Worth it!
Let me start out by saying that this card is definitely worth it! I was young and dumb and really damaged my credit, about a year ago is when I really began to start wanting to clean it up. I applied for the Capitol One secured card, got approved, but forgot to fund the deposit so when I applied for it a second time, I was denied. Credit Karma suggested the Citi Secured card and I figured it wouldn't hurt to try. I got approved and have been using my card for about a month. I use it for gas and small food purchases. In that month my score shot up 58 points! It was a great feeling. If you're like me and read reviews, take my advice, get the card, its worth it!
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Don’t waste your time... seriously!
The experience I had trying to get this was was completely terrible! On the same day I applied for this card, I also applied for a capital one card... by the time I FINALLY received this Citi card, I’d already completely TWO payment cycles with my capital one card. Through out that whole time I spent battles with rude customer service ppl over the phone, and kept getting the run around about when I was going to finally get my card, even though they already had my deposit. They sent me a welcome letter without the card, then sent another one a week later via special mail again with NO card. When I asked why, they said “it was so that I can make sure I still want the card”... ridiculous! Then the card was sent special mail requiring a signature, and without my knowledge while I was out of town. No notice, no tracking, nothing! By the time I got back the card was already sent back to the bank.
They don’t care about you or your money... and their behavior and customer service shows just that!
The wrost I've experienced
I had purchased a gift for my son and it arived a month later with a hole on it the seller never contacted me for a return i called they never called back customer service from citi said they couldn't give me a refund because I had the item how can you return an item when the seller never communicated with me since citi doesn't protect the card holder i i decided to cancel my card and they ruined my credit because of a problem that wasn't my fault.
I truly recommend capital one they protect there customers.
God bless everyone.
I was trying to bring up my credit not down ...
Was this an eBay or Amazon purchase?
They didn’t ruin your credit, YOU closed your card. That’s on you. Don’t blame a company because you had a temper tantrum and closed your account because you got an answer you didn’t like.
If you made a purchase and that purchase didn’t work out, then you closed the account and possibly didn’t pay the bill, that’s not Citis fault!
Absolutely Awesome
I applied and was approved. Love my card. Absolutely love it and the powder it provides. It's my emergency card use only. My son James told me to apply. Love it
Very easy to pay your balance with the app.
It’s okay
Got this card with scores in low 500 and I’m grateful to rebuild, but you will never get an increase. I pay this off monthly in full, yes they report, last month twice, right before due date and right after, making my usage greater than 30%. And for whatever reason be it ck or Citi, no reporting to Equifax ever! If this happened with anyone else please let me know.
yes it happened to me too! Got this card in October and they stopped reporting my on-time payments all of 2019! I decided to file a dispute with on credit karma for missing payment information last month and within a week they resolved it for me. They posted my on time payments and I got a 14 point increase because of having this info now on my credit report. I would do the same, its pretty simple to do.
Thank you I will do it!
Not sure
I don't know if I should be surprise or what. I chose this card to help my credit boost up and it's my first month my credit went down 19 points I only have citicard for 2 weeks now, as per creditkarma when u open new card it usually goes down? And I was like wth..
That’s very typical. It will go up as you pay on time every month!
Citibank does not deserve even 1 star!
They instigated demise of my credit starting with tough recessionary times and against all new credit laws, they doubled my interest rate w no notice, retroactive on thousands of dollars (also illegal) claiming some promo rate. never did it show that a promo rate or thatbit was temporary. I wastotally up to daye, but just surviving!
I asked numerous times for investigation or adjustment and they refused, so therefore I couldn't pay the new payment amount and that was the beginning of my credit tumbling... I hate Citibank! Im much better now, but credit still damaged... its been 8 hard years! No thks to citibank!
Application process was easy. It was fast. I applied online. Received my approval in three dates. Had my card a week later.
Haven't used it yet. But so far, so good.
Horrible
Forever22 receive absolutely horrible customer service take your money get no points for anything at least not yet anyways I had the car for about a month make three payments on it cards at 200 still nothing hopefully soon I'll finally get my credit score leap as being this is supposedly going to all the credit bureaus maybe I'll be able to do an update review in the next month or so we'll see
Long Approval Process
If this schedule helps anyone who is in the application process... the wait for approval felt like forever. So I hope this card does not let me down.
Tuesday, March 19 - applied/gave them deposit information
Tuesday, March 26 - deposit sent
Saturday, March 30 - approved
Wednesday, April 3rd - received card
You have to figure weekends I applied for a capital one card in February and still havnt received it your wait time wasn’t long enough to complain about you won’t get a card the next day