Barclaycard has fixed its issues and an exclusive special offer is coming

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• Jake Jones says:

  4 Mar4 March 14:07

  All this effort to fly on BA*, have you not been reading the ongoing horror stories over on FT? 😂. *appreciate you can use them on other things and better airlines too

  • Jeff77 says:

    4 Mar4 March 14:10

    Much easier to convert to nectar points and spend them at eBay/Argos/Sainos etc!

    You don’t have to plan your spending a year in advance and can buy what you want!

    • Andrew J says:

      4 Mar4 March 22:01

      Indeed. Flights using Avios are so 2020 – it’s all about nectar now.

• Dace says:

  4 Mar4 March 14:09

  So, what is this bonus offer? Unless it is x amount of months free and/or 15k+ extra avios. I do not really see why people are going bananas.

• vol says:

  4 Mar4 March 14:35

  Hi Rob – can you mention to one of your contacts about the issue with some existing Barclaycard holders not being able to switch within the app, because the option is simply not available for some and is available for others, without any rhyme/reason/rationale?

  • Ravi says:

    4 Mar4 March 16:01

    Same. Was told I should cancel my current Barclaycard Platinum, wait 6 months and reapply.
    Which if going through all that, I might be as well apply for the amex.

  • Sinead says:

    4 Mar4 March 17:54

    We have told Barclays about this and they have given us a statement:
    “Existing Barclaycard customers are able to apply for the Barclaycard Avios credit cards if they are eligible. Customers eligible for the Barclaycard Avios cards will be able to see this option within the app.”

    • Roberto says:

      4 Mar4 March 18:15

      What’s the criteria for being eligible?

      I don’t see it in my app and was told by barclaycard that “there is no offer available on my account currently”…

      I asked if they can make it available and was told to keep checking and they could not say if or when it would appear. They also suggested I could cancel my card and wait 6 months before applying for the new product.

      They really have no idea how to market this product…

      • Cranzle says:

        4 Mar4 March 18:19

        No credit card provider reveals their full eligibility criteria. It’s always complex.

        Personally I think the statement from Barclays is great. If you don’t see the option, you’re not eligible. Saves you wasting an application.

        • Roberto says:

          4 Mar4 March 18:46

          @Cranzle how does that help?

          I have a couple of Barclaycards and spend about £5000 a month on them. I must have had them 15 years, still live at the same address, have never made a late payment to them or elsewhere and have a perfect credit score..

          What extra criteria do you think they should be taking into account to make the app change just on the off-chance I click on it and what to change my card for another?

          I reality they have not loaded it onto all accounts and like some certain Russian are offering a rubbish answer to a sensible question.

          Prehaps they have looked at my account and seen that I have spent half a million quid on my cards in the last 10 years or so and paid not a penny in interest – maybe they are cherry picking more profitable people at the moment?

        • Ed says:

          4 Mar4 March 18:46

          I’m also not convinced of their IT ability to deliver this either. A few days ago I could change my platinum to a rewards card, now I get nothing.

          Waiting to see what the “special” offers are, but frankly, unless the switch offer gets close to 25k avios it’s going to be a case of cancel and wait 6m.

        • Ian says:

          4 Mar4 March 18:54

          In reply to Roberto ( the reply function isn’t available for his post)….perhaps Barclaycard has decided that they don’t want to spend a lot of money providing shed loads of Avios to someone who has spent half a million quid but not paid a penny in interest. They’re a business, not a charity!

        • sloth says:

          4 Mar4 March 19:54

          Ian’s comment is spot on. I dont think a lot of people understand banks are there to make money – not give it away

      • John says:

        4 Mar4 March 19:39

        I was able to get the new Avios card in the app. Log into the app, select cards, select your current Barclaycard and scroll down to the option to change to another card. For me, this shows the Avios card and I changed to it. Bonus 1000 Avios for free card, 5000 Avios for fee card.

    • Justin says:

      4 Mar4 March 19:32

      As a ln existing Barclaycard holder (15+ yrs), I can confirm that it’s certainly an option for some consumers – as is the case in my app.

      • Andrew J says:

        4 Mar4 March 22:03

        +1 – it’s been on my app since Wednesday morning.

• k says:

  4 Mar4 March 18:27

  “it’s best to check your eligibility first using their free tool”

  Rob, earlier in the week, in comments, you wrote advising to ignore the eligibility check.

• sterrynet says:

  4 Mar4 March 18:29

  Hi, first post. Following the site with interest. I was just about to cancel my existing Barclaycard and wait the 6 months before re-applying for the full sign up bonus, but is there a chance that this forthcoming ‘special offer’ might change anything related to the SUB for existing card holders? Thanks

• Super Secret Stuff says:

  4 Mar4 March 18:42

  I mean it was half predictable… why would you launch a new product without a speacial introductory offer

• Graeme says:

  4 Mar4 March 20:05

  Rob, in the current 0.3% cap in the UK and previous reports of companies payinf circa 1p per Avios, how does this card work for Barclays do you think? Have they got a better deal with Avios due to the current climate?

  • HH says:

    4 Mar4 March 20:45

    How do the BA Amex economics work…?

  • Jake Jones says:

    4 Mar4 March 21:16

    Super question, like to hear your thoughts HfP?

    • Rob says:

      4 Mar4 March 22:05

      My best guess is that Barclays – which has a suite of loans, mortgages, current accounts etc that American Express cannot offer – sees value in cross-selling.

• qiang says:

  4 Mar4 March 20:44

  I tried to apply, 1st time, the final submit application stuck overtime and asked me to apply from scratch again. 2nd time it went through but no decision given and no email so far . What I have got is two hard search on my credit record…….

  • qiang says:

    8 Mar8 March 20:26

    Still nothing from Barclays since I applied on 1st March

    • qiang says:

      11 Mar11 March 15:24

      still nothing from Barclays, dont really know whats going on 🙁

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