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Tesco Bank: Loan reviews

Name: Loan
Rating: 3.38 (76 reviews)

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2.90

Based on 76 reviews, last reviewed 6th Jan 2025

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11%

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Latest highest rating:

4

Tesco Loan I took out a loan with Tesco bank. The interest rate was decent but it was very easy to take out the loan. Their website was very intuitive and easy t... Read more Reviewed on: 4th October 2024

Latest lowest rating:

1

Waste of time / dodged a bullet Waste of time got accepted for a joint loan sent off the requested documents same day few days later been told all looks good checked with her supervi... Read more Reviewed on: 6th January 2025

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Tesco Bank personal loan reviews on Smart Money People are honest reviews. If you're trying to determine whether this is the right personal loan for you, reading our Tesco Bank personal loan reviews can help you to find out what other people have to say. Smart Money People launched in October 2014 to help people like you to find the best personal loans. If you have used a Tesco Bank personal loan, we'd love you to write a quick review too.

Tesco Bank Loan reviews (76)

Review of the Tesco Bank, Loan:

JUST GO TO TOUR OWN BANK AND APPLY FOR A LOAN!

JUST GO TO TOUR OWN BANK AND APPLY FOR A LOAN!! We were accepted by our bank in 2 minutes and the £20k loan was in the account within 5 minutes. Really bad experience with Tescos. Application took over 2 months to process and when it finally did they asked for additional information which wasn’t a problem, my wife sent over the marriage certificate electronically as we’d just got married as she had to prove the name change. Only for tescos to say we need the real copy and if we didn’t send it over they would cancel our application which they did. Our circumstances may have been different to others but it as dealt with so poorly and with barely any communication. We then went to HSBC who we bank with and got it straight away. Reviewed on: 30th December 2024

15k loan

Applied and money was in my account within 2 days. great APR rate. very happy Reviewed on: 12th January 2023

What a load of bo***cks

95% chance of approval rating according to Experian. 5.7% fixed interest £7.5k loan for a car, 98 credit score. Hard check for loan knocked my credit score 13 points (this is normal, but in the following context it's frankly deeply unfair and massively reduces my chances of getting a loan elsewhere) and these muppets offered me 11.8% fixed interest. Almost doubling the alleged 95% chance of success with 5.7% fixed rate. Steer clear, there's lots more reviews out there lots of people having similar experiences. Promising a very good chance of the advertised deal and then leaving you with an appalling deal - I was pre-approved for lower fixed interest than 11.8% before that credit score hit. Reviewed on: 18th November 2022

Slow application process and higher than advertised rates

After waiting almost a full week, the paperwork comes through and the interest rate is about 3% points higher than what was advertised. No communication at all from approval to receiving paperwork. Wasted a lot of time and caused me a lot of stress Reviewed on: 15th November 2022

Poor rate given

l've got a prefect credit score, have been a Tesco home shopping customer for over twenty years, am employed, own my own home, have a club card and have never had a bad debt. l've previously had a Tesco loan and all was well. However this time l wanted to borrow £15,000 and despite the 5.1% advertised rate l was offered 9.1% Worse, when l called customer services they couldn't tell me the reasons for the poor rate offered and just repeated the spiel that "50% of our customers get the 5.1%" l raised a complaint and after being told it could "take up to eight weeks" l was called the next day and told that l had "no grounds for complaint" Reviewed on: 15th November 2022

FRAUDSTERS

PEOPLE PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL!!! I have applied for the loan today and been offered 3.2% interest rate. Unfortunately they is a biggest liars and cheats!!! After application and hard credit checks completed those liars changed the interest rate to 5.5% Those liars harmed my excellent credit history rated at 974 of 1000 Please avoid those fraudsters if you want to keep your credit score high and with no harm of pointless credit checks. By the way hour later took the loan with another large bank at 2.9% within 20 minutes. SHAME ON YOU FRAUDSTERS Reviewed on: 18th September 2022

Great loan when needed

Applied for a loan for home renovations and was in my bank account within a few days. Great service from Tesco bank. Also made a lump sum payment and they immediately reduced the term. Would use them again for another loan in the future. Reviewed on: 11th August 2022

Rejected

Received a text asking me to call them, which took several attempts as kept getting cut off. When put on hold think they forgot about me and after waiting 10 mins ended the call and called back which meant I had to explain myself all over again - at the end of that conversation and despite having an Experien Credit Score of 620 (which apparently is Good) my application was rejected and the operator couldn't/wouldn't tell me why Reviewed on: 9th August 2022

Good

Fast service good comunication very help personel staff Reviewed on: 11th March 2022

Took the Mick

Interest Rate offered was nowhere near the advertised amount. requested extra information (which was fine), but he people processing the extra information were a joke. Took a minimum of a week at a time to get any sort of response. No online contracts/credit agreements signings. Went to Natwest after a month and got the money the same day - what a waste of time. Reviewed on: 10th February 2022

Tesco bank loan 2.8% offer is impossible to get.

I applied for a £10000 bank loan at 2.8% with tesco bank, after letting them have full access to my bank accounts the loan was accepted in principle, saying sign the contract they will post to you & return and money will be in your account within 2 working days. They took 3 weeks to send forms out then at the 11th hour declined the loan, saying my earnings weren't enough even though it was on application. I will never ever deal with this rip off organisation again or step foot in any of they supermarkets. Don't waste your time applying you will never get the advertised interest rate. You may get offered a loan but at a much much higher interest rate. I intend to take this further with the financial ombudsman. AVOID Reviewed on: 5th February 2022

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