GE Accounts upgrades
02-27-2012 04:24 PM
What GE accounts does an upgrade to a co-branded card. IE. Walmart to Walmart discover. Walmart is the only GE account that I was told that upgrades.
Re: GE Accounts upgrades
02-27-2012 05:44 PM
jason86423 wrote:Old Navy is another one from what I've seen
+1
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Re: GE Accounts upgrades
02-28-2012 05:42 AM
Creditaddict wrote:Walmart, Sams, Banana, Old Navy, Gap, Dillards... hmm feel I must be forgetting a ton.,... Chevron, TJMax....
GE told me that only walmart can upgrade. Dillards has a AMEX, I have dillards store card and theey told me to upgrade I would have to reapply. Only Walmart say thay can upgrade it.
Re: GE Accounts upgrades
02-28-2012 12:37 PM
corymcd88 wrote:
Creditaddict wrote:Walmart, Sams, Banana, Old Navy, Gap, Dillards... hmm feel I must be forgetting a ton.,... Chevron, TJMax....
GE told me that only walmart can upgrade. Dillards has a AMEX, I have dillards store card and theey told me to upgrade I would have to reapply. Only Walmart say thay can upgrade it.
I think GE's customer service reps are not always correct with the info they impart!
My Old Navy store card upgraded last year to Visa and my Walmart card was just upgraded to Discover last month.
An example of GE's CSRs being misinformed and passing along this misinformation to customers: when I called GE to inquire about reporting of Old navy Visa, I was told that upgrade to Visa would not result in account reporting as new--was actually told this more than once. Of course, it reported as new and remained so even after disputing. Finally got to a supervisor who advised that I was not given correct info (duh!!) and the Visa would 'correctly' be reported as new acct.
When I got the Discover upgrade offer, decided to call customer service ( just for giggles ) to see what the advices would be regarding reporting of the upgraded card. Sure enough, was advised it would retain same open date as store card and would not report as new. Needless to say, the store card reported as closed/transferred and the Discover reported as new.
Unless GE has stopped upgrading all other cards very, very recently, I'd say you might have been 'misadvised' by the csr.
Re: GE Accounts upgrades
02-28-2012 02:32 PM
bdp02 wrote:GE has not stopped upgrading other cards, I currently have an outstanding offer to upgrade my Gap store card.
Note I am resisting the urge due to the impact said upgrade would have on my AAoA
(pat's self on back)
Confirms what I suspected....OP was given some not quite accurate advice from customer service. ![]()
And congrats on your most admirable self control regarding the offer to upgrade. ![]()
Fortunately for me, the upgrade did not affect AAoA negatively (I'm still 5+), and I wanted to take the chance since my Old Navy Visa CL is much, much higher than store card (ws $1200...increased to $3000 at upgrade and is now $7200...all auto increases!) and reports as credit card rather than store card.
I'm hoping my Walmart Discover may prove 'fruitful' as well in the CL dept....at least I think the potential is greater than with store card. Had $2100 on store card and updgraded Discover is $2950. Not as big of any increase as with the ON Visa, but hopeful I'll be seeing CLIs
Re: GE Accounts upgrades
03-29-2012 02:44 PM
ok just hit $1100.00 cl on old navy logged in today to pay
bill was offered visa upgrade so i excepted,starting cl is $4000.00
so im happy with that,called and the lady told me it would listed as same account but
we will see logged in to oldnavy account again it shows 2 accounts now
visa has differnt account # but cant log in to it because i dont have card yet
so gemb is up grading there cards had old navy 9 months till today im happy
Re: GE Accounts upgrades
03-29-2012 02:56 PM
itsrod wrote:ok just hit $1100.00 cl on old navy logged in today to pay
bill was offered visa upgrade so i excepted,starting cl is $4000.00
so im happy with that,called and the lady told me it would listed as same account but
we will see logged in to oldnavy account again it shows 2 accounts now
visa has differnt account # but cant log in to it because i dont have card yet
so gemb is up grading there cards had old navy 9 months till today im happy
Wow, congrats!!!!
How long have you had the ON account and did you use the account alot?
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