{"id":5013,"date":"2022-08-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:30:30","slug":"its-barclays-turn-to-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/its-barclays-turn-to-clown\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Barclays\u2019 Turn to Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Introduction<\/h4>\n<p>We talked about <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/bank-of-america-followup\/\">Bank of America shenanigans<\/a> about a year ago, and <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?s=olympics\">US Bank shenanigans<\/a> about six months ago. As a result I think many of you have card anniversaries and half-anniversaries to consider and it\u2019s probably worth a re-read of both. That said, today we\u2019re going to do the same for Barclays because they\u2019ve just increased sign-up bonuses on three of their main four co-brand cards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cards.barclaycardus.com\/banking\/cards\/wyndham-rewards-earner-business-card\/\">Wyndham Earner Business<\/a>: 65,000 points after spending $2,000 in 60 days and another 10,000 points after a single purchase on an employee card (Update: corrected bonus from 60,000 to 65,000 points. Thanks to Miles)<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cards.barclaycardus.com\/banking\/cards\/jetblue-business-card\/\">JetBlue Business<\/a>: 70,000 points after spending $2,000 in 90 days and another 10,000 points after a single purchase on an employee card<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cards.barclaycardus.com\/banking\/cards\/hawaiian-airlines-world-elite-business-mastercard\/\">Hawaiian Business<\/a>: 80,000 points after spending $2,000 in 90 days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you live in New England or Florida, the JetBlue card is a great option. If you live near a Speedway, the Wyndham card is a stand out. If you like churning satire, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/saverocity.com\/pfdigest\/new-advice-column-hawaiian-airlines-world-elite-mastercard\/\">the Hawaiian card can\u2019t be beat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Rules<\/h4>\n<p>Barclays doesn\u2019t have as many loopholes as legacy banks, but there are some. Here\u2019s what you should know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barclays will combine hard pulls in the same day<\/li>\n<li>Barclays will approve up to three credit cards in the same day<\/li>\n<li>Barclays business cards won\u2019t appear on a credit report<\/li>\n<li>Barclays\u2019 reconsideration department will work with you more than most banks will<\/li>\n<li>Barclays won\u2019t let you have multiple versions of the same card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To contact Barclays reconsideration, dial (866) 408-4064 for business cards or (866) 408-4064 for personal cards. When you call, a simple \u201cI was hoping that you\u2019d take another look at my application and help me find away to get approved. I\u2019m happy to provide any additional information you may need!\u201d may be enough to negotiate your way into an approval after you\u2019re denied.<\/p>\n<h4>How I\u2019m Playing It<\/h4>\n<p>I don\u2019t need more JetBlue points and I really don\u2019t need more Hawaiian points, but Vacasa redemptions via Wyndham are hard to beat. So even though the AA Business co-brand card offer isn\u2019t at a relative high, I\u2019ll be pairing it with the Wyndham card application for a combined hard-pull without messing with my quest to drop below 5\/24.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5015\" sizes=\"(max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/clown-969x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/clown-969x1024.jpg 969w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/clown-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/clown-768x812.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/clown.jpg 984w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Barclays reconsideration staff is much friendlier than it looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction We talked about Bank of America shenanigans about a year ago, and US Bank shenanigans about six months ago. As a result I think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6975,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/6975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}