Yep I was given access at some point yesterday 
I signed up for the waitlist pretty recently via the app.
How were you informed? Notification from the app?
Just a feed item in app.
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Thanks for showing us.
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I’m guessing it’s not a traditional “waiting list”, vis, first come first served as some of us are still waiting from almost immediately after the list was available.
Wish Monzo would clarify.
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I don’t see why it SHOULD a normal waitlist.
I thought the whole point was to select a cross section of devices, incomes, genders and many many more variables. Oh and a big one - non community members - who gave a very negative reaction to the launch.
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Plenty of community members have Monzo Plus though, including more active ones.
I don’t see the point in gating Plus when they already admit it isn’t as good as it could, should and will be. Clearly those who signed up already know that, but have signed up regardless.
Thus it’s only really a queue at this point, rather than a trial, and as such it should be a normal waitlist and those who jumped in early shouldn’t have to sit around while much later adopters find themselves with Plus benefits after a day or two.
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I enjoy the Lagoon Blue 
And the app looks lovely
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That’s what I’m getting too, but I’ll be nice and wait until I’m back in the UK at the end of month so they don’t have to ship it across the Atlantic for me 
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I agree. Not just relating to Monzo Plus, it feels like they have lost their way in the pursuit of revenue - which makes me concerned about longevity. I want them to succeed, but the rapid growth has caused scaling problems IMO.
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Did you read this post? Monzo Plus Roadmap for 2019 📅
Although I agree with the initial offering not being worth £3 but I think they explained what the plan is in that thread and everything makes more sense. 
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Received my card this morning. Anyone else notice the new chip? Making way for Post Office cash deposits, maybe? 
It’s described by Monzo as an “Early Bird” offer, or, to quote their announcement;
And to say thanks for getting involved so early on, we’re offering a discounted monthly rate of £3 for these core features. (We’ll change this to £6 a month later this year.)
Quite clearly this is not being retailed as a testing phase, but an introductory offer as ndrw suggested.
Again, to quote their announcement;
join the waitlist to be one of the first in line!
What they mean to say is “join the waiting list so we can arbitrarily overlook you in favor of Monzo employees and others who will post pictures of their shiny new cards to make you feel bad.”
I think, at least, we can both agree that Monzo need to be more transparent about how the waiting list works.
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I’d have to agree with you here. The ASA have guidelines on this stuff, not only the promotional pricing and approach, but also the availability, and making a fair estimate of demand against the availability.
The fact that they have a waiting list (at last count) of 11,000 people and have only opened it up to about 500 seems like they have not really captured demand.
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I’m not sure the ASA come into the argument for Monzo adverts though - as they are regulated by the FCA, as far as I was aware, the ASA Code gives general guidelines but the main regulations are put in place by the FCA, unless I’ve read it wrong?
I agree with most of what you’ve said, especially in regards to the length of the promotional pricing. Transparency could definitely be improved — heck, we haven’t even heard from anyone at Monzo since they posted the roadmap!
But, please don’t make unfounded claims like this — the only reason you know forum members have access to Monzo Plus is because they’ve posted about it.
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Sorry I’ve contributed to that, I don’t work on the team so I don’t know the answers 
I was leaving that to those that do know rather than speculating.
Let’s see the chip 
Also I agree with the fact they don’t appear to be answering questions… I get they are busy but I asked questions in the Road Map thread and as if yet, I am still waiting for a response…
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I love the idea of Monzo Plus, and have just signed up. But I was previously with Lloyd’s, as a Club Lloyd’s member where you had access to a number of benefits to choose from, for only £3 per month (unless you earned over £1500 per month, and then they scrapped the charge). I opted for 6 free cinema tickets per year. Is this ever possible for Monzo to introduce something like this/and or extra features to distinguish Monzo from old school, high street banks?
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What do we want? ANSWERS!
When do we want them? 
In all seriousness. The majority of topics started by Monzo staff get very little followups, I brought this up in a blog post recently too. So it’s not just restricted to this one (not that it makes it any better)
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