yougov.finance bribe

Bridlington1

mattywallace121 said:

Bridlington1 said:

It looks like I've started something here doesn't it?

Just opened another 3 current accounts, taking me to 24 and counting. Shall link them all up after I've bounced some money through them. Now opened 5 Club Lloyds savers as well, taking my total number of bank accounts into 3 figures.

Ah always one that abuses the system, this is why a lot of bonus bagging slowed down, no need to extract the urine over 5 quid surely?

It's worth more than a fiver surely. If you end up with 20 current accounts linked up you're talking £100 every 3 months, so £400/yr. Throw a couple of dozen easy access savings accounts into the mix and you'll easily hit £500/yr in total. If YouGov want to give people £500/yr for sharing their data with them let them so far as I'm concerned.

pafpcg

mattywallace121 said:

Bridlington1 said:

It looks like I've started something here doesn't it?

Just opened another 3 current accounts, taking me to 24 and counting. Shall link them all up after I've bounced some money through them. Now opened 5 Club Lloyds savers as well, taking my total number of bank accounts into 3 figures.

Ah always one that abuses the system, this is why a lot of bonus bagging slowed down, no need to extract the urine over 5 quid surely?

Don't be too hard on our colleague from the Yorkshire coastal resort - I think he's referring to the total number of all accounts (current, savings, credit-card, etc) held at banks.  It can't be difficult to reach that number when banks are profligate with opening new accounts (eg Virgin Money automatically open a savings account for each current account, TSB create an account for every maturing annual regular saver) but don't provide a mechanism to close unwanted accounts.  Then there's the eagerness of banks to offer us incentives to open credit card accounts & loans...

bristolleedsfan

Bridlington1 said:

mattywallace121 said:

Bridlington1 said:

It looks like I've started something here doesn't it?

Just opened another 3 current accounts, taking me to 24 and counting. Shall link them all up after I've bounced some money through them. Now opened 5 Club Lloyds savers as well, taking my total number of bank accounts into 3 figures.

Ah always one that abuses the system, this is why a lot of bonus bagging slowed down, no need to extract the urine over 5 quid surely?

 If Yougov want to give people £500/yr for sharing their data with them let them so far as I'm concerned.

My opinion is that Yougov set redemption levels very high so at best takes very long time to redeem, at worst many who start doing it give up gaining nothing, I guess we will see in fullness of time ...... ........ .......... ....

WLewer98

How do I sign up to YouGov Finance so that I can start linking bank accounts? It seems I can only register for an account via e-mail invitation 

k_man

WLewer98 said:

How do I sign up to YouGov Finance so that I can start linking bank accounts? It seems I can only register for an account via e-mail invitation 

Sign up at YouGov.com, then login to Yougov.finance

Band7

WLewer98 said: 

How do I sign up to YouGov Finance so that I can start linking bank accounts? It seems I can only register for an account via e-mail invitation 

1. you don't need an invite. Just sign up for free on their main site https://yougov.co.uk/ (tip: may be use a spare email address, or set one up specifically for yougov)
   
   
2. you then go to https://www.yougov.finance/ and login there with the same email address. They'll email you an access code every time you log into that site

Your account profile, history etc is all accessible through the main yougov site. Neither of their web pages will win an award for userfriendliness, so you have the be a little determined. Tip: don't invite them to send you lots of surveys unless you really want to spend waste hours on their surveys for not much return.

flaneurs_lobster

granta said:

Section62 said:

MikeJXE said:

Section62 said:

Band7 said:

...As soon as you have 5,000 points, you can request a payout. Payouts can be bank transfers into one of your current accounts, or £50 vouchers for Amazon, Tesco, John Lewis,TK Maxx and many more known brands.

Worth noting (at least when I last tried doing it) YouGov may say they need extra personal information from you (for AML reasons) before they will make good on the payment.  For some people that won't matter, but for others who might sign up using minimal personal information for privacy reasons, the AML information required to cash out might be an issue.

It would be interesting to know which payout method you used Band7 and what (if anything) extra they asked you for as confirmation.

I have been doing yougov surveys for a few years and had a few £50 rewards

They have never asked me for any extra personal information 

I have always had it paid into my current account, no problems

Perhaps you'd already given them sufficient details (as per Band7's reply) when you signed up to YouGov, so they didn't need to ask again?

Address and DoB were probably the ones I baulked at providing.

Could you give mock details for address and dob? Though I guess they can see your address when they access your account anyway?

The data that are collected when you give TrueLayer access to your accounts includes your full name but not your address (at least it's not included in the list when you give permission). A standard YouGov (survey) account doesn't ask for address, just full postcode.

bristolleedsfan

flaneurs_lobster said:

granta said:

Section62 said:

MikeJXE said:

Section62 said:

Band7 said:

...As soon as you have 5,000 points, you can request a payout. Payouts can be bank transfers into one of your current accounts, or £50 vouchers for Amazon, Tesco, John Lewis,TK Maxx and many more known brands.

Worth noting (at least when I last tried doing it) YouGov may say they need extra personal information from you (for AML reasons) before they will make good on the payment.  For some people that won't matter, but for others who might sign up using minimal personal information for privacy reasons, the AML information required to cash out might be an issue.

It would be interesting to know which payout method you used Band7 and what (if anything) extra they asked you for as confirmation.

I have been doing yougov surveys for a few years and had a few £50 rewards

They have never asked me for any extra personal information 

I have always had it paid into my current account, no problems

Perhaps you'd already given them sufficient details (as per Band7's reply) when you signed up to YouGov, so they didn't need to ask again?

Address and DoB were probably the ones I baulked at providing.

Could you give mock details for address and dob? Though I guess they can see your address when they access your account anyway?

The data that are collected when you give TrueLayer access to your accounts includes your full name but not your address (at least it's not included in the list when you give permission). A standard YouGov (survey) account doesn't ask for address, just full postcode.

Address is asked for when redeem by BACS

t0rt0ise

Band7 said:

Brie said:

Why is it called yougov?  It's as if it's trying (like a scammer) to sound like a government agency when it's not.

Possibly I'm just too cynical?

I can't tell you why they chose to call it yougov when they founded the company 23 years ago. But yes, I think you are too cynical on this occasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouGov

I don't think he's too cynical. I think that is why it's called that. I used to do the surveys, gave up not long ago. I must've joined round about when it started. The points they give and the money for them is the same now as it was then!

flaneurs_lobster

bristolleedsfan said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

granta said:

Section62 said:

MikeJXE said:

Section62 said:

Band7 said:

...As soon as you have 5,000 points, you can request a payout. Payouts can be bank transfers into one of your current accounts, or £50 vouchers for Amazon, Tesco, John Lewis,TK Maxx and many more known brands.

Worth noting (at least when I last tried doing it) YouGov may say they need extra personal information from you (for AML reasons) before they will make good on the payment.  For some people that won't matter, but for others who might sign up using minimal personal information for privacy reasons, the AML information required to cash out might be an issue.

It would be interesting to know which payout method you used Band7 and what (if anything) extra they asked you for as confirmation.

I have been doing yougov surveys for a few years and had a few £50 rewards

They have never asked me for any extra personal information 

I have always had it paid into my current account, no problems

Perhaps you'd already given them sufficient details (as per Band7's reply) when you signed up to YouGov, so they didn't need to ask again?

Address and DoB were probably the ones I baulked at providing.

Could you give mock details for address and dob? Though I guess they can see your address when they access your account anyway?

The data that are collected when you give TrueLayer access to your accounts includes your full name but not your address (at least it's not included in the list when you give permission). A standard YouGov (survey) account doesn't ask for address, just full postcode.

Address is asked for when redeem by BACS

Is that usual when transferring funds by BACS? Some kind of regulatory requirement? Straight out snooping?