Thank you for posting this! I've been on a soft pull CLI spree the last two days, and managed to increase my JCP from 2600 to 4850 after reading your post! I also got the counteroffer; I asked for 5k (like you, just a number I settled on) and got a denial and a counteroffer.
Yay for CLI! This should be helpful on my util, which is pretty good as it is. 
