what is considered heavy usage?

jcstarkey8826 · ‎06-01-2012

What would a credit card company consider heavy usage? is it based more on the amount of swipes or based on your income to usage? If I put through 12k/year on my CC compared to 48k income... is that high usage? I figured it would have to be compared to your income because someone making 3x my salary would easily have more spending. Just not sure what, if any, cards are considering me a heavy user or not.

In my wallet: GCU Patinum Visa 1500 CL, Charter One Platinum Rewards 500 CL, Chase Freedom 800 CL, Wal Mart Store Card 1800 CL, Kay Jewelers 3000 CL

SwiftTone · ‎02-27-2012

It's def a combination of both + how much of your CL you run up. If you have a CL of $4000, and constantly run up to $4000, pay it off mid month and run it up again, I would consider that heavy usage.

BCE: $0/$8500, CSP: $15/$5000, Chase Priority Club: $0/$3500, Freedom: $0/$5000, Barclays NFL: $0/$7000 Discover: $0/$4750, Citi Dividend: $0/$2000 Cap1 x2 $0/$2250

EQ FICO - 07/2012: 699, 08/2012: 714, 10/2012: 729, 11/2012: 686, 12/2012: 723, 01/2013: 737, 03/2013: 725, 04/2013: 734, 05/2013: 736
EX FICO(AMEX) - 10/2012: 712

jcstarkey8826 · ‎06-01-2012

SwiftTone wrote:
It's def a combination of both + how much of your CL you run up. If you have a CL of $4000, and constantly run up to $4000, pay it off mid month and run it up again, I would consider that heavy usage.

Ok, I have low limits, I pay them off or large chunks every 2 weeks. I probably put 10k-12k per year on the card, would do more if the limit wasnt so low, but I didnt know if that card company would look and see me as a heavy user of their product.

In my wallet: GCU Patinum Visa 1500 CL, Charter One Platinum Rewards 500 CL, Chase Freedom 800 CL, Wal Mart Store Card 1800 CL, Kay Jewelers 3000 CL

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