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Anonymous
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Re: How Solid is this?

I've read that the store cards do count into 5/24. I checked chase pre-qual and got nothing
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Anonymous
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Re: How Solid is this?

The share secured loan hasn't yet hit my credit reports either. I just opened it mid December so I'm hoping for a 20-30 point jump. (Fingers crossed)
Message 12 of 19
Anonymous
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Re: How Solid is this?


@Anonymous wrote:
The share secured loan hasn't yet hit my credit reports either. I just opened it mid December so I'm hoping for a 20-30 point jump. (Fingers crossed)

awesome!!!!

 

Well if you do have chase branch near you may be worth a visit. If not, definitely gardening is in your best interest. I don't think many people under 5/24 would not see chase online yet see something in branch.

 

I always thought as long as it wasnt a major credit card it didnt count. Might require a recon call but for instance a lowes card would not count? "

If the card can be used outside of a specific store (e.g it has a payment network such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover) it will be counted. If it can only be used for a specific store, it will not be counted. Data points: 1, 2"

Message 13 of 19
EAJuggalo
Established Contributor

Re: How Solid is this?

I just got and took the exact same offer from Citi with scores very similar to yours.  Only got an $800 SL but I have some things going on that it was worth it for me to take the card.  Plus it's a World Elite MC.

EX700 TU 704 EQ 694 4/03/22
Cap1 QS-$4,500 Chase Freedom Flex- $800 Chase Freedom Unlimited- $1,000 Victoria's Secret- $1,200 Citi DC- $800 Amazon Store Card- $3,500 AMEX Hilton Honors-$1,000 Discover It-$1,000 Wal-Mart MC $290 Chase Sapphire Preferred-$5,000 NFCU Flagship $13,800 AMEX BCE-$1,000 AMEX Gold-$5,000 AMEX Delta Blue $1,000 Lowe's $5,000 Navy Platinum $17,000 AMEX BBP $2,000
Message 14 of 19
Anonymous
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Re: How Solid is this?

EAJuggalo what was your highest limit and lowest limit card when you applied?
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EAJuggalo
Established Contributor

Re: How Solid is this?

Highest limit is two Cap 1's at 2000 each, lowest is a GM BuyPower at 300

EX700 TU 704 EQ 694 4/03/22
Cap1 QS-$4,500 Chase Freedom Flex- $800 Chase Freedom Unlimited- $1,000 Victoria's Secret- $1,200 Citi DC- $800 Amazon Store Card- $3,500 AMEX Hilton Honors-$1,000 Discover It-$1,000 Wal-Mart MC $290 Chase Sapphire Preferred-$5,000 NFCU Flagship $13,800 AMEX BCE-$1,000 AMEX Gold-$5,000 AMEX Delta Blue $1,000 Lowe's $5,000 Navy Platinum $17,000 AMEX BBP $2,000
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K-in-Boston
Credit Mentor

Re: How Solid is this?

Unless something has drastically changed on your reports very recently, in my experience the BOA, Chase and Citi prequals are rock solid.  For Citi, I had a preapproval for a lot of their cards and in November I took them up on the Diamond Preferred for the 21 month 0% BTs.  (I am an AU on my wife's Double Cash, which we actually did a PC from Diamond Preferred about 9 months ago.)  I did get the same 12.24% in my prequal, but the SL was fairly average ($5600).  

 

There is really good advice in this thread about waiting for better offers, but if you don't think your reports will merit significantly better options in the amount of time you want to wait, go for it.  We always just used my wife's DP for BTs, so didn't notice that the APR crept up to something like 25.24% along with the balance chasing during the credit crunch.  We asked if there were any APR reduction offers available for the account by chat every 48 hours and got a 2% reduction 5 times in a row and another 1% 2 days after that 5th one to 14.24%.  Stopped asking there, but this was a great tactic learned from this board and something to keep in mind if you do want to grab the card now.

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oldman425
Frequent Contributor

Re: How Solid is this?

I have had zero luck with the Citi's pre-approval site.  You could take it or not and garden for another 6 months to a year.

12/27/16 - Eq683 TU666 Ex681 04/05/17 Eq742 TU763 Ex757
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Anonymous
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Re: How Solid is this?

Oh I wish Citi would use TU. :/
They don't like me.
I have been "pre-approved" 3X and all 3 have been denials.

I'm done until I get an EX of 775 or higher and less than 3 INQ's and less than 5 new accounts.
(Aka Never the way I'm going)

GL OP if you try tho-let us know how it turns out. I never care about APR as I PIF every month.
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