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Old Apr 17, 2017 | 1:46 pm
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kingofkingsforu
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Originally Posted by Happy
I agree with your speculation on using the 5 checking accounts. But the excuses about electronic payments given to you are TOTAL BS.

The Pull Payment method from the card issuer's site, is an ACH payment - the money is pulled from your linked bank via the Automatic Clearing House system that virtually ANY and EVERY financial institution in this country is a member.

Using both linked checking accounts AND WMBP, does NOT cause issues. Using more than 3 linked checking accounts seem inevitable get payments being put on hold until the same account has been used a few times. Just think about it, most people would not use more than 2 bank accounts to pay bills. Why there is a need to use so many bank accounts? That naturally raises flags.

Using 5 linked accounts definitely could trip wire based on the tidbits heard over the years.

Many payments within a billing cycle also is a flag raiser.

Citi only allows 4 payments in a billing cycle when it is pull from the linked bank account. Although you certainly can push additional payments in to bypass the limit.
The counter act from the bank is NOT to release the payment amount to your Available Credit. So no matter how many times you pay, you are not going to "increase" your CL in a rapid fashion.
I am not exactly sure what was the payment limits , but if i use wmbp , the cl increase is immediate and if i use the checking account , it it put on hold for 10 days.

So my suggestion would be , stay with single mode of payment ( wmbp or checking account ( max of 2) ) to dodge 1 bullet.

To escape the 2nd bulled , avoid similar purchase patterns , like buying 2492$ gc.com purchases / 1011.92 from gcm.

Mix up the purchases , dont mix the payments with any banks.
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