I waited until I got 18 months of credit history to get the Chase Freedom and I was approved for $2500. I held a balance of 2k for 3 months and got an Auto-CLI to $5000. They're not so bad if you have patience.
DCU Platinum: 4000 - Discover IT: 11000 - Walmart: 5000 - AMEX BCP: 18000 - Chase Freedom VS: 5000
@VirtualCuriostiy: It might have grown, but I probably would have had to keep taking HP hits to get it to grow! I'm sure auto CLI's with them were not in my future. What's the point of doing that when I could put those HP's to more practical use? I didn't really "need' it...the way they kept sending me pre-screened mailers left and right, it sounded like they liked what they saw on my CR's and wanted my business-but I guess I was wrong on that one, or else they would have at least matched my Discover IT limit of $3.5K which was reporting at the time of app. And the $500/$100 spend bonus they're offering right now sounded good also along with the 0% for 18 mos.
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@maiden-girl: You're right-what's done is done. I thought I had proved myself pretty well with the BP gas card I've have with them for the last 8 mos., but I guess not. Besides if I had a desire to I could always re-apply next year and maybe this time aim a little higher-like CSP. By then practically all of my acct's will be well over a year old.
@Credit-hoarder wrote:@Anonymous-girl: You're right-what's done is done. I thought I had proved myself pretty well with the BP gas card I've have with them for the last 8 mos., but I guess not. Besides if I had a desire to I could always re-apply next year and maybe this time aim a little higher-like CSP. By then practically all of my acct's will be well over a year old.
Next time, sock drawer a card you feel isn't growing and put all your spending on another one. I bet you would have received a little increase because they want you to use their card!! Not the competitor 
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@Credit i have somewhat of a similar experience except this is with Citi and not even a new card a CLI .... Now I've had my Sunoco card for over 10 months and have never even rrecieved and increased applied and was denied ...... yet all my other cards are well above a measely $500 but fact is .... Store Cards are much less accredited than you think to some banks.... Assuming you only have the store version and not the Visa if its the Visa ***shrugs*** no idea then...
@maiden-girl: That was my thinking too. Since Discover is their biggest competitor right now, I would have figured they (Chase) would have given me a little more incentive to steer me away from using my Discover Card. Looked to me though like they (Chase) could care less about the competition by giving me a much lower starting CL limit than Discover..
That's what I meant-Freedom and Discover IT appear to be in competition with each other b/c both have the same rewards structure and similiar sign up bonuses. And both are doing a lot of heavy advertising right now also.