MSE News: Barclays offers switchers double rewards for a year

18cc wrote: »

I think that if you apply online as a new customer and for whatever reason your application is not accepted there and then and you don't get a chance to go to the switching webpage and they ask you to take two forms of ID into a branch then that means you will also have to go to the branch to switch

I have confirm this with the barclays switching team and also my own experience

In a way it means you are one jump ahead simply because you set up the switch & prove who you are all in one go.

If you instigate a switch online even without problems you still have to go into a branch to prove your identity and the switch will not go ahead until your docs have been checked..

have transferred money in- all £800 of it!- but now can't get it out! well not online. Could go to a machine in town , draw it out and return to different accounts in person. Fortunately not a financial problem.
Card readers are going to be needed. I already have 2 maybe I need a Barclays one to complete the set??

That's interesting.

Anyone verify this as at the moment I just end up with yet another account!

sheffieldeagle wrote: »

Do you realise you can use other banks card reader for your Barclays account.


Cheers

Yes
Been there , done that, bought the tee shirt! However the situation with Natwest meant that I had to wait a reasonable time (such as allowing for delivery|) before I could use my Nationwide reader! It would not let me straight in

keef-WhatStandards wrote: »

Thanks, but I think you have your/my posts muddled.

sorry what post are you referring to?
It often helps to quote the post first that you are answering as there are often two or three points going on at the same time and it gets muddled (to put it mildly!)