Barclys Blue rewards - Double still continuing?

quirkydeptless

My Blue Rewards total of £343 matches with two years worth of double bubble rewards for my two switches (£14x12=£168 x2 = £336) to this November, plus this month where I just got the standard £7.

NedS

This would have been my 13th month - no 13th bonus for me

Will check again tomorrow, ever hopeful

crumpet_man

colsten said:

crumpet_man said:

  Also, it's odd that certain accounts are getting the double bonus and others are not.  

Why is that odd? There are clear conditions for the double (and triple) bonus. If you have met the eligibility criteria and still didn't get the money, you would have a valid reason for a complaint.

Odd that they are getting double rewards for longer than 12 months where others have not.  

Katiehound

crumpet_man said:

colsten said:

crumpet_man said:

  Also, it's odd that certain accounts are getting the double bonus and others are not.  

Why is that odd? There are clear conditions for the double (and triple) bonus. If you have met the eligibility criteria and still didn't get the money, you would have a valid reason for a complaint.

Odd that they are getting double rewards for longer than 12 months where others have not.  

I still think that is because folk (like me) took advantage of the switch deal almost the moment  it started , so logically the double rewards should have ended after 12 months- instead they continued until we reached the end date of the latest switch deal possible.
I believe the end date was November
 I would suggest it might also be linked to the fact that so many employees are working at home, phone lines are manic,  branch staff manning the phone lines because they were so busy  (yes, I chatted to someone in branch but  100 miles away)
Maybe payments just slipped through the net...too much else going on?.... for once I was in the right place!

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Katiehound said:

crumpet_man said:

colsten said:

crumpet_man said:

  Also, it's odd that certain accounts are getting the double bonus and others are not.  

Why is that odd? There are clear conditions for the double (and triple) bonus. If you have met the eligibility criteria and still didn't get the money, you would have a valid reason for a complaint.

Odd that they are getting double rewards for longer than 12 months where others have not.  

I still think that is because folk (like me) took advantage of the switch deal almost the moment  it started , so logically the double rewards should have ended after 12 months- instead they continued until we reached the end date of the latest switch deal possible.
I believe the end date was November
 I would suggest it might also be linked to the fact that so many employees are working at home, phone lines are manic,  branch staff manning the phone lines because they were so busy  (yes, I chatted to someone in branch but  100 miles away)
Maybe payments just slipped through the net...too much else going on?.... for once I was in the right place!

There was clearly some kind of manual process going on the background as they were not processed alongside the standard Blue Reward. They probably just took a business to decision to pay until the last possible valid month due to covid.

Have to say, I couldn't last the year with them: no Google Pay, their clunky internet banking with error codes for everything and surly staff in most branches.

Katiehound

well, it's not my main account and I usually bank online- but my now  browser  is unsupported! (my computer's too old!)
Other than that they have been fine. Nice little profit

kaMelo

Katiehound said:

well, it's not my main account and I usually bank online- but my now  browser  is unsupported! (my computer's too old!)
Other than that they have been fine. Nice little profit

You can of course install many different, up to date web browsers.  Vivaldi, Opera, Firefox to name few

Eco_Miser

kaMelo said:

Katiehound said:

well, it's not my main account and I usually bank online- but my now  browser  is unsupported! (my computer's too old!)
Other than that they have been fine. Nice little profit

You can of course install many different, up to date web browsers.  Vivaldi, Opera, Firefox to name few

Not necessarily, if the computer, and Operating System, is too old.

I had this problem, and upgraded the OS to Linux, which solved the immediate problem, but there are memory constraints. New computer coming soon.

Katiehound

kaMelo said:

Katiehound said:

well, it's not my main account and I usually bank online- but my now  browser  is unsupported! (my computer's too old!)
Other than that they have been fine. Nice little profit

You can of course install many different, up to date web browsers.  Vivaldi, Opera, Firefox to name few

Sadly no, I can't .Don't you think I have tried?? They won't load due to old version of Windows.

Now is not the moment to be trying to sort a new computer with all Covid rules!  My Barclays banking will have to be via phone  just at present

kaMelo

Katiehound said:

kaMelo said:

Katiehound said:

well, it's not my main account and I usually bank online- but my now  browser  is unsupported! (my computer's too old!)
Other than that they have been fine. Nice little profit

You can of course install many different, up to date web browsers.  Vivaldi, Opera, Firefox to name few

Sadly no, I can't .Don't you think I have tried?? They won't load due to old version of Windows.

Now is not the moment to be trying to sort a new computer with all Covid rules!  My Barclays banking will have to be via phone  just at present

How old are we talking?
Windows 7 was released in 2009 and any Chromium browser (Opera, Vivaldi, Chrome etc) offers full support on windows 7.
There are versions which works on XP (2001) and Vista (2007) although Google dropped Chromium  support for these in 2016.
If you're still on one of these it would be wise to upgrade sooner rather than later or, as has been suggested, familiarise yourself with a fully up to date Linux distro.