Barclays bank cards down
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At Costa Coffee today several customers with Barclays bank cards were unable to make payments. I did a quick online search and it turns out Barclays are down at the moment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9qzg92g72o

Don't use Barclays myself, but thought I'd share thr news to help other people know about this.
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It's happening again today:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9qzg92g72o

Yesterday at Costa we had people who didn't have any cash or a second bank card on them, do they had to cancel their orders.

It must also be a right pain for customers who travelled a long way to do shopping.  -_-
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Since this is an IT issue (which extends far beyond Costa customers), I think it's really more of a 'Tech' story than a 'Health and Lifestyle' story - so, I've moved it accordingly :) .

Anyway, this must be rather annoying... I do hope it gets fixed soon, and Barclay's can establish the cause!
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I saw on TikTok that a lot of people went to the cash machines and took loads of money out as they thought they would get ‘free money’. Because the bank was down it took a while for the bank account to sync with the cash withdrawals. Some people were able to take a couple of hundred. I don’t know what people were thinking though - like the bank wouldn’t notice and they would get away with it? Apparently a similar situation happened with Chase last year. 

I have a Barclays account but only use it for a savings account.
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Sadly, one family was left without a home for three days because of this... they were just completing a purchase of their new home, but this outage stopped the transaction from going through:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c983ge165zlo

Sounds like it's all resolved now - but that must have been a real pain -_- !
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Apparently some people phoned up the bank and got compensation money. Based on TikTok, this money ranged between. £5-£200. I only use it for savings so personally I didn’t bother.
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