Barclays = Big Brother. They are like the paper tiger Mexican cartel who helped you get in the country and demands you give them a percentage of your weekly salary for life in return. Business is not personal. Close it an move on. Maybe they paid too much to sponsor the arena in Brooklyn, NY. Maybe the ladies of 227 can chime in. What you say Jackayyyy?
@Anonymous wrote:Never good news...sure is a lot of this with Barclay these days.
Not just these days.
They never stopped, they just slow up here and there.
The forum experiences Barclays slashes by the droves for awhile and then it lets up again. 
@Anonymous wrote:Barclays = Big Brother. They are like the paper tiger Mexican cartel who helped you get in the country and demands you give them a percentage of your weekly salary for life in return. Business is not personal. Close it an move on. Maybe they paid too much to sponsor the arena in Brooklyn, NY. Maybe the ladies of 227 can chime in. What you say Jackayyyy?
R.I.P Sherman,
@Anonymous wrote:I hate it the most because they slash before you make payments so they look maxed out and that really hurts. They can do a whole year of rebuilding with one swift kick in the butt. My personal story is I paid off several cards with a balance transfer and then got nailed. what happens during a balance transfer is you risk having both reports from both Banks and in this case I transferred off a synchrony card which is a TransUnion puller and Barclays is a TransUnion puller so all the sudden I went from owing $4,500 to $9,000 in the same month and I think that is what did it
I paid off Barclay via a BT to NFCU in November... I left a small recurring bill to post monthly on the Barclay. We'll see what happens in the next month or two!
@TrialByFire wrote:
They slashed mine last month from 10k to 3500 with a balance of 3200. I called Barclays portfolio something number and asked why they did the CLD. The reason was I carried a balance for about 8mo and I had several inqs from rate shopping for a mortgage. This is on the ring card so that's kind of the purpose due to 8% APR. I asked them to reinstate my original credit line. They checked my 3 yr acct history, said we see you have a history a making big payments. Then they honored my request. You could try to go that route if it's not too late but don't blame you in the slightest for not wanting to deal with their fickleness.
If THAT isn't being overly "picky" then I don't know what is.
Here is my gripe on that. They are making a profit (8% per whatever amount) aren't they? And monthly at that.
Are they in the business to make money or serve as a credit monitoring guide wherein they extend you credit and if you don't adhere to some guideline which they won't openly share what those rules are, they take action on you.
Glad that you got yours returned to the original limit. They are not fooling anyone though. They also told me I had, and quote "Strong Payment History" with them but they were unwilling to extend anymore credit.
The bare bones FACT for me was, their COMPUTER approved my original $5K limit where it remained until I closed it after (2) years. Barclays people never extended a single dime.
Looks to me like the computer exercised more reason than their people who man the credit end.
Dunno but it's probably just as well with the way that it turned out, because after proactively closing their only card, much better opportunities and success went right off the charts to the good 
