I wanted to move some CL from my Aspire to my Bonvoy card to have a bit more cushion for a Marriott stay next week.
My attempts were denied.
Several phone calls later - after initially being told that I had to leave $3,100 on the Aspire (which made sense as that's been the minimum approval SL), eventually they said that the minimum has recently been changed and is now $3700.
I submitted my request for a CL move that left $3700 on the Aspire and it went through.
The online form implies you can move all but $500 (I wasn't trying to do anything close to that though). This $3700 limit wasn't published/displayed anywhere.
I'm not sure if this was a "'me" thing or an actual thing-but the rep said it was a brand new updated policy and not a function of me as a customer/internal limit kind of thing. But who knows.
I've moved limits before and never had issues. But I wasn't expecting this amount as a minimum. Card is over a year old (so it's not got CARD act annual fee limitations).
I'm just sharing my experience.
Make sure you wait 30 days from the last move.
I think the cobrands do have different minimums-based on AF. It seems like maybe they increased the minimum SL on the $450 AF cards to $3700?
And/Or the $450 cards are going to become $550 cards.
The increase is indeed likely due to the higher annual fees. It's going to be YMMV based on the donor card. $500 + any pending or cleared balance is the floor (as evidenced by my Blue from American Express card that hasn't been used in a few years where I moved all but $500 to Starwood Preferred Guest in early 2017), but certain cards may have a higher floor. I moved all but $4000 from my SkyMiles Platinum card to my Delta Reserve card in June of last year to bring it up to an even $50,000, but it sounds like if I had tried for much more it would not have been allowed.
