Bank switch offer history

FFHillbilly

a few years ago started compiling a list of switches I have done, mainly to assist in seeing if I'm eligible for a new offer. so the last few years I have good info and the exact figures and dates, but 2014-2019 it's a bit patchy, I have approx. dates and no amounts.
I'm going through my e-mails and checking as much as I can to fill these in but is there anywhere that would have this info to save me the time? for example, how much was the club Lloyds incentive in Nov 2014? I have a vague recollection of an Alliance & Leicester offer from around 2009..? and what's been the biggest offer to date? I seem to remember there was a £250 one at some point?
total is just under £4500 at the minute but I've left a few off as I can't remember the amounts
I do keep finding the old Martin Lewis weekly e-mails, but very few have exact details of the offers frustratingly

Bridlington1

Have you tried using the wayback machine?

https://wayback.archive.org/

I have used this to find savings account Ts&Cs for withdrawn products in the past.

eskbanker

Sounds like you'll probably have more than enough information to identify any eligibility issues, but if you're keen to push on and fill in gaps then there will be a wealth of information on this very forum (where each offer typically results in a dedicated thread) if you have the patience to tinker with the search function!

The Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/ is a useful archive of old web pages too, but I'm not aware of any summary of incentives paid by each bank over the years, so if there is an easy shortcut to all this data then it would be news to me....

FFHillbilly

that wayback machine looks interesting thanks. I've tried the search function on here but it just seems to find the exact opposite of what I want. I can even remember a thread like this from a few years ago, but can't find that

Zanderman

FFHillbilly said:

that wayback machine looks interesting thanks. I've tried the search function on here but it just seems to find the exact opposite of what I want. I can even remember a thread like this from a few years ago, but can't find that

The only way to get this information easily is to keep a record yourself - and if you didn't then all you can do is trawl through old payments and try and match them as you're now doing to whatever you can find online.

But maybe from now on just write them down on a piece of paper, or an online document, or just email the details each time to yourself, or whatever works for you. It's not difficult to keep a record - just three bits of info each time; a date, an amount and the bank involved.

WillPS

£250 switch bonus offered by Clydesdale/Yorkshire/B briefly around 2017 is the largest payout I'm aware of.

Halifax have doing 3 or 4 a year since the CASS became a thing, possibly longer.

Same with First Direct, in fact they almost always have an offer running outside Covid etc.

Lloyds started doing 'em in 2019.

Natwest's first public offer was 2018, with RBS and Ulster joining soon after.

Santander only resumed doing cash offers relatively recently, Alliance & Leicester were kings of it 20 years ago.

TSB did them sparodically until their IT meltdown and then resumed recently.

Barclays have never done a straight forward cash offer, but have offered Blue Rewards/Premier Avios enhancements for switches in the last 5-6 years.