{"id":800,"date":"2013-09-23T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T19:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2013-12-16T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:55:03","slug":"reconsideration-lines-for-the-impatient-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Reconsideration lines, for the impatient (like me)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-820\" alt=\"frustration\" src=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustration.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustration.jpg 500w, http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustration-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustration-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(Is this you if your application doesn&#8217;t get approved right away?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, (meaning you&#8217;re too impatient to wait the 5-7 days to find out if your credit card application has been approved or not through the mail) you want to know if they&#8217;re going to approve you right away.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes applications go through right away, sometimes they don&#8217;t. When they don&#8217;t, you can always call their reconsideration line numbers to get a status update or to push an application through quicker. Other than being impatient, you may actually have a need to get a card application through faster, like needing to book a vacation on a certain card, or wanting to use that card on your upcoming vacation in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Several of you have also asked me what number to call for certain issuers.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re not automatically approved, call these numbers so instead of looking like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/c-users-rschissler.000-pictures-blog-photos-new-1-30-13-computer-frustration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-819\" alt=\"c--users-rschissler.000-pictures-blog photos-new 1-30-13-computer frustration\" src=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/c-users-rschissler.000-pictures-blog-photos-new-1-30-13-computer-frustration-e1380063297211.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully you look more like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/phone-guy-very-happy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-822\" alt=\"phone-guy-very-happy\" src=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/phone-guy-very-happy.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>*American Express Credit Card Reconsideration line<br \/>\n<\/strong>(866) 314-0237 (Personal and Business Reconsideration Line)<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Bank of American Credit Card Reconsideration Line<\/strong><br \/>\n(866) 530-9829\u00a0(Personal Reconsideration Line)<br \/>\n(800) 601-3923 (Business Reconsideration Line)<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Barclay\u2019s Credit Card Reconsideration Line<br \/>\n<\/strong>(866) 408-4064 \u2013 (Credit Analyst) (Reconsideration Line)<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Chase Credit Card Reconsideration Line<br \/>\n<\/strong>(888) 245-0625 (Personal Reconsideration Line)<br \/>\n(800) 453-9719 (Business Reconsideration Line)<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Citibank Credit Card Reconsideration Line<br \/>\n<\/strong>(800) 695-5171 (Personal Reconsideration Line)<br \/>\n(800) 645-7240 (Business Reconsideration Line)<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Discover Credit Card Reconsideration line<br \/>\n<\/strong>(800) 676-3685 (General Reconsideration Line)<\/p>\n<p><strong>*U.S Bank Credit Card Reconsideration line<br \/>\n<\/strong>(800) 947-1444 (General Reconsideration Line)<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck on your applications! May you automatically get approved for all and never have to use these numbers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Is this you if your application doesn&#8217;t get approved right away?) If you&#8217;re like me, (meaning you&#8217;re too impatient to wait the 5-7 days to find out if your credit card application has been approved or not through the mail) you want to know if they&#8217;re going to approve you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-express","category-bank-of-america","category-barclays","category-citi","category-us-bank","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}