UK Bank Accounts

[Ebayorbust]

If you close a UK bank account and then go back to the same bank a month or two later and try to open another account, do they re-open the closed account (with the same account number) or do you get a new account?

I haven't had cause to do this yet (touch wood), but would be handy to know should a Paypal account or the linked Ebay account go down.

Thanks in advance.

[Imakemoney]

You would get a new account.

However I reccommend leaving it longer than a month or two before doing it not to araise suspicion.

Theres enough banks out there that work with stealth not to have to do it that soon.

[GrannyT]

New account. They never use the same number twice

[Ebayorbust]

Thank you both for the info. Hopefully I won't need to use it.:D

[ShadyOne]

Yeah I was not sure about this when I first joined the forum, but yeah, new account number

[james169]

Defiantly a new account number, I also keep a few different current accounts in reserve ready to be put into action for if (when) my PP accounts get limited which I have found to be a handy thing to do

[Littlemorestealth]

Always new as long as the old one was closed....

[Littlemorestealth]

Go to Barclays and ask for some sole trader accounts. You get them all to check on one screen then