Amex AU shows with no history

[walt1226]

I was recently added as an amex AU and the card has a 10 year perfect history, it shows up on my report as I opended it a month ago.  Does amex no longer report the history of the account user?  if so than why would this help my credit.  it actually dropped my AAOA.

[pizzadude]

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@walt1226 wrote:

I was recently added as an amex AU and the card has a 10 year perfect history, it shows up on my report as I opended it a month ago.  Does amex no longer report the history of the account user?  if so than why would this help my credit.  it actually dropped my AAOA.

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AMEX has "additional cardmembers" rather than AUs.   When you become an cardmember your member since date is established and this year is used for your future accounts.

With other creditors you inherit all of the previous AU history, however AMEX additional cardmembers are different.

[takeshi74]

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@walt1226 wrote:

I was recently added as an amex AU and the card has a 10 year perfect history, it shows up on my report as I opended it a month ago.  Does amex no longer report the history of the account user?  if so than why would this help my credit.  it actually dropped my AAOA.

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I'm not sure why you assumed that it would help.  If the utilization is lower than your average it can help your utilization.  AAoA won't benefit unless you established AmEx membership long enough ago to increase your AAoA.  AU's are not backdated to the original member's date.  Backdating for an AU is whatever date the AU established membership with AmEx.  This is mentioned in many recent threads on AmEx AU's and backdating.