yougov.finance bribe

qsk

MrsCautious said:

I linked my oldest account (Club Lloyds current account) straightaway, my Amex Cashback card and a very new First Direct current account, set up entirely to get a bank switch payout and with just two transactions at that point. My Nationwide current account, with more transactions and a longer history didn’t work, I understand this is because the last transaction was a while ago. It said ‘not enough transactions.’

Thanks for the detailed experience.

Just curious: where did you see ‘not enough transactions.’?

I am trying to figure out which accounts did not give me points. Information like that would be great help.

Band7

I think the trick, if there is one, is to add your accounts one by one. That way, you will know whether you get points for it, and how many. If you add more than one at a time, they still tell you how many points you get but if it's fewer than expected, you cannot tell which the offending account(s) is.

If an account doesn't attract points, you might as well delete it so it doesn't count towards your max 10 accounts.

If you have existing accounts, you might have to delete them all and start all over again. You won't get points again in the current quarter for accounts that you already had points for. I am not sure whether they delete points if you delete an account, so you might want to wait until the next renewal, or until you have received your reward.

Bazzalona13295

Band7 said:

I think the trick, if there is one, is to add your accounts one by one. That way, you will know whether you get points for it, and how many. If you add more than one at a time, they still tell you how many points you get but if it's fewer than expected, you cannot tell which the offending account(s) is.

If an account doesn't attract points, you might as well delete it so it doesn't count towards your max 10 accounts.

If you have existing accounts, you might have to delete them all and start all over again. You won't get points again in the current quarter for accounts that you already had points for. I am not sure whether they delete points if you delete an account, so you might want to wait until the next renewal, or until you have received your reward.

For my part I 'only' have 10 accounts, if I had more I may delete some but its not as if I'm blocking any as such.

Going to put the last remaining one in soon but happy to wait till the next quarter to see how the others fare.

Nick_C

Slightly off topic, but still relevant.

The new "Safe" features were discussed a few pages back, and my initial thought was they were not worth bothering with.

I've changed my mind.  

You get 75 points for joining each of the "Insights Project" for Apple TV, Netflix, and Prime Video.  This is 50 points for joining, and 25 points for allowing YouGov to download your data.  Meh.  But, they ask you to download you data every 7 days.  So potentially £13 a year for each project you join.

I assume Disney+ works the same way, but as I've never used it I can't be sure.

I'm getting the weekly 25 points from Apple TV even though I stopped subscribing 6 months ago.  I'm assuming this will end sometime.

YouTube and Amazon Shopping only update once a month at 25 points each.

But these small additions should help people to reach the £50 cash out level.

I was invited to join "Safe" after completing a few surveys.

gt94sss2

MrsCautious said:

On March 6 I set up 10 new savings accounts with Lloyds, 5 Easy Savers and 5 Club Lloyds Advantage Savers and added these. I mentioned further up the thread here I felt naive to believe this would have worked quickly. It didn’t work. 

Based on some other threads, I'd be more concerned about the possibility of receiving a letter from Lloyds terminating your banking relationship with them!

Band7

Nick_C said:

Slightly off topic, but still relevent.

The new "Safe" features were discussed a few pages back, and my initial thought was they were not worth bothering with.

I've changed my mind.  

It's alright for those who get the invite to "Safe" 

phillw

Band7 said:
It's alright for those who get the invite to "Safe" 

What does it say if you go to:

https://account.yougov.com/gb-en/account/safe

Band7

phillw said:

Band7 said:
It's alright for those who get the invite to "Safe" 

What does it say if you go to:

https://account.yougov.com/gb-en/account/safe

Nothing. It just goes to the yougov homepage. You need a personal invite for Safe.

MrsCautious

qsk said:

MrsCautious said:

I linked my oldest account (Club Lloyds current account) straightaway, my Amex Cashback card and a very new First Direct current account, set up entirely to get a bank switch payout and with just two transactions at that point. My Nationwide current account, with more transactions and a longer history didn’t work, I understand this is because the last transaction was a while ago. It said ‘not enough transactions.’

Thanks for the detailed experience.

Just curious: where did you see ‘not enough transactions.’?

I am trying to figure out which accounts did not give me points. Information like that would be great help.

Thank you, it said this on the screen that lists all the accounts I have listed, as soon as I had attempted to add them, an immediate update after they were added.

phillw

qsk said:
Thanks for the detailed experience.

Just curious: where did you see ‘not enough transactions.’?

I am trying to figure out which accounts did not give me points. Information like that would be great help.

Since they started limiting to 10 accounts, it says that when you try to add account that doesn't have enough transactions.

The account doesn't get added either, add any missing accounts and it will tell you again.

I had a load of accounts added before the limit, so I deleted them all and started from scratch.