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A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

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Life_take2
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A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

After only one year of owning the portfolio, Capital One has decided to include Walmart Store cards into their CLD-a-poolza.

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What's interesting is they cited a two-year spending pattern and I have averaged about $400 /mo in grocery spending. They dropped me 4,000 from to 7K to 3K. Booooo! 

Oh well. My favorite part is the statement "...while providing flexibility for future spending."  We clearly have different ideas as to what that 'flexibility' looks like.  Smiley Wink

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Anonymous
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

They strike again. Sorry to hear. Right before the holidays too. Not that you would have used it for holiday shopping, but it's the fact of the matter. 

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rostrow416
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

Well that sucks.  I guess my chances of a CLI keep getting slimmer, they keep denying me for not enough usage.

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UpperNwGuy
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

We all knew this would happen when Capital One took over the Walmart credit card business.

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gdale6
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

Mine sits at 7K from Synch and the most I use it is maybe avg 100 a month, its gone if they CLD it even though its nearly 10 years old now, not going to play their games... I would suggest everyone who gets hit complain to the Walmart exec offices...

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Credit-hoarder
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

Kinda unrelated--but here where I'm at in Virginia Capital One has started closing bank branches again. They closed one of the two in my town and one about 5 miles further up the road. They must really be hurting right now.

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AverageJoesCredit
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

I believe  Cap One  took over the Walmart account and made it worse.  I know Sync made cli easy to get, which helped many with utilization, a good trade off for the horrendous apr but  even people who spend alot there cant get even $100 increases. Speaking for myself only,  how they were with this account definetly turned me off to having other C1 cards, if i could get one that isSmiley Wink

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AndySoCal
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

@Credit-hoarder 

Banks periodically review their branch footprint does the footprint still make sense. One of the effects of COVID-19 is foot traffic in banks and credit unions has dropped. Instead taking a deposit into the branch  the bank app is used.  The COVID-19 virus has pushed consumers to bank using digital means of paying people and bills.  Capital One in the third quarter announced a profit after two consecutive quarters of losses.

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JediNeo
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL

I noticed when I logged in to make a payment my limit dropped to $6k from $10k. No letter or anything. 100% on time, PIF payments. Only thing I can think of is low usage. 

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Anonymous
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Re: A little after one year - Cap One tightens the belt on Walmart CL


@Life_take2 wrote:

After only one year of owning the portfolio, Capital One has decided to include Walmart Store cards into their CLD-a-poolza.

walmart.JPG

What's interesting is they cited a two-year spending pattern and I have averaged about $400 /mo in grocery spending. They dropped me 4,000 from to 7K to 3K. Booooo! 

Oh well. My favorite part is the statement "...while providing flexibility for future spending."  We clearly have different ideas as to what that 'flexibility' looks like.  Smiley Wink


Well, from their viewpoint, if you spend $400 a month, a $3K limit certainly allows for ample growth in your spending!  (over 7x still just paying once a month).   YOUR utilization concerns are not theirs.

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