New Barclaycard Cashback Rewards

dr_adidas01

Bike369 said:

I have a Barclays Freedom Reward card. Can I add this to the card too? Not being greedy or anything ;-)

Yes you can add it to the Barclaycard rewards scheme. 

WillPS

Bike369 said:

I have a Barclays Freedom Reward card. Can I add this to the card too? Not being greedy or anything ;-)

Yep. You should find the link in online banking.

Nothing greedy about it either, Barclaycard fund the reward points you get on the card, the offers on here are funded by the merchants and Visa.

SamDude

denow said:

I'm coming up to my AMEX annual reward which currently stands at £306.20. I use that for pretty much all my day-to-day purchases. 80p here, 50p there...it all adds up to something decent over the 12 months.

From experience, Amex cashback is earned on spend rounded down to 1p.
This means if you are getting 0.5% cashback, you need to spend £2 to earn 1p - any transaction less than £2 means you don't earn cashback. 
If you spend £3, you still get 1p.
If you spend £4, you get 2p.

I've gotten into the habit of not using my Amex for transactions less than £2.

denow

No, me either. I didn’t mean I used it for 50p and 80p purchases, I meant I was getting those amounts as cashback at 1%.

Back to the Barclaycard theme though, I’m using my Barclaycard Rewards card in Majorca right now and getting an exchange rate of 1.17 which is amazing as the best i got at currency exchange before i came out was 1.14. Wish I’d have thought to just use the card for everything. Old habits die hard I guess, always liked to use cash to keep track of my spending on holiday. Don’t suppose that’s needed anymore with instant online access to that info.

Dandytf

I haven't yet seen any Costa reward's added to Barclay's rewards.

wiseonesomeofthetime

Dandytf said:

I haven't yet seen any Costa reward's added to Barclay's rewards.

Nor me, but 20% cashback has appeared on my Santander Retailer Offers list
A lot of exclusions though.denow said:

Back to the Barclaycard theme though, I’m using my Barclaycard Rewards card in Majorca right now and getting an exchange rate of 1.17 which is amazing as the best i got at currency exchange before i came out was 1.14. 

I saw Hays Travel yesterday offering a commission free exchange rate of 1.10, so even worse.
The free FX cards appear to be the way forward. Just need to watch what currency the merchant puts into the card reader when paying!

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wiseonesomeofthetime said:

Dandytf said:

I haven't yet seen any Costa reward's added to Barclay's rewards.

Nor me, but 20% cashback has appeared on my Santander Retailer Offers list
A lot of exclusions though.denow said:

Back to the Barclaycard theme though, I’m using my Barclaycard Rewards card in Majorca right now and getting an exchange rate of 1.17 which is amazing as the best i got at currency exchange before i came out was 1.14. 

I saw Hays Travel yesterday offering a commission free exchange rate of 1.10, so even worse.
The free FX cards appear to be the way forward. Just need to watch what currency the merchant puts into the card reader when paying!

and more than that, ensure card is not only in the correct local currency for the transaction, but do not hand it back after entering the PIN, but ensure there is no option to change it, MSE have reported examples where a Euro bill was confirmed in Euro and a PIN entered, but it was changed by the merchant