. 

ischris85

I setup a new nationwide account. Setup PayPal and £1 Charity DD which have been take from the account before switching over just incase.

GTR_King

Anyone got the £130 yet

still waiting should be soon

swanfan02

GTR_King said:

Anyone got the £130 yet

still waiting should be soon

Only another 36 days at the most optimistic to go 😂

GTR_King

yeah mate for some reason my post office DD Messed up and they tried to take £500 didn't go through lol but didn't get charged have now changed it to £1 DD, Might have been me lol, and my o2 bill due out in the 10th 

so have 2 active DD's and done all the other requirements so hope the £130 comes soon,

Need that money for Call of Duty Vanguard Battlefield 2042 and Jurassic World Evolution 2