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  • jameseonline
    jameseonline Posts: 1,214 Forumite
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    schiff said:
    Is the Virgin RS Exclusive (Issue 2) at 6.50% still available?
    The website and App having big problems so can't really check.
    Managed to withdraw the full balance of the 10% - couldn't do anything on the app but it worked online.
    I imagine that's standard maintenance tbh, I never seem to get my balances etc to show on app 1st thing in morning these days & no it isn't still available & I think having the 10% meant you wouldn't have been eligible for the lower rate one anyway, same with Nationwide previously aka only allowed 1 one of any issue 
  • masonic
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    Bob2000 said:
    Monthshire building society  APP

    Well,l was still waiting for the email off Mons from my application  last Thurs/Fri.
    When about 6pm tonight received  a email of them telling me to get the all singing all dancing shiny new fangled app.and speed up my acceptance. 

    Took the bait and have now just spent 40 minutes  trying to get the thing to work. Eventually, I got to the end, l think, and there is no record of me being a customer!

    I'll wait for the postman.
    Started the application during Pointless roughly 17:30-17:45, got the we will be a "few minutes" processing the application. FInally processed at 22:45, thought a few would be 3 or 4 minutes, not 300..
    It's probably not a coincidence that it's way slower after the MSE weekly email went out. This week they decided to have a special feature on the top RS, including this one.
  • nomorekids
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    Just realised the interest payment date for the Monmouthshire 6% is around 31/3. May have to reduce my monthly payments to £10.
    • Interest is calculated daily and paid at the end of the 12-month term.
    is on the keyfacts, are you sure?
    If you want to be rich, never, ever have kids ;)
  • Kim_13
    Kim_13 Posts: 3,693 Forumite
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    31/3 is the interest payment date for the currently available EA, but they do not use the same date for all accounts. I also read end of term for Issue 8 and received interest at term end for previous Monmouthshire RS.
  • Nasqueron
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    Aidanmc said:
    I'm puzzled,
    Why would someone open a Virgin account and not ensure they have either the Virgin App or a Virgin Security key/device to enable withdrawals ?

    Don't you need one or the other to login on Virgin online banking site anyway.
    There are 3 different "Virgin Money" web portals for Savings accounts:

    - 08-xx-xx sort code with 7 character customer ID
    - 05-xx-xx sort code with 10 character customer number
    - 82-xx-xx sort code with 10 character customer number

    I have multiple accounts with the first 08-xx and last 82-xx sort codes and have never needed an App or Keyfob to login
    This was the problem I had when I was trying to get back into Virgin to do the switch back in June - I had an old current account and saver that were never closed despite me asking so I couldn't register as a new user, I have a 10 digit customer number but an 08 sort code, my old account number was 00000xxx almost as if I was in the first 1000 to register :D 

    I did it through the website on the phone initially to try and get it all sorted but now exclusively app because it's so much quicker

    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.

  • Speculator
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    edited 31 July at 11:20AM
    Just realised the interest payment date for the Monmouthshire 6% is around 31/3. May have to reduce my monthly payments to £10.
    • Interest is calculated daily and paid at the end of the 12-month term.
    is on the keyfacts, are you sure?
    yeah, you are right. 

    I clicked on the regular saver T&Cs on the bottom of the page.

    Regular Saver T&Cs (3).pdf


  • s71hj
    s71hj Posts: 879 Forumite
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    Re Monmouthshire, I got 2 RS accounts as many on here and my wife one. I made 500 payment in last night to my two and my wife's. Interestingly enough only one of my two is currently showing in the app
  • flaneurs_lobster
    flaneurs_lobster Posts: 7,403 Forumite
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    s71hj said:
    Re Monmouthshire, I got 2 RS accounts as many on here and my wife one. I made 500 payment in last night to my two and my wife's. Interestingly enough only one of my two is currently showing in the app
    Interesting - to be clear, you had two RS showing in the app and now one of them has been removed?
  • s71hj
    s71hj Posts: 879 Forumite
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    s71hj said:
    Re Monmouthshire, I got 2 RS accounts as many on here and my wife one. I made 500 payment in last night to my two and my wife's. Interestingly enough only one of my two is currently showing in the app
    Interesting - to be clear, you had two RS showing in the app and now one of them has been removed?
    Still showing but the 500 is only showing in one of them
  • allegro120
    allegro120 Posts: 2,142 Forumite
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    s71hj said:
    s71hj said:
    Re Monmouthshire, I got 2 RS accounts as many on here and my wife one. I made 500 payment in last night to my two and my wife's. Interestingly enough only one of my two is currently showing in the app
    Interesting - to be clear, you had two RS showing in the app and now one of them has been removed?
    Still showing but the 500 is only showing in one of them
    Re Monmouthshire
    Have you checked you feeder bank account?  My £500 was returned next day (late afternoon) after deposit. The account is still showing.
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