Is ING waking up???

shown73

Just had a letter from ING offering a six month savings rate of 6.5%, and 12 months at 6.2%. Only requirement seems to be a minimum amount of five grand. It may not be ground-breaking, but perhaps someone at ING has finally noticed that they are heamorraging savings money, who knows.

ad44downey

I don't think so because I don't think they have any savers left to lose. They all jumped ship yonks ago.

Paul_Herring

6.5%, and 12 months at 6.2%

Compare IceSave's equivalent offerings; 6 months 6.75%, 1 year 6.7%.

molly_mandy_2

ING have a habit of offering different customers (those that stayed!) different things.

A couple of weeks ago I was offered a 6.5% ISA.

home_alone

Got my statement from ing this morning and I see that I am getting dangerously close to the £2 mark, must withdraw another £1 and give it to icesave do not want to lose out.

gary

YorkshireBoy

home_alone wrote: »

...I see that I am getting dangerously close to the £2 mark,

Likewise. It soon mounts up at 1p per month doesn't it?

Seriously though, as an ex customer I re-applied last year for the £50 incentive, and I'm only keeping the account open now in case they start with the referral vouchers again.

I can't be the only one!

spalding

Same here have the account just left with hardly anything in it, they must have lost so many customers

notis7

ad44downey wrote: »

I don't think so because I don't think they have any savers left to lose. They all jumped ship yonks ago.

their annual report says otherwise.....they have over £18 billion in their UK savings book!!

nilrem_2

notis7 wrote: »

their annual report says otherwise.....they have over £18 billion in their UK savings book!!

There are still a lot of people who don't read these forums or are aware of what interest they are getting, a lot of people do not like moving their money anyway, in fact around £3.5 billion was moved out of ING by UK savers last year (inc mine Lol) which is quite a tidy sum to have to make up, according to some sources a similar amount was paid into Icesave!

The thing that annoyed me about ING was when they refused to increase rates inline with others they wrote telling me that I preferred their static rate rather than a headline grabbing one.
FWIW ING phone me up asking me if I would consider going back and when I told him about my annoyance he said that many customers had the same view! Since them I have had lot's of emails and letters from them.

napoleon

notis7 wrote: »

their annual report says otherwise.....they have over £18 billion in their UK savings book!!

There's some dumbasses out there, that's for sure. :j

Tozer

napoleon wrote: »

There's some dumbasses out there, that's for sure. :j

Not exactly a polite post is it?