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masonic

Bazzalona13295 said:

As for which ones are ok to renew and some aren't, I try to do the odd little card payments with each account. They don't add up to much but so far making 20 card payments over 3 months seems to do the trick.

I've been making one credit card transaction every other month (with my automatic direct debit generating a transaction during the next). This particular card was dormant for about a year prior to me starting to do that. Likewise, every couple of months I transfer £1 in and out of a current account I normally use for foreign cash withdrawals only. This has been ok so far to keep both qualifying.

allegro120

Bazzalona13295 said:

allegro120 said:

Bazzalona13295 said:

MikeJXE said:

tg99 said:

Finally getting round to looking at getting this set up. I’m going to set it up with 10x current accounts or credit card accounts rather than savings so as to get the max 5000 points per quarter but just wanted to check a few things:

- how ‘active’ does the account generally have to be to be deemed acceptable for points? Some of my current accounts / credit cards have 1 transaction per month - though with quite a long history - so wondering whether this will be sufficient? I can see their website refers to a minimum number of transactions but can’t see anything on how many.

- for current accounts that have not had any transactions for a while, anyone have a general idea of how long before they would be deemed active from the point where I started to do a few transactions? Website says accounts must be at least a month old hence if I did a few transactions over the course of the next month then tried to connect then should be successful (in theory!).

- presumably every three months when you reconnect then the accounts will be ‘tested’ for whether they are active or not / have had minimum number of transactions else would be rejected even if accepted the first time?

- is it best to connect accounts one by one every few days to try and help you work out which one was rejected as I don’t recall from reading previous posts on  this thread that Yougov tell which which ones are rejected?

Thx

In my set up I have 9 current accounts and 1 credit card

The only way to see if one is accepted or rejected is to do 1 at a time

No idea how active they should be but mine are 3 very active and all have a £5 standing order doing the rounds once a month

I have had 2 £50 since May from this setup and expect another at the end of the month

A reconnect can be available up to 13 days before it's due (so someone on here observed)

My accounts are very spread out over Yougov Finance and I have no idea if that makes a difference, also I do surveys on Yougov so that might have sone influence 

Yes I have reconnected 13 days ahead of the due date. Whether that is common I don't know.

I didn't know about 13 days. My expiry is due tomorrow. I've had a look few minutes ago, all 10 showed as expired and it invited me to "reconsent", so I did but 3 of my accounts (TSB, Lloyds and Halifax) failed to connect.  Strange, all three have been active for a long time (money in and out every month), certainly no change in accounts' activities since 90 days ago. I'll try again tomorrow, if they are still fail to reconnect I've got enough current accounts to replace these three, but it puzzles me why 7 were "reconsentable" and 3 weren't.

I had no idea it was coming tbh, I'd only looked as I knew one was getting near its reconsent date and it was there saying 13 days left, reconsent. I'd previously seen 10 and 12 days so whether its bank specific I have no idea?

As for which ones are ok to renew and some aren't, I try to do the odd little card payments with each account. They don't add up to much but so far making 20 card payments over 3 months seems to do the trick.

The three that didn't connect needed login in and authorisation. I've done this today, TSB and Lloyds connected, but Halifax didn't so I used BoS instead of Halifax and it worked.  Strange that last time round (3 months ago), BoS failed to connect but Halifax connected. Have seen no points added yet, it says up to 48 hours so I'll check tomorrow if my 7 yesterday's "reconsents" worked.

antuk

MikeJXE said:

I have noticed the reconnect button goes live up to 10 days before the actual permission runs out so keep up to speed 

If you click reconnect early, and its under 90 days do you still get the points for reconnecting?

Bazzalona13295

antuk said:

MikeJXE said:

I have noticed the reconnect button goes live up to 10 days before the actual permission runs out so keep up to speed 

If you click reconnect early, and its under 90 days do you still get the points for reconnecting?

Yes you do, usually within 24/48 hours.

I should be at the 13/14 day point in a fortnight or so fora numbet of accounts.

liam_978

MikeJXE said:

I've been with yougov a very long time in fact I'm now a yougov plus by invitation

I've had the Yougov Plus invitation sitting there for months. Is it worth taking advantage of, what are the benefits of plus?

I didn't want to sign up when they asked for ID

flaneurs_lobster

liam_978 said:

MikeJXE said:

I've been with yougov a very long time in fact I'm now a yougov plus by invitation

I've had the Yougov Plus invitation sitting there for months. Is it worth taking advantage of, what are the benefits of plus?

I didn't want to sign up when they asked for ID

It's YouGov Pulse.

That should help you Google it yourself.

liam_978

flaneurs_lobster said:

It's YouGov Pulse.

That should help you Google it yourself.

I would but it's yougov plus, not pulse. I did google it but couldn't see anything about it

liam_978

flaneurs_lobster said:

It's YouGov Pulse.

That should help you Google it yourself.

There you go, there's a screenshot for you

flaneurs_lobster

liam_978 said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

It's YouGov Pulse.

That should help you Google it yourself.

I would but it's yougov plus, not pulse. I did google it but couldn't see anything about it

Well it's either a typo or it's a phishing attempt/scam. If it's the latter and you got as far as it asking for Id then it's obviously good enough to have you clicking a link.

kfm

flaneurs_lobster said:

liam_978 said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

It's YouGov Pulse.

That should help you Google it yourself.

I would but it's yougov plus, not pulse. I did google it but couldn't see anything about it

Well it's either a typo or it's a phishing attempt/scam. If it's the latter and you got as far as it asking for Id then it's obviously good enough to have you clicking a link.

It's not a typo or a phishing attempt. YouGov have also asked me to join Plus which is separate to Pulse.



In return for verifying your identity, you're paid a bonus. I think they offered £10. You have to retain an 80% response rate to their surveys though.