Barclaycard Rewards

flaneurs_lobster

noitsnotme said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

denow said:

Barclays becomes less and less attractive all the time. I've banked with them since 1989 but have recently moved my main banking to Lloyds. They just seem to take away benefits and give nothing back. I'm sure the replacement to this will be very underwhelming.

By way of contrast, despite in no way meeting the financial requirements (static £30 in current account, no savings) I applied for an upgrade to Premier Banking earlier this week for no reason other than wanting free Apple+ TV. Was granted inside a day.

I wonder if they will realise you don’t fit the criteria and reverse the decision?  Might give it a try myself.

Reversion is always a possibility, frankly I'm surprised that I wasn't bounced immediately. You'd think that they might check before generating a new Premier card which is apparently in the post.

Currently I don't use Barclays for any services so not a worry if it gets the heave-ho, at least I've managed to watch the first two episodes of Alien: Earth on my new big telly.

MeteredOut

flaneurs_lobster said:

noitsnotme said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

denow said:

Barclays becomes less and less attractive all the time. I've banked with them since 1989 but have recently moved my main banking to Lloyds. They just seem to take away benefits and give nothing back. I'm sure the replacement to this will be very underwhelming.

By way of contrast, despite in no way meeting the financial requirements (static £30 in current account, no savings) I applied for an upgrade to Premier Banking earlier this week for no reason other than wanting free Apple+ TV. Was granted inside a day.

I wonder if they will realise you don’t fit the criteria and reverse the decision?  Might give it a try myself.

Reversion is always a possibility, frankly I'm surprised that I wasn't bounced immediately. You'd think that they might check before generating a new Premier card which is apparently in the post.

Currently I don't use Barclays for any services so not a worry if it gets the heave-ho, at least I've managed to watch the first two episodes of Alien: Earth on my new big telly.

For a second there, I thought that was the name of the show, and had visions of a show interviewing aliens about watching our planet on their TV

flaneurs_lobster

MeteredOut said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

noitsnotme said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

denow said:

Barclays becomes less and less attractive all the time. I've banked with them since 1989 but have recently moved my main banking to Lloyds. They just seem to take away benefits and give nothing back. I'm sure the replacement to this will be very underwhelming.

By way of contrast, despite in no way meeting the financial requirements (static £30 in current account, no savings) I applied for an upgrade to Premier Banking earlier this week for no reason other than wanting free Apple+ TV. Was granted inside a day.

I wonder if they will realise you don’t fit the criteria and reverse the decision?  Might give it a try myself.

Reversion is always a possibility, frankly I'm surprised that I wasn't bounced immediately. You'd think that they might check before generating a new Premier card which is apparently in the post.

Currently I don't use Barclays for any services so not a worry if it gets the heave-ho, at least I've managed to watch the first two episodes of Alien: Earth on my new big telly.

For a second there, I thought that was the name of the show, and had visions of a show interviewing aliens about watching our planet on their TV

Nah, that show is on Discovery+.

jbrassy

flaneurs_lobster said:

noitsnotme said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

denow said:

Barclays becomes less and less attractive all the time. I've banked with them since 1989 but have recently moved my main banking to Lloyds. They just seem to take away benefits and give nothing back. I'm sure the replacement to this will be very underwhelming.

By way of contrast, despite in no way meeting the financial requirements (static £30 in current account, no savings) I applied for an upgrade to Premier Banking earlier this week for no reason other than wanting free Apple+ TV. Was granted inside a day.

I wonder if they will realise you don’t fit the criteria and reverse the decision?  Might give it a try myself.

Reversion is always a possibility, frankly I'm surprised that I wasn't bounced immediately. You'd think that they might check before generating a new Premier card which is apparently in the post.

Currently I don't use Barclays for any services so not a worry if it gets the heave-ho, at least I've managed to watch the first two episodes of Alien: Earth on my new big telly.

Without being boastful, I do earn enough to qualify for this account and signed up for it a while ago. However, earlier this year I was downgraded to a normal Barclays account as I wasn't paying my salary into it. Now I do standing orders back and forth to keep them happy.

If you're not paying enough money into the account, it'll get downgraded after 12 months. 

ColdIron

flaneurs_lobster said:

gt94sss2 said:

GeoffTF said:

I have a Barclaycard Rewards card, but I have not had an email.

It's not related specifically to the Barclaycard Rewards card.

The announcement relates to a separate add on thing that is run by visa

https://www.barclaycard.co.uk/personal/customer/barclaycard-cashback-rewards

It's remarkably similar to the schemes bolted on to some accounts with RBS/NatWest, Lloyds, Santander and probably others. All run by Visa and difficult to compare (even between two accounts with the same bank) since the promotions are "personalised".

Yes, Virgin Money as well. The email offers from them and Barclays usually arrive within minutes of each other which is handy as I can consign them to the big bit bucket in the sky simultaneously

OrangeBlueGreen

ColdIron said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

gt94sss2 said:

GeoffTF said:

I have a Barclaycard Rewards card, but I have not had an email.

It's not related specifically to the Barclaycard Rewards card.

The announcement relates to a separate add on thing that is run by visa

https://www.barclaycard.co.uk/personal/customer/barclaycard-cashback-rewards

It's remarkably similar to the schemes bolted on to some accounts with RBS/NatWest, Lloyds, Santander and probably others. All run by Visa and difficult to compare (even between two accounts with the same bank) since the promotions are "personalised".

Yes, Virgin Money as well. The email offers from them and Barclays usually arrive within minutes of each other which is handy as I can consign them to the big bit bucket in the sky simultaneously

Yes it's a reward scheme that is one of those "just to be seen or be able to say that we have something" but then you look into it and it's either very random or way too specific, so never used. It's also often "cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer" with the offers available direct from the companies usually better than what these schemes offer. I am guessing Visa launched this for financial institutions to try and stem losing business to Mastercard.

surreysaver

OrangeBlueGreen said:

ColdIron said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

gt94sss2 said:

GeoffTF said:

I have a Barclaycard Rewards card, but I have not had an email.

It's not related specifically to the Barclaycard Rewards card.

The announcement relates to a separate add on thing that is run by visa

https://www.barclaycard.co.uk/personal/customer/barclaycard-cashback-rewards

It's remarkably similar to the schemes bolted on to some accounts with RBS/NatWest, Lloyds, Santander and probably others. All run by Visa and difficult to compare (even between two accounts with the same bank) since the promotions are "personalised".

Yes, Virgin Money as well. The email offers from them and Barclays usually arrive within minutes of each other which is handy as I can consign them to the big bit bucket in the sky simultaneously

Yes it's a reward scheme that is one of those "just to be seen or be able to say that we have something" but then you look into it and it's either very random or way too specific, so never used. It's also often "cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer" with the offers available direct from the companies usually better than what these schemes offer. I am guessing Visa launched this for financial institutions to try and stem losing business to Mastercard.

It's handy, as I've earned £40 or £50 every two months by changing my Sky direct debit from Halifax to Bank of Scotland to Lloyds to RBS to NatWest and I'll be switching it to Virgin next month 

Olenna

flaneurs_lobster said:

noitsnotme said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

denow said:

Barclays becomes less and less attractive all the time. I've banked with them since 1989 but have recently moved my main banking to Lloyds. They just seem to take away benefits and give nothing back. I'm sure the replacement to this will be very underwhelming.

By way of contrast, despite in no way meeting the financial requirements (static £30 in current account, no savings) I applied for an upgrade to Premier Banking earlier this week for no reason other than wanting free Apple+ TV. Was granted inside a day.

I wonder if they will realise you don’t fit the criteria and reverse the decision?  Might give it a try myself.

Reversion is always a possibility, frankly I'm surprised that I wasn't bounced immediately. You'd think that they might check before generating a new Premier card which is apparently in the post.

Currently I don't use Barclays for any services so not a worry if it gets the heave-ho, at least I've managed to watch the first two episodes of Alien: Earth on my new big telly.

Not really that surprising as Barclays let most people apply for or upgrade to Premier. They used to simply charge a fee if you didn't meet their Premier criteria but now to they just downgrade to their pleb account.

OriginalCowPat

Warning 

Just spotted this discussion on your website related to email below. It looks like a fraud/scam email.

 

Normally Barclaycard include the last four numbers of my card, but not in this email. It also had a link for me to log in, which they do not normally do. I've not clicked it. Finally the email addressooks dodgy 

Oh and for good measure, I've logged into my account, not using link provided and can't see anything there!

The email does not seem very clear on details either. So barge and pole comes to mind

flaneurs_lobster

OriginalCowPat said:

Warning 

Just spotted this discussion on your website related to email below. It looks like a fraud/scam email.

 

Normally Barclaycard include the last four numbers of my card, but not in this email. It also had a link for me to log in, which they do not normally do. I've not clicked it. Finally the email addressooks dodgy 

Almost certainly dodgy email for the reasons you state. Financial institutions will never (or at least they shouldn't) include a "click here to login" link in an email but will simply ask you to go to a particular page once you've logged in.