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RedCARD CLI? Don't pay balance before statement posts?

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RedCARD CLI? Don't pay balance before statement posts?

So, Reading around some people are saying not to pay your balance before you statement posts to try and get a CLI. If you do you never get a CLI. Any truth to this?

 

 

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chhull00
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Re: RedCARD CLI? Don't pay balance before statement posts?

with me that was the case, and also update your income every month, good luck to youSmiley LOLHeart

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K-in-Boston
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Re: RedCARD CLI? Don't pay balance before statement posts?

Mine was open about 14 years before I started getting CLIs. That began when I let statements post with a balance, paid in full every month, and updated income monthly even when it had not changed. Some combination of that worked, and I have received a CLI every June and December for the past few years, going from $800 to $10,300.
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zerofire
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Re: RedCARD CLI? Don't pay balance before statement posts?

TD Bank has a rather stale method of reading balances for CLi's. They seam to read them from the report value instead of the internal data of purchases. While it is a valid way of doing things it is incompatible with some of the popular credit abuse methods. I think the idea is if the amount reported is low then you really do not need more credit since you are fitting into your existing credit line just fine even if you are paying it weekly.

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Re: RedCARD CLI? Don't pay balance before statement posts?


@zerofire wrote:

TD Bank has a rather stale method of reading balances for CLi's. They seam to read them from the report value instead of the internal data of purchases. While it is a valid way of doing things it is incompatible with some of the popular credit abuse methods. I think the idea is if the amount reported is low then you really do not need more credit since you are fitting into your existing credit line just fine even if you are paying it weekly.


 

 

 

There are no circumstances under which paying credit card balance early is a form of abuse.

None.

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