“Customer service is ridiculous
After going through automated services and finally speaking to someone (50mins) I was referred to another department
I was told it was the online company's fault even though I phoned them first and they said it was the banks
I phoned the online company again who stood by the initial statement that the bank declined my card not them. The bank said they were pending because the company accepted them
Back to customer services after another long wait only to be cut off
I am moving my money to a bank who cares”
“I am happy as a new customer yet I did originally open for help with future bills, yet I can’t get an overdraft yet so it’s not what I asked for and in time I hope this changes.”
“Most importantly, there is no human interface - only online and be easy way of navigating this with a simple or complex
Issue. Very turgid,repetitive on line systems that take you no-where and no-one to help. Exhausting, frustrating and useless”
“Waited over 2hrs on the phone only to be disconnected and now on a second call and been waiting over 1hr. Its disgusting when you can't get a hold of the people who have our money. Terrible service considering it said wait time was 40 minutes.”
“Customer service in absolutely intolerable. You merely cannot reach them even after 40 min waiting. Then the connection is usually lost. Online banking is constantly "upgrading their service" so that part of the functions do not work. In the US, a skyscraper can be built during that time that they "update they service". I strongly discourage everybody from joining Barclays bank.”
“Can’t manage to pay invoices you change the procedure again removed my suppliers accounts and trying to pay as someone new no good this is the worse you online banking has been”
“My son has a bank account with Barclays Bank, and his bank account has a scanning facility, and my bank does not, so to make things easier and quicker, my mum instead of sending a cheque in my name, she writes it in my son's name, he then scans the cheque, my mum sent a cheque last week, so I could buy my Christmas present from her, and my son can get his hair cut, and I could get my hair dyed and cut for Christmas, my son scanned the cheque last week, and the cheque was for two hundred pounds, but only one hundred pounds went into my son's bank account, and we are still waiting for the other one hundred pounds, and because of this I can not buy my Christmas present or book a hair appointment to have everything done and I can now only have my hair dyed and not washed cut and blow-dried, and this is going to stress my mum, which means she might end up in hospital again, as the slightest thing can stress her out”
“This bank are criminals. They just stole the entire contents of my account “because I hadn’t used the account in 3 years”. Uh, I’ve been stranded in Asia because of Covid. They say it will take 12 weeks to “recover the funds”. Run from this bank - your savings are not secure.”
“Barclays barkingside is worst, more shut than open, short notice when shut, rude staff at times unsympathetic to your needs, never got face face counter open when they have run few hrs, what way run business for themselves, no care customer keeping them afloat, in today's climate should do more keep yr customers not send them elsewhere plenty choice. All they know online banking not what all customers want.”
“Barclays Bank have to be the worst bank I have ever dealt with. The service on the call centre is absolutely shocking and disgraceful! This is regarding a complaint over interest, in which I have misinformed in terms of an agreement. This is totally unacceptable, and I will definitely want to take this to the FCA and furthermore the FOS. The people who I have spoken to regards to the call centre just do not have a clue, one girl admitted what she is not trained!!! So why be on the phones!!!!
All they do is waste time and avoid the questions that you ask. I really want all calls listened to because the level of service is shocking. I definitely want to balance transfer my money out and never ever touch this bank ever again!!!!”
“Made all payments on time...father passed...made a 2500.00 payment...they lowered my limit....called to find out why...regardless that I've always paid..I hate their customer service...and their lack of empathy. No reason for treating me like this”
“This is not a bank but bunch of mobsters with customer service from hell.
I try to solve my problems with credit card and during conversation I say to myself Jesus Christ then woman from Barclays ask me to repeat what I said, so I repeat and she told me that this is bank and we talking about money so she don't wish to hear that again.
I ask for someone else and she disconnect me.
Then after my complain I receive phonecall from manager and he told me that was my foult and what I said it's blasphemy...
I can't stop laughing for next three hour's.
Their brain's if they have any are completely washed.”
“Absolutely appalling system to try to get a mortgage settlement figure passed to at least four different people, the chat system understands what I want less than most of the outsourced staff do , have given up ! I think I will just stop paying and let someone contact me!”
“I've spent the weekend attempting to make an online payment to a new recipient using three different devices and two different browsers. Each attempt has failed at the last hurdle and now I'm not even able to log in. It seems that I have to wait until Monday to get help on the phone as I'm not in a position to load the help App as I don't have an Apple device. Grrrrrrrr.....”
