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Nationwide Switch Experience

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  • winkowinko
    winkowinko Posts: 328 Forumite
    100 Posts First Anniversary Name Dropper
    Opened a Nationwide account last week. Just logged in to internet banking for the first time. WOW, it's like something from the 1990's.

    Looks like I need to wait for them to post me a card reader! Didn't realise those things existed anymore.  
  • Rob5342
    Rob5342 Posts: 2,770 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Name Dropper
    edited 3 January 2025 at 8:03AM
    Opened a Nationwide account last week. Just logged in to internet banking for the first time. WOW, it's like something from the 1990's.

    Looks like I need to wait for them to post me a card reader! Didn't realise those things existed anymore.  
    Nationwide are notorious for being extremely fashioned, their app is absolutely hopeless too. They are like a VHS rental shop in the age of streaming. 
  • Rob5342 said:
    Opened a Nationwide account last week. Just logged in to internet banking for the first time. WOW, it's like something from the 1990's.

    Looks like I need to wait for them to post me a card reader! Didn't realise those things existed anymore.  
    Nationwide are notorious for being extremely fashioned, their app is absolutely hopeless too. They are like a VHS rental shop in the age of streaming. 
    I interact with Nationwide (via their app) for about 5 minutes every month, pay in £1k, move £200 to the regular saver, move £800 out.

    For this they give me a saver paying 6.5% plus £100 once a year.

    I can live with the novelty app for this, wouldn't be using them for daily banking though.
  • VXman
    VXman Posts: 680 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 500 Posts Name Dropper
    Anyone been successful on the latest Nationwide switch and how long between meeting all the criteria and receiving the incentive?

    My wife has just completed everything but no sign of the £175 yet.
  • VXman said:
    Anyone been successful on the latest Nationwide switch and how long between meeting all the criteria and receiving the incentive?

    My wife has just completed everything but no sign of the £175 yet.
    I applied 4th Jan. I set the switch date as 20th Jan. Received a text yesterday to say the switch was complete/ old account closed. Today I received a text saying I have qualified for the £175 and should receive it withing 10 'calendar' days
  • I received my £175 within 24 hours of the switch completion.

    Very impressed.
  • HillStreetBlues
    HillStreetBlues Posts: 6,457 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Homepage Hero Photogenic
    edited 21 January 2025 at 7:27PM
    I pushed my luck with the switch as was last paid 16/11/21 with the cut of date 18/8/21, I got paid :)
    Let's Be Careful Out There
  • MABLE
    MABLE Posts: 4,248 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Completed switch yesterday and £175 paid today.😊
  • Say you open a new Flexaccount with Nationwide and create a new login credential.
    Is it possible to get a switching Incentive, on this new account if If you have got switching incentive, in 2023  ?
    HAs soemoone tried it ? Thank you for the info

  • Nasqueron
    Nasqueron Posts: 11,168 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Say you open a new Flexaccount with Nationwide and create a new login credential.
    Is it possible to get a switching Incentive, on this new account if If you have got switching incentive, in 2023  ?
    HAs soemoone tried it ? Thank you for the info

    It's very unlikely unless you somehow managed to secret squirrel your identity, they will do a credit check, confirm your ID and confirm you had one before

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

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