Barclay arrival+ retention offers

red259 · ‎09-26-2015

In Jan my AF will come due on my barclay arrival+. Given the changes to the card I am not inclined to keep it, but I wanted to see if anyone had luck getting AF waived or retention offers for this card. The reason I am asking now is that I have a lot of reward money on that card and if I am going to need to close it I will need to look to redeem before Jan. Otherwise I will redeem next year. If I downgrade to non-AF version can I redeem at same rate?

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Callandra · ‎09-26-2015

From what I've seen, Barclays is not known for retention offers. I wouldn't call them threatening to close it as I've seen reports of others doing that (in hopes of a retention offer) and the CSRs just close the account right there on the spot. I would either use your points and downgrade (not sure about the redemption rate, sorry, but I would use them first just to be safe) or cancel/PC the card (if possible to PC).

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Open123 · ‎09-26-2015

On one of them, they offered me 5K points? I closed it anyway, to reset the clock.

red259 · ‎09-26-2015

@Callandra wrote:
From what I've seen, Barclays is not known for retention offers. I wouldn't call them threatening to close it as I've seen reports of others doing that (in hopes of a retention offer) and the CSRs just close the account right there on the spot. I would either use your points and downgrade (not sure about the redemption rate, sorry, but I would use them first just to be safe) or cancel/PC the card (if possible to PC).

I know what you are saying. I don't consider it threatening though since its not a bluff or anything, although I phrase what I say very carefully to avoid the situation you describe. I won't pay the arrival+ AF but I will look to PC it to something else since this is my only account with barclays and I want to keep the credit line, even though I am not super impressed with their other cards. I am just hoping to avoid having to redeem my cashback prematurely. I guess I could just buy airline gift cards and use those towards airfare the following year. I have some car rentals coming up which is how I like to use the card as well.

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kdm31091 · ‎09-26-2015

Dont think they typically offer much that would make it worth keeping for the fee.

red259 · ‎09-26-2015

@Open123 wrote:
On one of them, they offered me 5K points? I closed it anyway, to reset the clock.

What is the timeline on the bonus clock? What other cards do they have that may be worth PCing to?

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Goal Score: 800 (Achieved!) In garden until Sepetember 2019

pip3man · ‎09-26-2015

They gave me a retention bonus of 10,500 miles on my Arrival card few weeks ago when I threatened to close the account due to issues with my PC request to the Rewards MC. I'll be redeeming soon and if by the time I do and my card hasn't been converted already, I'll close it out and just move the entire limit to Sallie Mae.

red259 · ‎09-26-2015

@pip3man wrote:
They gave me a retention bonus of 10,500 miles on my Arrival card few weeks ago when I threatened to close the account due to issues with my PC request to the Rewards MC. I'll be redeeming soon and if by the time I do and my card hasn't been converted already, I'll close it out and just move the entire limit to Sallie Mae.

That is a great retention offer, but I suspect it was due to the other issues you were having with them.=, so I doubt I will get a similiar deal.

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noobody · ‎09-26-2015

Back in January when my A+ AF was due, I just call and asked AF to be waived, they agreed without much effort, funny thing is they also credit $89AF on my US airway card i did not even ask.

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Open123 · ‎09-26-2015

@red259 wrote:
@Open123 wrote:
On one of them, they offered me 5K points? I closed it anyway, to reset the clock.
What is the timeline on the bonus clock? What other cards do they have that may be worth PCing to?

Ah, unless they've changed, Barclay's will always give the bonus, but the approval for a similar card appears to be from 3 - 6 months. In the past, you can have duplicate cards with both earning a bonus, but not anymore.

I have been and still continue to app for a card every 6 months, where in the past, it was one every 3 months during the US Air days. I'll app for the Arrival Plus again, once the 6 month has elapsed, which should be in a about a week.

For the past several years, my apps always go to review, but they always get approved without recon.