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  • trickydicky14
    trickydicky14 Posts: 1,357 Forumite
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    But they have been earning me £5pm Halifax Reward

    It will be a sad day when that comes to an end.
    I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
    The windows are small and the walls almost bare,
    There's only one bed and there's only one prayer;
    I listen all night for your step on the stair.
  • sheffieldeagle
    sheffieldeagle Posts: 733 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    But they have been earning me £5pm Halifax Reward

    It will be a sad day when that comes to an end.
    In deed. I've had a free Guardian for the last few years on the back of my three reward accounts.

    Cheers
  • MisterMotivated
    MisterMotivated Posts: 607 Forumite
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    But they have been earning me £5pm Halifax Reward

    It will be a sad day when that comes to an end.

    Though the blow will be softened somewhat by the fact they'll essentially pay all your rewards up until your renewal date in one go
  • Aidanmc
    Aidanmc Posts: 1,482 Forumite
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    But they have been earning me £5pm Halifax Reward

    It will be a sad day when that comes to an end.

    Though the blow will be softened somewhat by the fact they'll essentially pay all your rewards up until your renewal date in one go

    what's this??
  • PowerSavingMode
    PowerSavingMode Posts: 340 Forumite
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    Aidanmc said:
    But they have been earning me £5pm Halifax Reward

    It will be a sad day when that comes to an end.

    Though the blow will be softened somewhat by the fact they'll essentially pay all your rewards up until your renewal date in one go

    what's this??
    HALIFAX REWARD ACCOUNT

    That's a different thread. This should help:

  • jameseonline
    jameseonline Posts: 1,217 Forumite
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    edited 3 August at 9:23PM
    I wonder how long we’ll have to wait to get our closing Virgin interest if their systems were down on Friday and of course the 10% will have attracted a lot of customers in the first place so I imagine the queue to be very long. 

    They really should update their systems so customers can close accounts themselves, it is 2025. The zero balance thing may make sense internally, but it’s not customer friendly at all and nonsensical. Though now Nationwide has bought them, they won’t care. Hopefully Nationwide will soon merge everything into their own systems, getting rid of double profiles and the mess that was never ironed out when they merged the 2 old Yorkshire and Clydesdale banks. 

    I don’t mind Virgin as a bank and their products, but it does feels that behind the scenes it’s very old school like a telephone exchange with cables and connections between a multitude of systems that do not make for a good customer experience.

    Edit: Really they should just have it so that final interest is paid when a regular saver matures and it would save customers from having to do all of this.

    So we going with Virgin defo went down then?, sorry it's just Virgin IG said to me there were no known issues yet I was on several calls to them and on at least 2 calls they told me there were.

    There's also been multiple posts here and elsewhere saying there's been no issues yet others clearly have.

    Maybe that's the problem with Virgin, like my mobile provider they clearly lie, departments dont talk to eachother etc.😏

    If Clydesdale couldn't merge everything dating back to when they took over the original Virgin Money etc what makes you think Nationwide would be upto the job?, god knows how many systems Nationwide have now inherited in addition to their own 🤣, I expect it will be multiple online logins for a while.

    Virgin seems to be more modern than say Monmouthshire BS but Virgin is clearly bigger as the Bank it is and clearly has big issues.

    Just have to hope Nationwide can make things better for what were/still are Virgin Money customers.
  • gt94sss2
    gt94sss2 Posts: 6,226 Forumite
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    20122013 said:
    These are the VM's Current accounts I can see on their website, which one is the cheapest / no frills account which qualifies for the VM RS account, please?


    https://uk.virginmoney.com/current-accounts/pca/

  • snow62
    snow62 Posts: 21 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary 10 Posts
    Monmouthshire RS now showing as up-and-running (I applied through the website), with first payment credited on 31st July, the day I sent it (in spite of their no transactions until activated comment).  Hope it's the same for others.
  • gt94sss2
    gt94sss2 Posts: 6,226 Forumite
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    easysaver said:
    Skipton BS
    Anyone else waiting for their deposits (faster payment from Chase at 01:23 on 1st Aug) from yesterday to show on their account(s)? I've experienced this before and it's irritating to say the least.
    What do others do to avoid it? Can I fund my base rate tracker and do internal transfers from there? But won't that payment not get credited on time too? Fundamentally, is Skipton BS just unreliable?
    I’m still waiting for 2 automated payments to be credited to 2 separate Skipton regular savers, funds sent from Starling Bank at 1.40am yesterday, 1st August. 
    For some reason, my standing order to my Skipton RS (from Santander) on the 1st August has only been credited by Skipton today (4th August)
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