Received Barclays credit card, then two days later received a rejection letter

LucyGalb

Hi there!
I applied for a credit card with Barclays and received it along with my pin, however when I went to peel off the paper for my pin number, I accidentally tore the number but thought I could still kind of make it out. I went to the cash machine and tried it, but entered it incorrectly a number of times and it swallowed my card.
The next day I went in to the Barclays branch and used the free phone to request a new card and they said that was fine and went through all my details with me and sent my card out, however when I got home, there was a letter saying that unfortunately I had not been approved?
Do you think this means I can use the card or not when it arrives?

I know it is just an easier option to phone the bank than ask on here but I have ran out of 0800 calls on my mobile and I have no time to go to the bank.

Thanks!

grumbler

>> bad practise from barclaycard ...

planteria

that's a strange one.
i don't think there is anything to lose in just calling them to ask/discuss.

JKSandy

Barclays strike again.

iAMaLONDONER

There should be a sticky about this!

guesswho2000

You sure you didn't call up and inadvertently make a second application? You say you may have misread the PIN, and while Barclays have pulled this stroke before, I'd definitely give them a call to confirm either way.

giblet10

That's Barclaycard unfortunately. They seem to have started up this again - we hadn't heard about it for a while on here then someone else had the same thing happen to them last week.

I speculated on possible reasons but having worked in the card industry a long time ago, couldn't come up with anything solid.

But, plenty more fish in the sea as they say.