Well they do say pride comes before a fall, applied last night and apparently they can’t recognise me so I have to go to the branch with my ID. First appointment at my nearest branch was next Thursday, I intend to use my Barclaycard statement as ID.
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In a Kafkaesque moment apparent you can’t use a Barclaycard statement as ID for a Barclays Bank Account. Any other credit card… fine… it seems they don’t even trust themselves
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Told you.
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It has just increased my desire to take them for £175 and then disappear
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This sounds about Barclays level of stupidity. Had so many problems with sensible things in the last 3 or 4 weeks I was with them
Funnily enough I had an email response to my complaint this morning offering £50. They claimed not to have changed anything on their end but suggested I had another go at applying, and lo and behold I now have a sole Flexaccount. They couldn’t see any reason why it might have been refused in the first place.
Of course I’ve missed the switching bonus by a matter of days. I’ll mention that in my reply and see where I get. At least I should get the Barclays bribe!
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Had 30 days lapsed since you closed the previous?
Yes, it was mid May.
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I am tempted to switch my First Direct over to Barclays, never had a switch offer from them before.
My Barclays opened instantly (though the app is clumsy and - if anything - less slick than Nationwide)
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TSB just paid out for me (no text notification received).
New Co-op switching offer for their Everyday Extra packaged account:
I would update the wiki but don’t seem able to add new lines to the table on my phone.
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They could offer £500 and I still wouldn’t let them anywhere near my details. Absolute garbage bank
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At least they are ethical. 
I’m in France at the moment and was interested to see that switching bribes aren’t just a UK thing:
(SocGen, €90 bribe plus cost of subscription to packaged account reduced to €1)
Cards are terrible though. Lots of French cards still very conservative in design.
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Q2 data published today:
https://www.wearepay.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CASS-Dashboard-Q2-2024-V4.pdf
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Barclays not doing well at all 
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NatWest surprisingly bossing it with switches!
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Because they’re shit and don’t even usually bribe people to go to them.
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