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0% transfers drying up?



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0% deals in general have become a little more thin on the ground in recent months than they used to be.Your credit score is immaterial, but yes - a lender can see the balance on your loans (and the outstanding debt on any credit product you're carrying), and will factor this into their affordability algorithms.0
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Capri84 said:Noticed recently that 0% transfers (for existing customers) have started to dry up. Barclaycard in particular has had zero offers for the last few years.Credit score is excellent - but I do have a few loans, wondered if the balance on these needs to reduce before offers appear again? Is that the sort of thing credit card companies can see?
When you say you have noticed they have dried up for existing customers, what are you basing that on? Your own personal experience only or anything more? I have a Barclaycard, I can do a transfer today at 3.3% fee to 1/10/25, no MT offer though. My Halifax card (empty) has a 12 month offer, 5% fee / 6.9% interest over 24 months with no fee both for MT and BT. Lloyds too has very similar - 15 months, BT 4.5% fee or same fee free deal or 5% fee 15 month MT. M&S currently not offering anything on my empty card though they only ever gave 9 month offers at the best of times and Santander weren't giving anything either but I shut that card last weekSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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I'm getting the best offers from Barclaycard that I've had for years. Currently 2 offers at 2.8%. MT until 1st October 2025 and BT until 1st Jan 2026.
I'm not sure why, possibly because I opened a Barclays current account when they had their recent switching offer, so they have better sight of my finances than they had.0 -
Capri84 said:Noticed recently that 0% transfers (for existing customers) have started to dry up. Barclaycard in particular has had zero offers for the last few years.Credit score is excellent - but I do have a few loans, wondered if the balance on these needs to reduce before offers appear again? Is that the sort of thing credit card companies can see?0
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My BC offers rolled over, same deal 3.3% now to 1/11/25
Still nothing on M&S
Edit my NatWest one I checked just by chance and I have an offer 0% transfer fee offer on there but no end date, I guess maybe it will just be to the end of the existing dealSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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I am still getting offers on a regular basis from Barclaycard and Virgin. Halifax have even thrown a couple of offers at me recently.0
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My existing customer offers seem decent at the moment, 15 months off mbna and 18 month transfer offer from hsbc.
In the past I have found in the past that lloyds / mbna and halifax are decent for existing customers. 4 months in with HSBC they have already offered 2 promotions after the initial BT period expired.0
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