Nordstrom visa signature UPGRADE success!

[Jd2683]

I was able to get upgraded to the visa signature by asking. A little bit of background, I’ve had the Nordstrom card for about four years now ( The store card version). In that Time my credit limit has gone from $1000 to $20,000. My credit score is a 654. I emailed the office of the president, who we directed me to a very nice woman in the credit department. She called me a couple of days later and asked if she could pull a credit report. I gave her permission to do so. About 10 minutes later she called me back and said that I was all set and that she had been able to make the exception and upgrade me to the visa signature! So there is definitely a way to get it done, it just requires a little bit of legwork.

[QuakerOatmeal]

Wow, in 4 years you went from 1k to 20k!?! That's amazing.

Was it all automatic CLIs? 

[Jd2683]

Nope. Requested

[Creditaddict]

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@Jd2683 wrote:
I was able to get upgraded to the visa signature by asking. A little bit of background, I’ve had the Nordstrom card for about four years now ( The store card version). In that Time my credit limit has gone from $1000 to $20,000. My credit score is a 654. I emailed the office of the president, who we directed me to a very nice woman in the credit department. She called me a couple of days later and asked if she could pull a credit report. I gave her permission to do so. About 10 minutes later she called me back and said that I was all set and that she had been able to make the exception and upgrade me to the visa signature! So there is definitely a way to get it done, it just requires a little bit of legwork.

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I'm surprised they wanted to take a HP. I was able to convert a while back just by calling regular customer service and they click a button just like when requesting a cli and it spits back yes or no without credit pull.

Congrats and wow on the CL!

[Dave4fun]

Congratulations! You get a few more benefits vs. the store version and if you carry a balance at times, the internal purchase APR rate is very, very low.   Enjoy!!

[QuakerOatmeal]

Do you happen to know what those benefits are?

For the store vs regular credit card?

[FinStar]

@QuakerOatmeal, if you Google it or go to the Nordstrom website it provides some of this information :

https://m.shop.nordstrom.com/content/rewards-cards

[Anonymous]

Does your limit have to be at least 5k to be upgraded to visa sig? Mine is like 4.5k now (all auto cli). I did request last year or year before last and the rep told me they were only doing them by invitation only.

Not that I would actually use the card outside of Nordstrom, it’s just good to know it could be used elsewhere if I wanted too.

Also what number would you call? May attempt this again.

[FinStar]

My understanding, from some DPs floating around, the minimum CL for the VS upgrades used to be $5K. Unless they've changed some internal policies that allow the upgrade to VS with CLs <$5K or at least the Platinum Visa as the alternate.

[Anonymous]

My limit is $6000, I called in to customer service today to request an upgrade. He told me my limit qualified me but put me on hold and came back with an “unfortunately...” but it does seem like you can call in and request a review again and the 5000 minimum limit still holds true.

My score is 672, for reference.