Discover Credit Card Complaint

Discover Credit card department,

Credit line increase/decrease California

So I have a Discover credit card. On their online banking service, they have the option to request a Credit Limit Increase. Whenever I got to that page, it asks for income, employer, and monthly housing payment. Below that is the following message : '' After reviewing your application, we may need to pull a credit bureau report, which may affect your credit score. In these cases, we will proceed with the application only with your consent. Below that message, it says Submit '' or Cancel ''. Now, maybe I am naive, but I took the message In these cases, we will proceed with the application only with your consent '' to mean that in cases where they need to pull a credit report, they will specifically ask me if I want to proceed. I think that is a reasonable interpretation of the verbiage. Anyhow, I proceeded with this under the impression that if Discover wants to pull a new CBR - - and thus cause a hard inquiry ) they will ask me for my consent. Well, when I hit the submit button, Discover immediately responded with Congrats, you 're approved ''. There was no screen after hitting submit that asked for consent to pull a Credit Bureau. I thought ok, that was easy, no problem. '' Later that day, I received an alert from my credit monitoring service that there was a hard inquiry from Discover on that very day on my - - CBR. I did n't put in any other requests or applications. When I approached Discover about it, they either did n't understand me, did n't understand their own system, or simply refused to acknowledge the situation.