Originally Posted by
Raffles
Indeed!
This is a shockingly good deal for Premier customers who effectively get 125k Avios for taking out a credit card. This is ludicrous - £1,000 of Nectar points if nothing else. (The 100k is on top of the usual 25k bonus)
Everyone else has to decide whether moving to Barclays Premier is worth 125,000 - 150,000 Avios in total, depending on what (if anything) you currently hold. No other bank is offering you £1,000+ in goodies to move though ....
More details in our article here:
https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/1...d-credit-card/
Any thoughts on whether or not you have to actually do a full switch of current accounts? Couldn't you in theory open a Premier account and take out a credit card and still qualify for the 100k Avios bonus? I understand that you only get the 25k Avoid rewards add-on bonus for the Premier account if you do a full switch, but what if you open the account and don't switch all your direct debits, etc? Anyone have experience of this?
I ask because, if you use the switch tool, your original bank account is closed and I don't really want to do that. Happy to switch my salary to Barclays (and take out a new credit card) but don't want to close my other bank accounts.