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Barclaycard- dreadful cust service, until I try to cancel!

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  • Laura_Figel
    Laura_Figel Posts: 15 Forumite
    theyre giving away money?
  • bigadaj
    bigadaj Posts: 11,531 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    This is a view point, everyone views business differently, and whether to transact withi someone is normally a combination of factors including price, service levels, wider customer feedback etc

    I closed my capital one account after non payment of topcashback credit, had they offered it then I might have retained it after repeated queries, however this is in a sense the reverse of what the OP has stated.
  • annmaria2
    annmaria2 Posts: 43 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary
    Yes they are giving away money. I left BC end of April they offered me to lower my APR, £50 credit and 0% balance transfer for 18 months!!! The £50 offer was quite shocking though.
    They said i can spend the money on whatever I want and I can leave if I change my mind. Anyway it didn't work for me...
  • ic
    ic Posts: 3,515 Forumite
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    I've been given big credits by Barclaycard too - I'd applied for the cashback card, and because of what they told me when I enquired over the phone, I decided to cancel. They gave me money to keep me. Once the card became active and I started to use it, it worked exactly how I wanted it to in the first place, against what they'd said - so I wound up with what I wanted plus a three figure sum thanks to their own poor product knowledge!
  • Not the case at John Lewis credit card. Got so angry with their service that I said fine I'm cancelling. Guess how they keep customers? Girl told me no I couldn't cancel (need to phone a different number or something).
  • weebit
    weebit Posts: 411 Forumite
    Barclaycard gave me £20 as a god will gesture. They sent me a letter saying they were going to double my credit limit in a months time. When they date came, it never increased. I waited a few more days and still no increase. So i call up asking what's going on and they basically said they changed their mind! But of course they weren't going to tell me this... i felt like they had treated me badly and after a long conversation, the CS advisor offered me the £20 as a good-will gesture.
    Aiming to pay off £50,312.94 in less than 3 years - Starting from December 2015
    Current debt total: £32,756.02 (as of 1st March 2018)
    Date Free Date Aim: Summer 2019 (8 extra months needed :( )
  • I got approx 130 back recently for making a complaint regarding interest
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