Originally Posted by
wvums
Did you have to build up to this amount? I've had the card for 2 weeks. 12K limit and was doing $500 VGC one at a time. Bumped up to $1k spend at 7-11 and got call from CSR about fraud alert for such a large purchase at a gas station. Is it easier to get larger transaction totals through at CVS on this card than at gas stations? Should i mix purchases up between gas and drugstore?
I wouldn't worry too much about the automated fraud calls. I've received about 3 or 4 in the 1.5 months of having the card. I had 1 live person call me about 3 minutes after I had a 1.5k or 2k purchase declined (all other fraud calls came after the purchase was completed successfully). She wanted to confirm that I was trying to make the purchase and said she would notify the system to allow the purchase.
As for ramping up, here is my purchase history for the first ~3 weeks with the first column being the # of days after activating the card. Purchases have continued at roughly the same rate.
Day Amount
1 1000
4 2000
5 2000
7 3000
8 1000
9 3000
11 1000
12 3000
18 4000
23 5000