striker1064
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2018
Did I miss the discussion of the nerfing of the Barclays Uber? I got an email about the changes earlier today and just now had time to read. Big discussions about the card on Slick Deals and r/Churning too.
I will no longer suggest this card to people. In fact, I think I will just cancel mine. I have enough sock drawer cards as it is.
https://slickdeals.net/f/13489780-p...-changes?prop=pfd-13489780|prt-3&src=featured
Yeah, I shared my thoughts here: https://www.disboards.com/threads/i...t-page-for-addl-details.3729982/post-61214208
I don’t suppose many of us here have this card so it hasn’t generated much discussion, but it was a good option for some people. I also cannot in good conscience continue to recommend this card with the new changes.
I got this email yesterday as well outlining the changes and wow, the Uber is now a terrible, terrible card. I had actually been using it for category spend in between MSRs for a while but man, forget that. I'm at ~2,250 points so I might as well get to the $25 threshold and cash out before the change over, but yeah no reason at all to keep this card anymore.
Lots of chatter on r/churning that you might as well keep it open for AAoA because there's no AF but that's just dumb. Closed accounts continue to age for some time and I have enough sock drawered cards.
I'm guessing Uber either hopes most people won't notice, or most people were using their rewards for Uber anyway not realizing it was cash back. Who knows. Interested to see how this turns out a year down the line.