My daughter (18) went into a Barclays branch today to get her debit card Visa Electron changed to Visa (since Electron is useless for buying stuff on the web).
She has a *substantial* sum of money in her account, has had the account for about 5 or 6 years with no problems, has had a small wage paid into it regularly for the past 3 years, and all the other members of our family have a Barclays account. I have had a Barclays current account since dinosaurs ruled the planet, and I have a Barclays mortgage.
To cut a long story short, they wont change her card to Visa, but they will give her a Visa CREDIT card!!
She will also be a student in a few weeks time, when no doubt she will be deluged with banks, including Barclays, offering her bank accounts with full visa facilities.
Morons. I am going to go back with her in a day or two and raise a stink. Or maybe I'll just get her to open an account with someone else and close this one.