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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 6:38 am
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Originally Posted by I can see for miles
Once Citi shuts down your credit cards in almost all cases you're blacklisted. It will most likely be years before Citi removes the restriction on your credit privileges. It's been nearly three years for me, still blacklisted.
Originally Posted by bobfather
I got shut down in 2013 for pushing about 36k a month through a 5% card for about 6 months. Just a warning - Citi has a long memory, and even 3 years later I can't get approved for new cards or accounts.

Luckily, I have a wife.
Yeah, I had my Citi accounts closed in the infamous Black Friday massacre in 2013 and am still banned from Citi. I was not doing "crazy" amounts of MS; pretty much just playing by their rules, spending below my monthly credit limit. My wife was not shut down.

With the consolidation of the airline industry and the increasing crackdown on multiple sign-up bonuses, it's definitely an annoyance not to be able to get Citi credit cards. Not sure if there's anything I can do about it, though, or when the ban might end.
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