Best spend pattern for Chase cli?

[gen-specific]

conventional wisdom was to wait 6 statements for chase

everyone on this forum told me to wait 6 months, but I really wanted a CLI after my 3rd statement, because it as a low credit limit and I wanted chase to be my main card.

so I called and the pencil pusher denied me for my ridiculous 600% credit limit increase, gave me some boilerplate reasons

then I called the backdoor number to a credit analyst and she revealed there was no reason for the denial based on their risk models

I got a 420% credit limit increase

[kevinjjc]

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@gen-specific wrote:

conventional wisdom was to wait 6 statements for chase

everyone on this forum told me to wait 6 months, but I really wanted a CLI after my 3rd statement, because it as a low credit limit and I wanted chase to be my main card.

so I called and the pencil pusher denied me for my ridiculous 600% credit limit increase, gave me some boilerplate reasons

then I called the backdoor number to a credit analyst and she revealed there was no reason for the denial based on their risk models

I got a 420% credit limit increase

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Which # did you call the first time?

[kobe2012]

Different analysts may have different results ..my freedom was 7 months old when i asked for a cli ..had an auto from $500 to $1000 after the 3rd statement ...before my 7th statement, i asked for $5k ... Finally got it after 7 calls! they wanted to pull my ex which was frozen...got away with no hp on my 7th call... my freedom was my go to card then, i was using it and paying in full..it will hit one yr this october ..hope ill get some love again ...

[gen-specific]

the number on the back of the card

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@kevinjjc wrote:

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@gen-specific wrote:

conventional wisdom was to wait 6 statements for chase

everyone on this forum told me to wait 6 months, but I really wanted a CLI after my 3rd statement, because it as a low credit limit and I wanted chase to be my main card.

so I called and the pencil pusher denied me for my ridiculous 600% credit limit increase, gave me some boilerplate reasons

then I called the backdoor number to a credit analyst and she revealed there was no reason for the denial based on their risk models

I got a 420% credit limit increase

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Which # did you call the first time?

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[takeshi74]

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@lg8302ch wrote:

Interesting...so Chase likes to see balances carried over

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Not necessarily.  That's really oversimplifying what could be due to a number of variables at play.