Barclays £175 switch offer - new customers only, Nov 1 - 30 2023

harz99

Jonx999 said:

adamp87 said:

Do you need to pop £800 into the account? 

I just paid £800 into mine to be on the safe side - but now discover I can't transfer any money back out (I get a RPS01 error with a message saying try again in 4 hours). Hopefully it's just a glitch, but I wouldn't pay any money into the account that you can't afford to be without for a while.

Are you relying on tje payee details switched over from your old bank as that probably won't work. Try setting up a new payee with those same details - if that happens okay give it a day, and then move your money.

harz99

Switch completion on 28/11, letters re the switch progress and card etc. all recived in one delivery shortly after 28/11.

Today more letters, closure statement from Lloyds dated 29/11, plus a Barclays switch processing letter dated 22/11, which ive already had at least a week ago🙄.

Meanwhile, everyone still waits for news of the £175, in my case hoping that it arrives before another £5 gets deducted for Blue Rewards in January (which I'm not using, nor going to use).

Yorkshire_Pud

Jonx999 said:

adamp87 said:

Do you need to pop £800 into the account? 

I just paid £800 into mine to be on the safe side - but now discover I can't transfer any money back out (I get a RPS01 error with a message saying try again in 4 hours). Hopefully it's just a glitch, but I wouldn't pay any money into the account that you can't afford to be without for a while.

After opening the account I made a small test payment £5 and couldn’t pay it back out again until after I had received the physical debit card which took about seven working days of course. Switched payees couldn’t be used until after switch day. I could pay in as much as I wanted but only use the balance to spend online or at terminals in shops using the app, until the card eventually arrived. Using the card seemed to authenticate my ability to make payments from the account.

 Barclays are slowwwwwwww. And send loads of silly emails but nothing useful like have I qualified for the £175 and when will it actually be paid.

Yorkshire_Pud

Think I’ve made a mistake trying to get the £10 cashback in November and December. I signed up for BR but now think I need to ALSO sign up for cashback which is run by Visa? I spent £200+ in November but won’t get that?

Ive just signed up for the cashback, had thought it was part of blue rewards but isn’t, I spent £200 last week but assume this won’t be counted as not signed up until today? Or will it be as it’s December spend?
Thanks. 🫤 

Nasqueron

Yorkshire_Pud said:

Think I’ve made a mistake trying to get the £10 cashback in November and December. I signed up for BR but now think I need to ALSO sign up for cashback which is run by Visa? I spent £200+ in November but won’t get that?

Ive just signed up for the cashback, had thought it was part of blue rewards but isn’t, I spent £200 last week but assume this won’t be counted as not signed up until today? Or will it be as it’s December spend?
Thanks. 🫤 

You could try asking nicely but it is shown in the app / site that you have to sign up for this as it's a promotion, not part of blue rewards. It's a Barclays offer not Visa, when your spend is registered it appears in the cashback rewards pot

boingy

Yorkshire_Pud said:

Think I’ve made a mistake trying to get the £10 cashback in November and December. I signed up for BR but now think I need to ALSO sign up for cashback which is run by Visa? I spent £200+ in November but won’t get that?

Yeah, it is a bit confusing. You open the account, then sign up for Blue Rewards and then sign up for the Cashback. They show as three different "accounts" in the app. They take a fiver from your current account each month for Blue Rewards. If that account pays out 2 DDs and has at least £800 credited to it then they pay a fiver into your Blue Rewards "account" where it stays forever unless you move it to your current account. Likewise cashback goes into the cashback "account" and stays there until you move it. It would be nice if you could opt to have everything go straight into the current account.

I suspect any cashback spending you have done in December that happened prior to signing up will not be counted as cashback.

Yorkshire_Pud

boingy said:

Yorkshire_Pud said:

Think I’ve made a mistake trying to get the £10 cashback in November and December. I signed up for BR but now think I need to ALSO sign up for cashback which is run by Visa? I spent £200+ in November but won’t get that?

Yeah, it is a bit confusing. You open the account, then sign up for Blue Rewards and then sign up for the Cashback. They show as three different "accounts" in the app. They take a fiver from your current account each month for Blue Rewards. If that account pays out 2 DDs and has at least £800 credited to it then they pay a fiver into your Blue Rewards "account" where it stays forever unless you move it to your current account. Likewise cashback goes into the cashback "account" and stays there until you move it. It would be nice if you could opt to have everything go straight into the current account.

I suspect any cashback spending you have done in December that happened prior to signing up will not be counted as cashback.

Yes just read the cashback t&c that I wasn’t aware of until today, have to have signed up for cashback prior so it’s another £200 debit card payment for December to my building society, not worth doing anything else! 

November £10 is lost!

Nasqueron

boingy said:

Yorkshire_Pud said:

Think I’ve made a mistake trying to get the £10 cashback in November and December. I signed up for BR but now think I need to ALSO sign up for cashback which is run by Visa? I spent £200+ in November but won’t get that?

Yeah, it is a bit confusing. You open the account, then sign up for Blue Rewards and then sign up for the Cashback. They show as three different "accounts" in the app. They take a fiver from your current account each month for Blue Rewards. If that account pays out 2 DDs and has at least £800 credited to it then they pay a fiver into your Blue Rewards "account" where it stays forever unless you move it to your current account. Likewise cashback goes into the cashback "account" and stays there until you move it. It would be nice if you could opt to have everything go straight into the current account.

I suspect any cashback spending you have done in December that happened prior to signing up will not be counted as cashback.

The cashback was a 3 month promotion for Barclays Blue members, it's nothing to do with the switch, just happened to run at the same time meaning new members could at least get 2x £10 (as the switch offer was in November)

After December you could simply let your Blue lapse (e.g. not paying in £800) so you wouldn't get billed and perhaps join again later if they have a promotion again

sparklymarkly

Well after a load of hassle (more than any other switch I’ve ever done) my switch to Barclays finally went through today on the date they promised.
Blue Rewards joined, DDs are active so all set to go.
Just one thing I do need to know please:
How do you apply for the 5% cash back offer that people are talking about.
I can’t seem to find it anywhere on the Barclays app pages.

Jonx999

Christ, Barclays don't make it easy.  I just had a call at 7pm from a foreign-sounding guy claiming to be from Barclays fraud department.  It sounded extremely scammy, but he said just call them back using the number on the back of the debit card.  So I did - and I'm stuck in a phone queue.  And the caller was probably legitimate because when I try to log in to the Barclays app I now get a "RG21M - your access to this account is currently blocked" message.

I wish I hadn't paid that £800 into the account earlier.