Barclaycard World MasterCard (ex-Egg) Credit Limit Increase

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

I've just had an e-mail from Barclaycard offering a credit limit increase. First one since they took over from Egg.

Anyone else had this? I'm just wondering if they are working their way through their customers or if I have been singled out for some reason.

jonesMUFCforever

What was your limit before and what have they offered now?

Not had an offer here but then I don't use more than 10% of available limit so probably they see no need to offer me more.

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

What was your limit before and what have they offered now?

Not had an offer here but then I don't use more than 10% of available limit so probably they see no need to offer me more.

The limit's gone from £6000 to £9000. I normally put £500-ish per month on it, paid in full.

jonesMUFCforever

Mine is £7k probably never go much higher than £500 o/s cleared every month like you.
As this is always cleared not bothered about getting any deals unless they would open me a second card.

fozmcfc

Possibly unconnected, but I had an Egg Visa card, which became a Barclaycard and they have just offered me 24 months 0% BT and say if my limit isn't enough I could request an increase.

This is the first offer from Barclaycard since taken over my account, so perhaps they are going through former Egg card holders.

I don't use the Barclaycard at all and haven't since they took over it. The limit was reduced by myself from £4000 to £500 after I paid it off in 2009 and didn't want to be tempted to run it up again.

Wish it was a 0% purchase deal, because then I would up the limit and use it, but 0% BT deals aren't any use to me nowadays.

msallen

I got an increase from 7K to 9K back in January this year. I had been using the card pretty heavily for the previous 6 months or so (typically spending about 3K to 5K per month on work expenses and then paying in full).

Scientist_DFW

I got an increase from 6k to 8.8k last month but this has coincided with me making several payments a month for the last 2-3 months in a bid to clear balances I'd transferred over before the 0% comes to an end.

I thought this flurry of activity had alerted them and they were trying to tempt me to transfer more balances over or to use the card for spending, which I currently don't do.

Seems it's a more wide spread plan.