URGENT Free £100 Loophole discussion: MoneySavingExpert.com discussion

Smiley_Mum

I got my letter through this morning, just need to sign and send off. Fingers crossed.

MrsM_4

Maths never was my strong subject the laugh's on Barclays anyway I see it!

bockster

MrsM,

if you pm me your email address, i have a pdf version of the offer page i will gladly send to you. also post 130 (i think) contains a text version, although strangely some of the wording differs slightly, but not the t&c,s

Otago

Received my letter with all the details filled out for me. Signed a sample a signature and will now wait to see if it goes smoothly now............I doubt it somehow!

lisyloo

Hi folks, just to let you know I am following this.

The salient facts are simple. If you applied in time while the £100 offer was there, and you make the terms and conditions that were available at that point you should get the £100. Of course this is dependent on account acceptance.

Obviously Barclays was swamped by this (hoorah) so it is going to take it time to go through it. However hopefully that will happen. Keep fighting (politely) your corner, and if no joy starts to be common, I will take it up with barclays

If we get no joy, then we will all need to complain and eventually go to the Ombudsman.
Barclays probably won't let it get that far (I think it costs them £350 if you go to the ombudsman). So it will probably be 3 or 4 second class letters and some patience to get the money.

Trust me, I'm on my 6th complaint and I've never lost (it's not my fault's it's the industry).

Keep reading this thread as I'm sure letters to copy will get posted here.

bockster

regarding pdf file of the £100 terms and conditions,

is there an easy way of making this screenshot available to all? can it be linked to this website in some way? is it legal? not that i'm too concerned about about the morals considering barclays behaviour!! but mse.com might be!
otherwise i will email to anyone who requests, but i can be away from the pc for a few days at a time

Plasticman

bockster wrote:

regarding pdf file of the £100 terms and conditions,

is there an easy way of making this screenshot available to all? can it be linked to this website in some way? is it legal? not that i'm too concerned about about the morals considering barclays behaviour!! but mse.com might be!
otherwise i will email to anyone who requests, but i can be away from the pc for a few days at a time

It would be good if it could be made available on the site - hopefully Martin is reading this thread and will be able to oblige!

Hawksmuir

Just got my letter asking me to take ID to the branch, nearest branch is over 40 miles away

fatboyonadiet

I've never had the e-mail or any paperwork, even though I applied the morning the offer was closed, what should I do? Don't want to miss out on my £100!

Spud_2

I don't know if this helps anyone, but I happened to register online for a copy of my credit report yesterday from Equifax (this was FREE - see Martin's article about it here: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?newsid1132671851,54269,).

I noticed that on my report, there is an entry logged on 18/1/06 (the date I applied for the £100 Barclays offer) showing that Barclays Bank did a search to authenticate me.

Now I still haven't heard anything from them since the "10 day email" that was sent, but I understand people are having problems proving to Barclays when they applied online.

It may help if you can provide a copy of the part of your credit report which logs the search and the date it took place - they can't really wriggle out of that one! Hope this helps, I'm certainly going to use mine if I come up against any problems.

Fingers crossed for us all!