Applying for a Barclays Arrival+ (or any Barclays Card) with an open collection

[Anonymous]

They just approved me for $5K on sunday and then Recon'd for 3x CLI the same day to $15k total. Good luck on yours

[Anonymous]

Barclay approved you on recon from $5k to 15k? Which card?

[mccallb]

I too have a paid collection from like 2 years ago and I was instantly approved for  barclay world mastercard elite with 10K SL

[Jerry45]

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@sjt wrote:

I heard that Barclays will automatically deny your application if you have an open collection. Can anyone confirm if this is true or not.

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I aasume Barc does not have a pre approval site anymore. Try Chase or Citi first

[sjt]

My friend ended up applying for the card on their site. He got the 7-10 day message then went on to check the status of the application a few hours later. He was declined and a letter will be sent with the reason for the decline. He called recon a few days later was immediately transferred to Security and spend about 10 minutes answering questions to verify identity then transferred by to an analyst. They reveiwed the application asked about some paid charge off from a few years ago and did not mention the open collection (which is from 2012)  then approved him for with a SL of $7K. I was suprised that he was approved. 

[Anonymous]

@donny10, I recon'd from 5k to 15k on arrival+ on Sunday

[Anonymous]

Wow 😳How long did that take ? 

[Anonymous]

this is false, I was approved for the rewards mastercard with a judgement and a collections on my credit.  they are new credit sensitive.  I also just got their aviator card but with the judgement paid but still have the open collections from 2012 I also got approved with a transunion around 670

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

this is false, I was approved for the rewards mastercard with a judgement and a collections on my credit.  they are new credit sensitive.  I also just got their aviator card but with the judgement paid but still have the open collections from 2012 I also got approved with a transunion around 670

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They aren't new credit sensitive.  I Got my second Barclay card the Aviator Plus with 17 new accounts in the prior 6 months.