topic Re: Citi prequal site in Credit Card Applications

Citi prequal site

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2016 20:12:39 GMT

Hello

Every month I check different prequalify site . Today I checked Citi's site and it shows that I am prequalified for 5 cards and shows the interest rate. This is the first time that it has showed me prequalify for anything on thier site. The one card that I really want is the DoubleCash. How reliable is Citi's prequal site? Im wondering if I can be approved with my scores. My scores are Fico 08 EQ 699, TU 689 and EX 687.

Re: Citi prequal site

dragontears — Mon, 16 May 2016 20:16:36 GMT

Assuming your profile hasn't changed since their last SP, Citi is generally considered fairly reliable for prequal

Re: Citi prequal site

Anonymous — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:52:38 GMT

Last month, for the first time, Citi showed 5 pre quals for me. As it happens, the timing was good because I was planning to app for the DC anyway. However, I didn't like the APR the pre qual showed, so I apped direct. Approved with an APR 5 points lower than the pre qual.

Re: Citi prequal site

Anonymous — Tue, 17 May 2016 05:45:52 GMT

I did the same thing with chase. I was getting pre quals by mail for the freedom at their highest interest rate. I decided to ignore the pre quals and cold apped and got a SL of 12.5k at their lowest interest. 24 hours later cold apped for the CSP and got a 13.1k SL at lowest apr. So sometimes it is worth cold apping vs using the pre qual.....