yougov.finance bribe

[Deleted User]

Slight side issue but what was the point of them culling Yougov Finance only to do an almost replica of it a few months later?
Just number of people being less?

PRAISETHESUN

ZeroSum said:

Finally got the connections invite.
Is there a 10 account limit on it like yougov finance? Doesn't seem to mention one

Same 10 account limit. You get an error message if you try to link more

PRAISETHESUN

[Deleted User] said:

Slight side issue but what was the point of them culling Yougov Finance only to do an almost replica of it a few months later?
Just number of people being less?

Could be any number of reasons really. The setup this time is different enough though. Different open banking partner, daily points instead of a one off lump sum. Slightly less generous too (4500 points/90 days).

[Deleted User]

PRAISETHESUN said:

[Deleted User] said:

Slight side issue but what was the point of them culling Yougov Finance only to do an almost replica of it a few months later?
Just number of people being less?

Could be any number of reasons really. The setup this time is different enough though. Different open banking partner, daily points instead of a one off lump sum. Slightly less generous too (4500 points/90 days).

Hopefully they'll contact me soon, just looking at those figures (albeit reduced) makes you realise that equates to a lot of surveys!

AmityNeon

[Deleted User] said:

Slight side issue but what was the point of them culling Yougov Finance only to do an almost replica of it a few months later?
Just number of people being less?

This iteration is more integrated and technically refined (utilising Plaid instead of TrueLayer), and it was likely easier to cease operations and start afresh (and with fewer participants) than attempt a live-service upgrade.

Wesker

The connections tab appeared for me a couple of weeks ago but it only has amazon, you tube etc on it, no option for banking. Will this appear later?

PloughmansLunch

allegro120 said:

I've already settled with the idea that I'm not among the chosen ones... received my invitation to join the club.  I'm not sure what the criteria is but very happy to be back on the bribe boat.  
UI is so much better, no purple background and everything is clearly displayed.  Took me a while to get the process rolling. First entry was connected and the consequent ones failed.  It appeared that after each connection I had to close all windows and start again. They didn't accept multiple accounts from the same bank, but luckily I have enough banks with recent transactions to qualify me for 10 connections.  The bribe is not as generous as the old one was, but still good - £15 p/m for very little time and effort.  

I got the email yesterday and found that subsequent connections after the first failed too - but then found closing the previous Plaid tabs on my phone after each new connection worked a treat. I managed to connect all 3 Halifax accounts in one go (and multiple minimal transaction dummy accounts from other providers), so maybe you were unlucky, or you only get one main connection every 90 days with a provider?

masonic

Wesker said:

The connections tab appeared for me a couple of weeks ago but it only has amazon, you tube etc on it, no option for banking. Will this appear later?

Hopefully. I'm still waiting for the banking option to appear on my account and got access to connections around the same time as you.

allegro120

PloughmansLunch said:

allegro120 said:

I've already settled with the idea that I'm not among the chosen ones... received my invitation to join the club.  I'm not sure what the criteria is but very happy to be back on the bribe boat.  
UI is so much better, no purple background and everything is clearly displayed.  Took me a while to get the process rolling. First entry was connected and the consequent ones failed.  It appeared that after each connection I had to close all windows and start again. They didn't accept multiple accounts from the same bank, but luckily I have enough banks with recent transactions to qualify me for 10 connections.  The bribe is not as generous as the old one was, but still good - £15 p/m for very little time and effort.  

I got the email yesterday and found that subsequent connections after the first failed too - but then found closing the previous Plaid tabs on my phone after each new connection worked a treat. I managed to connect all 3 Halifax accounts in one go (and multiple minimal transaction dummy accounts from other providers), so maybe you were unlucky, or you only get one main connection every 90 days with a provider?

I was trying to be careful and connect 1 account at a time. When I tried to connect my second Halifax account the system didn't let me proceed saying that "you are already connected to this bank".

Nasqueron

I got the email today about the offer, will start working on it tonight, not that far off my next £50!