URGENT Free £100 Loophole discussion: MoneySavingExpert.com discussion

Biggers_2

Whats the latest on this?

I've had a letter asking me to visit a branch with ID. I was going to do that today but reading the posts I'm not sure if it's worth doing.

Has anyone else provided ID at a branch and not been fobbed off?

Belfastmoneysaver

I tried emailling them asking a general question of whether those who received the "bring ID into branch" letter are eligible for the £100 - This is their answer

Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately for security reasons we cannot complete your request, as we are unable to take instructions for this type of request via email.

Please note that you can complete this type of request in the following way, by:

- visiting any Branch
- using Barclays Telephone Banking (if not registered please call 08457 555 555 ), if calling from overseas dial +44 24 7684 2100
- placing it in the post to, Barclays Bank PLC, Leicester, LE87 2BB.

The email address we have contacted you from is used for outbound emails only. Should you need to contact Barclays again please do so by visiting the Contact Us pages on either the Barclays Homepage or Barclays Online Banking site.

Yours sincerely

Internet Care Team
For and on behalf of
Barclays Bank plc

How useful is that? NOT AT ALL!

Cowboys Ted, their just a bunch of Cowboys!!!!!!!!

oscarhugo

financial_crisis wrote:

Martin,

You might like to know that I am very reliably informed that the banks combine to keep lists of certain people who, quite legitimately, profit from these offers. Such as all those who have posted on this thread. Apparently they share this information and are able to refuse future offers to these people. Not quite sure how this is done, but you get the picture.

Now, I just wonder if their action is legal ? Sounds like a conspiracy against perfectly legitimate actions, alternatively, the offers they make are not quite what they seem.

I got onto this a while ago and did very nicely indeed out of the ill-fated Zurich bank, thank you.

fc

But how would they know who "those who have posted on this thread" actually are...?

Me too! I did nicely out of Zurich Bank as well since, not only did I still get a case of wine, but I also got compensation when they shut down the banking side.

Incidentally, apropos my post of yesterday, NO LETTER has been received by me this morning...

And I don't think one-of-the-previous-poster's ideas that the criterion could be the length of "other current accounts" because I've had my "other one" far longer than my wife's had hers.

Dan29

Have now got account number and internet banking details, and have logged in for the first time. Will transfer £1000 in later today

innovate

Belfastmoneysaver wrote:

How useful is that? NOT AT ALL!

LOL.

Seems different people interpret "online service" differently! How utterly pathetic, to ask people to go to a Branch, use a phone, or write a letter when the service is touted as "online"!!!!!

BTW, I saw a brief interview with Bob Diamond (fitting name!!!), President of Barclays, on BBC Breakfast this morning. Declan wotshisname quizzed him on whether Barclays are likely to make a repeat performance of their £4 billion profits last year across the Barclays Group. A beaming Diamond proudly told Declan about all the wonderful systems Barclays have, and said all's on track, and he'd again be paid on performance.

£2.5m or so for 25,000 people getting a £100 account opening bonus will make no difference to the performance pay Mr Diamond gets - whether the £2.5m gets paid out or not. So he probably genuinely believes he runs a great business.

innovate

Dan29 wrote:

Have now got account number and internet banking details, and have logged in for the first time. Will transfer £1000 in later today

_party_ :dance: _party_ :whistle: :whistle:

Well done! The first of hpefully many

Why do you pay £1,000 in one go, why not "recycle" just £500 for a couple of months? Pay it into Barclays, as soon as it shows, pay it back into your interest-earning account, then send it to Barclays again in a couple of weeks? A couple of standing orders will do the job for you. Mind you, I am assuming here that the Barclays online account will allow you to set up an SO easily, and this might be one assumption too many.

dinglebert

Well managed to sign up and received my password this morning, logged in got my details and will transfer money later. A point of concern though, over the last year or so I have had the usual emails attempting to extract my ebay, paypal, lloydstsb account numbers from me and well aware of them have ignored them all. During this time I have never had one pretending to be from Barclays, until this morning that is. It may just be a coincidence that one week after signingup online with Barclays I start to get these emails but its worth watching out for. Not only was it trying to cheat me but Avast picked it up as having a virus attached! I phoned Barclays to query why I should start to get these now but they denied that emails could be harvested from them.

Woby_Tide

oscarhugo wrote:

But how would they know who "those who have posted on this thread" actually are...?

Scene: Barclays Application Department

"Ok lets verify if any of these applications have been shafting the other banks"

"Anyone got an application in the name of 'dinglebert'?"

*blank looks*

"Anyone got an application from freebird65?"

*sound of paper shuffling*

"Come on people, someone must have an application from Apples1?"



I'd say the likelihood of the banks sharing any sort of info of who applies for the accounts is complete and utter tripe, for insurance and fraud purposes yes, for getting free gifts, no.

"Hello Barclays? Yes this is Lloyds TSB, would you like a list of all our customers? Purely to weed out people after free money, please don't use this information for targeted marketing or stealing our customers."

Tim_L

You can see details of current accounts on credit reports. I'd say that anyone with active accounts at First Direct, A&L, LLoyds TSB, Primeline AND Smile would probably be a prime suspect as a bonus bagger.

But oddly enough I was accepted instantly.

lowedb

Well we have a joint smile AC and OH was accepted (letter yesterday). All the cards with 0% should have said something too, if they cared to look.

Hopefully my letter will be waiting when I get home tonight.