Sale of Goldfish to Barclays

Chris2000

The Morgan Stanley & Goldfish credit card websites show that these cards are now issued by Barclays. They seem to have completed this deal faster than originally planned - it was only announced in February.

CannyJock

Pants. I had them on my list of stoozing cards and already have a Barclaycard with a measly 5K 0% limit.

NickX

CannyJock wrote: »

Pants. I had them on my list of stoozing cards and already have a Barclaycard with a measly 5K 0% limit.

In fact Barclaycard will ONLY allow you to Balance Transfer £5k at 0%, so even if you had a £30k credit limit, only £5k of it is really any good for stoozing.

It may be worth trying applications for Morgan Stanley or Goldfish sooner rather than later before they start to consolidate the systems with Barclaycard.

CannyJock

NickX wrote: »

In fact Barclaycard will ONLY allow you to Balance Transfer £5k at 0%, so even if you had a £30k credit limit, only £5k of it is really any good for stoozing.

Yup, started with a 10K limit but reduced it to 5K after doing a BT to take their 0% offer Last time I looked, Quidco were offering £ 41 for a Goldfish application if anyone is looking to apply asap.

Toastie

CannyJock wrote: »

Yup, started with a 10K limit but reduced it to 5K after doing a BT to take their 0% offer Last time I looked, Quidco were offering £ 41 for a Goldfish application if anyone is looking to apply asap.

They still are, althought aren't they a very good to excellent credit ratings?

BenL

I wonder if their systems are merged already or at the least the card details moved across.

I recently got a Goldfish card with a 3K limit, the same month as my Skycard (Barclaycard) was increased from 8K to 10K.

I can see a reduction in credit limit coming somewhere.

Toastie

BenL wrote: »

I wonder if their systems are merged already or at the least the card details moved across.

I recently got a Goldfish card with a 3K limit, the same month as my Skycard (Barclaycard) was increased from 8K to 10K.

I can see a reduction in credit limit coming somewhere.

As long as you haven't got too high a debt you should be ok, maybe close the goldfish card to be safe? (on the basis it has a lower limit)

nomoneytoday

Quidco offer £41 - £50 for one of these cards

BenL

I only opened the Goldfish for the Quidco. It pretty much paid for a weekend trip to Northern Ireland. Thank you budget airlines, cheapo car hire and hostels.

Badger_Lady

I'm pretty sure they haven't managed to make any product changes or merge any backend systems yet - they've only just managed to change all their legal wording to "Barclaycard"

Stephen_Leak

Oh dear. I won't be able to use my Morgan Stanley Goldfish = MSG = too much of either gives you a headache joke any more.