The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread

flaneurs_lobster

MarkFromCornwall said:

Aidanmc said:

Progressive BS,

Today is Thursday 5th June and it's currently displaying this:

Progressive Building Society’s online service is currently unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. If you need to contact us during this time, please call our online support team on 0800 0294 997, lines open Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.

I think that's stretching the use of the word 'scheduled'.

Will it come back with SMS codes reinstated?

veggieblob

Progressive authenticator.  I just use the Google authenticator app.  It too brings up a number as soon as you tap on it and I opted for it when setting up my account.  Recommend if you are on android.

clairec666

MisterMotivated said:

Stargunner said:

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Same for me. 2nd issue 3 now open.

I mistakenly made a 7th payment of £200 to my issue 2 on the 1st June. I expected the money to be returned to me, but it was credited to the account which gave me a total of £1400.

£200 is now sitting in my issue 3 and £1228 is being paid to my nominated bank acc.

Hopefully when some of their interest rates drop on 19th, they'll release a 6 Month Regular Saver Issue 4

But probably with a lower interest rate than the issue 3 

Still, even if it's 7%, it'll be worth having

Kim_13

clairec666 said:

MisterMotivated said:

Stargunner said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

Re Principality issue 3, issue 2 matured today & opened a second issue 3.
No Lisa problem.

Same for me. 2nd issue 3 now open.

I mistakenly made a 7th payment of £200 to my issue 2 on the 1st June. I expected the money to be returned to me, but it was credited to the account which gave me a total of £1400.

£200 is now sitting in my issue 3 and £1228 is being paid to my nominated bank acc.

Hopefully when some of their interest rates drop on 19th, they'll release a 6 Month Regular Saver Issue 4

But probably with a lower interest rate than the issue 3 

Still, even if it's 7%, it'll be worth having

The form book would say it would be 7.5%, as both Issue 1 and Issue 2 were 8%. Hopefully not this month though as I don’t have any money 😂

CricketLady

Stargunner said:

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Same for me. 2nd issue 3 now open.

I mistakenly made a 7th payment of £200 to my issue 2 on the 1st June. I expected the money to be returned to me, but it was credited to the account which gave me a total of £1400.

£200 is now sitting in my issue 3 and £1228 is being paid to my nominated bank acc.

I wonder if they paid interest on that last £200 - I didn't pay an extra £200 in on the 1st of June, mine also matured today and I got £28.27 interest

ThePirates

MarkFromCornwall said:

Aidanmc said:

Progressive BS,

Today is Thursday 5th June and it's currently displaying this:

Progressive Building Society’s online service is currently unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. If you need to contact us during this time, please call our online support team on 0800 0294 997, lines open Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.

I think that's stretching the use of the word 'scheduled'.

The app is working ok for me, been in twice this morning.

qbadger

Kim_13 said:

SuperHans1 said:

ForumUser7 said:

Saffron

This whole refer a friend thing is a bit odd. As far as I can tell, the referred gets a good regular saver, and the referrer gets nothing? Highly unorthodox if so - generally the referrer would get like at least an Amazon gift card or something??

There is an incentive for referring a friend (https://www.saffronbs.co.uk/membersmonth);

If you introduce a new Member to Saffron (to start their savings story) we'll reward you with a free gift. Its simple, just do the following things in this order:

Step 1: Open our exclusive Members' Month Loyalty Saver account.
Step 2: Provided your account has been successfully opened, we will email you a web link to send to a friend.
Step 3: Ask your friend to use the link to complete the account opening process and refer a friend form (please note their account wont be opened if they do not complete the form).
Step 4: If your friend’s account has been successfully opened we will send you a £15 book token

Book token is extremely limiting considering they have previously had activities where you got a £10 Amazon voucher, and most recently a £30 Virtual Incentive where they sent the credit that you could exchange for a gift card of your choosing (included Amazon, but also TK Maxx, some dining options, Google PlayStore.)

Yet to receive such an email having opened via maturity process, so those with 2024 accounts yet to mature who might wish to take up the book token offer should perhaps have funds paid away on maturity and then start a fresh application for the 2025 version.

I've just received mine - the weblink is not a personalised one: 

Thank you for opening your Members Month Loyalty Saver account with us.

By opening your account this month, you have the opportunity to refer a friend to open a Refer a Friend Saver and earn yourself a £15 National Book Token.

What to do next?

You can use this link to send onto your friend: https://www.saffronbs.co.uk/MM_Refer_a_Friend_Saver Your friend must be a new saffron customer to be eligible to open the account. Existing members do not qualify.

Your friend can then apply for the Refer a Friend Saver (using your link) and complete the Refer a Friend form, to let us know you’ve referred them.

If your friend successfully opens the account, we’ll send you your book token!

Terms and conditions apply, for more information, please visit our website.

flaneurs_lobster

CricketLady said:

Stargunner said:

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Same for me. 2nd issue 3 now open.

I mistakenly made a 7th payment of £200 to my issue 2 on the 1st June. I expected the money to be returned to me, but it was credited to the account which gave me a total of £1400.

£200 is now sitting in my issue 3 and £1228 is being paid to my nominated bank acc.

I wonder if they paid interest on that last £200 - I didn't pay an extra £200 in on the 1st of June, mine also matured today and I got £28.27 interest

Bit difficult to tell from the quoted figures - £200 @ 8% for 4 days is 18p.

flaneurs_lobster

ThePirates said:

MarkFromCornwall said:

Aidanmc said:

Progressive BS,

Today is Thursday 5th June and it's currently displaying this:

Progressive Building Society’s online service is currently unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. If you need to contact us during this time, please call our online support team on 0800 0294 997, lines open Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.

I think that's stretching the use of the word 'scheduled'.

The app is working ok for me, been in twice this morning.

App? You mean access via a browser?

devansuk

I have the fear of withdrawing my natwest digital regular saver account to another higher interest easy access account because it took me years to get to 5k from only £150 a month out! Anyone else feel the same? Wondering if its worth it for the extra 0.5 %