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Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:50 pm**

Hi everyone, can you please tell me how long it takes to open a cashminder account. Thanks

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:14 pm**

hi mine was about 2 weeks but tht is because they cocked up or they said I would have recieved card in about a week . The actul account was set up on the phone then I had to ring them cause i hadnt heard anything and they had conflicts with my D.O.B which delayed it .

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:41 pm**

well, what can I say, approved card should be here within 7 days

easiest phone call ever.

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:55 pm**

The Co-op are excellent. I'll be staying with them even if in the future I can get an account elsewhere.

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:59 pm**

My account was up running and DD's all set up within a week. Its a really good account and I can highly recommend it.

Paul

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:02 pm**

You hear so many reports of the Co-op being a great account and I always reccommnd them to posters even though I'm not with them, but if I needed to change I know where I'd be going x

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:12 pm**

the co-op are brill and their telephone/online services are great and british based

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:18 pm**

i second that and it would take a lot for me to change banks.

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:50 pm**

Funny that you should all be talking about the Co Op but i have been shopping around for cheaper car insurance and found that the co op is half the price of Admiral on fully comprehensive cover and i am using the Cashminder Account with Visa Debit Card as well.I don't think you can beat the Co Op when it comes to customer service, no indian call centres and loads better than HSBC where i got into a right old mess

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:40 pm**

That is great news to share Andrew. I will bear that in mind when I am due to renew my own!

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:44 pm**

I've got my car insurance with the Co-op - it was £140 cheaper than my renewal from Churchill. I aslo went through Quidco and got £75 cashback!

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:59 pm**

Kazzer,

I would 2nd that. We have just opened a Co-Op account over the phone, and their service is superb so far. The chap on the other end of the phone was a scouser and we even had a bit of banter[:D]

I believe they are based in Skelmersdale, but being a true Mancunian I can live with that.

kazzer wrote:

Hi everyone, can you please tell me how long it takes to open a cashminder account. Thanks

Posted: **Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:39 am**

Not quite mickey land eh??

I would concur with that, SF.

Regards.

Posted: **Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:14 am**

Yep, the Cashminder account has been a Godsend, although mine took a month or so to open even though I provided them with everything they asked for by taking it into the branch!

Since it's been opened though, no hassles whatsover, I can use Post Offices,Link machines, and do everything else online.

Has anyone had one of those scanner things for supplementary secuirty yet?

They wrote to me last year telling me about it, but I've had nothing from then since.

Posted: **Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:31 am**

I have one, I think it's called a reader. Once you have one then you cannot do anything online, such as transfers, setting up s/o's and d/d's until you have the security code from the reader.

It is a little time consuming in all honesty, but if it improves security and lessens the risk of fraud then I am all for it.

Regards.

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