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Mine would be love hate relationship still and here's why.
Hate:
Much more unpredictability when it comes to CLI (they need to adopt the CapOne Credit Steps model for lower starting limits like $500, it would have been better for them to just give me a $1k increase up front at six months like they did)
Broken CLI button for a long time
Potential to only get $500 or $250 CLIs with HP
Love:
Customer service for the most part. Even more consistent than Chase's
Free Starbucks gift card that I got in the mail a few months ago
Random 0 APR BT offers
Random deals they throw out there from time to time like 5% cashback at Applebees or Red Robin
Free $1.99 Amazon gift cards
Auto CLIs if more of those start showing up on my account
@juggalo9er wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:had card 1 year 1000 starting line
2 hp's over 3 months 1500, 250 each time
closed account when disco requested 4506-t
hold on now, you just posted in another thread that you were doing an $11.00 BT between Discover and CapOne? That doesn't seem like an odd set of transactions to you? Just throwing out ideas for why they would want to know more about what you are doing.
i am sure my account was fr'd due to a joke of an $11 balance transfer lol
if thats why they closed the account then they are worse then i could put into words
I thought you closed the account? Lenders don't spend time on a 4506-t or Income Verification request without some reason.
@NRB525 wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:... and also please share your details about what your credit profile looks like so we can put it in context...
and this means what
make excuses for a lender that either does not grow or grows so slowly people tire of it and simply stop using it
No, each bank has tendencies that they follow for which credit profiles they like to lend to, or how they seem to adjust to certain circumstances. Just throwing out a comment that a lender asked for a 4506-t is not really putting the entire CCC - Cardholder relationship in perspective, including things like how the account was used, whether other CC were being opened, etc.
My intent is to provide some useful discussion. If Discover is running a form of AA, it is helpful for others to get the full story. Othewise it's just a pity party.
the only pity i have is on people who still have the card
it did not work for me. rewards never posted correctly
credit line was horrible
never abused the account well shy of the $11 bt for three months
@NRB525 wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:had card 1 year 1000 starting line
2 hp's over 3 months 1500, 250 each time
closed account when disco requested 4506-t
hold on now, you just posted in another thread that you were doing an $11.00 BT between Discover and CapOne? That doesn't seem like an odd set of transactions to you? Just throwing out ideas for why they would want to know more about what you are doing.
i am sure my account was fr'd due to a joke of an $11 balance transfer lol
if thats why they closed the account then they are worse then i could put into words
I thought you closed the account? Lenders don't spend time on a 4506-t or Income Verification request without some reason.
debateable who closed it, technically they did the moment they asked for the 4506-t
@juggalo9er wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:had card 1 year 1000 starting line
2 hp's over 3 months 1500, 250 each time
closed account when disco requested 4506-t
hold on now, you just posted in another thread that you were doing an $11.00 BT between Discover and CapOne? That doesn't seem like an odd set of transactions to you? Just throwing out ideas for why they would want to know more about what you are doing.
i am sure my account was fr'd due to a joke of an $11 balance transfer lol
if thats why they closed the account then they are worse then i could put into words
I thought you closed the account? Lenders don't spend time on a 4506-t or Income Verification request without some reason.
debateable who closed it, technically they did the moment they asked for the 4506-t
lol Ok.
Not really. What they were trying to do was understand their customer.
I am sort of mildly annoyed at Discover because A) They are among the worst lender for recons, if not the worst B) When I applied for a Discover It, they wouldn't offer me an individual acount (understandable given my scores) but also would not offer me a secured card. They instead countered with a joint account, which from my understanding can't become an individual account later (so eventually I'm going to have to close the joint account after I get in their good graces and get an individual account). I asked if I could do a secured card instead and they said no -- that the secured card is only available as an option for certain qualified applicants.
This struck me as strange for two reasons. Firstly, I've read of people on myFICO being extended the secured Discover It card with their scores in the 500s. Secondly, a secured card would be much more safe for Discover than a joint account. If I default on a secured card, at least they have my deposit to recoup the charge off. If I default on a joint account, they may or may not get their money back, depending on what the other joint account holder does.
In any case, I really would have preferred a seccured card because at least when it graduates it is more or less the same as an unsecured Discover It account. As it stands, I'm eventually going to have to take another hard pull with Discover to get an individual account after they see my payment history on my joint account.
EDIT: Popa, what are these "free" $1.99 Amazon Gift cards of which you speak?
@juggalo9er wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:... and also please share your details about what your credit profile looks like so we can put it in context...
and this means what
make excuses for a lender that either does not grow or grows so slowly people tire of it and simply stop using it
No, each bank has tendencies that they follow for which credit profiles they like to lend to, or how they seem to adjust to certain circumstances. Just throwing out a comment that a lender asked for a 4506-t is not really putting the entire CCC - Cardholder relationship in perspective, including things like how the account was used, whether other CC were being opened, etc.
My intent is to provide some useful discussion. If Discover is running a form of AA, it is helpful for others to get the full story. Othewise it's just a pity party.
the only pity i have is on people who still have the card
it did not work for me. rewards never posted correctly
credit line was horrible
never abused the account well shy of the $11 bt for three months
Ok, well sorry to hear that. My experience has been quite good over the last year.
From a $5k CL, I got a double whammy: $3k 12-month temporary CLI, along with a 12-month 0% APR BT offer, which I promptly maxed out, transferring $7,727 onto the card. 96.5% utilization.
Then, a few months later, they sent me a "spend $1,000, get 10% back" offer. So I spent $1,010 on the card and got $100 back. I had room for that because I was paying down the $7,727 at a rapid clip.
Then, they sent an offer for 0% interest on new charges for some number of months. I think that overlapped with the $1k spend offer. At that point, I was getting so many offers from them, I missed that they had made this offer until the $1k I had charged wasn't posting any interest expense on my monthly statements. I'm like, wth?
And, in Q1 2015, every time I see a new gasoline charge on my Discover account, there's a confirmation that I'm ready to roll! Boosters they are!
So to those who are hating on Discover, I have no conception of hating on Discover. I just have to think the other cardholders aren't doing something right.
@Anonymous wrote:
Yeah but with a joint account they can go after two people to get their money back.
Yeah, I understand that...but they're not "out" anything on a secured card (other than minimal account maintenance fees, I suppose) as long as my deposit is the same as my credit line. If my joint account holder and I both default, they are out the whole enchilada.
I received this card in March of 2013 with a $1.5k CL. Almost 2 years later, received my first auto CLI in the amount of $600 and I'm now sitting at $2,100. I understand that they are conservative but I also understand that they took a chance on a customer with a 5 year old BK on his CR. I am grateful for the opportunity to do business with Discover so I can't really say that I dislike them in any way, shape or form. I would like to see more CLIs in the near future seeing that my other 2 cards have $5k and $6.5k CLs.