Recent CitiBank Applicant?

Canaan

Bummer ..... got a letter today after careful review of your credit report blah blah blah.
Glad I havnt started to get back charges from Norwich and Peterborough yet or i would have been in a right mess.

Ho Hum

s1h

slightly off topic Canaan but surely your post count is wrong?

4,294,967,295 since January?

Canaan

yes it is wrong!

doodah

anyone received their £50 from quidco yet?

Tori_Bellatrix

s1h wrote:

slightly off topic Canaan but surely your post count is wrong?

4,294,967,295 since January?

Lol ..... well spotted ...

richashel

Oh well, got received my letter of rejection today and my cheque back. 1 satisfied default and earn over 40k. Pretty sad as I feel I missed my chance by a matter of days.

jsmith9156

BYould wrote:

Just a word of warning about the debit card you get with this account, I have found to my cost that although it is a Visa debit the card is still rejected in various places. This seems to be mainly in places which don't use chip and pin machines.

I went shopping last week and my card got declined for £12 when there was £1800 in the account.

It appears that the transactions have to be authorised each and every time unlike some other visa debit cards.

I know this was posted a while ago but thought I would reply...

I rang Citibank about this as it was happening to me in various places. I was told that they will not approve transactions where you use the card in a shop without a Chip & Pin machine, It's a kinda Security measure to stop your card being used by someone else. A nice idea but kinda annoying.

This doesn't stop your card being accepted on CNP (customer not present) sales, ie. Mail order/Internet shopping.

It's only really affected me in two places so far, Tesco 'Pay @ Pump' (but works fine if you pay at the kiosk) and maplins electronics who dont have chip & pin at all.

Hope this is of use to someone

The other James

marcellep

doodah wrote:

anyone received their £50 from quidco yet?

Unles people applied for the account via quidco prior to Oct 2006 then nobody will have there £50.

As everyone is aware it tracks as £1 then changes to £50 when received. Well my £1 is paid and I emailed quidco and they advised that Citi have only paid up until the end of Oct so far. So I suspect we are in for a long wait

computerwoman

I should think by 2010 all shops should be chip n pin as they should be now it was 1 year old the other day, and should be law by that time, these shops that dont have it cant be bothered to up-grade to chip n pin or cant afford too, thanks for your input I havent had any probs with my card, and I always ask as I am going in to the shop are you chip n pin if they say no I walk back out, or make sure I have enough money to pay for my goods, but those shops that are not chip n pin should be prepared to lose afew customers if they cant be bothered why should we be bothered to shop with them,
cw

marcellep

CW I agree 100% with you re this subject, I have not been caught out with this as yet. I did question Citi re this and they said "security". I then moaned and said not all shops/retailers have this option, there reply go elsewhere. It made me laugh.

Places that do not have chip and pin in Edinburgh - Tesco Petrol, Morrisons Cig Kiosk - Poundstretcher -