@Anonymous wrote:
I requested them, one right after the other, and they were immediately approved. I did it online. Maybe I just got lucky? 🤷♀️
Stranger thing have happened! 
Last year I also requested two CLIs from them, but at different times (also on different cards). On one they did a HP on EQ, and on the other they did a HP on EX (which was somewhat unexpected).
It would be great if they started consistently doing SP user-initiated CLIs!
@pulpo wrote:I just want to add a slight spin to this VERY valuable discussion on soft or hard pull CLIs....
I have no lates or bankruptcies or anything overtly bad in any of my 3 reports, but I had a $20k medical bill last summer that I charged to my credit cards, and I just now got my utilization rate back to about 30% after paying off as much as I could for the last few months. I've generally found Discover to be a little under-appreciated around here and on other similar forums. They are not a prestige card, but I think the evidence indicates they are very easy to work with and often generous.
So, this afternoon I decided to spend some time on the Discover website for account holders, thinking I might request a CLI. My FICO 08 on all 3 bureaus is right at 700. I have a Discover IT card with a $5000 limit, currently with a zero balance, after being maxed out last August and gradually paid off.
...but I came across a balance transfer offer on the Discover website that really intrigued me because moving what remains of my medical debt onto a 0% balance transfer offer with Disocver had many obvious benefits. So I clicked on the balance transfer offer. They let me choose the card I wanted from the list of standard Discover card products and I choose the travel points card.
I listed my Citi AA card and BoA cashback card that together have about $10k balance on them at painfully high APRs. Discover came back right away online with a 18 month 0% APR balance transfer offer on a new travel points card with a limit exactly matching my balance transfer request - $10k. I was so excited that I called in to verify that I was really this fortunate and the representative told me I was also eligible for a 50% CLI on my old Discover card.
So today, with an online balance transfer request and a follow up call to a Discover rep, I got an entirely NEW Discover card with a $10k limit and a $2500 CLI on my old Discover Card.
...all with only a soft pull on Experian (confirmed by both my tri-bureau credit monitoring and the Discover rep).
Great stuff!
Yeah well I had a 780 EQ and one card with 5 years of perfect history and they gave me an insulting $2500 limit lol so I'm obviously still very salty about it. 
Congrats on your success though, should really help with your financial situation.
