topic Re: Barclays Travelocity Amex Auto CLI in Credit Cards

Barclays Travelocity Amex Auto CLI

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:01:35 GMT

I applied for a Barclay's Travelocity Amex in October last year. I was approved for the Card with an annual fee ($39) with a CL of $2500. I opted to have gas be my "special category" to earn double points, so this was essentially a glorified gas card from November until January. In January I took advantage of a 0% BT offer and SD the card. I BT $1300 to the card and paid about $100 a month for the next 5 months.

Last week (Friday) I noticed my offer was near expiration and I paid the card in full so I wouldn't be hit with any back interest. I checked my account on Saturday to see if the payment posted and noticed I received an auto CLI of $500 new CL is $3000!!!

The card has decent rewards~ travelocity purchases net a 10% return, special categories like gas (or restaurants or groceries) nets 2%, everything else is 1% (towards more travelocity purchases). If you want an Amex but you're scared of FR's is a good pick up!

Side-note I know the overall tone with Barclay's is to not add accounts within the first 6 months or you will receive an AA but I added 3 new cards and an auto loan since opening this card in November and still received a CLI (YMMV).

Re: Barclays Travelocity Amex Auto CLI

RockinRay — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:24:07 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I applied for a Barclay's Travelocity Amex in October last year. I was approved for the Card with an annual fee ($39) with a CL of $2500. I opted to have gas be my "special category" to earn double points, so this was essentially a glorified gas card from November until January. In January I took advantage of a 0% BT offer and SD the card. I BT $1300 to the card and paid about $100 a month for the next 5 months.

Last week (Friday) I noticed my offer was near expiration and I paid the card in full so I wouldn't be hit with any back interest. I checked my account on Saturday to see if the payment posted and noticed I received an auto CLI of $500 new CL is $3000!!!

The card has decent rewards~ travelocity purchases net a 10% return, special categories like gas (or restaurants or groceries) nets 2%, everything else is 1% (towards more travelocity purchases). If you want an Amex but you're scared of FR's is a good pick up!

Side-note I know the overall tone with Barclay's is to not add accounts within the first 6 months or you will receive an AA but I added 3 new cards and an auto loan since opening this card in November and still received a CLI (YMMV).

Nice! Congrats on the increase.

Re: Barclays Travelocity Amex Auto CLI

tntexans72 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:37:27 GMT

Congrats, and I am sure there is no HP from Barclays since it's auto.

Re: Barclays Travelocity Amex Auto CLI

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:37:33 GMT

@tntexans72 wrote:
Congrats, and I am sure there is no HP from Barclays since it's auto.

@Anonymous Thanks!

@txtexans- Thanks also... And I've checked my reports... No HP anywhere!

Re: Barclays Travelocity Amex Auto CLI

RockinRay — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:41:57 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@tntexans72 wrote:
Congrats, and I am sure there is no HP from Barclays since it's auto.

@Anonymous Thanks!

@txtexans- Thanks also... And I've checked my reports... No HP anywhere!

Even better!