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“Dreadful service”

★☆☆☆☆

written by 141Brewer on 31/08/2017

One of the worst customer services I have ever experienced. Long hold times and no system of escalation. if you have a problem they cannot deal with it. Their site had a fault with card top ups and there was no solution. They tell you they will call back and they do not. If you use the 'contact us' system on their portal you get an email to tell you they will call, but they do not. I would not recommend ICE PLC to anyone. This level of service should not be allowed.

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“Travel Money”

★★★★★

written by delwalmer on 26/08/2017

Had a frustating morning trying to deal with sainsbury's bank - need I say more!!! Looked at ICE website, they weren't quite the best rate but had a price match guarentee. Phoned them spoke to a lovely lady  who agreed to match the best rate I could find. All dealt with brilliantly with no fuss and for 99p next day delivery, which arrived as promised. I had dealt with ICE some years ago and should have had the sense to go straight to them which I shall do in future. Don't always trust comparison sites as they are not always up to date especially in a quick changing market like currency rates. ICE have a limit on debit cards of £1250 and above that need a bankers draft but if you bank online that's no problem. It was such a relief to speak to one person who dealt with all your queries rather than being passed from pillar to post as some organisations do!!

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“Simply the Best”

★★★★★

written by Claytonse355 on 19/08/2017

Have used ICE before and always find them very friendly and helpful. I trawled the net for the best rate and once again came back to buy from ICE. Would recommend to anyone wishing to purchase currency.

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“Excellent ”

★★★★★

written by Jaysond1955 on 10/08/2017

Ordered £2770 of euros on Monday, requested Saturday delivery and there they were Saturday morning. No problems at all, very happy would use again.

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“Great service”

★★★★★

written by Gardner1977 on 27/06/2017

Fast service very quick delivery, I have used ICE a few times now and they have provided an excellent service each time

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“Unfair change of terms - non existent customer service”

★☆☆☆☆

written by boosted_jeep_uk on 16/05/2017

Be warned if you've already got a currency card for more than just yourself, they're going to cancel the other ones in a poorly disguised attempt to get more money from you. ICE have stated there maybe changes of regulations that mean they can't provide family cards. Where's this regulation -i've searched, spoken to other financial institutions and no one has heard of it. What is much more likely is that ICE have decided if they make you have two cards you're going to need to deposit more money for them to generate interest off of. So, despite my emails asking them to clarify the situation - nothing, nada, total silence - guilt perhaps ? What really really annoys me is that i've deposit over $7000 with them for my family to use, and now i'm stuck with the whole lot on one card.

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“Abysmal customer service”

★☆☆☆☆

written by LukasArcher260 on 26/04/2017

ICE customer service is all but non-existant so if you do have problems with their service don't expect to to resolve it by contacting their awful customer service tel no. Unbeknown to me my prepaid currency card is about to expire in 4 days time. I have just been informed by ICE. I am going on holiday in 4 days time! I had just charged my card in advance of this holiday. Customer service have no idea whether my new card will arrive in time for my holiday and have advised me to elect to buy back my currency through their website. This takes 5 days to complete. Not a lot of use if I am travelling in 4 days. I am also now aware of customers whose cards expired while they were travelling!!! Apparently I should have chased the new card myself! What other companies fail to issue / notify customers at such ridiculously short notice? If any bank behaved this way then it would deserve to lose custom. ICE certainly does. Also don't expect to talk to a manager or supervisor at their 'customer service centre' ( I use the term in its very loosest sense ). They just sit about and don't or can't speak to their customers apparently while leaving their minions to answer queries from a script. This has to be the worst customer service I have ever encountered. Don't bother attempting to complain via their website; they just ignore it. DO NOT TOUCH WITH A BARGEPOLE! You have been warned.

Ice_Plc's Comment

Written on: 09/05/2017

Thank you for your comments.

We apologise that you have been unhappy. This is not acceptable and is not the usual high level of service we would expect our customers to receive.

I have passed your comments on to the product manager for a full investigation.

Kind Regards,

ICE Plc

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Splunge07's Comment

Written on: 20/05/2017

So eleven days on and not a hint of anything from your product manager. Hardly surprising really. It seems par for the course so far as this company is concerned.
I suppose I did at least elicit some kind of response from ICE even though it is merely the lip service I expected.
Oh and by the way now that I have returned from my holiday my new cash card has just arrived. A fat lot of use it is now having been barred from accessing MY funds for the past 3 1/2 weeks when I most needed them.
I did eventually manage to raise an official complaint via an email route but now ICE are hiding behind FCA rules whereby they are allowed 8 WEEKS to respond to what really is a clear cut case. 22nd June before they will deign to reply to me.
What a great company!
BEWARE!

There are numerous cash cards available nowadays; use somebody else. I have found several with far better rates too.

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Splunge07's Comment

Written on: 20/05/2017

So eleven days on and not a hint of anything from your product manager. Hardly surprising really. It seems par for the course so far as this company is concerned.
I suppose I did at least elicit some kind of response from ICE even though it is merely the lip service I expected.
Oh and by the way now that I have returned from my holiday my new cash card has just arrived. A fat lot of use it is now having been barred from accessing MY funds for the past 3 1/2 weeks when I most needed them.
I did eventually manage to raise an official complaint via an email route but now ICE are hiding behind FCA rules whereby they are allowed 8 WEEKS to respond to what really is a clear cut case. 22nd June before they will deign to reply to me.
What a great company!
BEWARE!

There are numerous cash cards available nowadays; use somebody else. I have found several with far better rates too.

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Splunge07's Comment

Written on: 20/05/2017

I meant to add that if I ever do receive a response from this company that I will most certainly cut and paste it into a reply on this forum.

I am not holding my breath though.

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Splunge07's Comment

Written on: 27/06/2017

So, here we are on 27th June.

Here is an extract from ICE's response received 2 months ago:

In accordance with FCA guidelines we have 8 weeks from the date we receive your complaint in which to issue a final response, we will therefore investigate your concerns and write to you no later than 22nd June 2017 with our findings or with an update on the progress of the investigation.

So guess what?

True to form for this appalling outfit I have not received a response in any way whether by email, snail-mail or phone call.

Once again I say DO NOT USE ONE OF THEIR TRAVEL CARDS.

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“Cash Card is useless”

★☆☆☆☆

written by McGrath10 on 26/12/2016

I put £700 on to a sterling cash card for a trip to India. The first 5 times I used it it was blocked. I was sent an email saying the transactions were blocked and asking whether they were valid. So I responded that they were and tried to use the card again. Blocked 5 more times and this time the email says the card is blocked but again asking if the transactions were valid. So I respond that they were and get a reply that the card will be unblocked. That was a week ago and the card is still unusable. The only response to my emails is that it will get done and they'll let me know when they have done it. It looks like the trip will have finished before that happens and I will have to make much more expensive alternative arrangements. Not to mention all the hassle and distress of having the card being continually turned down. Don't give them your money - at a minimum I'm down their £20 loading fee and I still haven't been able to spend a penny of my own money.

Ice_Plc's Comment

Written on: 03/01/2017

Thank you for your comments.

I apologise that you have had issues using your card.

So that we can fully investigate this issue please can you contact us directly?

Kind Regards,

Sophie
Customer Service Supervisor.

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Ghrity's Comment

Written on: 04/01/2017

I have repeatedly contacted you directly. Approximately 10 times over the 10 days it took you to unblock the card (which I can't check if you have or not as the trip had finished by the time you'd done it). I have also used your complaint page on your website several times and had no reply to those at all. If there is some email address that will get a response please provide it so other people won't waste their time using the 'official' routes.

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Ice_Plc's Comment

Written on: 06/01/2017

Thank you for your response.

I would like to pass your complaint directly on to a manager.

If you could email us and make the email for my attention I will ensure it is investigated and you receive a response.

Kind Regards,

Sophie
Customer Service Supervisor.

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Ghrity's Comment

Written on: 04/01/2017

I have repeatedly contacted you directly. Approximately 10 times over the 10 days it took you to unblock the card (which I can't check if you have or not as the trip had finished by the time you'd done it). I have also used your complaint page on your website several times and had no reply to those at all. If there is some email address that will get a response please provide it so other people won't waste their time using the 'official' routes.

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“Excellent currency provider”

★★★★★

written by on 17/10/2016

Having used many different currency providers over the years I would rate ICE highly. At a branch in Glasgow I recently purchased Turkish lira at the best rate I had seen, even though I had not booked the currency. The gentleman in the branch was very helpful and gave some useful tips about travel in Turkey too! On returning to the UK I passed through Gatwick airport and stopped at the first currency exchange I saw - MoneyCorp I believe. I asked to change my remaining Turkish lira into Euros but the rate grudgingly offered seemed low so I did not proceed. What a good job, as round the next corner was an ICE bureau and the lovely friendly lady there gave me a much better rate - 20% better in fact. Again, very pleasant customer service.

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“very expencive”

★☆☆☆☆

written by CodyWelch143 on 16/10/2016

!!!!ATTANTION PLEASE!!!!!Ich finde, die Firma betrügt die Menschen. Ich wollte 500€ in GBP tauschen und sollte dafür nur 340GBP bekommen. Bei einem schlechten Kurs hätten mir 420GBP zugestanden. Ich empfehle diesen Money changer keinem weiter.

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“Terrible Exchange Rates. ”

★☆☆☆☆

written by NotHappy2016 on 16/06/2016

I came back to Vancouver from London & exchanged my remaining pounds to dollars. I found out later that the exchange rate ICE used is almost 20 cents lower than rates I researched on-line. Then on top of this ICE charged me $3.75 for commission. BS!

Ice_Plc's Response to NotHappy2016's Review

Written on: 20/06/2016

Thank you for your comments.

I apologise that you are unhappy with our rates.

You should have been advised of the rates that were being applied at the time of the transaction.

Please can you confirm which branch you were at so that I can pass you comments on to the correct manager for investigation.

Kind Regards,

Sophie
Customer Service Supervisor.

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“Prepaid travel card is a disaster!”

★☆☆☆☆

written by 328Munoz on 03/06/2016

I cannot stress enough the amount of trouble I have had with this company since day 1 of trying to order online. Despite all issues at the start I still persisted and decided to go ahead with taking all $3000 US dollars to America with me on this card. I was away for 5 weeks so didn't want to take all the money in cash. The first few days the card was working fine and then all of a sudden starting declining EVERYWHERE. I was 9 hours behind England so proved difficult to ring at a convenient time as their office is only open 9am-5pm English time despite them saying its 24 hours on their website! I must of spent a FORTUNE trying to get through to them for over an hour but because this was quite an emergency I decided to go through to 'lost and stolen' which is the only department that is in fact 24 hours (to my delight after trying every single available number) somebody answered and asked me which card I'm talking about because I have FOUR ACTIVE CARDS?! This was my first time using ICE so not sure where that had come from?! Anyway he managed to find out which card I was using & I was told that it had been cancelled. He didn't know why though and there was no explanation what so ever. I was passed from person to person & after another hour on the phone I still had not received a proper answer and nobody seemed to know what was going on which was extremely frustrating for me as I had no access to any of my money. Eventually they managed to reactivate my card after numerous phone calls back and forth and re-trying my card in different shops. What a nightmare! Not only that, the company seem to hold money that has been refunded onto the card so you have to ring up to ask them what's going on & they then stop the payment pending. You can also only top up your card online within the hours of 9am-5pm. Which means in America I had to stay up until 12am just to top up. Numerous times I tried ringing to ask if they could sort this for me over the phone to be told rather rudely "you're through to lost and stolen" - I was very aware?!! She then continued to tell me rather rudely after explaining my issues that she "can't help me" and is not "trained" The staff do not seem to be able to deal with any request you ask and are not "trained" properly what so ever it seems and have no sympathy towards your problems. The numerous times I have rung with issues, I have not received an apology once. I also tried contacting them through email and text as assumed this would be easier because of the time difference - I was completely ignored both times with no acknowledgment of even getting in touch. I even tried to ring this morning, (Tuesday 31st may 12pm) to be greeted with an answer phone message saying they are closed over the bank holiday & will reopen Tuesday 31st at 9am. The phone was then hung up?!!! The phones were obviously not turned back on & I cannot express my frustration enough! The staff are rude, the customer service is rubbish, the website is rubbish, the card is rubbish. The phone system is rubbish. I would not recommend them to anybody!

Ice_Plc's Comment

Written on: 20/06/2016

Thank you for your comments.

I apologise that you have experienced issues while using the ICE Travellers Cashcard and that you have not received the high level of customer service that we expect and pride ourselves on.

I have passed your comments on to management. However please may we ask that contact us directly so that we can investigate the matters fully.

Kind Regards,

Sophie
Customer Service Supervisor.

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“First class service”

★★★★★

written by P.Stoker on 02/06/2016

Thank you so much I.C.E. ordering was so easy. I ordered my Australian dollars yesterday and they arrived this morning. The rate was the very best and no commission charges! I will be recommending you to everyone. I wish I'd of found you years ago...hassle free money exchange!

Kbea111's Response to P.Stoker's Review

Written on: 03/07/2016

Looking to consider to exchange from pounds to dollars, Are you FCA regulated?

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“Electoral roll”

★☆☆☆☆

written by e111 on 27/05/2016

You have to be on the Electoral roll to get a card, this is insane, I recently opened a bank account AND a credit card AND a prepaid card account without providing any ID or documents, you know how, because those companies were operating in 2016 and did a soft enquiry on my credit report (aka identity check), but to say that I have to be registered on the electoral roll in order to get a card and they do NOT accept ANY other form of identification is both childish and insecure, people move from their houses all the time and sometimes forget to update the council records, but they never fail to update their bank's current account records. Unbelievable, this is the first time that I came across such a nonsense policy.

Ice_Plc's Response to e111's Review

Written on: 20/06/2016

Thank you for your comments.

I apologise that you are unhappy with our service.

We do have to follow policies and procedures that are in place to ensure that we comply with Anti-Money Laundering legislation.

Unfortunately this does mean occasionally that we are unable to sufficiently verify genuine customers, however there is no way for us to get around this as we cannot bypass the security checks that we perform.

Kind Regards,

Sophie
Customer Service Supervisor.

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“Top Service”

★★★★★

written by tlWelch195 on 21/03/2016

Just received my Canadian Dollars ...a saturday delivery, very smooth transaction. Will certainly use again.

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“Excellent service”

★★★★★

written by on 17/03/2016

Ordered my Polish Zlotny yesterday expected to arrive 3 days later. Arrived next morning so very impressed with service. Not the best rate but good. Thank you very much.

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“excellent service with a smooth and quick transaction....”

★★★★★

written by Shyannew454 on 17/03/2016

excellent service with a smooth and quick transaction. Will definately use again and recommend. Great rates

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“Excellent company! Great service!”

★★★★★

written by Holderya161 on 13/01/2016

I would strongly recommend this company. The currency rate was very good and I had received money the next day. And after I have to cancel my holiday I have no problem with exchange money in the same rate what I bought it. I am absolutely sure that I will use this company next time when I will be going on any holiday.Thank you very much!

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“Exceeded Expectations”

★★★★★

written by Larsonox264 on 05/01/2016

I was a bit sceptical at first using an online currency exchange service but ICE far exceeded my expectations. The currency arrived well before the delivery time and exactly as I had requested. I required currency in specific denominations, mainly due to the country I was visiting didn't widely accept large notes, and so I emailed ICE with my request after completing my order. They responded quickly and politely advising if possible they would do their best to meet my request. I was very impressed with their service. Excellent customer service, great delivery and to top it off they offered the best exchange rate I could find on the internet and in local stores.

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“Brilliant!”

★★★★★

written by Waddell27 on 06/10/2015

I ordered a number of different currencies on a Monday and received them the next day. All currencies comprised clean crisp notes, securely packaged, with none torn or damaged in any way. I was most impressed by the fast and efficient service ICE provided and, without doubt, I will use the company again, next year. I have no hesitation in recommending them. Thank you ICE!

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I have forgotten my password to get into my account to order US dollars. It's urgent, can anyone help?

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I am looking to exchange UK sterling to Euros however not sure of how to use the service offered, can you outline and what comfort can be given regards security of delivery?

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Asked by hamklav on 11th April 2014 Report this content
At which bank's ATMs can I use an Ice GBP card in Peru without getting charged a massive fee?

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Report this content Benny54 Written on: 14/04/2014
Sorry unable to help on this one as we took cash with the back up credit cards. Could you buy something & ask the retailer to increase the price so you get the goods & cash.Also use the card every time to pay for meals. We also found the travel company reps at each location very knowledgable & helpful. If you don't have a travel rep, then try Condor Travel (very good) as you can contact them & they may know the answer to your Q good luck Benny54
Asked by Swiftlywin on 15th March 2014 Report this content
I have lost ice app on ipad how. Can I get it back?

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Report this content gmgrandad Written on: 17/03/2014
Try emailing them.
Report this content hiyacynth Written on: 17/03/2014
I'm sorry, I know nothing about apps or iphones or anything like that, I use a desk top pc!! All I can suggest is that you find a pc you can use (try the local library or a friend) and log on to the website that way, then maybe find out what the app is.
Report this content Immedy Written on: 18/03/2014
I didn't have an iPad app I merely went to the website.
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