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I wasn't going to jump on the Blispay bandwagon at all. I changed my mind because it really is an amazing card if you think about it. 2% is better than my QS that I use when I don't have a category available. 0% on everything over $199. I know you guys know the data, but it really is great if you think about it, I was concerned because they seemed to be concerned about running out of money, or plastic lol.
Anyway, I applied and got the verification phone call. I was debating calling just because I didn't know if I really wanted the card (supposed to be gardening). I saw my inquiry pop up, and decided I didn't want to waste it. I Called in, she verified 2 things on credit report, maiden name, address. Came back and said "Congratulations! You're approved" I was actually really happy. I was a lot more excited than I thought I would be.I have seen quite a few reports of verification, and then the 10 day message. I don't know how many people are approved afterward while on the phone. I haven't read all the approvals.
MOST IMPORTANT DATA POINT- I told her I'm very active on the FICO Forums and that someone had posted that the inquiry was an installment loan. I asked her if she knew if the actual card would report as an installment loan. She said yes, it will report as an installment loan. I said oh really? She said yes she was told it would report as an installment loan. I'm holding her to this! lol. Anyway. Garden, Garden all the way.
@Anonymous wrote:I wasn't going to jump on the Blispay bandwagon at all. I changed my mind because it really is an amazing card if you think about it. 2% is better than my QS that I use when I don't have a category available. 0% on everything over $199. I know you guys know the data, but it really is great if you think about it, I was concerned because they seemed to be concerned about running out of money, or plastic lol.
Anyway, I applied and got the verification phone call. I was debating calling just because I didn't know if I really wanted the card (supposed to be gardening). I saw my inquiry pop up, and decided I didn't want to waste it. I Called in, she verified 2 things on credit report, maiden name, address. Came back and said "Congratulations! You're approved" I was actually really happy. I was a lot more excited than I thought I would be.I have seen quite a few reports of verification, and then the 10 day message. I don't know how many people are approved afterward while on the phone. I haven't read all the approvals.
MOST IMPORTANT DATA POINT- I told her I'm very active on the FICO Forums and that someone had posted that the inquiry was an installment loan. I asked her if she knew if the actual card would report as an installment loan. She said yes, it will report as an installment loan. I said oh really? She said yes she was told it would report as an installment loan. I'm holding her to this! lol. Anyway. Garden, Garden all the way.
Congrats on the approval. Can you share your stats? ALso it is an interesting point that they report as installment loan rather than revolving. This may be good for people that are missing installment loans ontheir reports.
Congrats on the approval! I'm a little sad to hear that it will report to the credit bureaus (was hoping it would be hidden like BML/PayPal Credit), but it's still interesting that it will report as an installment loan. That would be useful to people who are missing that aspect in their "mix" of credit.
appreciate the info although report as an installment loan is still a weird pill to swallow.. Although she said this, I need to see proof.. Wait for some others to report what they see when it reports to their CR's
@CreditCuriousity wrote:appreciate the info although report as an installment loan is still a weird pill to swallow.. Although she said this, I need to see proof.. Wait for some others to report what they see when it reports to their CR's
That's right. Most the time the CSR's in general may know less than us on certain subjects. Yesterday i called EQ to see if i could have a few inq's deleted early. The rep insisted on the phone for 10 mins that those inq's are Soft inq's and they will remain on my report for 7 years and that no other lender can see them! After 10 mins of trying to convince him, seeing no light at the end of the tunnel i thanked him and hung up. Come to think about it, i wish i wouldhave asked him to move them over to hard inq section
Congrats on your approval!
I share the skepticism that some of the folks on this thread have expressed, regarding the possibility that BP will report as an installment account. But of course anything is possible.
If any of the people who have recently gotten a BP account would be willing to pull your credit reports and tell us exactly how it appears (especially the account type) that would really helpful. (You can get free reports as often as once a week through Credit Karma.)
This is not a trivial question, because as someone else observed, having an installment account that you can add and keep going for a long time would be a big help to many of us. Not only that, but it would be an installment account that you could pay no interest on and control its utilization easily. My guess is that the credit limit on your Blisspay account would correspond to the "original amount borrowed" for the installment loan, and the current balance on the account will correspond to the "current amount owed" on the installment loan. (That's a guess but a reasonable one.) Installment utilization is a factor totally distinct from CC utilization and people with no installment loans often use techniques like a Share Secured loan to help with this. A Blispay account might in theory render these unncessary.
Finally, BP seems to be promoting itself as a card that provides “special financing” for large purchases, much like a finance company might do at Best Buy or Rooms To Go (etc.). It would therefore also be interesting to know whether the BP account is being tagged by the three credit bureaus as a “finance company” account. FC accounts are mildly harmful to your FICO score, even if you make perfect payments on them.