topic Re: Travelocity Amex Approved! in Credit Cards

Travelocity Amex Approved!

WRodPSL — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:29:18 GMT

I needed a definite TU puller so I decided to app for the Barclays Travelocity Amex. Planning a couple vacations this year and this has decent points. I was instantly approved online for $2500, giving me my highest limit by $500! I want to take advantage of the BT bonus points and use this reason to ask for a cli. Has anyone had success getting a cli after instant approval with Barclays? Most of the threads I read are denial recons. I don't want to push my luck either though, they did just give me my highest limit after all. On a side note...FINALLY time to axe my First Premier!

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

LS2982 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:29:05 GMT

CONGRATS!!! I would call them if you need more CL

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

WRodPSL — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:44:20 GMT

LS2982 wrote:
CONGRATS!!! I would call them if you need more CL

Thanks...I guess it can't hurt, I'll give it a shot

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

tinuviel — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:48:55 GMT

Congrats! Nice approval! Definitely time to say bye-bye to FP. :)

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

bichonmom — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:50:57 GMT

LS2982 wrote:
CONGRATS!!! I would call them if you need more CL

+1 Barclay's is really good on recons.

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

Guava — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:55:54 GMT

Congrats! Good luck with the CLI request

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

clocktick — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:52:08 GMT

I would call as you're activating the card. I've read many CLIs upon approval so hopefully yours will be a success as well!

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

MsLadyRover — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:49:44 GMT

Congratulations!

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

mikka1 — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:12:57 GMT

Congratulations!

My only advice would be to be very careful with Travelocity, especially booking important air tickets last-minute. I had a very strange and unpleasant experience with them this January - I had to fly from Europe back to the US next day and I was not able to find a good (i.e. cheap and direct) flight on Expedia, which I always use.

I found a flight on Travelocity, booked it, it succesfully authorized my credit card for the full amount of the ticket (I checked it later online), and in the next 3 hours I got 2 emails almost instantly one afther another - the first (!) one - stating that my booking is cancelled by 'revenue protection department', and the second (!!!) one two minutes later - that my booking 'is about to be cancelled if I don't call customer service'.

Apparently they have not even tried to contact me, but simply cancelled my booking. Calling their customer service by its effect was like talking with my grandma - they just replied that they don't have any further information, they don't know the reasons and they don't know if I can try to use this card again.

Just to make it clear - this was a very old CC (MC) in my name that I used dozens of times before to buy tickets on Expedia and other websites. Obviously, I made a decision to not even try to deal with Travelocity anymore. And the worst thing is that when I googled this 'revenue protection department', I reaslised that I'm far from being the only one getting a booking cancelled with no explanation and no apparent reason - there are numerous stories about this mysterious 'revenue protection department' unexpectedly cancelling bookings.

Sorry if it's not that relevant to the initial topic and I hope you'll not have any troubles neither with Travelocity, nor with this card, but I just wanted to let you know that things like this can happen :smileysad:

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

cabronsaim — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:18:05 GMT

WRodPSL wrote:
I needed a definite TU puller so I decided to app for the Barclays Travelocity Amex. Planning a couple vacations this year and this has decent points. I was instantly approved online for $2500, giving me my highest limit by $500! I want to take advantage of the BT bonus points and use this reason to ask for a cli. Has anyone had success getting a cli after instant approval with Barclays? Most of the threads I read are denial recons. I don't want to push my luck either though, they did just give me my highest limit after all. On a side note...FINALLY time to axe my First Premier!

What's ur current credit score/profile look like?

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

boomhower — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:30:17 GMT

Barclays is good. Give them a call tell your taking trip and they will likely up your limit. Treat them right and they will do the same for you.

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

LS2982 — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:39:22 GMT

boomhower wrote:
Barclays is good. Give them a call tell your taking trip and they will likely up your limit. Treat them right and they will do the same for you.

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

WRodPSL — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:15:12 GMT

@mikka1Wow, that's terrible, I don't have any experience with flights through Travelocity and I'll probably just use them for hotels/cruises anyway.

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

WRodPSL — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:20:18 GMT

Thanks everyone. I'll call them Monday and give it a try. I'll update with the results.

cabronsaim wrote:
WRodPSL wrote:
I needed a definite TU puller so I decided to app for the Barclays Travelocity Amex. Planning a couple vacations this year and this has decent points. I was instantly approved online for $2500, giving me my highest limit by $500! I want to take advantage of the BT bonus points and use this reason to ask for a cli. Has anyone had success getting a cli after instant approval with Barclays? Most of the threads I read are denial recons. I don't want to push my luck either though, they did just give me my highest limit after all. On a side note...FINALLY time to axe my First Premier!
What's ur current credit score/profile look like?

My TU jumped from 669 to 770 last week after I got my last collection removed. No other baddies, 20% Uti, Aaoa 4 years, 1 INQ, last account opened over 3 years ago.

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

WRodPSL — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:09:44 GMT

Update: Called Barclays and explained I wanted to do a BT to take advantage of the bonus points but also had a vacation I was planning to charge, the rep put me on hold after a few questions about profession, income, assets, etc.... she came back and raised my initial CL from 2500 to 4500! Keep in mind my highest limit card is at 2k. I'll definitely be treating Barclays right.

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

reggob — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:10:37 GMT

Congrats on the Travelocity approval. This is actually my card of choice. Point redemption is extremely easy and they are good with the auto increase at the 6 month mark!

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

WRodPSL — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:00:21 GMT

reggob wrote:
Congrats on the Travelocity approval. This is actually my card of choice. Point redemption is extremely easy and they are good with the auto increase at the 6 month mark!

Thanks. Can you only redeem at checkout on Travelocity or can you redeem for a statement credit on anything?

Re: Travelocity Amex Approved!

TNTransplant — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:08:15 GMT

WRodPSL wrote:
Update: Called Barclays and explained I wanted to do a BT to take advantage of the bonus points but also had a vacation I was planning to charge, the rep put me on hold after a few questions about profession, income, assets, etc.... she came back and raised my initial CL from 2500 to 4500! Keep in mind my highest limit card is at 2k. I'll definitely be treating Barclays right.

Congrats on the successful recon! :smileyhappy: