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FIREmenow

Thanks all, having done a few switched recently, this seems like a good time (once the accounts have a few weeks and transactions on them) to add the lesser used ones to yougov, with a fresh start rather than two years of banking history.  Thanks again.

Edit - managed to add two banks so far and one savings account seeing as I'm unlikely to have enough current accounts this quarter.  One that was rejected was 7 days 'younger' than one that was accepted so hopefully wont be long! 

allegro120

I received this email
"Hello,
We want to let you know that your consent to share data with YouGov Finance from at least one of your connected bank accounts has now expired.
This means you cannot earn points from your connected account until you renew your consent. Remember, every three months you will bank 500 points for renewing your consent to share active current account or credit card data and 100 points for savings account data.
To renew your consent and keep earning points with YouGov Finance, please follow the link below."

It appeared to be two accounts, BoS and Lloyds.  I have all 10 running at the same schedule and it is 52 days before their reconsent date.  It doesn't make sense.  I followed the instruction and reconsented BoS and Lloyds - earlier points are welcome, but it will be interesting to see if I get them or not, I'll check tomorrow. Not a problem for me because I have enough unused accounts to top it up to 5000 points if needed, but it is strange why these two suddenly stopped being connected to yougov 52 days before the due date.

masonic

allegro120 said:

It appeared to be two accounts, BoS and Lloyds.  I have all 10 running at the same schedule and it is 52 days before their reconsent date.  It doesn't make sense.  I followed the instruction and reconsented BoS and Lloyds - earlier points are welcome, but it will be interesting to see if I get them or not, I'll check tomorrow. Not a problem for me because I have enough unused accounts to top it up to 5000 points if needed, but it is strange why these two suddenly stopped being connected to yougov 52 days before the due date.

I had a problem with Halifax accounts "deconsenting" early last time. I just left them and renewed with the rest, but it will be interesting to see if you get the points again before the normal expiry window.

SamDude

Same here - I've had my Lloyds and Halifax accounts 'expire' today, even though I reconsented about a month ago...

allegro120

masonic said:

allegro120 said:

It appeared to be two accounts, BoS and Lloyds.  I have all 10 running at the same schedule and it is 52 days before their reconsent date.  It doesn't make sense.  I followed the instruction and reconsented BoS and Lloyds - earlier points are welcome, but it will be interesting to see if I get them or not, I'll check tomorrow. Not a problem for me because I have enough unused accounts to top it up to 5000 points if needed, but it is strange why these two suddenly stopped being connected to yougov 52 days before the due date.

I had a problem with Halifax accounts "deconsenting" early last time. I just left them and renewed with the rest, but it will be interesting to see if you get the points again before the normal expiry window.

I didn't get any points and now my prematurely reconsented BoS and Lloyds realigned with the rest (i.e. all 10 accounts show 50 days of access left).  Next time if this happens I will ignore it and renew with the rest when they are due, like you did.

tg99

I on'y had 7 accounts remaining after switched 3 away. Just tried to add two new ones (TSB, Nationwide) and after giving consent and going through truelayer and then back to the yougov website it says ‘something went wrong, try again or exit’. Same thing for both accounts. However, when I exit both accounts are showing with 92 days left and that I now have. 9 accounts. Anyone else had this error message? Hopefully I’ll still get the points.

sparky0138

tg99 said:

I on'y had 7 accounts remaining after switched 3 away. Just tried to add two new ones (TSB, Nationwide) and after giving consent and going through truelayer and then back to the yougov website it says ‘something went wrong, try again or exit’. Same thing for both accounts. However, when I exit both accounts are showing with 92 days left and that I now have. 9 accounts. Anyone else had this error message? Hopefully I’ll still get the points.

You should still get the points. I have in the past when I've received that message. I don't know what browser you're using but I used to get that message all the time when I used Chrome so I started using Firefox and it's much better.

wiseonesomeofthetime

Anyone else getting bored of the surveys always starting with same political questions?

It's like, these are all the same questions that were in the last survey two days ago!

I know this is how YouGov raises it's funds, election polls that it no doubt offers out at a price, but it is tedious.

I have fed this back to YouGov in the final box, however, do not expect anything to change in the lead up to a General Election.

Meanwhile, I will keep clicking away and earning those £s

ColdIron

I like the political questions but rarely get them, maybe 1 in 10. The ones that bore me (maybe 7 in 10) have a grid of maybe 24 brands and endless questions about adverts seen/talked about, positive/negative impression, proud/embarrassed  to work for etc. My political questions are always at the end in the general 'things in the news' section

I wish we could swap

MikeJXE

The run up to the election will be boring but who cares as long as the points mount up

This could be a record year even without the banks

I'm currently on 4500 with about 15 days (plus 13) to go before I re-consent on 1 bank

That will be 6 x £50 since May 26th last year