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Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:49:37 GMT

Has anyone asked for and recieved a CLI from Barclays without a HP? I inquired about a CLI with a CSR and he informed that they don't CLI wihtout a HP, ever.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

gdale6 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:50:36 GMT

Call the retention department and see if they have a SP CLI available for you

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Ghoshida — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 03:55:11 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Has anyone asked for and recieved a CLI from Barclays without a HP? I inquired about a CLI with a CSR and he informed that they don't CLI wihtout a HP, ever.

Is your card outside of the 0% APR promo?

If yes, then do the following:

1) Call Barclay CSR. Ask for APR reduction

2) You'll get transferred to credit analyst. Ask them for APR reduction

3) If your profile has grown since you got your card / last CLI, you'll get some reduction unless you're at rock bottom APR

4) Once done with APR reduction, ask to check if some SP CLI offers are around.

A couple of months ago a good number of people managed SP CLIs this way including yours truly.

Never believe a CC CSR.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Lyythine — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 05:14:26 GMT

I recently requested a CLI on my US Air card I got around December and I was granted a 6.5k CLI. That was 2 weeks ago and I have not received a HP yet. I was told it would be, but have not seen a pull show up. I think my case is the exception, not the rule with Barclay though.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

04Cobra — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 08:56:38 GMT

@Ghoshida wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Has anyone asked for and recieved a CLI from Barclays without a HP? I inquired about a CLI with a CSR and he informed that they don't CLI wihtout a HP, ever.
Is your card outside of the 0% APR promo?

If yes, then do the following:

1) Call Barclay CSR. Ask for APR reduction
2) You'll get transferred to credit analyst. Ask them for APR reduction
3) If your profile has grown since you got your card / last CLI, you'll get some reduction unless you're at rock bottom APR
4) Once done with APR reduction, ask to check if some SP CLI offers are around.

A couple of months ago a good number of people managed SP CLIs this way including yours truly.

Never believe a CC CSR.

LOL! Exactly what happened a week ago for me. Credit analyst is the way to go.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:21:30 GMT

@Ghoshida wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Has anyone asked for and recieved a CLI from Barclays without a HP? I inquired about a CLI with a CSR and he informed that they don't CLI wihtout a HP, ever.
Is your card outside of the 0% APR promo?

If yes, then do the following:

1) Call Barclay CSR. Ask for APR reduction
2) You'll get transferred to credit analyst. Ask them for APR reduction
3) If your profile has grown since you got your card / last CLI, you'll get some reduction unless you're at rock bottom APR
4) Once done with APR reduction, ask to check if some SP CLI offers are around.

A couple of months ago a good number of people managed SP CLIs this way including yours truly.

Never believe a CC CSR.

Thanks Goshida,

When I ask for the APR reduction, chances are the CSR will either throw me a bone or say "no." At that point shoud I specificaly ask for a credit anayst or should I threaten to close my account and deal with retention? My Barcays provided FICO has me at 790 and the account is several years old.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 19:57:10 GMT

They will transfer you, they have no choice IF you are out of the promo period (if there was any)

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:52:51 GMT

PResearch this topic and found this thread. I just attempted to follow the directions provided and was transferred to two different CSR ours who were unwilling to transfer me to a credit analyst. I open my Barclay card rewards MasterCard on January 28, 2015. It offered no intro APR in my APR is 24.99%. I have used this card monthly to pay my garage electric bill which is typically $20-$30 a month and then I pay that balance off about a week later. Maybe I should've let the balance report for the statement them paid. I just subscribe to myFICO three credit monitoring reports and scores. Also, Barclay provides your TU FIC08 monthly. I am assuming that use the score in their approval in CLI on my decisions. According to Barclay my TU Fico08 was 656 on January 19 man has improved 270 656 on January 19th Ln. has improved to 703 as of July 27th. myFICO last update has my score at 704. My score has improved by 47 or 48 points since I've gotten the card 6.21 months ago. I love spreadsheets.

I was shooting for two things when I got to the credit analyst. First was an APR reduction in the second was a soft pull credit limit increase. Is there a back door number for existing cardmembers to speak with credit analysts to avoid the CSR's who are unwilling to directly transfer me?

Is my usage just too low to for them to lower my APR or give me a credit limit increase?

Prune got this card to get in with Berkeley. I only got this card to get into the door with Barclay so that I could get a better card of theirs in the future easier. even without considering the high APR of this card, this is the worst part I have my wallet is the point system suck and so far customer service too.

If you call a CSR nearest close your account do they just do it or do they send you to a special department like a retention department? Or sometimes they do sometimes they don't. The 25% APR, which is the highest of any of my cards by far and the tiny $1000 credit limit, which is among the lowest of the 12 cards I have excluding the retail card I regrettably have. I will update my signature later to reflect my current scores, cards, accounts, balances and limits. I have updated it for a while.

Thanks in advance for anyone you can provide any insight and tips for my situation .

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

taxi818 — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:05:55 GMT

Good info guys about the Apr reduction and Sp cli info.Its been 3 months since my last Cli with barclays hard pull for sure. and also. since my Tu has jumped 56 points with my last Baddie gone. Should i try this trick or wait even longer? i know they see the new score as my fico has increased 3 times since my last cli. just wondering the wait in between time for cli's

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

c32knight — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:43:23 GMT

Well i just called the 2 backdoor numbers i had found for barclays. The first asked how long my account had been open, when i responded 3 years, he said it would require a hard pull. The second number said they have a policy of only doing an increase with a hard pull. I havent tried contacting the retention dept yet. I requested an APR decrease from them a month ago. Currently have a 9k credit line with them.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Ghoshida — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:02:08 GMT

Simply try the number on the back of your card.

Not backdoor numbers.

When you reach a CSR, ask for an APR reduction ONLY. Never ever say anything about a CLI. They don't see CLI offers.

Any good CS Rep will transfer you to a credit analyst at this point. If you don't get transferred, hang up and call again. Don't even bring up the topic of CLI.

Once you get to the analyst, the first thing you talk about MUST be the APR reduction. Don't get greedy. Let the analyst take a look at your profile. They are mostly nice people. Let them do their job.

Once the analyst responds to your APR reduction request (mostly positive), they often tell you about an SP CLI offer. If they don't proactively tell you, now you can ask about any offers.

If you are given a decent reduction (4% or so), chances are that you are eligible for a decent CLI as well.

Hope it helps.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Ghoshida — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:05:52 GMT

I think APR reduction leads to a recent soft pull which in turn activates potential CLI offers.

Front line CSRs cannot make such requests and don't see such offers.

BTW all of this is YMMV. Has worked for me 2/2 times but I can't guarantee that you will get results all the time!

Good luck.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

ojefferyo — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:46:17 GMT

I called the number on the card, ask for an APR reduction. She looked into something and said she would have to transfer me to someone. Got transfered and she knew what I was calling for. She checked her computer and said she can reduce me APR from 18.24 to 14.24. Once that was done she asked if there was anyting else, of course I asked if I could have a CLI and she said of course and it would be a soft pull. She went ahead and checked, came back for a $4k CLI. Took all of about 6-7 minutes. Very simple IF they transfer you.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

c32knight — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 18:49:25 GMT

Called but not transfer, will try again shortly

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

OmarGB9 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 05:03:24 GMT

Yea I've called twice and couldn't get them to transfer me.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

Nova5041 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 07:10:32 GMT

Yeah I did this a couple of months ago, called for Apr reduction, they reduce my apr and then i ask if there was a cli available, which she checked and told me it was going to be a soft pull. Then I received my credit limit increase! Kind of weird, to have to do this, but every creditor is different.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

takeshi74 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:29:26 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Has anyone asked for and recieved a CLI from Barclays without a HP? I inquired about a CLI with a CSR and he informed that they don't CLI wihtout a HP, ever.

Don't overlook prior discussions as a resource. The "ask for an APR reduction" trick with Barclaycard is a fairly common topic. You need to be transferred past the frontline CSR's for this. A frontline CSR will tell you what you stated.

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

SouthJamaica — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:37:06 GMT

@Ghoshida wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Has anyone asked for and recieved a CLI from Barclays without a HP? I inquired about a CLI with a CSR and he informed that they don't CLI wihtout a HP, ever.
Is your card outside of the 0% APR promo?

If yes, then do the following:

1) Call Barclay CSR. Ask for APR reduction
2) You'll get transferred to credit analyst. Ask them for APR reduction
3) If your profile has grown since you got your card / last CLI, you'll get some reduction unless you're at rock bottom APR
4) Once done with APR reduction, ask to check if some SP CLI offers are around.

A couple of months ago a good number of people managed SP CLIs this way including yours truly.

Never believe a CC CSR.

That's the ticket

Re: Barclaycard CLI without HP?

kdm31091 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:41:51 GMT

The other rarely mentioned point is that you may have difficulty getting transferred if you already have the lowest available APR. When I had upromise at the best APR, they wouldn't even transfer me because it was the lowest. Not that that means it's true for everyone, but seems to make it tougher to get transferred.