The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread

fonesaver

Bobblehat said:

s71hj said:

Bobblehat said:

s71hj said:

Progressive Rainy Day Issue 4
Obviously COP won't work until tomorrow, so I've done a £1 test payment. Anyone know how long before that will show in online banking? 

from the General T&C's.....

Brill, thanks. I couldn't access details of the account t and cs as it wasn't visible when not logged in and when I was logged in it just said you can't apply as you already have one! 

I just realised I posted for the General T&C's published at the time of Issue 3 ... here are slightly different ones from the updated Issue 4. I'll put a note in my previous post for future readers.

I have sent them a message asking if they intend to increase the rate in version 3 otherwise it's unfair to existing members.

jaypers

Progressive - How long until funds show? I’ve opened the RS and sent a £1 test payment this morning. Waiting until it shows before sending the other £299 as COP not updated yet.

Downloaded the Business authenticator app (don’t use the personal one) and it seems to work well.  

Rudyson

potlings said:

Hi, new here although I have stalked this excellent thread for a while! I have a few regular savers but I avoid ones where opening may cause me too much effort, as I am entering my dotage and my passport and driving licence have long expired, so I stick to ones where id is verified  electronically rather than via photo id.
However I broke this rule and applied for the new Progressive, obviously skipping the id upload. They quickly emailed me to say they would be in touch to let me know what alternative id they would accept. Equally quickly I received a request that I upload photo id such as a driving licence! Not for me then.

Give them a ring and explain, they do accept alternative ID (or did when I opened my a/c with them)

easyasonetwothree

jaypers said:

Progressive - How long until funds show? I’ve opened the RS and sent a £1 test payment this morning. Waiting until it shows before sending the other £299 as COP not updated yet.

Downloaded the Business authenticator app (don’t use the personal one) and it seems to work well.  

Mine showed immediately, sent by debit card.

Speculator

jaypers said:

Progressive - How long until funds show? I’ve opened the RS and sent a £1 test payment this morning. Waiting until it shows before sending the other £299 as COP not updated yet.

Downloaded the Business authenticator app (don’t use the personal one) and it seems to work well.  

Still not showing for me. Sent £1 initially at but also sent £299 at 14.40.

fuzzzzy

Rudyson said:

potlings said:

Hi, new here although I have stalked this excellent thread for a while! I have a few regular savers but I avoid ones where opening may cause me too much effort, as I am entering my dotage and my passport and driving licence have long expired, so I stick to ones where id is verified  electronically rather than via photo id.
However I broke this rule and applied for the new Progressive, obviously skipping the id upload. They quickly emailed me to say they would be in touch to let me know what alternative id they would accept. Equally quickly I received a request that I upload photo id such as a driving licence! Not for me then.

Give them a ring and explain, they do accept alternative ID (or did when I opened my a/c with them)

Yeah last year they agreed to accept my expired passport as ID. I did not to ahead in the end though as I did not want to e-mail it. 

Speculator

jaypers said:

Progressive - How long until funds show? I’ve opened the RS and sent a £1 test payment this morning. Waiting until it shows before sending the other £299 as COP not updated yet.

Downloaded the Business authenticator app (don’t use the personal one) and it seems to work well.  

£300 just appeared in my progressive a/c 1 min ago

PowerSavingMode

fonesaver said:

Bobblehat said:

s71hj said:

Bobblehat said:

s71hj said:

Progressive Rainy Day Issue 4
Obviously COP won't work until tomorrow, so I've done a £1 test payment. Anyone know how long before that will show in online banking? 

from the General T&C's.....

Brill, thanks. I couldn't access details of the account t and cs as it wasn't visible when not logged in and when I was logged in it just said you can't apply as you already have one! 

I just realised I posted for the General T&C's published at the time of Issue 3 ... here are slightly different ones from the updated Issue 4. I'll put a note in my previous post for future readers.

I have sent them a message asking if they intend to increase the rate in version 3 otherwise it's unfair to existing members.

Progressive

Same. In fact, I decided to send them two — one of them might be answered soon (the first one was sent on 3rd Oct)... I will update if they get back and it will still be of relevance/help to everyone here. 

schiff

Suffolk 30.9.26 interim interest credited 30.9.25

Digital_Payback

PowerSavingMode said:

fonesaver said:

Bobblehat said:

s71hj said:

Bobblehat said:

s71hj said:

Progressive Rainy Day Issue 4
Obviously COP won't work until tomorrow, so I've done a £1 test payment. Anyone know how long before that will show in online banking? 

from the General T&C's.....

Brill, thanks. I couldn't access details of the account t and cs as it wasn't visible when not logged in and when I was logged in it just said you can't apply as you already have one! 

I just realised I posted for the General T&C's published at the time of Issue 3 ... here are slightly different ones from the updated Issue 4. I'll put a note in my previous post for future readers.

I have sent them a message asking if they intend to increase the rate in version 3 otherwise it's unfair to existing members.

Progressive

Same. In fact, I decided to send them two — one of them might be answered soon (the first one was sent on 3rd Oct)... I will update if they get back and it will still be of relevance/help to everyone here. 

I rang this afternoon for the 2nd time to express my irritation with Progressive. 

I opened the Sunny Saver 3 Acc. on the 18th Sept. and funded Sept. and then again funded at the start of Oct. 

On the 3rd of Oct. I first rang Progressive and an agent confirmed a new Sunny Day Saver 4 was to be launched on Monday. I was told I could not close or cancel the old one. 

Today I removed the funds from it, all but £1 which must remain in the account, and will transfer the £599 to other accounts (Scottish BS) with an equal or higher interest rate.

The real irritation for me is that I had 14 to cancel, but was out by a day or 2 and had funded the account. No consideration was offered or given to change to SD Saver 4. 

Progressive has left a sour taste for now.