Originally Posted by
crazyarmadillo
spoke too soon - they will contact me within 10 days

Apply outside normal working hours and you WILL get that answer.
I applied for the SPG card on 28th January at 7.00am and got that message.
As usual, the 'contact' you get is the new card landing on the doormat, which happened yesterday, 5 days later.
£1000 MR trigger spend done already - a payment towards July's cruise and some bookings for daughter's 18th birthday weekend in a few weeks in the Big City dairn sairf.