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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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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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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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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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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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 recently saw the Barclays ad for their loan and decided to apply online. As a Barclays customer I was able to apply within online banking. The application was really easy, and I got a decision straight away (online) and had the money in my Barclays account the same day. Good work Barclays!I did find it a little difficult to find loans on the Barclays site, as there were loads of banners for other products, but none for loans.

Magdalena

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I found the site usefull but i belive I listerned to the coments from other uses of this lender more than I listerned to the infomation on the page. This is because Every company will try top advertise their company for its qualitys and not its faluts as apose to peoples actuall coments can stress more on the negatives about a company or loan which I think gives me a more acurate view of the company and the loan I will get. i FIND WITH LOAN COMPANIES THEIR SEEMS TO BE ALOT OF HIDDEN charges and extras that are normaly explained in a booklet..

Ashley

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Loyal customer for years I have been with Barclays Bank now for 6 years. I was searching around for a personal loan trying to find the best rate. Some of the other banks around were offering 6.7% and I thought Barclays would have at least matched that. But, unfortunately they offered me 11.9%! So much for their price matching guarantee.

Pamela

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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!

Adam