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I have their Apple Financing card.
They gave me a nice bump from $1400 to $2100. Then a few hours later they send me an email saying they are offering me the apple promo again.
Silly Barclays I don't fall for that trap so easily... but it is very tempting.
I've reached the 7 month mark with them and before I got my mac last month I was PIF (charging around 300-400 a month), some heavy util on my cards and something like 6 inquiries... I've gotten 4 cards since I opened my Barclays. Looks like they like me paying my bills on time
Now my goal is to get around 10% util and get their Barclaycard Ring...
I think as long as you can show you have the ability to pay you are fine. I had that, and I finished my car loan (which had 1x 30 day late on it) so maybe they see me less of a risk now I will definitely use all of this credit and move it towards the ring though...
CONGRATS!!!
I think their AA on new accounts is a little overblown, there has to be other factors (high util, baddies, etc) along with new accounts to spook them.
Congrats on the increase. They bumped me up to $1680 from $1300 today. I'm happy with that. I didn't expect them to give me anything to be honest.
I was approved for $1300.00. Called about a week after receiving the card and asked if they could bump me up a little. They moved me up to $2k.
Congrats! At the beginning of last month, I reiceved an auto bump from 500 to 1,200. I called back yesterday to see if they could match my last Discover CL (It's 5k now, but still reporting as 3k). They bumped me from 1,200 to 3,000 with a HP. I don't mind though.
Just logged in to check my balance and noticed a cli from 1200 to 2400. Exactly 6 mos from account opening!!! Loving Barclays atm.