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  • s71hj
    s71hj Posts: 1,106 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    DodgerPot said:
    s71hj said:
    DodgerPot said:
    Furness 
    the new Reglar Saver appeared briefly 
    I had to tick box to confirm I’d read through the terms 
    it said my application is being checked and have 14 days to fund with a min of £1
    when I checked back the account seems to have disappeared 
    Applied successfully in the app for myself and then my wife and I reckon took comfortably less than 2 minutes total which must be some sort of record 
    Yes agreed very quick and easy acceptance through the App 
    Were you an existing customer ?

    Yes we were
  • clivep
    clivep Posts: 692 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper
    easysaver said:
    vandanfc said:
    easysaver said:
    Not working for me as a new customer. Comfortably the worst application I'v experienced and I have 40+ regular savers!
    I struggled applying in the app,  but managed by logging into online banking vis website. Account open and showing in app.
    Tried app, tried web on phone, tried web on laptop all to no avail.

    From the product page (https://www.furnessbs.co.uk/savings/products/product-overview/160th-anniversary-regular-saver?apply=true), after clicking the check box and hitting apply I get redirected to the digital page (https://www.furnessbs.co.uk/digital). From there if I click on Web it just gives me a spinning "Loading", if I click on the "get started here" or go through the "Begin your journey" I get to answer some questions, then put my personal details in and it says "you haven't selected a product yet", which is clearly rubbish.

    As I say it's without doubt the worst account opening I've ever experienced.

    Exactly the same here. Tried desktop, tried phone in Chrome, tried app.
  • pscotty
    pscotty Posts: 11 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Impressed with Furness. Within ?15 minutes of the account going on sale, I've received an e-mail confirming my new account with instructions on depositing monies, and the new acount already appears in my list of accounts.
  • Kim_13
    Kim_13 Posts: 4,099 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Wished I had taken a screenshot for about 15 minutes when it said you will get your account number soon, but I have now had an email confirmation and account shows in app. I will fund tomorrow when COP works as I entered £160 for initial funding amount. The email says I have 14 days so I am just happy to have secured the account.

    There’s no point sending to an existing Furness account that passes COP given the delay in the payment showing. I opted not to do so last week in case online availability never happened.

    It wasn’t the smoothest even as an existing customer, took a few times to recognise that I had read the summary box. Very glad that I opened the EA to become an existing customer as the website is obviously struggling with demand at the moment.

  • DodgerPot
    DodgerPot Posts: 94 Forumite
    10 Posts Name Dropper
    s71hj said:
    DodgerPot said:
    s71hj said:
    DodgerPot said:
    Furness 
    the new Reglar Saver appeared briefly 
    I had to tick box to confirm I’d read through the terms 
    it said my application is being checked and have 14 days to fund with a min of £1
    when I checked back the account seems to have disappeared 
    Applied successfully in the app for myself and then my wife and I reckon took comfortably less than 2 minutes total which must be some sort of record 
    Yes agreed very quick and easy acceptance through the App 
    Were you an existing customer ?

    Yes we were
    Glad I took advice from this thread to open an account last week with Furness 
    Seems it made it simpler to quickly add this new account this morning as soon as it became available 
  • easysaver
    easysaver Posts: 115 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper
    Has anyone opened this account as a NEW customer?

    Perhaps it's worth opening an easy access account first?

    Seriously unimpressed with Furness.
  • jaypers
    jaypers Posts: 1,158 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Photogenic Name Dropper
    Existing customer…..opened in IOS (app)…..took about a minute. Account took about 10mins to show. Now funded via internal transfer (moved funds to existing account yesterday in prep). 
  • snow62
    snow62 Posts: 23 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 10 Posts
    edited Today at 10:19AM
    Opened an Everyday Saver yesterday afternoon to get all the tedious ID stuff out of the way.  Sent £10 to it overriding COP and it's showing up this morning.  No problem opening the RS when it appeared.

    It matures 10 months from opening.  Payments into the account are calendar month, so in theory it will take an 11th payment.  Can't see anything saying maximum of £1600
  • csw5780
    csw5780 Posts: 144 Forumite
    100 Posts Second Anniversary Photogenic Name Dropper
    edited Today at 10:16AM
    Kim_13 said:
    Wished I had taken a screenshot for about 15 minutes when it said you will get your account number soon, but I have now had an email confirmation and account shows in app. I will fund tomorrow when COP works as I entered £160 for initial funding amount. The email says I have 14 days so I am just happy to have secured the account.

    There’s no point sending to an existing Furness account that passes COP given the delay in the payment showing. I opted not to do so last week in case online availability never happened.

    It wasn’t the smoothest even as an existing customer, took a few times to recognise that I had read the summary box. Very glad that I opened the EA to become an existing customer as the website is obviously struggling with demand at the moment.

    COP worked for me straight away!
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