Barclays Premier £400 switch incentive

Bendo

Bendo said:

Just had a text confirming I've qualified for the switch bonus and it will be paid within 10 days. I've only paid in £80 as part of the switch, not paid in 4k yet so that's a bit weird. 

And the £400 was paid today. I paid in a total of less than £300 so they obviously don't check that very well. Will start a switch away later on

danco

Burns94 said:

Opened an account yesterday and filled in switch. Is it normal not to get any sort of confirmation? 

I was wondering that, but I think the CASS procedure has confirmation on the second working day. Given that the weekend is coming up, wait until Monday

comdw

I've had texts confirming account opening and then one about confirming the switch is in progress.  But I've NOT had anything saying I've qualifed for the £400 bonus even though I have transferred £4000 in (I've just left it there for now).

Gambler

comdw said:

I've had texts confirming account opening and then one about confirming the switch is in progress.  But I've NOT had anything saying I've qualifed for the £400 bonus even though I have transferred £4000 in (I've just left it there for now).

Has your account switched yet?

I received the bonus text a few days after the switch had completed.

comdw

Gambler said:

Has your account switched yet?

I received the bonus text a few days after the switch had completed.

Not yet, let's see then

danco

equitydealer said:I paid in £4k before the switch, literally paid the money in then took it back out 5 minutes later. Got a text that I’ve qualified for the switch offer. 

Interesting. I paid the money in, took a small sum out so as to confirm my other account as recipient, and a few hours later  tried to take out a fairly large amount. Got told that they had to make a security check which would take several hours.That was overnight, so maybe they haven't had to chance to make the checks yet, but I still don't have the transfer out made. 

This is the only firm that have not made a transfer out for me immediately.

danco

Later. They phoned me to take me through security checks. Even though I thought it highly likely that the call was genuine, on general principles and also to make sure I don't get into bad habits, I refused the call. I then phoned the bank myself, and though it took some time I eventually got things sorted.

Gambler

danco said:

Later. They phoned me to take me through security checks. Even though I thought it highly likely that the call was genuine, on general principles and also to make sure I don't get into bad habits, I refused the call. I then phoned the bank myself, and though it took some time I eventually got things sorted.

Read my earlier posts. I've also never known anything like it. Totally put me off as I was genuinely looking to move my main account.

Jetstreamer

Received my £400 bonus today.  To answer the OP, I had previously had a Premier account and received an Avios bonus a few years ago but this didn't impact me getting the cash incentive this time.

All completed without issue.  Took 2 weeks from opening the account to having the cash. I left £4000+ in my old account before the switch was complete so £4000+ went across during the switch. That seemed to work.

Text came through saying I qualified for bonus 2 days after the switch then the money took another 5 days to arrive.

hugheskevi

Just to add my experience - easy to open a new Barclays account and switch. Two days after switch completed I received a message saying I qualified for switch offer and bonus would be paid in 10 days. At no point did I deposit any money at all into the account, and there was only a token £1 in the account being switched. I received a debit card by post, but didn't use account account at all.

The bonus message was instantly accompanied by my account being frozen for security, and a requirement to go into branch with ID to remove the account block (no alternative available). That is a right pain, as they closed the branch in my town and also in the nearest town in recent years, so the nearest branch is a 25 mile round trip.

I've moved the 2 DDs I switched to another account and whenever I am next in a place with a Barclays bank will drop in with ID to get block removed, hopefully withdraw bonus, and close the account.