Success rate for Discover's pre-approval link

[Anonymous]

While I haven't tried the pre-approval link, I sometimes check on their site to see if the pre-approvals they send me in the mail show up, and I apparently do not exist in their online lookup...

[LilloEsquilo]

I personally believe in "pre-approved" about as much as I believe in the fairy godmother.

If you are REALLY "pre-approved", why then do you have to apply? See the logical contradiction there?

It's never a TRUE "pre-approval" you still have to apply, and I think you have as much chance whether you were "pre-approved" or not frankly.

But I will say marketers are natural born liars. They'd tell you the sky is red with a big happy drunken smile on their plastered faces and look you in the eye as they say it. Takes a special kind of person to do that for a living.

[-Cain-]

The message I received- "PreApproved for any of the cards listed below" and had footnotes about terms and limits being set by final review of credit after app, so it did insinuate that I'd get a card. YMMV.