Barclays Bank Loans

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I already had a loan with Barclays for 2K over 60 months and was offered an extension up to £18,100, even though I am a pensioner over 70. I took the opportunity to clear all my credit card debts which had grown whilst renovating a property overseas. I applied online for an unsecured loan and found that the rate escalated after 15K borrowing. However, the rate of 14.4% for 18K+ seems quite high but, at my age, I have little choice when borrowing. Anyway, the loan is much cheaper than the credit cards (23%) and I will pay off it off in full in the next five years but with a similar monthly repayment. In addition the repayment is fixed, unlike with the cards who change their rates when they felt like it and their terms and conditions. Fine for me, and I now have two empty credit cards. The online application was simple and fast, Seconds after I clicked the sign window 18K appeared in my Barclays Savings account. When I got over the shock of the transfer speed I paid off my cards within ten minutes, before I was tempted to go out and buy a boat.......hahaha.

bananaman

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I received an pre approved offer for 35000.. So went online with their offer code and submitted.. they said checking the offer won’t hurt credit score.. ok submitted my information and it came back with 7.99 % for 35000 loan.. I was thinking that’s what they offer me and proceeded further.. no that’s the scam they did.. once all information submitted and told them my life history they offered me 5000 only.. they should inform me when they give the rate offer that my loan will approve for 5000 only.. they literately scammed everyone.. unnecessarily I got a mark on my credit history..

Ravm

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As an established Barclaycard customer, I was regularly receiving invitations from Barclays for an instant loan - no questions asked. As I had quite a few debts here and there with other credit card and store card companies, I decided that taking out a loan would be a good idea - that way I could pay off my debts in a fixed repayment every month. I took a loan out for £4,000 which was enough to pay off my other store cards with a little to spare. I took out the loan for a five year period at £128 per month which meant a total of £7,680 was due to be repaid - not quite sure how that figure came from but it seemed awfully high at the time!!Anyway, 18 months into the loan, I had accumulated the cash to pay the loan off once and for all. I telephoned BarclayLoan and requested a settlement figure as they were unable to give it to me over the phone. The settlement figure, after 18 months of monthly payments of £128 - was more than £4,000!!!I also had a £8,500 car loan out at the time which I had been repaying for 8 months which I also requested a settlement figure for - that was around £7,600 - so how the hell did BarclayLoan come up with their extortionate figure worth more than the actual loaned amount after 18 months of repayments???My advice to anyone needing a loan - don't go for this one!!!

owlypowly

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I can’t fault Barclays. Customer servos is excellent. Online banking is excellent and they are always so helpful.

Kirsty carroll

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This is a caution note for anyone who would be tempted to get a personal loan in Barclays. A year ago I got a loan in this bank, and regularly paid it back until last month, when, by mistake, I transferred my monthly repayment to the wrong account (saving account, instead of current account), and noticed it 3 weeks after the date of monthly payment and immediately transferred the funds into current account. Three weeks after this event I began to receive lots of telephone calls from companies offering me debt management (!), quick loans (!) and the like. The worst thing is that those people called not only on my mobile phone (sometimes during important meetings, or early in the morning on my way to the office) but also called my office number! I was stalked by telephone calls for two weeks. It happed once or twice that the secretary in my department answered these calls and I had to explain to everyone at work that I am not in deep financial troubles, bankrupt, or anything like that. To make it absolutely clear, I NEVER gave my personal details nor contact numbers to any company of that sort. These details, along with the information that I missed one payment, were available in the banking system of Barclays bank. And I am asking myself: how come my personal data got out of this system? So, do yourself a favor, avoid Barclays!

Guest

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Applied for a car loan (10k in 5 years) 7 months ago after being their client (4 years) and having a "very good" credit score, even though never had loans in my life before, so I was expecting an high APR. Loan that ended up being a personal loan so unsecured loan with higher APR then. At the moment I have applied they promised me that they would have reviewed my APR rate within a few months once my credit score would have got better. Anyway I was pre-selected for a 25k personal loan at 19% APR, so I thought to apply for 10k with the same 19% which after the credit check ended up being up to 26.5% !!!!!! I could not refuse as I had already booked my car so needed to accept it anyway but with the hope to tweak it in a few months later. Now after 7 months, I have more money in my bank account, my salary went way up by 5k per year and my credit score with Experian is Excellent only 8 points less than the maximum 999. I went to the barclays branch to discuss my existing loan and they said that I don't have any chances to tweak my existing loan, and if I wanted a better rate I should have applied for a new loan with them and pay off the existing one, but anyway this wasn't convenient for me as the proposed APR was still way too high... I decided to pay back the 14£ Experian membership then, to check any other loans alternatives, and found out that I was pre-approved at 100% with Lendable for 14% APR which was already quite good compare to the Barclays one, and had 95% chances to get 3.3% with Admiral finance. I went straight away to try it and done a soft credit check with Admiral which confirmed the 3.3% loan for 9k spreaded in 3 years to pay off my existing one. I have applied for a hard credit check which confirmed the loan. 3.3% against 26% that's INSANE!!! that's the way how Barclays treats its customers! If it wasn't to keep the account open for my credit history I would have already shut off my Barclays account! You must seriously have something wrong in your customer service and treatments. I wish you all the worst!

Simon D.

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As an established Barclaycard customer, I was regularly receiving invitations from Barclays for an instant loan - no questions asked. As I had quite a few debts here and there with other credit card and store card companies, I decided that taking out a loan would be a good idea - that way I could pay off my debts in a fixed repayment every month. I took a loan out for £4,000 which was enough to pay off my other store cards with a little to spare. I took out the loan for a five year period at £128 per month which meant a total of £7,680 was due to be repaid - not quite sure how that figure came from but it seemed awfully high at the time!! Anyway, 18 months into the loan, I had accumulated the cash to pay the loan off once and for all. I telephoned BarclayLoan and requested a settlement figure as they were unable to give it to me over the phone. The settlement figure, after 18 months of monthly payments of £128 - was more than £4,000!!! I also had a £8,500 car loan out at the time which I had been repaying for 8 months which I also requested a settlement figure for - that was around £7,600 - so how the hell did BarclayLoan come up with their extortionate figure worth more than the actual loaned amount after 18 months of repayments??? My advice to anyone needing a loan - don't go for this one!!!

owlypowly

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like many others, I received an in mail promo which I went online to check my actual rate. I entered the amount I needed, checked the rate, all came back good, so I proceeded with the offer. Keep in mind, just checking the rate did not hurt my credit score, but proceeding once I thought I was going forward with what I asked for did. Once I get into the account information, they send me "their offer" for almost HALF of what I needed! Keep in mind as well, I have an excellent credit score. I just wanted to consolidate some debt and make a major home reno. I called them to see what the deal was, and they took me through this entire process of basically giving them my life story, only for them to offer me a new offer of just a few thousand more. Still not what I needed. Very misleading, sketchy, and now I have a hard pull on my credit report and a waste of my time.

Kat

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The package is bog standard, but there is a total lack of transparency as far as how things are calculated. There is a lack of information for the customer (once they have the account) and to customer service staff who would sort these things out. I'm sure that if there hadn't been the mistake we wouldn't have noticed these other things (I wouldn't have checked out the loan rates for HSBC), but the way they have dragged their heels to sort things out and recredit the account is appalling. I would say to people to keep every scrap of paper, and get regular updates on the balance and challenge anything that looks vaguely suspect.

o.gerbilpants

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I received an invite in the mail for "fixed apr as little as 4.99%." Last night I went online, applied (for less than half of the $35,000 limit), indicated my preferred term ... and was approved, just like that. Painless. The money was deposited in my account today. I read all the negative reviews and considered not applying, but I'm glad I went ahead and did it.

cfm