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Barclaycard £50 Credit for bad press
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Just rang up to cancel. Was put on hold for 15 minutes and eventually hung up as I'm at work. Can only assume they were hoping I'd give up! Poor.0
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I tried to cancel my card, because I was such a 'valued' customer I was offered £50 to keep it open. I spent the £50, didn't use the card again for a couple of months and rang up to cancel it... £40 this time, and I've recently had another £30.
It doesn't always work though, my girlfriend called to close her dormant account and they just did it. I have done a balance transfer in the past so this must make me 'valuable'.
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I just called to cancel my barclayvard platinum card that I was using to stooze but had ended the 0% period. They offered me £20 to stay.0
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No luck for me.
Just called to cancel my Barclaycard Platinum. Had it for 2 years and never used it. They just closed the account, no offers."When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us" Alexander Graham Bell0 -
Phoned up to cancel old Barclaycard and was put through to customer retentions. Was offered various deals - ended up taking (negotiating) an 18 month interest fee balance transfer of £8000 for a reduced fee of £100 (1.25%). Money to repay is currently accumulating in a first direct regular savings accounts x 2 (me and wife) getting 8% gross interest.0
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Just called as had been meaning to cancel my Barclaycard for ages. No money offered but I got a new 0% deal for purchases for 6 months which is why I took the card out originally (but it had lapsed). Probably could have tried haggling for money but it wasn't offered it otherwise.0
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Oh, dilemma. There's a BT offer on my cashback card, but not good enough to stooze. If I phone to cancel the card, will they improve the BT, or offer me cash, or just say right, you've saved us paying your cashback?"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0
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Just rang them, they offered me all sort of incentives but I kept insisting it was no good to me, so in the end, as a good will gesture, they credited me £50- claiming it was an interest rebate
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Haven't we been here before, banks flooded with cheap money and paying people to borrow? USA before the crash?"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0
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My wife got £50 and 1% cashback on all purchases for 6 months when she tried to cancel the card a few weeks back.0
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