MSE News: Barclays offers switchers double rewards for a year

A quick reminder for anyone intending to switch a NatWest account to Barclays making the switch request in branch.

NatWest debit cards don't have your account number on them - the Barclays system needs the account number in addition to the sort code and 16 digit card number.

So don't forget to take something which shows your account number to your appointment - don't rely on the debit card being enough.

ronbell101 wrote: »

Can some one please point me in the right direction online to apply for a switch ?

I clicked on the MSE article- quoted at the top of this thread, then clicked on a link well down that page and it took me straight there. HTH

Markyboy112 wrote: »

This does not work if you are already signed up for blue rewards, customer service confirmed this.

In which case a complaint would be going in from me if it doesn't work, as the terms indicate it should, and no problem was indicated when I switched in branch and mentioned the offer.

Something the T&C's are not clear about is when the '12 months' of double rewards period actually starts. The best I've been able to get out of Barclays is that it starts in the calendar month when the application/request for Blue Rewards is processed and activated on the account.

However, the Rewards T&C's state:-

As long as you do these two things [pay in £800, pay the £3 fee] in the previous calendar month, we’ll add any regular product loyalty rewards (including any direct debit loyalty reward) or enhanced cashback to your Rewards Wallet on the 2nd working day of each month.

and

Your monthly fee will be taken from your nominated account on the 2nd working day of each month. The first monthly fee will be taken in the month after you join Barclays Blue Rewards.

Therefore if you get Blue Rewards in May your first fee is due on the second working day of June and the first reward payment will be made on the second working day of July.

That means you will be into your third month of membership before the first payment is made. Nobody at Barclays I've spoken to can confirm whether you are then eligible for a further 11 double payments, or only 9.

Has anyone asked a similar question and managed to get a sensible response?

The relevance of the question is that if you won't be able to get two DD's set up and taken from the Barclays account in May then you will miss a month's worth of reward if the 12 months starts with May. However, the T&C's suggest there is no reward payable in that first month regardless of whatever else you do, unless you already had Blue Rewards active and paid the monthly fee on the second working day of May.

Well I fell foul of the Experian generated question
Q1 in Jan this year .... (fine, got that)
Q2 in July of last year... (yep, that one's easy)
Q3 in June 2009.... (?@!)



I answered the 'none of the above' for Q3 b/c I never 'switched cable provider' as such, merely switched a landline from BT to TalkTalk and that form of question threw me off balance.


But now I'm locked out of the online application b/c Experian had to trawl ancient history for enough questions (and probably miscategorised it) to ask so I must 'book an appointment' to take in I.D. I can't just go to a bank brach and have it copied