topic Re: Upromise World MasterCard Ending Soon? in Credit Cards

Upromise World MasterCard Ending Soon?

sosabe77 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 03:59:17 GMT

Upromise has removed all links to info and application for the Upromise World Mastercard. The Barclaycard site also has no mention of it anymore and you can't even find the old page with a Google search. This is very similar to the early stages of what happened with the Sallie Mae MC.

Anyone know if they are killing this card?

That would suck. I've currently been getting 10% back at Walmart.com and Jet.com, along with 6% back at Ebay with this card.

Re: Upromise World MasterCard (Barclaycard) Ending Soon?

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 03:51:09 GMT

Well, if this is true then that makes two products I won't have for much longer. Time for some consolidation.

Re: Upromise World MasterCard Ending Soon?

Kforce — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 04:03:12 GMT

Welcome to your new "Commence Card"

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sosabe77 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 04:31:29 GMT

@Kforce wrote:
Welcome to your new "Commence Card"

That's what I'm fearing. I already shut down my 2 Sallie Mae MC's and consolidated/transferred the CLs to my Upromise MC. If they get rid of this too then there is no reason for me to have ANY cards with them.

Re: Upromise World MasterCard Ending Soon?

Kforce — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 04:47:09 GMT

@sosabe77 wrote:
@Kforce wrote:
Welcome to your new "Commence Card"
That's what I'm fearing. I already shut down my 2 Sallie Mae MC's and consolidated/transferred the CLs to my Upromise MC. If they get rid of this too then there is no reason for me to have ANY cards with them.

Closed my two SallieMae cards today, No Barclaycards I want.

Re: Upromise World MasterCard Ending Soon?

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 04:48:10 GMT

Thanks for the heads up!

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Anonymous — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 08:03:00 GMT

You know, it appears Barclays is like all the closings with our US retail stores. We close a card here and one there and before long we are gone. Where did HSBC and MBNA America go ... real gone

Re: Upromise World MasterCard Ending Soon?

kdm31091 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:14:02 GMT

Barclay's lineup keeps shrinking. I still say I would not be surprised to see them sell off their card portfolio entirely at some point

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Anonymous — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:28:20 GMT

@kdm31091 wrote:
Barclay's lineup keeps shrinking. I still say I would not be surprised to see them sell off their card portfolio entirely at some point

They're going to sell off to Synchrony. /snark

Re: Upromise World MasterCard Ending Soon?

deltatee — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 01:05:49 GMT

Well this would explain why they didn't PC the SM into the Upromise like I thought they would do.

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sosabe77 — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 01:18:49 GMT

@deltatee wrote:
Well this would explain why they didn't PC the SM into the Upromise like I thought they would do.

I don't think they can PC to/from cobranded cards, even if this card isn't being phased out.

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Aahz — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 01:22:27 GMT

@sosabe77 wrote:
@deltatee wrote:
Well this would explain why they didn't PC the SM into the Upromise like I thought they would do.
I don't think they can PC to/from cobranded cards, even if this card isn't being phased out.

Dozens (if not hundreds) of people have reported PCing their SallieMaes to Arrivals since the announcement of Commence.

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deltatee — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 05:12:08 GMT

@Aahz wrote:
@sosabe77 wrote:
@deltatee wrote:
Well this would explain why they didn't PC the SM into the Upromise like I thought they would do.
I don't think they can PC to/from cobranded cards, even if this card isn't being phased out.
Dozens (if not hundreds) of people have reported PCing their SallieMaes to Arrivals since the announcement of Commence.

Yes. And both the Upromise and the Sallie Mae were cobranded Sallie Mae cards. So I know I was not alone in thinking that when Barclays decided to kill the Sallie Mae they would switch our cards over to the Upromise (I.e., the only other Sallie Mae card offered at the time). The creation of a whole new Sallie Mae product makes a lot more sense now that it looks like they might be chopping the Upromise also,

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sosabe77 — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 07:38:37 GMT

@Aahz wrote:
@sosabe77 wrote:
@deltatee wrote:
Well this would explain why they didn't PC the SM into the Upromise like I thought they would do.
I don't think they can PC to/from cobranded cards, even if this card isn't being phased out.
Dozens (if not hundreds) of people have reported PCing their SallieMaes to Arrivals since the announcement of Commence.

I stand corrected.

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Anonymous — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:01:21 GMT

@kdm31091 wrote:
Barclay's lineup keeps shrinking. I still say I would not be surprised to see them sell off their card portfolio entirely at some point

Their page still shows 18 credit cards, not much less than Chase which shows 22. Of course, most of us here find the Chase cards much more valuable than many of the Barclays co-brands, but I have no idea if the co-brands are generally profitable for them

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Anonymous — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:02:07 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@kdm31091 wrote:
Barclay's lineup keeps shrinking. I still say I would not be surprised to see them sell off their card portfolio entirely at some point
Their page still shows 18 credit cards, not much less than Chase which shows 22. Of course, most of us here find the Chase cards much more valuable than many of the Barclays co-brands, but I have no idea if the co-brands are generally profitable for them

This game wouldn't be so sweet if we were all savvy consumers.

For every churner there's 50 suckers carrying a balance or earning subpar rewards, usually squandered on even more subpar redemptions.

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Appleman — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:49:33 GMT

Thanks for the heads up on the potential demise of this card.

Am I able to switch this to another card from Barclays? The reason I want to keep this line open is the relatively good APR and history back to 2000.

Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 01:30:47 GMT

@Appleman wrote:
Thanks for the heads up on the potential demise of this card.

Am I able to switch this to another card from Barclays? The reason I want to keep this line open is the relatively good APR and history back to 2000.
Thanks in advance.

People have been mentioning that Barclays is allowing people to PC to Arrival or Rewards.

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kdm31091 — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 01:31:19 GMT

@Appleman wrote:
Thanks for the heads up on the potential demise of this card.

Am I able to switch this to another card from Barclays? The reason I want to keep this line open is the relatively good APR and history back to 2000.
Thanks in advance.

If something is actually going to happen with the card, Barclay will let you know....at this time, it's just not available for apps. The old Sallie Mae was pulled from apps for well over a year before Barclay took any action with it.

Once, or if, you get notice from Barclay, they would probably be more open to converting it to something else. But as of now, probably not.

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Appleman — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:03:47 GMT

Thank you