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Barclaycard Advice

Hi

I switched to barclaycard about 13 months ago on a balance transfer and this is almost up, outstanding balance is £9000.

Due to a !!!! up at my bank i missed a payment for a utility literally once and now when i try to balance transfer this somewhere else i get refused ( i read something about debt spiral!).

The whole balance is going to be cleared December this year due to a windfall i am receiving, but in the meantime when the 0% runs out im going to be paying crazy interest until then.

Does anyone have any ideas of what i can do to keep interest to a minimum until December. I havent yet contacted Barclaycard to see if they will do anything for me.

Cheers
Jules

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  • cooltt
    cooltt Posts: 852 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I don't know any utilities that use credit agencies to report your payments??
  • Hi

    Thanks for your response, due to an error at my bank they paid a debit twice so the utility was fine, but as i was sailing close to the wind on my balance another utility got bounced.

    Therefor im now a major risk!, never missed a card payment or loan payment or mortgage payment in my life :-)
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