Barclay Denial (but not the end of the world)

[myficomatt]

I went on an app-spree this weekend.  Applied for the Best Buy store card, was denied, but approved the Reward Zone Mastercard (I think I'm going to decline).

I applied for the Airtran Visa as well.  I've wanted this card for a while because I fly Airtran quite a bit (as do a lot of us in the Southeast).  I applied before and was declined due to length of credit history.  I applied this weekend and was declined due to high utilization.  I talked to the recon department and she told me that if I paid some of my balances down that I would likely be approved if I really wanted that card.  So we'll see!

[daisyduke]

hi myficomatt,

what was your current utilization showing? and your scores?

interested - thanks for your time.

[myficomatt]

Utilization was around 60%

TU is 657

[daisyduke]

Thanks myfcomatt - I was thinking about applying but I will wait until my own utilization gets down to ten percent or less - (I'm 60% on one card!! ugh)