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kala2girls
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Registered: ‎02-01-2012

Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?

I signed up for SW (apparently I did the free trial thing, which I wish I hadn't..I need SC for a while not looking to cancel soon) and in the last week or so got 3 medical collections deleted and one late day payment deleted so I was obviously expecting a score alert..but of an increase not a decrease!  If anything, it could stay the same, but an increase?!?! I have no idea why this happened as everything else is taken care of. I called the cust rep to see if we could figure out why and she said I'd have to buy a new report. No changes were detected in the monitoring, it says everything is the same, so I really don't know what else to do.

I was feeling desperate so I bought FICO quarterly Monitoring to see another report and the report looks the same as my first one...which by the way, looks imcomplete when I compare it to the one I got from annual credit report.

 

Somebody help!!!  Score went from 649 to 619

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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?

Perhaps the deletions decreased your average account age or utilization percentage increased.


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kala2girls
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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?

I don't think so. The deletions were all medical collections. :smileysad: 30 points is A LOT

I was so excited about having taken care of those and now I'm worse than when I started.

Why won't SW give me a reason? Would it be because I'm still on free trial? That will change Monday....

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drkaje
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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?

Did you try looking at the "Credit Alerts" tab on Alert history?

 

Also, I've read that sometimes collection agents re-age accounts. The information on your report may look the same but something like date of last activity may have changed.


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kala2girls
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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?

I did look under there. I'm guessing because I'm still under the 10 day trial they're not showing me the changes that caused this to drop. I guess the only thing to do is wait until Monday and either I'll have access to those details of the score drop in SC or I'll use my second report to see what's going on.

 

 

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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?

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kala2girls wrote:

I did look under there. I'm guessing because I'm still under the 10 day trial they're not showing me the changes that caused this to drop. I guess the only thing to do is wait until Monday and either I'll have access to those details of the score drop in SC or I'll use my second report to see what's going on.

 

 


SW will not list the specific changes that occurred to your report [ETA...though it'll sometimes list specific changes, but not dropped baddies]. It'll only give a general idea within the alert and that always isn't the exact cause for the point change. Basically SW is good for FICO score alerts and score changes, plus you get two FICO reports with that with any future reports at 30% off. In between ordering reports, you'd only get general ideas for those changes. Many of us subscribe to a CMS outside of SW so as to pull new reports as needed.

 

Per a drop, and copying others, it could be changes in util, a changed baddie, drop in AAoA, disputes often result in score drops, rebucketing, etc.

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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?


llecs wrote:

kala2girls wrote:

I did look under there. I'm guessing because I'm still under the 10 day trial they're not showing me the changes that caused this to drop. I guess the only thing to do is wait until Monday and either I'll have access to those details of the score drop in SC or I'll use my second report to see what's going on.

 

 


SW will not list the specific changes that occurred to your report [ETA...though it'll sometimes list specific changes, but not dropped baddies]. It'll only give a general idea within the alert and that always isn't the exact cause for the point change. Basically SW is good for FICO score alerts and score changes, plus you get two FICO reports with that with any future reports at 30% off. In between ordering reports, you'd only get general ideas for those changes. Many of us subscribe to a CMS outside of SW so as to pull new reports as needed.

 

Per a drop, and copying others, it could be changes in util, a changed baddie, drop in AAoA, disputes often result in score drops, rebucketing, etc.


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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?

Hi kala2girls,

 

You should have received a SW alert today with some good news.  Still, you're not going to get a reason for the change from SW.  :smileysad:

 

-Barry

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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?


Barry wrote:

Hi kala2girls,

 

You should have received a SW alert today with some good news.  Still, you're not going to get a reason for the change from SW.  :smileysad:

 

-Barry


That sounds promising, I hope kala got her 30 points back and then some.

 

Best of Luck kala:smileyhappy:


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Re: Just got an alert my score dropped..don't know why?!?

Hey! How did you know I'd get good news?!? I got another alert from SW yesterday, I went to check it out and my score increased 17 points..it's still lower than when I started Besides the score increase, SW also alerted me of the balances going up on:

 

--$50 on an old collection account (that is supposed to be in dispute) I DV'd them and they haven't responded...Asset Acceptance

--$14.95 on my only credit card--Capital One-----This last one, though is showing up twice for some weird reason...


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