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Anyone got SBI Cashback Credit Card Over Leverage issue fixed? Let's close cards??

Sobirvs

TF Premier
Well I was at SBI branch for my savings account and talked to a guy (actually 2 guys, 2 diff brances) and I got something from his phone, it was from his training manual.

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Now I have probably ~25 credit cards(some on shared limit). CIBIL report says I have 21 credit cards. How the hell should we fix overleveraged issue fixed? Has anyone been able to do so? I am not asking someone who got declined because of other reasons(like my mom got declined for cashback coz mobile number match - my number is on her INB). I am saying, has anyone able to fix this? Like may be closed some cards or something? If I am let's say file 7L ITR, my alone ICICI and SBI(simplyclick) card limits will be more than my income (5L+3.95L) Does that mean I should close my all other cards and still there is no guarantee I will get cashback card no? I am sure many here have credit cards 10x above their income and still they are able to get cashback card.

Now what about shared cards? for example I have 7 ICICI cards (rupay/coral/rubyx mc-amex/sapphiro mc-amex/apay) but at CIBIL it shows only 2 cards. Probably coz apay and coral are reported and all rubyx/sapp/rupay all are under coral. Strange I though even apay is under my core icici cards but it's not. I used to have same limit with core icici card and apay 3-4 yrs back and now my apay limit is 5L and core card limit is 4.7L. Anyways, my question is if I keep apay and umm coral and close all others, does that mean it will help? ICICI will still report to CIBIL as 2 cards no? So does that mean I should close cards only who are shows as separate??

Damn Amex also report seperately at CIBIL, even kotak too. Why some banks report cards as one and some don't??

Anyways, if someone was able to fix over leveraged issue and how, let me and all of us know?
 
SBI simply click was my 2nd card some 10 years ago. I added 5 cards by October 2019 when I applied for a SBI Ola card. It was approved with a limit of 6.2 lakhs.

During the late 2020 they reduced my limit to 1.5 L which prompted me to close the card. Therafter I closed simply click in 2021. At that time, I wasn't very card savy or else wouldn't have closed SBI cards. In the meanwhile I tried to apply for SBI cashback (4 times) but everytime they rejected my application flagging me as overleveraged.

Coming to the present I have 27 cards including likes of HDFC Swiggy, AU LIT, HSBC live +.

Frankly, I find the cashback card highly over rated. There are so many better alternatives which I feel others should pursue.
 
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