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Barclays £175 Switch Offer - 15th July 2025 to 28th August 2025

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  • tomxlisa
    tomxlisa Posts: 565 Forumite
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    edited 4 September at 11:27AM
    s71hj said:
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    (Your account switch to Barclays has been completed. You may check your account balance and other details in branch, online, via our ATM services or by phone).


    Just received this text but no mention of the incentive is this normal or should they have mentioned the incentive if I was gonna be getting it or has other people received this one and then another text regarding the incentive?. Thanks. 

    5 1/2 hours later I got this one :
    Hi xxxxxxx, good news - you qualify for our current account switch offer. You'll get your £175 bonus payment in the next 10 days. Thanks for switching to us. Your Barclays team

    Brilliant so did you receive the same text as me then but then got that other text later on afterwards if so hopefully I get another text shortly.
    Yep. Earlier in the same day. So give it 5 or 6 hours and fingers crossed
    Thanks, reason I ask is I’m not sure if I qualify as i wasn’t sure from the start if I’ve had an account before otherwise I’d have been pretty confident in getting it, fingers crossed like you say. 
    At least one if not both of us had had an account albeit going back 5 or 10 years
    s71hj said:
    tomxlisa said:
    s71hj said:
    tomxlisa said:
    s71hj said:
    tomxlisa said:

    (Your account switch to Barclays has been completed. You may check your account balance and other details in branch, online, via our ATM services or by phone).


    Just received this text but no mention of the incentive is this normal or should they have mentioned the incentive if I was gonna be getting it or has other people received this one and then another text regarding the incentive?. Thanks. 

    5 1/2 hours later I got this one :
    Hi xxxxxxx, good news - you qualify for our current account switch offer. You'll get your £175 bonus payment in the next 10 days. Thanks for switching to us. Your Barclays team

    Brilliant so did you receive the same text as me then but then got that other text later on afterwards if so hopefully I get another text shortly.
    Yep. Earlier in the same day. So give it 5 or 6 hours and fingers crossed
    Thanks, reason I ask is I’m not sure if I qualify as i wasn’t sure from the start if I’ve had an account before otherwise I’d have been pretty confident in getting it, fingers crossed like you say. 
    At least one if not both of us had had an account albeit going back 5 or 10 years
    Hopefully I’m good then. Thanks.
  • tomxlisa
    tomxlisa Posts: 565 Forumite
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    s71hj said:
    tomxlisa said:
    It says "new customers only", but delving deep into the T&Cs, it looks like you might still be eligible if you previously had a current account with them but it's no longer open on the date this offer started. Provided you haven't previously received a switching bonus from them, of course.
    Anyone know if this is the case and have tried it as I think I had an account many years ago and might give this a try and open an account for the switch offer?.
    I'll know within the next fortnight but I guess that will be too late for you. The issue may be with getting the app to accept you as you'll have old "profiles". That was an issue a friendly staff member had to "get round" for us in branch
    Did you get the incentive?.
  • Tawny_Owl_2
    Tawny_Owl_2 Posts: 56 Forumite
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    I've been receiving several emails & text messages from Barclays, such as "Welcome" messages with the last 4 digits of my new account; and a promise to send my new Debit Card within a certain number of days.
    Only problem is (as posted earlier).....Being a newbie to Barclays, I haven't yet proved my ID to them.
    So I phoned their call centre to ask what was going on.
    They told me to ignore the messages.
    What a shambles !!!
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