The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread

Kim_13

mon3ysav3r said:

I could never get the Melton COP to be a match with any of my current accounts, and then they closed my account because it wasn't funded. Their website says there still are no online accounts available, this has been the case since the end of September!

Never worked for me with Issue 6 but eventually did with Adcock (which is the account I now want to fund from elsewhere.) 

kermchem

Newcastle BS Festive RS

At 6.5% variable, max £150/month, 12 months, this meets my minimum funding level, so I made a branch appointment using the web-form.

Branch appointment - some additional personal details confirmed and my society membership confirmed. Awkward question about my Monument RS account ( ) - I cannot remember visiting that smart new branch, but it turns out one of my kids really has walked past recently - must have photographed the QR code  .

Festive RS opened. Paper application form printed out, filled in and signed. I am not sure if my details were put into their records in the meeting, or someone is going to transcribe from the paper form - i.e., if there is an "application form" on their internet / intranet. Passbook handed over and an opening deposit made. The account number is the same format as Monument RS, and I signed up to have it added to my online account, but not yet appeared. Passbook has details of how to fund the account, so I see no need to go back in branch for 12 months, but it does appear to be a branch passbook account with no external way to open it. No QR code or url that I saw.

cricidmuslibale

Newcastle BS Festive Regular Saver & Manchester BS Festive Regular Saver

To me at least, it is not really in keeping with the term festive and the spirit of openness and generosity that normally goes along with it to release a new seasonal regular savings account and then restrict it to branch opening only, especially when there’s literally only one branch that currently exists as is the case with the Manchester BS version of this account. I’m more than a little surprised that these two regular savers were not at least made available to ‘locals’ with suitable postcodes within a certain radius from Newcastle and Manchester respectively, which to me is an obvious and fair expression of appropriate festive generosity without allowing an overwhelming deluge of interest from here, there and everywhere!

flaneurs_lobster

cricidmuslibale said:

Newcastle BS Festive Regular Saver & Manchester BS Festive Regular Saver

....which to me is an obvious and fair expression of appropriate festive generosity without allowing an overwhelming deluge of interest from here, there and everywhere!

...especially here