Hi there,
"Just providing some data points. I've had my Barclay's JetBlue Card since the end of July 18 (literally approved on the last day of July). The SL was $3500. At the time, my highest CL was $3000 from Cap1. I wondered at the time if Barclays likes to be slightly ahead of the curve of your other cards. Today, I logged in to find they gave me an Auto CLI to $6500. So seven months into having the card they knock me up to $500 more than Cap1. Cap1 had raised my CL to $6000 in October 18. May not be the case, but it feels like Barclays likes to be your highest CL to encourage more use. I've put a fair amount of spend on the card over the past seven months, and have carried a balance every month. Recently, it got pretty high--around $2200, so I paid $500 two weeks ago to bring the balance down to $1700 and stopped using the card with a plan to pay down $500 each month. Today, tada, new awesome credit limit. Will do good things for my utility."
Since that post, Barclay's has auto-increased my limit three times: to $9,200 in August 2019, to $12,200 in February 2020 and to $15,200 in March 2021. I wish I could say I paid in full every month, but the truth is I had been carrying a hefty balance of about $7500. I was tyring to get it down, but I just bought a house last summer and things kept coming up. This March, the bank that has my mortgage offered a balance transfer card with 0% interest until September 2022, so I took it as an opportunity to pay off the Barclay's card and save money on interest. After I paid the Barclay's card off with the balance transfer, they raised my limit to $15,200. I do still have a balance on the card as this is the card my heating oil auto-bills and I had a dentist bill pop up, so the current balance is about $1200. But when they auto-increased my credit limit, the balance was only about $147. I'd thought after previous auto-increases that Barclay's likes to be the biggest limit in your wallet. I still think that because at $15,200 they are my highest limit and as in prior auto increases, it happened right after I got a new card or increase that bested them; the card I got through the bank that has my mortgage gave me a limit of $12,000 to Barclays $12,200. I guess too close for comfort. lol I'm not complaining. Very happy for the increased utilization, but interesting nonetheless. If you're looking for a card to grow with you, I highly recommend. I haven't yet been able to take advantage of the travel points, but hoping to after the world sorts itself out.
Congrats! on your Barclays success.