This deal is back again. New customers, open a reward saver with IMB, deposit $50 and keep until the end of the promo period to get a $50 bonus.
Terms and conditions apply. Previous bargain hunters indicate this can be a bit of a painful journey to get your free dollars; delayed sign up process, missing emails, broken apps etc, but hey, if you're willing to give it a go, $50 is $50.
Update: I’ve opened mine deposited the $50. It’s worked from ME Bank.
maybe the account hasnt been activated ? give it a few days, remember you getting $50.
give it a few days, remember you getting $50
only if the money is deposited within 7 days
Best way to transfer from CommBank account?
Use scheduled transfer option (not sure if you can do on website but can on app). Just do a 0.01c test then the $50 if it works. OSKO was instantly failing but the scheduled one works. Must just be normal transfer. Just do it for the next possible date.
thanks
have applied auswide, newcastle, so why not this one as well……. $150 is better than $100
I didn't need another account, but newcastle has a new customer.
Thanks for the tip.
It seems newcastle doesn't want customers from VIC. My account has just been blocked after successfully signing up and installing the app on my phone.
My partner has money in the account, but also can't transfer it out anymore.
I'm in Vic and signed up yesterday.. But haven't tried signing in yet.
edit: just added the app and logged in now.
@bohn: After successful ID verification and app registration, they still blocked our accounts. Both me and partner had to do ID verification again for their "security team" to review. Got an email later from InfoTrackID.
@johnmelb: They did try and ring me, but I didn't answer their call. Where did it show that your account was blocked?
@bohn: The app just wouldn't let me sign in anymore.
For my partner login worked, but transferring money was blocked. The debit card could be activated, but couldn't be added to paypal (declined).
@bohn: I'm in vic, used Postal ID to verify ID and opened accnt, xferred 1801 in, then xferred 1800 out, not blocked, all working fine.
Used bonus50 as well.
.. opened accnt, xferred 1801 in, then xferred 1800 out, ..
&
Depositing & Keeping $50
You might want to transfer $49 back in then …
hmm tried to transfer from ing, i got technical error is preventing us from processing.
not sure this is ing issue or imb.
tried with macqbank, seems ok. will wait for 1-2 days
To be able to transfer fund into IMB, use an account that not support Osko - else you need ID in branch.
example non osko ? auswide, newcastle permanent maybe? or citi everyday ?
edit: saw above
HSBC worked for me.
Yeah they told me I need to do an EFT but how do you do that?
HSBC appears to be working. Funds haven't been reversed as yet.
Open,
collect,
CLOSE !
Can’t seem to transfer to my account. Tried Westpac and ING
MyState bank given an option to do standard transfer.
Transfer from Macquarie works!!!! One day arrives at my imb
Same. Im surprised it went through on an east coast public holiday
Thanks! I tried it yesterday as scheduled payment and it's now in my IMB. they returned my ANZ Osko on the weekend.
Finally able to transfer with Up but had to contact support to ask how to do it non-OSKO. What a pain but $50 is $50 and this is OzBargain after all.
UPDATE: my $50 from Up has already arrived. Time to wait now!!
The $50 is transferred into the account. The waiting for the bonus $50 begins.
Very generous just need transfer $50 and then wait…
Reading the terms it seems to me that you are better off waiting until it's closer to the 31st of July so your $50 isn't locked up longer than it needs to be. That 50 could get you like 15 cents sitting in a BOQ saver account if you are under 36 or 11 cents sitting in your ING.
Off to a good start. My accounts been opened but am yet to receive an email with my login details.
Aside from the hassle of sending money to this bank, I can't seem to find anything in the online banking that allows you to send money out?
geesus of course we can… this is australia not nigeria
I looked too. I don't see it. There's no option to transfer money to another bank account.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/11790199/redir
My profile was setup as 'view-only' so I didn't have all the features on online banking like paying someone so I had to call up and get that fixed.
Yes, view only by default. To register for internet banking you can call, or go here: https://www.imb.com.au/internetbanking and they will call you.
@[Deactivated]: Gosh a phone call what an old way of doing things. Can’t say I’m surprised after the painful transfer process.
@bobwokeup: I remember ANZ did something similar quite some time ago. It was read only initially, and to actually send money I had to apply for it. Most new services let you do it by default. Not the case here obviously.
@[Deactivated]: Yeah a while ago it was common practice but it just goes to show how far behind the competition they are.
Once it has money in account, the pay anyone option appears
Do you have a screenshot of where that option is
hi, if you are using the app, log in, then in the screen called "account information" you'll see three dots in the top right corner. click that and a drop down menu should appear with the pay anyone option. I haven't actually used it yet but it's there. hope that works!
I got them to call me, which I prefer, since I dislike waiting on hold. At first they seemed confused as to why it wasn't working, but then realized I needed a second password, and then gave me full access. I can see a lot of people needing this once we get the bonus $50, so you might want to do it ahead of time to save on the rush.
Once you have full access, then it's just like any other online bank account, with with full access to transfers, BPAY and Osko.
My westpac didnt support to transfer IMB bank and it failed twice. Does anyone know why and how to transfer successfully?
read all comments from page one, people gave out hints
So far so bad! Error messages and missing emails… probably giving up at this point
the bank will say "goodstuff"
Day 1:
Signing up attempt 1: Everything went mostly ok but it failed at the end with no reason given. I called up and they couldn't check why, but correctly suggested it might be that the address didn't match my ID and to try a new application, they also offered to send a paper sin up form if that didn't work.
Signing up attempt 2: Signed up with old address and got further this time. Reached a kinda weird page that said something like: something went wrong, try again. There was an option for which account to sign up for.
Signing up attempt 3: Third time was the charm, it was the same online form as previous two attempts but it seemed almost like you had to do it twice: once for membership, once for actual saver account. Or maybe I initially signed up for an account I was ineligble for?
Day 2:
Login details email arrived 24 hours after signing up, the older of the two temporary passwords was the only one that worked. Transferred $50 scheduled for tomorrow so it should go EFT not OSKO, hopefully it all works out from here! $50 is $50 and I've definitely done more for less. Good luck, all!
03/06/2022 EFT Mr Chimot Lodg Ref Funds transfer $55.55 $55.55
13/06/2022 Other Expiry Date: 30 Sep 2022 $0.00 $0.00
13/06/2022 Other Bonus Special Applied $0.00 $0.00
the bonus special probably as a mark to give $50 (or due to i applied for the promo)
but then what is expiry date entry?
i thought we need to wait till end of July only not Sept
Mine also says 30 Sep.
mine doesn't mention the bonus anymore.. does yours?
just has my deposit.
So I can’t seem to withdraw
thanks everyone for the tips! osko payment from CBA got rejected, but when I scheduled it for the next day, it went through just fine and it's in the IMB account now.
Applied last week but didn't receive any email or account details. Is this normal?
And then today they sent me a survey to say welcome to IMB. So weird
I did not receive email neither
Yes it's their normal process ..
New members who deposit $50 into a Reward Saver or Reward Saver Kick Start1 account within 7 days
If you don't call them up quick enough, you likely miss out on the bonus..
Gosh they set you up as paper statements automatically and you have to change it to electronic. Didn’t think any companies did that anymore, even government entities have been doing paperless for years.
My partner signed up for IMB, got the sms with password but didn't get the email.
Asked online to get the email sent, but they advised my partner to come into a branch or call them … We didn't ask to send to a different email, just send the original one.
We didn't ask to send to a different email, just send the original one.
Same thing happened to us. Except when we called up, they resent the email
We called, and the guy shared the imb number after my partner went though verification (including code via sms).
Clearly something wrong with their IT systems..
Did not work as I have two middle names and the system is not capable of understanding this.
It automatically added an upper-score to the name so the ID check failed.
Called and my only options are to either visit a branch (none in QLD) or get a paper application with all documents certified ^^
Useless - but I tried.
I constantly have online ID check issues with my middle name too, but only a single middle name, on all my ID it is listed as a single letter, doesn't matter if I use the single letter(some don't allow that) or full middle name it 90% spits the dummy.
For another bank I had them email me the Post Office ID forms and did it that way, worked fine.
Is this promotion still running? I noticed it's no longer mentioned on their website or Facebook.
If you click the goto deal at the top of this page it is showing on their site with an expiry date of 31st July.
Last month I think the promo showed up when you visited the IMB Bank website and clicked onto the Reward Saver Account product page. I think it might've been on Facebook too. Now it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, I've saved the promo link on this post in case they try to wriggle out of paying the $50.
Hopefully the $50 turns up in the next few days.
same, hoping the same, also with the newcastle bank $50 deal
Fine print states it'll be payed within 15 business days of deal expiry, so could take upto 19th Aug to arrive.
good reading skills
anyone uses bitwarden ? weird for this imb my bitwarden is acting weird, it doesnt want to populate the password…. any other banking websites are fine just this
sent from bano - not reversed yet
Got the $50 from Newcastle. And aussiwide.
Now just waiting for the last from this imb.
what was newcastle and aussiwide offer?
cant find offer anymore?
Most likely already expired.
Just search here.
Newcastle permanent , auswide bank
Sorry typo before haha
I know it's only been about an hour since July ended but… No +$50 in my account yet.
Within 15 business days. So may be up to 3 weeks.
Thanks! I was wondering how long this might take.
Same hasn’t arrived for me yet
Anyone received their $50?
Haven't received yet.
Does anyone know if we can take out the original $50 we deposited now?
Or do we have to wait for the $50 bonus to drop before we can withdraw?
Looking at their previous deal it took about 11 (calendar) days for people to get their $50 when the promo ended. Going off peoples comments - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/686288
I'm still waiting too :-( but I got my $50 from Newcastle Perm :-)
Did you remember to close your account? Forgot about the $4 fee a month and account went into negative. Called up and asked to have the fees reversed and account closed without issue.
I set google reminder end of this month to close imb, Newcastle and ausiwide.
Thanks $50x3
I only checked last Fri if my $50 was in there. At the moment I'm keeping it open and doing the $1800 deposit each month. I'm using the free $50 for coffee meetups :-)
What’s Newcastle perm?
Newcastle permanent
A bank name. Based in Newcastle nsw
Thanks oh dang never saw that deal
Anyone received the $50 yet?
Not yet hopefully tomorrow.
Nah.
Nope still waiting
Maybe tomorrow
Can't transfer funds into newly created account, I've already wasted too much time on this, such a scam.