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Exonumist
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Lol @ First Premier

I got a pre-approval offer in the mail today for a $700 limit minus a $175 annual fee for the first year. The fee is only $49 for every year after. I think my favorite part was the 36% interest rate. All I could do was laugh. I'm not sure why they even bothered considering my FICO is around 700 and I have three cards that I think the vast majority of people would consider prime. (Cap1 with no af, Discover It, and Amex Green...) Oh well, at least they gave me a good laugh.

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LS2982
Mega Contributor

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@Default4 wrote:

I got a pre-approval offer in the mail today for a $700 limit minus a $175 annual fee for the first year. The fee is only $49 for every year after. I think my favorite part was the 36% interest rate. All I could do was laugh. I'm not sure why they even bothered considering my FICO is around 700 and I have three cards that I think the vast majority of people would consider prime. (Cap1 with no af, Discover It, and Amex Green...) Oh well, at least they gave me a good laugh.


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Yea that their latest offer. Hilarious!

 




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gettnthere
Established Contributor

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I think i just got that same offer last week, i laughed so hard my stomach hurt and then had to stop long enough to put it in the shredder Smiley Happy


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Repo-ed
Senior Contributor

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I believe I got that in the mail, as well.  Along w/ those 536% sameday loan offers - ugg

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12/2014: 750+
3/2017: 780+
11/2019: 833
2/2023: Experian via Chase United Explorer CC pull - 891
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Anonymous
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The smaller banks should really catch up to the bigger ones. Their credit card are never that great and they usually make it super hard to get one of theirs. 

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sk8rmom56
Established Member

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One of those came to my house too. Only on top of the other fees  insane fees there is a $10.95 monthly as well! I can only hope that anyone considering this card  checks out every other possibility before applying for this, Just sit back a minute and think about it, just having a card for the sake of having one isn't always worth it. 

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lithium78
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In my early ignorant days of attempting to rebuild my credit, I applied for and was approved for a First Premier card.  When it arrived in the mail and I looked at the actual terms of the card, I was so shocked that I actually called them to confirm that these were actually the fees and rates.  I closed the card without ever activating it, so I didn't have to pay for it, but I still ended up taking a hard pull for it and it remains as a TL on my CRs.  Now that I am an informed person, I'm embarrassed that First Premier is on there and I can't wait for it to age off my CRs.


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CS800
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Now I feel left out.

 

I have never gotten an offer from FP Smiley Sad




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Anonymous
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I already have the Discover More, currently have United Explorer and Citi AA cards. With these prime cards I should expect a nice pre approval offer from First Premier right? I mean after all they have "Premier" in their name so it should be good right?

 

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injustifiiable
Valued Contributor

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I got one of these offers when my credit was REALLY in the dumps in 2006...not knowing any better, I fell for it.

 

Let's just say....December 2013 will be a glorious month...when this BS falls off my reports.

Scores 5/15/2016 (clean reports!): TU Walmart FICO: 696 | EQ FICO: 679 | EX AMEX FICO: 680

In my new wallet: American Express Green EMV: PSL $2000 | BankAmericard Cash Rewards Visa EMV: $2500 | Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select World MasterCard: $6400 | Barclaycard Arrival World MasterCard: $1000 | Discover IT: $2500 | Amazon Rewards Visa Signature: $1500 | Chase Freedom: $1500 | Capital One QuicksilverOne MasterCard: $2100 | Target: $2800 | J.Crew $21,550 | Marvel (Captain America) MasterCard: $6000
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