I got a letter from Barclays after some applications (following a closure) stating that my application would not be considered, and no credit check was run, due to the past closure. I received a letter for each failed application.

Hypothetical question. With no credit check, if such a person applied every day, would they be more likely to approve a card to avoid the daily cost of a stamp? Or less likely to ever approve another card?

Anyone who would make a pain of themselves like that would probably be on a bank's naughty list forever :(

I do not think they would approve you for a card to save the cost of a stamp. As somebody that just had the IRS visit them (see other thread) I wouldn't recommend unnecessarily antagonizing a bank.

Any DP on cap one bans? Are they for a long time?

Does anybody know if Citi has a sunset provision after banning for MSing? After how many years they may let you back in?

I'll give you a DP in about 4 years :) Weird thing is I'm inundated by their mailers inviting me to apply for this or that card. That started a year ago, and I was banned I think in late 2019 or early 2020.

You can forget about Citi ever forgiving you once you're blacklisted. After 3-4 years of being banned by them, I was added to my spouse's CC as supplemental user but they sent her a letter about a few weeks later identifying me as someone they blacklisted. Good news is that they didn't ban her yet but bad news is that at least I know now that my ban is somewhat permanent despite the fact that they still send me promo mails to sign up for their cards.

After seven years following a CC shutdown my Citi CC applications were approved again.

Could you share what was your offense that earned you such permanent ban?

Heavy MS on the long-departed Citi 5X card.

Can you tell us how recently your approval was.

The reason I ask is that there are many DPs out there, especially in the Chase thread, where people who were once banned thought that they have achieved reinstatement and were in fact shut down weeks and months after the approval.

It often takes big banks that can't fail a long time to connect the dots between past shut downs and current activity.

Chase seems to have different degrees of shutdown. That's anecdotal evidence that most Chase shutdowns seem to happen due to bustout risk / too much rampup of spending. It's not usually a spite shutdown for MS. Many of those ppl typically get back in pretty quickly, or within a few years.

Been more than 18 months, and been approved for a Citi personal AA and a Citi biz AA card. In my experience Chase and CapOne are the only major CC issuers that may approve you for a card post-shutdown, then pull the rug out.

congratulation on your Citi approval.
I tried after 6 years, and got rejected

As a fellow Barclay blacklist member, I applaud your idea for propping up our failing Postal Service. It also brings to mind Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption writing letter after letter to the legislature until they sent him money for books.

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