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Hey everyone,
So, I'm paying about $9 a month to have the MyFICO score watch thing, and I thought that meant I'd get updates when my score changed, which I haven't gotten. I guess it's only supposed to update you when something in your *report* changes, and not your score itself ... is that right?
No Score Watch will update you every time your score changes and when certain changes are made on your report. What do you have your target score set as? You should be setting it one point above your current score. You if your score is 600 your target should be 601. If you have it set at let's say 650 you will not get an alert if your score reaches 630.
Hi Bob... Can you please clarify something for me...I understand that the Credit Alert will not trigger if a balance is reduced or a TL is deleted... but if one of these things happen and the score goes up or down will I receive a Score Alert when SW does its weekly monitor? (I have my target score equal to the current MyFico score on my product page)
The reason I ask this is because since the last Score Alert that I had on 10/12 I knew that there were some items that were removed and changed for the better on my credit report. I didn't expect a Credit Alert but I figured I would have seen a Score Alert when the weekly monitoring was done. After waiting for sometime and since there was no change, I first tried to purchase my score but because my purchase was for a EQ and TU score and because for some reason TU makes me jump through an extra hoop to get my score or report... MyFico would not let me make the purchase at that time because TU wouldn't verify me... I ended up burning my second Score Power Report in order to see the EQ score and it showed that my score jumped 12pts. Never received a Score Alert since 10/12.
FYI:A few days after I tried to purchase and had to burn my Score Power report, I talked to a MyFico rep and cancelled the order for the EQ and TU score purchase. I know it was not MyFICOs fault, its just because of the TU score being purchased at the same time, but is there anyway I can get my Score Power Report back since my intent was to purchase and I didn't understand what happen until I talked with the MyFICO rep a few days later?
Sorry Barry... not sure where I came up with Bob... oops.
Thank you for the advice and the free reports. I'll do as you recommended and hopefully it will start working.