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First Direct debit cards...

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Oook so I have a problem. My mum is on holiday, but she left me with her debit card to get some stuff for her while she's away. My dad put some money into my account to get my birthday present off the 'net. But it wouldn't let me buy it because my card is Visa Electron (gheyness of it). So I used my mum's, with every intention to transfer the balance over straight away (or asap). But I don't know which number on her card is the account number, and neither did the man in Barclays. So I can't transfer it. But I dunno if my mummy got my message saying I was gonna buy said present with her card. So I need to know sometime before Tuesday (so it gets to her account by Friday). Which bit is the account number?

Thanking kindly.

Franki
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm SO hot.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    MrG wrote:
    should be an 8 digit number for account number
    sort code is 6 digits

    mine for example is
    41509500 acc number
    40-19-31 sort code

    incase you want to donate some money
    Yer, I know that. But the card doesn't have a bit on it that says "account number". Where the account number is on mine, it says card number, and it's too long. But I are sorted now.

    Stupid cards.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There should be a cheque book thingy belonging to your mum with the account number on it but you're sorted now so it doesn't matter.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    MrG I seriously hope that isnt your real account number
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    There should be a cheque book thingy belonging to your mum with the account number on it but you're sorted now so it doesn't matter.
    There should be, but she didn't give me that :p. Just the card.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There should be an 8 digit number. That is the account number.

    Here is an old Electron card of mine

    ETA: Are you sure it is a debit card and not a credit card???? Credit cards wont have an account number!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Panthro wrote:
    There should be an 8 digit number. That is the account number.

    Here is an old Electron card of mine

    ETA: Are you sure it is a debit card and not a credit card???? Credit cards wont have an account number!
    That's what mine looks like.

    And yes, it's a debit card. The man in Barclays didn't say it wasn't. And like my mum would give me her credit card ;o.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well then I am confuddled.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Zella wrote:
    MrG I seriously hope that isnt your real account number

    All we can do with that information is give him money, not steal from his account!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    This is what my mum's looks like (note: her other debit card doesn't have "DEBIT CARD" written on it either, and that's definitely a debit card). Except it's Switch rather than Visa and it's black ;p.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Then the card number is probably the account number...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    on my first direct card my account number is the last 8 digits of the card number (main huge one across the front - not to be confused with the 10 digit card number at the bottom....hmm)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Nope. The Card Number is a 9 digit number. Shoulda changed that really, oops.

    I have been told that it's the last eight digits of the second line in the middle. Which means I got my sort code bit wrong oops. Oh well. I know which it is now :p.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    BumbleBee wrote:
    All we can do with that information is give him money, not steal from his account!


    yep! ;p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    perhaps the 9th digit is the issue number

    anyway its the 6 digits for the sort code 8 digits for the account number

    yay for halifax!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Char_Baby wrote:
    yay for halifax!

    please don't utter the h word in my presence. :grump:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    is it the place or the building society you dislike?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Char_Baby wrote:
    is it the place or the building society you dislike?

    the financial establishment, their staff and the annoying bloke in their adverts.

    if i could move my mortgage, i totally would.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    kaffrin wrote:
    the financial establishment, their staff and the annoying bloke in their adverts.

    if i could move my mortgage, i totally would.
    you can do-might get charged £150 though :(
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Char_Baby wrote:
    you can do-might get charged £150 though :(

    i'd have difficulty, cause they're one of the few banks that will lend against our type of house.

    oh, and i wouldn't trust them to get it right.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Char_Baby wrote:
    perhaps the 9th digit is the issue number
    Nuh uh. Issue number is separate.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    This fucking card!!! Why does First Direct make it sooooo hard?!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It's sorted now anyway, isn't it franki?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Panthro wrote:
    This fucking card!!! Why does First Direct make it sooooo hard?!
    Well Kaff's told me what I need to know for definite. So it's not hard anymore. All cards are different and things.

    So yeh, sorted.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    kaffrin wrote:
    the financial establishment, their staff and the annoying bloke in their adverts.

    if i could move my mortgage, i totally would.

    Howard :eek:

    i laugh every time i see him.
  • JsTJsT Posts: 18,252 Skive's The Limit
    beans wrote:
    Howard :eek:

    i laugh every time i see him.
    I want to stab him.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    JsT wrote:
    I want to stab him.

    and take the laughter out of my life :grump:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    JsT wrote:
    I want to stab him.

    i also wish to quieten him with something sharp.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,875,648 The Mix Honorary Guru
    kaffrin wrote:
    i also wish to quieten him with something sharp.
    apparantly hes not a very nice man

    i really dont believe he was ever a genuine staff member but hey ho
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