Santander £130 switch offer

wiseonesomeofthetime

I have been with Santander since 2009. No issues.

Daliah

I am still making between £5 and £6 a month from my Santander DDs, after the monthly £2 charge. Santander has also been my hub account for shifting money to and from many other accounts, either manually or by SO, for many years. Oh, and the Amazon voucher bonanza  . I have no reason to give them up - but then I also don't have any reason to give up my current accounts with near enough every other UK current account provider. Each account has its purpose, and if it's only to sit there as a donor account.

Marchitiello

is there any other way other than in Branch for existing account holder to do a switch? All my reasonable near branch do not have appointments until 14 December earliest … 

Sensory

Marchitiello said:

is there any other way other than in Branch for existing account holder to do a switch? All my reasonable near branch do not have appointments until 14 December earliest … 

Do it via phone (others have done so although it depends on the phone agent you get), or open a new Santander account and switch into it.

wiseonesomeofthetime

I opened a second Santander Everyday account, via online banking, for mine.

No monthly fees and was opened in minutes.

kaMelo

Sensory said:

Marchitiello said:

is there any other way other than in Branch for existing account holder to do a switch? All my reasonable near branch do not have appointments until 14 December earliest … 

Do it via phone (others have done so although it depends on the phone agent you get), or open a new Santander account and switch into it.

I tried over the phone using the number kindly posted at the start of this thread.  After waiting for ages to get through the agent simply wouldn't or couldn't help. They could help with switches already in motion but couldn't initiate a switch and pointed me back to the website statement to visit a branch.
Reading posts on  here from people who have visited a branch to be told "no can do" I just simply opened a new account as I couldn't be bothered with the hassle any more..

harz99

kaMelo said:

Sensory said:

Marchitiello said:

is there any other way other than in Branch for existing account holder to do a switch? All my reasonable near branch do not have appointments until 14 December earliest … 

Do it via phone (others have done so although it depends on the phone agent you get), or open a new Santander account and switch into it.

I tried over the phone using the number kindly posted at the start of this thread.  After waiting for ages to get through the agent simply wouldn't or couldn't help. They could help with switches already in motion but couldn't initiate a switch and pointed me back to the website statement to visit a branch.
Reading posts on  here from people who have visited a branch to be told "no can do" I just simply opened a new account as I couldn't be bothered with the hassle any more..

We've booked an appointment for late November, a couple of days after the CS advisor from the branch rang me to ask what it was in connection with, and then said if we wanted to come down one afternoon they'd probably be able to fit us in! We've kept the appointment as we're still trying to squeeze some compo out of NW for their recent FU... 

[Deleted User]

Daliah said:

I am still making between £5 and £6 a month from my Santander DDs, after the monthly £2 charge. Santander has also been my hub account for shifting money to and from many other accounts, either manually or by SO, for many years. Oh, and the Amazon voucher bonanza  . I have no reason to give them up - but then I also don't have any reason to give up my current accounts with near enough every other UK current account provider. Each account has its purpose, and if it's only to sit there as a donor account.

Enjoy - It's totally horses for courses. The Santander account's only USP (for me) is free use of Santander's Spanish ATMs which aren't that useful as I don't visit or holiday in Spain - I've changed planes a few times there but not sure that counts. My main account provides international travel insurance, decent overdraft with £500 interest free and decent ATM limit.

Marchitiello

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Daliah said:

I am still making between £5 and £6 a month from my Santander DDs, after the monthly £2 charge. Santander has also been my hub account for shifting money to and from many other accounts, either manually or by SO, for many years. Oh, and the Amazon voucher bonanza  . I have no reason to give them up - but then I also don't have any reason to give up my current accounts with near enough every other UK current account provider. Each account has its purpose, and if it's only to sit there as a donor account.

Enjoy - It's totally horses for courses. The Santander account's only USP (for me) is free use of Santander's Spanish ATMs which aren't that useful as I don't visit or holiday in Spain - I've changed planes a few times there but not sure that counts. My main account provides international travel insurance, decent overdraft with £500 interest free and decent ATM limit.

They also have branches in NYC with free ATM for UK customers. 

I tried phoning in and the most the assistant did for me (not sure if being a Select customers made any difference) was calling on my behalf two branches to get instruction from them and one suggested for me to pop in so they could get my details and call me in if a slot free up… opening another account (to then set up DD etc) is not what I want to really do 

jimjames

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Daliah said:

I am still making between £5 and £6 a month from my Santander DDs, after the monthly £2 charge. Santander has also been my hub account for shifting money to and from many other accounts, either manually or by SO, for many years. Oh, and the Amazon voucher bonanza  . I have no reason to give them up - but then I also don't have any reason to give up my current accounts with near enough every other UK current account provider. Each account has its purpose, and if it's only to sit there as a donor account.

Enjoy - It's totally horses for courses. The Santander account's only USP (for me) is free use of Santander's Spanish ATMs which aren't that useful as I don't visit or holiday in Spain - I've changed planes a few times there but not sure that counts. My main account provides international travel insurance, decent overdraft with £500 interest free and decent ATM limit.

Thanks for that, I'd not realised you could draw from Santander ATM for free, will be making use of that when we visit.