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Barclaycard limit reduction post covid

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  • Vinknut
    Vinknut Posts: 94 Forumite
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    Still no limit reduction on my wife's card. I double-checked the letter and it says limit reduction on 20th of May.
  • Brie
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    Vinknut said:
    Still no limit reduction on my wife's card. I double-checked the letter and it says limit reduction on 20th of May.
    Think they have all been changed to 17 June.
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  • Vinknut
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    Brie said:
    Vinknut said:
    Still no limit reduction on my wife's card. I double-checked the letter and it says limit reduction on 20th of May.
    Think they have all been changed to 17 June.
    What's the source for that info?
  • Brie
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    Vinknut said:
    Brie said:
    Vinknut said:
    Still no limit reduction on my wife's card. I double-checked the letter and it says limit reduction on 20th of May.
    Think they have all been changed to 17 June.
    What's the source for that info?
    I'm sure I saw it on one of the websites....sorry I can't find a link.  I was looking around a while back as they were going to slash mine by about 90%.  
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  • Vinknut
    Vinknut Posts: 94 Forumite
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    Still no limit reduction on my wife's card...
  • Vinknut said:
    Still no limit reduction on my wife's card...
    Nor mine, over a month after the date stated. Not good really, I upped my limit on another card. Not that it makes a massive difference but what has been the whole point of this exercise?!
  • Thrugelmir
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    edited 21 June 2021 at 9:55PM
    Vinknut said:
    Still no limit reduction on my wife's card...
    Nor mine, over a month after the date stated. Not good really, I upped my limit on another card. Not that it makes a massive difference but what has been the whole point of this exercise?!
    Reduces Barclaycard's capital requirements. There's an internal cost to providing (unused) credit facilities. Think macro not micro. Might well be an element of manual intervention to process the changes. The letters have generated a lot of noise. That needs to be worked through. 
  • Vinknut said:
    Still no limit reduction on my wife's card...
    Nor mine, over a month after the date stated. Not good really, I upped my limit on another card. Not that it makes a massive difference but what has been the whole point of this exercise?!
    Reduces Barclaycard's capital requirements. There's an internal cost to providing (unused) credit facilities. Think macro not micro. Might well be an element of manual intervention to process the changes. The letters have generated a lot of noise. That needs to be worked through. 
    Yes I see what you're saying. However it's not good customer service. We get a date out of the blue, for, in some cases massive decreases, dates come and go and nothing. Not even communication to say it's delayed. It can impact your credit worthiness, people need to make plans, some have applied for new cards as they need the limit. Will Barclaycard even be reducing limits now? Who knows!
  • draiggoch
    draiggoch Posts: 155 Forumite
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    It seems the reductions have started being introduced. Mine has gone down last night from £13000 to £5500. 
  • Vinknut
    Vinknut Posts: 94 Forumite
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    Yeah, same here, reduced at some point in the last 24 hours.

    Giving out one date, not sticking to it, and randomly selecting another date seems a bit odd.
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