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I'm in the garden until next year, but now that I have plenty of rebuilding cards, I'm starting my wishlist cards... US Bank only ever shows me a Contour Debit Card. I'm interested in the REI MasterCard, but I can't seem to find any recent reviews of folks apping for it / what their scores and profiles were like, etc. It's 5% back and I buy a lot through REI so it'd be great... but I don't want to add any inquiries in the next 2 years unless I feel really confident.
@mamatried wrote:I'm in the garden until next year, but now that I have plenty of rebuilding cards, I'm starting my wishlist cards... US Bank only ever shows me a Contour Debit Card. I'm interested in the REI MasterCard, but I can't seem to find any recent reviews of folks apping for it / what their scores and profiles were like, etc. It's 5% back and I buy a lot through REI so it'd be great... but I don't want to add any inquiries in the next 2 years unless I feel really confident.
I'm not sure what they look for on that card but I could tell you is that they manually review just about 99% of apps and there's a good chance that if they even see something negative they will deny it. They are a very conservative bank
I applied for this card May 3rd.
I got an approval letter Jun 18th-for 1K$.
Seeing as it is a camping store, I just didnt see keeping it open, as 1 tent setup will run over this line and USBANK will want 1Hp for every CLI. I just could see it costing me more than GECRB has in growth CLI hard hits. So I called and cancelled it.
Approval took what 1.5 months? Anyway, my BK was still showing, but in any case it was approved but not enough for me to pay with HP to make it grow. I read about some kind of CLI limit imposed per request, like 350$ per request or something. I may be wrong but those numbers add up to more than I want to deal with for a card like this.
Good luck though. Cheers.
Thanks for the feedback. 1.5 months?! Dang! I think I'm just going to tip toe through the garden for awhile. Doesn't sound like it's worth the pull based on the cards I already have.
@mamatried wrote:I'm in the garden until next year, but now that I have plenty of rebuilding cards, I'm starting my wishlist cards... US Bank only ever shows me a Contour Debit Card. I'm interested in the REI MasterCard, but I can't seem to find any recent reviews of folks apping for it / what their scores and profiles were like, etc. It's 5% back and I buy a lot through REI so it'd be great... but I don't want to add any inquiries in the next 2 years unless I feel really confident.
The folks I know who have that card were high 700's and above when they appd/approved. The previous version of this card was a NPSL Visa Signature so I would probably want to get to 700 before applying. It's certainly a very nice addition to the REI annual dividend.
I love my dividend! I think I'll wait a year or two until I get in the 700's and hit some of my more important goals. Thanks for the advice!
I love my dividend but not a useful card if you don't shop at REI. US BANK is conservative but generous, I have two REI MC's one line transitioned from the VISA, the other came through a mail offer during the transition. I got mine with a mid 600 score, but I've never had a late payment, after just under three years with them, I have a combined CL with them at 22.5K.
@mamatried wrote:I'm in the garden until next year, but now that I have plenty of rebuilding cards, I'm starting my wishlist cards... US Bank only ever shows me a Contour Debit Card. I'm interested in the REI MasterCard, but I can't seem to find any recent reviews of folks apping for it / what their scores and profiles were like, etc. It's 5% back and I buy a lot through REI so it'd be great... but I don't want to add any inquiries in the next 2 years unless I feel really confident.
In terms of underwriting I can tell you the card was previously a Visa Signature and those approved for it received a NPSL. The Mastercard version is a World Mastercard but I believe they do have set CL's now.