Barclaycard Rewards

OriginalCowPat

flaneurs_lobster

Thanks for the vote of confidence in me. Though I must say it was nice to spot a potential scam that didn't want to rush me into a decision. See future emails or something like that

MyRealNameToo

flaneurs_lobster said:

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.

American Express do send promotions by email which whilst they dont say "click here to log in" they do contain a link which will prompt you to log in to save that particular promotion to your card. 

Virgin Money are similar but the link just goes to a VM page taking about their Cashback offers but then VM dont have website based banking any more, only on an app so that may be why there is no log in. 

Barclays just dont have any offers so send FA

flaneurs_lobster

MyRealNameToo said:

American Express do send promotions by email which whilst they dont say "click here to log in" they do contain a link which will prompt you to log in to save that particular promotion to your card. 

Virgin Money are similar but the link just goes to a VM page taking about their Cashback offers but then VM dont have website based banking any more, only on an app so that may be why there is no log in. 

Barclays just dont have any offers so send FA

Amex - you're right - pisspoor, login button top right in the email, albeit under my FirstName and the last 5 digits of my card number.

Virgin Money most certainly do still have online web-based access with the usual functionality, in fact more than one to cater for their legacy accounts.

gt94sss2

OriginalCowPat said:

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

While I agree that it is good to be cautious and not click links in emails etc., In this case, the email is genuine and sent by Visa who run the scheme on behalf of Barclaycard.

If you wanted to access the rewards site via a Barclays website, you can do so via https://www.barclaycard.co.uk/personal/customer/barclaycard-cashback-rewards

Signup and access to the site has always been optional/different from the main site.

In fact, this is at least the 2nd version of the visa rewards scheme that Barclaycard have launched and then stopped.
   

NoodleDoodleMan

The above link won't allow me to register for rewards site.

ForumUser7

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.

Did you have to self declare that you qualified? If not, as I don't, I may give it a go too

flaneurs_lobster

ForumUser7 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.

Did you have to self declare that you qualified? If not, as I don't, I may give it a go too

I don't believe that I was asked the question - I certainly didn't make any kind of false claim or statement about my earnings or savings. 

But obviously I knew that I did not meet their stated criteria. There's no "application" as such, simply a request to upgrade.

bagand96

jbrassy 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.

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. 

Out of interest @jbrassy when you say "standing orders back and forth"... Do you still pay your salary in, or did you move that elsewhere and just use a standing order into Barclays to satisfy them?

I did a switch to Barclays last year and have Premier. Useful for Apple TV and I also pay for Avios Rewards. I did move my salary to them but I'd rather move it back elsewhere as I don't want to do all my banking with them...