Credit Card limit slashed without warning

Welcome to the world where banks have been 'advised' by the regulators not to give people excessive credit lines...

Have they though? I mean actually made it a recommendation to them all?

Could also be as people have mentioned that they're simply haven't been able to entice HangTime into making big purchases and thus giving them interest because he isn't able to pay it off, kind of fishing by the bank to make money.

Since you've not bitten, they using a new tactic to get you closer to your new limit.
 
Sorry for bumping an old thread but I have an update (in case anyone cares or experienced similar) - my wife received a letter the other day stating that the balance had been reduced in error and was put back to it's original limit of £10600 2 days after it was reduced. Of course, this raises some further questions:

1) Why did the person she spoke to on the phone state that it had happened as a result of a review of past spending and that it was part of their practice to be a responsible lender? Clearly this was BS if it was done in error.
2) Why was she told a letter had been sent out the day the reduction was made, when clearly it wasn't (we never received such a letter so either it got lost in the post or was never sent)
3) Why did we not receive a letter apologising for the error and informing us the previous limit was restored until nearly two weeks after the error was corrected?

Just seems like very poor customer service all round; not only do they fail to notify you of changes, when they make an error and you phone up (at your own expense) to query it, they still don't realise the error has occurred and try to blag it.

I agree that this is rather poor service. You may wish to complain, highlighting the bank's TCF obligations.
 
Old thread bump.

Recently cleared everything off our Barclaycard. Their reaction? They put another £1000 on the limit.

Logic?
 
I'm guessing it was dfone because of a review, i'm guessing it doesn't say that the review was wrong, otherwise they would have known straight away.
 
If they done that to me, they wouldn't have my custom for anything.

It's not that you're costing them - they make money on each transaction so if you pay off each month but find you reaching £1.3k then you'll still be making them money - just not enough.

They can slash your limit and give it to someone that doesn't pay it off - maintaining their exposure but making more money.
 
Well i had mines slashed from 5k to £500 (Halifax) from out of the blue while i was abroad. Transactions getting declined.
But it was a accident so they increased it back. And all penalty charges where waived off.

As for limit changing it has happened to me in the past. But i just move on... Not much you can do..
 
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