Trust me, I understand. After nearly 9.5 years my Cap1 was still stuck at it's original $500, and was repeatedly told no to CLI requests, until last week when I called that backdoor number.
I once told my father to go into a local store and complain like crazy to get something he wanted. I would never and did not say he should be mean, but sometimes in certain situations complaining can get you what you want.
But I would guess it's not the same in a situation like credit cards. I mean after all they have many many consumers and more constantly applying. I worked at a retail chain in high school/college, and there were times that upset customers would say "I'll never shop here again" or "I'll go to a differe store next time." And while I never wanted an upset customer if they truly never shopped there again, or really did go to the different store, it didn't matter to me because I was still working and there were other customers.
And from hearing other people's stories on this board it sounds like a lot of time it's the emotional connection of getting a card's rep to understand where you're coming from and forming some kind of connection that gets you what you want during those recon calls or backdoor number calls.
Good luck!
