Santander Amazon opening offer x2

TheMod1

s71hj said:

TheMod1 said:

trickydicky14 said:

TheMod1 said:

Nice will apply via topcashback for an extra £20 cashback and go for the free everyday current account.

Then will make 30 x £1 payments to my Premium Bonds

I hope you are sure paying to your premium bonds will work, others have reservations on that one. It may well have to be purchases and not just transfers.

It has worked before as still classed as a purchase, also could use it to pay off my credit card as Be Clever With Your Cash have suggested

Have Santander had this offer before and it's worked? I know it did with TSB and Halifax Reward in terms of meeting their criteria but  eg Chase are much more tightly defined 

The T&Cs just state the below, seems like any transaction paid by debit card so premium bonds appears to be fine.

A debit card transaction includes any card purchase (including contactless, physical and online purchases) in any currency. Transfers and payments made by direct debit are not included.

Matt17

Do Google Pay transactions count? 

wmb194

TheMod1 said:

s71hj said:

TheMod1 said:

trickydicky14 said:

TheMod1 said:

Nice will apply via topcashback for an extra £20 cashback and go for the free everyday current account.

Then will make 30 x £1 payments to my Premium Bonds

I hope you are sure paying to your premium bonds will work, others have reservations on that one. It may well have to be purchases and not just transfers.

It has worked before as still classed as a purchase, also could use it to pay off my credit card as Be Clever With Your Cash have suggested

Have Santander had this offer before and it's worked? I know it did with TSB and Halifax Reward in terms of meeting their criteria but  eg Chase are much more tightly defined 

The T&Cs just state the below, seems like any transaction paid by debit card so premium bonds appears to be fine.

A debit card transaction includes any card purchase (including contactless, physical and online purchases) in any currency. Transfers and payments made by direct debit are not included.

A transfer to bank isn't a purchase, though.

Edit: NS&I appears to sometimes slip through the cracks as IIRC its MCC classifies it as, "government services" and not a bank transfer.

trickydicky14

wmb194 said:

TheMod1 said:

s71hj said:

TheMod1 said:

trickydicky14 said:

TheMod1 said:

Nice will apply via topcashback for an extra £20 cashback and go for the free everyday current account.

Then will make 30 x £1 payments to my Premium Bonds

I hope you are sure paying to your premium bonds will work, others have reservations on that one. It may well have to be purchases and not just transfers.

It has worked before as still classed as a purchase, also could use it to pay off my credit card as Be Clever With Your Cash have suggested

Have Santander had this offer before and it's worked? I know it did with TSB and Halifax Reward in terms of meeting their criteria but  eg Chase are much more tightly defined 

The T&Cs just state the below, seems like any transaction paid by debit card so premium bonds appears to be fine.

A debit card transaction includes any card purchase (including contactless, physical and online purchases) in any currency. Transfers and payments made by direct debit are not included.

A transfer to bank isn't a purchase, though.

And I fully agree with that so I think it's a risk. In saying that, I have used this method with other bank promotions like TSB and Halifax and it worked.

wmb194

trickydicky14 said:

wmb194 said:

TheMod1 said:

s71hj said:

TheMod1 said:

trickydicky14 said:

TheMod1 said:

Nice will apply via topcashback for an extra £20 cashback and go for the free everyday current account.

Then will make 30 x £1 payments to my Premium Bonds

I hope you are sure paying to your premium bonds will work, others have reservations on that one. It may well have to be purchases and not just transfers.

It has worked before as still classed as a purchase, also could use it to pay off my credit card as Be Clever With Your Cash have suggested

Have Santander had this offer before and it's worked? I know it did with TSB and Halifax Reward in terms of meeting their criteria but  eg Chase are much more tightly defined 

The T&Cs just state the below, seems like any transaction paid by debit card so premium bonds appears to be fine.

A debit card transaction includes any card purchase (including contactless, physical and online purchases) in any currency. Transfers and payments made by direct debit are not included.

A transfer to bank isn't a purchase, though.

And I fully agree with that so I think it's a risk. In saying that, I have used this method with other bank promotions like TSB and Halifax and it worked.

Right, it's just whether it's worth the risk for £100. I don't think Santander has a progress tracker so you'd only find out whether it works or not when it's too late. NS&I probably has a better chance of working, see my edited comment above.

Nebulous2

Zanderman said:

Nebulous2 said:

I had my 123 lite closed down recently, along with all the rest of them, and have been considering opening an edge account. 

I've just applied for this offer, which is enough incentive to go ahead. 

I'll have to update my DDs manually though. If I had asked them to convert my ordinary account I would have kept account number, sort code and DDs. 

Surely you can still upgrade your ordinary account to Edge if you want to?
No need for this new account to be Edge, or even used at all once the offer has been used.

Thanks - so why didn't I think of that! 

I've already opened a new edge and moved my utility DDs over...... 

moneytorques

For a £100 voucher, I dont understand why so many people are risk adverse to buying 30x1 bananas over 60 days!

MACKEM99

moneytorques said:

For a £100 voucher, I dont understand why so many people are risk adverse to buying 30x1 bananas over 60 days!

Maybe they think it will make a monkey of them?😂

TheMod1

wmb194 said:

TheMod1 said:

s71hj said:

TheMod1 said:

trickydicky14 said:

TheMod1 said:

Nice will apply via topcashback for an extra £20 cashback and go for the free everyday current account.

Then will make 30 x £1 payments to my Premium Bonds

I hope you are sure paying to your premium bonds will work, others have reservations on that one. It may well have to be purchases and not just transfers.

It has worked before as still classed as a purchase, also could use it to pay off my credit card as Be Clever With Your Cash have suggested

Have Santander had this offer before and it's worked? I know it did with TSB and Halifax Reward in terms of meeting their criteria but  eg Chase are much more tightly defined 

The T&Cs just state the below, seems like any transaction paid by debit card so premium bonds appears to be fine.

A debit card transaction includes any card purchase (including contactless, physical and online purchases) in any currency. Transfers and payments made by direct debit are not included.

A transfer to bank isn't a purchase, though.

Edit: NS&I appears to sometimes slip through the cracks as IIRC its MCC classifies it as, "government services" and not a bank transfer.

Yeah that's the point NS&I Prem Bonds is not classed as a transfer to a bank it is classed as "Government services not classed elsewhere," hence a purchase.

s71hj

TheMod1 said:

wmb194 said:

TheMod1 said:

s71hj said:

TheMod1 said:

trickydicky14 said:

TheMod1 said:

Nice will apply via topcashback for an extra £20 cashback and go for the free everyday current account.

Then will make 30 x £1 payments to my Premium Bonds

I hope you are sure paying to your premium bonds will work, others have reservations on that one. It may well have to be purchases and not just transfers.

It has worked before as still classed as a purchase, also could use it to pay off my credit card as Be Clever With Your Cash have suggested

Have Santander had this offer before and it's worked? I know it did with TSB and Halifax Reward in terms of meeting their criteria but  eg Chase are much more tightly defined 

The T&Cs just state the below, seems like any transaction paid by debit card so premium bonds appears to be fine.

A debit card transaction includes any card purchase (including contactless, physical and online purchases) in any currency. Transfers and payments made by direct debit are not included.

A transfer to bank isn't a purchase, though.

Edit: NS&I appears to sometimes slip through the cracks as IIRC its MCC classifies it as, "government services" and not a bank transfer.

Yeah that's the point NS&I is not classed as a transfer to a bank it is classed as "Government services not classed elsewhere," hence a purchase.

Is payments to Skipton, Hanley BS etc classed as the same?