a well known high st former-building-soc-now-bank rang me up today to offer me £200 and £5 a month to switch to their current account. They said they'd swap all my SOs and DDs, and sort the work side of things with my pay dept.
Now there's no such thing as free, but for the sake of half an hour in a bank on a Saturday morning, I'm quids in, right? What am I missing?
I tried to do that and they wouldn't have me!
I did this once and all the dds and standing orders were promptly cocked up...
do you just have to email them all your current details ?
Gopher it, may as well. If they cock up the SOs and DDs, then they should be reimbursing you and sorting them out (fwiw).
Don't close your old current account, just keep it in case.
In the days when I used to have some munny I had a current account with no DDs etc. specially for this purpose that could be closed down with no knock on effect. I'd make manual transfers in and out as required to keep the deal until it was up and then go to the next similar offer. My pay and DDs being in my 'real' current account.
Takes a bit of being organised, but was worth the small amount of time it took me every month.
Good stuff, thanks all. I'll see if they'll have me, and keep and eye on things. I wasn't going to close down my current current acc before the new one is up and running.