Wifes CC limit...

[KeithW]

My wife recently got a Citi Diamond Preferred card and signed up with me as an authorized user. My understanding is that they do not take my credit history into account since I am simply an authorized user. Is there any way to get a higher limit by taking my scores into account, which are lower than mine?

[colindidit]

Only if you had applied as a joint credit card I believe

[madmann26]

you would have to apply as a joint owner on the account.

[KeithW]

Can I be added as a joint owner if I wasn't? Or maybe I already am. Her scores are in the low 600s. Not sure how picky they are about this card.

[colindidit]

I don't know if it's true but it may require a new application to do that

[FinStar]

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@colindidit wrote:
I don't know if it's true but it may require a new application to do that

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+1

[myjourney]

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@FinStar wrote:

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@colindidit wrote:
I don't know if it's true but it may require a new application to do that

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+1

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Correct it would mean applying as a new app

[Creditaddict]

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@KeithW wrote:

My wife recently got a Citi Diamond Preferred card and signed up with me as an authorized user. My understanding is that they do not take my credit history into account since I am simply an authorized user. Is there any way to get a higher limit by taking my scores into account, which are lower than mine?

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99% sure Citi is one of the banks that got burned SO many times on Joint account tricks that they no longer offer joint accounts for the regular citi cards... Some of the furniture store or such cards "may" still offer joint options but not the Citi Diamond in this case.  Also in the past even when Joint, it did not help with CLI and such.

[ezdoesit]

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@Creditaddict wrote:

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@KeithW wrote:

My wife recently got a Citi Diamond Preferred card and signed up with me as an authorized user. My understanding is that they do not take my credit history into account since I am simply an authorized user. Is there any way to get a higher limit by taking my scores into account, which are lower than mine?

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99% sure Citi is one of the banks that got burned SO many times on Joint account tricks that they no longer offer joint accounts for the regular citi cards... Some of the furniture store or such cards "may" still offer joint options but not the Citi Diamond in this case.  Also in the past even when Joint, it did not help with CLI and such.

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What is the Joint Account Tricks?

[Creditaddict]

In the past with many banks you could get a credit card with someone with good credit.... add a joint account holder (no pull was done) then wait about 3 months and request to remove a joint account holder... they would send a form and request to remove the user that originally opened the account and for many years and many banks they would remove a joint user again without pulling credit... so basically someone that wouldn't have even qualified for a $500 limit or may have been blacklisted from a bank was able to walk away with an account with maybe $10k+ credit line!

Chase started pulling credit of both users when an account was requested to unjoint but for much time you could still add a joint user with no pull but now they have stopped adding joint.

Citi stopped it all together... they had the largest loop hole that I knew... you could add and remove with no pulls of the added or during removal.

Nordstrom use to allow it... not sure anymore.

Discover currently allows adding joint but not sure about removing.