Originally Posted by
NeGourmand
Would I do this with an issuer I was concerned about keeping long term? Of course not. If you value your relationship with an issuer, this hobby is a marathon. If you don't, it's a sprint. Might as well stress test early on, before loss of cash back match becomes too big of a risk. Staying within the CL for that card ($5k) on a monthly basis wasn't worth logging into another site to check that payments arrived, etc.
I agree that if you don't care about this issuer, than it is one thing. However, the way they pay rewards is different - it is on 13th month. So, to fly under the radar with such recycling for 12 months is very unrealistic. May be it is their new line to give card with low limit to protect themselves from paying too much.