“A bureaucratic nightmare if you are attempting to support a loved one by being their power of attorney. Most banks are able to enact this if you go into the branch with the correct paperwork - not Barclays. They have a very convoluted system of appointments with such poor availability that it is totally unfit for purpose - EG I urgently need to enact a power of attorney and have been told that the first appointment is not for 2 months and thereafter would have to wait at least 10 days for it to be dealt with! The branch staff are very sympathetic but whoever signed off their system for power of attorney registration is completely incompetent and has no understanding of why someone might need to do this.”
“I am disabled, they knew this, they closed my account without any notice recently and claimed it was legal because it is in their TOS, it's not legal to do that to a vulnerable adult. They did it because I was trying to dispute a charge back that they had failed to dispute with VISA on my behalf some months ago even though I had called in about it multiple times and they re-assured me that they where looking into it when in actual fact they had done nothing. This also constitutes fraud as they deployed their TOS with wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain to themselves. But this is no surprise, even when I had a business account with them, when I reported to close it so that I would not run into any fees they failed to do so and I accumulated fee's that they had to strike off because the call of me requesting to call it had been logged. As a customer, they never did anything they said they would, which all ended up costing me money, in the end rather than to accept their incompetency and pay back the charge-back out of their own pockets they decided it would be a better business decision to just terminate the account of a disabled adult so that I could not dispute it. When they forced me, a disabled adult, to go to a branch to find out why I received a barrage of text messages informing me that direct debits had been cancelled they told me that my account had been closed, when I asked about the charge-back I was disputing they said that I could no longer dispute it. When I requested they send me 3 months of historical statements they sent me back incomplete fragments of statements spanning back 7 months basically 4 pages with 11 transactions on each page for a 7 month period... The incompetency is astounding, as a customer they never did anything I requested of them, and my final request that they sent me statements, they could not even do that properly! I was with Santander prior and deeply regret leaving them, but in 2011 Barclays pressured me into closing my account with Santander when I was only looking to open a business account with Barclays.”
“Their website is always DOWN or ALWAYS states an error after you have entered ALL you DETAILS CORRECTLY!
Barclays are useless nowadays. If I ever come into real money I'm leaving. Barclays no reply needed as it will be the usual rubbish.”
“My balance with Barclays has been around $1000.00 which I have paid off twice this year and also monthly by carryng around $400.00 debt...I've been a great customer but my credit score went from perfect to 600 by their statement that I paid LATE..When they themselves have deposit close $6000.00 to my account then 2.5 months later said it was deposited wrong. By them. MY FICO SCORE went down 200 points. Never had problem last year/prior.”
“Don’t use merchant services or take card payment using Barclays merchant services or their ingenico devices , terrible service , everything is dealt with via call centre in India who cannot do anything at all .. UK Bank with no UK customer, technical or finance services departments actually in the UK ! . I was warned that they were bad but I didn’t think it would’ve have been as much as a nightmare and waste of time dealing with them as it has been …. Go elsewhere.. worst bank ever ! I will be moving bank !”
“I didn't even want to give 1 star barclays have let a company called lookiero take 2 lots of money from my account and I raised a dispute and fraud cancelled my card and the bank took the money back from me and said they will not take it any further I can't even get intouch with this company iv sent 6 emails and no correspondence back barclays don't care if times are hard and cost of living is horrendous they leave u with no money at all so annoyed 😢
Date of experience: 14 December 2022”
“Barclays work in partner ship with take payments ltd who are a complete scam of a company!!!
AVOIDXXAVOIDXXAVOIDXXAVOIDXXAVOIDXXAVOIDXX
AVOID AT ALL COST COMPLETE CON ARTIST OF A COMPANY!!!
Had a guy sign me up told me it would be around £24 a month that knight I worked it out it would be more expensive so the next morning I phoned to cancel and here is where the castle begins,
I have called around 9 times to cancel they even said they would then you get passed to someone else who promises to call you back, this does not happen so you call chasing to then be told you can't cancel as your a business and have no cooling off period even though I've not even used the Mechine im still using the old provider.
they have done the same thing with 3 people I know we all signed up at the same time, im shocked Barclays are even doing business with such a rip off company.
there is a lot more to this story so I will upload as and when they respond”
“I’m upset I can’t put 0. As it’s really not 1* is 0*
I asked online supporters to pay in my behalf as the account number was longer than they allowed only to type.
I been asking them to that more then 3 days for me. And it’s still haven’t been paid.
And the system is completely out of date, I said many times yes, pay for me. And the keep asking me if they can or not! Like a joke. Sometimes answers coming to you in a few hours and sometimes is now window for the replay. Maybe it’s a bug. Anyway it’s plenty of work for you guys and I think I like to switch what old fashion bank to Revolut or Monzo. And recommend it for all the customers.”
“Wish I could give 0 stars.
Barclays withdrew my mortgage offer for a made up reason that all of a sudden I have some imaginary unsecured credit, which is a completely made up story so they don't honour the 3% interest rate they gave me in the summer so now I'll have to remortgage with almost double the interest rate.
Absolute crooks.”
“It is the easy jet of banks. Poor customer service who could not care less about the customers and about Barclays reputation. Untidy, ugly and messy branches which the waiting time is minimum of 45 min for a simple banking task. The future of banking does not have a place for Barclays the way they are treating customers now.”
“I have been a barclays customer for 30 years and in the last few years have also set up a business with Barclays. Even though I've been self employed for a couple of years, in the last few weeks I have been receiving texts to inform me that my business bank details are questioned. I filled in their form and received messages thanking me. Now I am receiving more text messages again telling me my details are in question. This morning I have spent 3 hours on hold across two phone calls (meaing that no work is getting done) and I still have no answers. Hey Barclays, instead of sending BS impersonal text messages to your customers why don't you call me!!!? Right now I am wondering why I bother with you. You are litterally putting a stop to any income that I might have today and if you think for some reason that you have my loyalty you're wrong. If you think you can treat me like an idiot you're wrong and if you think you can just put me on hold for 3 hours after you have questioned my details you're wrong. In this critical economy you're actively preventing me from earning today. From now on, if you want any info from me pick up the phone and call me you lazy pigs.”
“Barclays Romford has just one till for business transactions. Today, one customer took over an hour to complete while the queue got longer and longer, including having an obviously elderly and disabled man left standing. This was of no fault of either the customer or the staff who are all very obliging and competent. However, the duty manager showed no interest in solving the problem either immediately or in the future. This busy branch badly needs a second till for business transactions.
Otherwise the customers are badly served and hard working staff put under unnecessary pressure.”
“I've had a case with Barclays for nearly 4 months! I booked and paid for a hire car (from Goldcar in Nice/France). Nothing there when I arrived on time. They charged me nearly £500 for a smaller car which was the only one they had. Goldcar simply don't reply (once - but meaningless) and Barclays were lied to (Goldcar said we were late - when we were on time). Barclays have written to us saying 'the case is closed as we were late' but we were not late. And we've paid twice for a car we didn't even want. It should be a simple refund. That's all I'm asking.”
“......................... PIGS !! ........................
*** SCREWED A WOUNDED VETERAN OUT OF $30, 000 ***
ALL BECAUSE OF BAD CONNECTIVITY WHILE HE WAS IN AFGHANASTAN SERVING AND FIGHTING FOR THIS COUNTRY !!!!!
AND HE IS A SENIOR WITH AARP!!!!!!
DO NOT DO BUSINNESS WITH THIS BANK !!!!
........ BEWARE !!!!!!”
“Terrible customer service,I've been on the phone for the last 2hrs and 40 minutes. Went to my local bank today and was told to talk to the business team on line and here l am still waiting to talk to a real person.
I think it is time to take my business somewhere.”
“I am treasurer at a local church and from time to time need to get new people on or off our business account. The level of incompetence I've encountered with the Barclays Change Mandate Team is beyond anything I've ever experienced. The change process to bring on new people is stated to take 10 working days. I've so far experienced two occasions of three months and this year an incredible six months. Firstly you have to call them and that takes around 45 minutes just to get through. The robot will talk about exceptional call volumes but that ain't true because it's been like that for two years. When you do speak to a member of the team they will speak with authority, be very polite and get it totally wrong. So you ring back a month later and someone will tell you that they need something else (more signatures, more verification, whatever). 'We're sorry, but the first person got it wrong'. You follow through with that until the next occasion when you have to ring again only to find something else that's wrong. That something else might require an additional visit to a branch. If you can find one and have the time to go there, wait and finally be served by someone who knows less that the Change Mandate Team; then they may get it wrong too. The Barclays Change Mandate Team don't get in touch with you. They don't know their own processes. I assume no-one is trained in them. Certainly their processes were poorly written and never, ever tested. The six month's timescale I referred to above was not six month's of simply waiting. It was six months that included multiple visits to branch, half a dozen LONG phone calls and receipt of obscure meaningless letters from Barclays that worsened already muddied waters. The Barclays Change Mandate Team have zero consideration for their customers. I wonder if in the reverse situation they would like to be treated like this.”
“i have had a credit card with them for many years . just a waste of my time and my credit score . never have missed a payment or payed min. . now they just keep lowering my credit limit and in turn effects my credit score. i sugest steer clear of this bank.”
“Barclays. This will be repeated on every platform of social media. This Bank has £5000 of my money. It was transferred into my partners account in March. We now want to transfer it out to Bulgaria. Even though Barclays were given Mike's new mobile number in December last year, they did not update it. Cue: Unable to pass Visa online security.
Telephone bankings suggestions was go to branch. 2000 miles away. To update the phone number. We write to the CEO, the Client Relationship team Manager, Stuart Ferguson contacted us and helped, only he missed a digit on the phone number which has ultimately ended up with the debit card now blocked because Mike couldnt remember when he changed UK address (bearing in mind we live in bulgaria and it is a comms address only) we needed the cash for a transaction first thing tomorrow morning. After 2 weeks of trying to sort this out They now have the correct telephone number. Except no one has called us back on it and the money is still trapped and apparently simply transferring it back to my account or allowing an online transaction through a company that doesn't charge extortionate rates for the exchange and international transfer fees is seemingly impossible. After several hours of phone calls to every department, all a waste of time, an Email has been sent for a second time to the CEO and this will be going to the Ombudsman.”
