Sometime back I had applied for this card and when there was no news from the bank for about 3 weeks, I called them up to enquire. The people had no clue about the status and asked me to call again to check. Seeing the poor response from them I decided not to take the card. I called up the bank and asked them to cancel my application.
Despite this I got a verification call where again I told them that I did not want the card.After this the most interesting thing happened.... A few days later I got a letter from the Bank saying that THEY HAVE DECLINED TO GIVE THE CARD AS I DID NOT MEET THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA..... wow !!
That was bad joke.
I hold half a dozen gold cards from other banks and Barclays is the first bank to tell me that I did not qualify for a card.