Originally Posted by
Dn212
I've got the Barclaycard Premium Plus card and would like to switch my current account to the premier account. I think the sign up bonus is 25000 avios at the moment, but I'm aware there have been better offers in the past. Does anyone know of any better sign up offers that may be around or what time of year to watch out for a better offer on? I'm worried about missing a better offer, or potentially waiting for an offer that may never come.
the 100,000 Avios bonus was a one off campaign in my opinion to get as many as new customers to Barclays group (both Premier accounts and Barclaycard) at that point in time. They relaxed the Premier qualifying/checking criteria because of that and many people that would have not normally qualified for a Premier account ended up with one. They then asked customer to pay a minimum amount in a year otherwise they would be charged a monthly fee, and finally scrapped the fee but reintroduced stricter checking of eligibility and recently issued letter of downgrading customers out of premier accounts, and thus Avios Rewards (been discussed on other UK sites) , so I believe it is unlikely that they would run another huge bonus campaign