Originally Posted by
wyogold
My main gripe is that Citi is unable to handle big spending on new accounts because they cannot correlate to habits on existing accounts. Every new account has to be slowly ramped up even though they give me 20k credit line. Even when I call in and warn then they cannot handle it. All MS has to be gc.com, supermarket is totally impossible.
Compare that to Amex, never any problems, payment always comes through.
Funny, I’ve had the opposite experience in the past. Twice I tried to use new cards for the first time at my normal grocery store only to have the cards locked due to the fraud alert. But if I buy a $2500 TV from some random website online, everything’s all good.