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A trick to increase your AAOA??

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TiggerDat
Valued Contributor

Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??

I don't think the actually backdating is for the account, just for the aspect of member since.....

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.....
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jamesdwi
Valued Contributor

Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??

Each new card's date is  <month of approval>/<membership year>  .. if your membership date is 1980,  a new card today would be dated  6/1980. Verified on my own Accounts, first card  12/2011  (12/2011)...   second card   1/2011   (January 2012).

 

 

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somnipotent
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Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??

wanna know my trick?  it's called GARDENING!


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youngandcreditwrthy
Senior Contributor

Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??

So if I opened my first Amex 10/2012 and a new Amex 06/03/13, what month/ yearwill it say it was opened on my credit report?!?

All this talk about FR IS SCARY! Don't try to game the system! The Amex popo will getchu.
Btw, noticed on my Delta app yesterday that Amex specifically mentioned that "gift card or cash equivalent purchases" will not count towards the $500 spend to get the 30k points.
So Amex is catching on to the 'manufactured spending' stuff.
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parakleet
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Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??

What happened to wanting to join the military in 2020 or whatever to be able to join the navy cu?

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HiLine
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Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??


@youngandcreditwrthy wrote:
So if I opened my first Amex 10/2012 and a new Amex 06/03/13, what month/ yearwill it say it was opened on my credit report?!?


For the new Amex? 6/12 Smiley Happy

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w20031424
Frequent Contributor

Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??


@parakleet wrote:
What happened to wanting to join the military in 2020 or whatever to be able to join the navy cu?

I will still join National Guard or reservist once I became eligible. As for NFCU, no more waiting is needed because I joined through my roommate, under the suggestion with one of the NFCU CSR.

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w20031424
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Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??


@jamesdwi wrote:

Each new card's date is  <month of approval>/<membership year>  .. if your membership date is 1980,  a new card today would be dated  6/1980. Verified on my own Accounts, first card  12/2011  (12/2011)...   second card   1/2011   (January 2012).

 

 


That's what I'm saying. If you piggybacked your Dad as an AU and your membership dated back thirty years ago, while you only had real credit history for three years. Well.. You can imagine how much your AAOA will increase if you add two "30-year-old" CC to your credit report, which may only cost you one inquiry if you apply for them together.

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youngandcreditwrthy
Senior Contributor

Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??

Wait hiline!
So it gets backdated to before even the original account open date?
It'll list on my CR as opened in June 2012??! That's crazy!! Wow!!
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longtimelurker
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Re: A trick to increase your AAOA??


@w20031424 wrote:

@jamesdwi wrote:

Each new card's date is  <month of approval>/<membership year>  .. if your membership date is 1980,  a new card today would be dated  6/1980. Verified on my own Accounts, first card  12/2011  (12/2011)...   second card   1/2011   (January 2012).

 

 


That's what I'm saying. If you piggybacked your Dad as an AU and your membership dated back thirty years ago, while you only had real credit history for three years. Well.. You can imagine how much your AAOA will increase if you add two "30-year-old" CC to your credit report, which may only cost you one inquiry if you apply for them together.


Not sure if you are referring to an old style of backdating, when if your father became a member in 1980, and you were added as an AU in 2008, you would get a member since date of 1980?   This isn't (shouldn't) done any more, you backdate to the date you became an AU, not the date of the cardholder.

 

Still somewhat valuable, but you should no longer see cardholders with a member since date from before they were born.

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