Positive balance on credit card due to refund but now I owe that money to other people?

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I've received a refund of £300+ for an event which has now been cancelled due to COVID, however I paid using my CC as I buying tickets for 5 other people.
So now I have a positive balance of £300 on my CC, but how do I pay my 5 friends their £50 each?
I was thinking if I withdraw it from an ATM will it charge me still? Although in the current situation still not sure how I would get the cash to them!
It's a Santander card if that makes any difference, thanks!

Can you not buy things on the credit card that you would normally pay from your bank account eg food/petrol etc and then use the cash that frees up to transfer to your friends?

That is what I would do normally but I'm not paying for much at the moment so it's going to take me a while to spend that much money, the annoying thing is I bought a new phone for £700 on Saturday and if I had thought about it earlier I could have used my CC to buy my new phone

Via PayPal? Top up your PayPal balance with c/c, then send them all their £50 hours electronically.

Of course, you’ll need PayPal accounts for that.

Call the CC company and ask them to transfer that money back to you. It's not a cash withdrawal, it's fine and won't incur fees - or it didn't when we did similar with barclaycard.

Or ask the credit card company to refund the positive balance to your current account. I think policies vary on that.

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Call the company and they will refund to your account. I just did this with a holiday

Ok I'll speak to Santander fingers crossed they can transfer it to my current account!

Call the Credit Card company and they will refund it. There will be extra security questions, but it's really straight forward.

I had similar happen, within about 3 days the bank automatically transferred the positive balance to the account I normally pay the CC direct debit from. So if you cant get through to the bank leave it 5 or so days and it might be moved automatically.

withdraw the cash or add the card to a paypal account and paypal who you owe

I had this exact problem last week. My credit card sent the money to my current account as cash. Which reminds me, I need to refund my friends!

I've just done this and called the bank who transferred the balance to my current account.

I did this for DM. The CC was a bank one and they refunded it to her current account straight away.

I had this yesterday. Customer service at my bank transferred to my current account with no problems. I didn't have to call the credit card company.