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Who allows the greatest limit?

Which CC provider offers the highest credit limits?

I now have two cards, i at £475 limit and one at £550. I'd rather have one with a limit of £1025.

Any ideas?
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  • Viks
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    I believe its done on an individual basis so its not really the case of which company.
  • Maybe if you miss a few payments they might up your limit. I pay my balance every month but the my limit on my 2 RBS cards is about 1/2 of my brothers limit and I earn twice as much as him. I have asked them to up the limit to no avail.
  • System
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    I've just taken out an Egg card purely for the BT and they gave me a £10k limit. My other 2 normal CCs that I've had for the last 15 years have £9.6k & £8k limits
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  • Eydon
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    I recently took out an Amazon Mastercard (issued by Halifax) to get the £15 voucher and they gave me an initial limit of £14.5k.
  • Bf109
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    Dr_Baird wrote: »
    Maybe if you miss a few payments they might up your limit. I pay my balance every month but the my limit on my 2 RBS cards is about 1/2 of my brothers limit and I earn twice as much as him. I have asked them to up the limit to no avail.

    I'm also with RBS. I have £475 and £550 limits. Which is pretty useless if you are trying to buy a £650 airline ticket to Singapore!

    The bizarre thing is that they wouldnt up my limit for an RBS Classic beyond £550 (from £475) but had no probs approving an RBS Platinum with a £475 limit!

    Why not just let me have one useful limit of £1025? :confused:
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Rise like Lions after slumber
    In unvanquishable number -
    Shake your chains to earth like dew
    Which in sleep had fallen on you -
    Ye are many - they are few.
    [/FONT]
  • Bf109
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    !!!!!! wrote: »
    I've just taken out an Egg card purely for the BT and they gave me a £10k limit. My other 2 normal CCs that I've had for the last 15 years have £9.6k & £8k limits

    Perhaps its because I have only had a CC for a year?
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Rise like Lions after slumber
    In unvanquishable number -
    Shake your chains to earth like dew
    Which in sleep had fallen on you -
    Ye are many - they are few.
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