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I have a Kohls store card with a $400 limit that I've had for almost a year. I'm not really fond of store cards anymore so I really want to see if I can call and switch it to the kohls Visa card. Is this something that can be done? When I got the kohls card I had pretty bad credit. Now it's in the 700's. Also Capital One does not like me. I know the store card is also capital one, but for some reason they liked me enough to approve me for that lol. So I'm a little worried with the visa Capital One will do some digging and realize it's me, the person they hate 🤣
I tried this recently, and was denied. Was told it wasn't possible since I wasn't given an invitation to upgrade.
For reference I have had a Kohl's card for like 6 years, and have been stuck at the max CL of 3k for the last 3 years. It's the least favorite and/or helpful card in my wallet.
I don't know why I still have it.
@Pandamanda wrote:I have a Kohls store card with a $400 limit that I've had for almost a year. I'm not really fond of store cards anymore so I really want to see if I can call and switch it to the kohls Visa card. Is this something that can be done? When I got the kohls card I had pretty bad credit. Now it's in the 700's. Also Capital One does not like me. I know the store card is also capital one, but for some reason they liked me enough to approve me for that lol. So I'm a little worried with the visa Capital One will do some digging and realize it's me, the person they hate 🤣
You may wish to give it a shot or apply for another better card.
@Pandamanda wrote:I have a Kohls store card with a $400 limit that I've had for almost a year. I'm not really fond of store cards anymore so I really want to see if I can call and switch it to the kohls Visa card. Is this something that can be done? When I got the kohls card I had pretty bad credit. Now it's in the 700's. Also Capital One does not like me. I know the store card is also capital one, but for some reason they liked me enough to approve me for that lol. So I'm a little worried with the visa Capital One will do some digging and realize it's me, the person they hate 🤣
Don't consider the Kohl's card subject to the same rules as other cap 1 cards. In sep/oct 2020 I got a kohls card 300 sl . I used the card for purchases at their online store and requested a cli every 6 months.
My history with the card,
300 sl sepoct 2020
300 - 700, 400 cli 6/11/21
700 - 1500, 800 cli 11/14/21
1500 - 2500, 1000 cli 6/22/22
2500 - 3000, 500 cli to max limit at the time, I didn't write down date.
3000 - 7000, 4000 cli and pc to Visa automatically by them 6/26/23
You have to request cli's or you cl will stay the same. I had luck by using the card to buy their products.
All this took place with me having scores in the 600's, low income, and a BK7 from 2019 on my reports, ymmv.
Did you get a hit on your CR when you requested an increase?
@TryN2Rebuild wrote:Did you get a hit on your CR when you requested an increase?
I requested all of my cli's on my Kohls payment page, after approxamately 6 months you will see a link show up on the page to request a cli.
All of my cli's were soft pull, although I have read some posts of hard pulls but perhaps they called in the request, ymmv.
A little update: just got an email today saying I'm being upgraded to the Visa card and my new card will be here September 16th! I guess I just had to wait a little longer lol.
Congratulations!