QUOTE(whatizlife @ Oct 21 2021, 10:06 PM)
hi, may i know what reason u use in your appeal letter? or u have a large sum of money in your savings account?
Haha, my savings was less than 2k back then, so it can't be savings. Just FYI - I am not sure if it actually helped, since they never confirm nor denied the additional info I provided.
My strategy was hitting the easiest to get card first - I went for the CIMB e-Credit card first, got rejected immediately, so I wrote an appeal letter:
I explained that my arrears in PTPTN was due to lack of a proper salaried job, showed them my commitment to handling the arrears by paying double the monthly amount for the last 3 month (PTPTN statement), as well as my interest in the card due to high eWallet usage and being a long time customer to CIMB (I have their savings account for 5+ years).
After that got approved, I used it for about 3 months, then applied to Affin Duo and Public Bank Quantum at once, rejected immediately too, so I once again I brought out the 6 month worth of paying double to PTPTN, and me being a good payee to CIMB credit card, plus some random nice words about how I am interested in their cards, got approved easily within 1 appeal email for both.
Then by the time I got to Public Islamic Bank Visa, I got rejected instantly as always, this time I didn't even bother with PTPTN, i just said I have Public Bank Quantum and a public bank car loan with them, and some bullshit about how I appreciate my experience with PBB so far, (I mean, they have been great...) got re-approved within 3 days on phone call.
So I am actually quite surprised on how easy to go from terrible PTPTN CTOS record and 0 credit record to 20k limit in just half a year...