topic Re: AMEX in Credit Cards

AMEX

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:22:13 GMT

What are the credit scores to likely get approved for this card?

Do they accept a bankruptcy at all?

Re: AMEX

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:25:57 GMT

AWLEGZ wrote:
What are the credit scores to likely get approved for this card?

Do they accept a bankruptcy at all?

From what I get, not BK friendly at all and people have been approved for the Delta with low 600's, myself included.

Re: AMEX

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:33:56 GMT

AWLEGZ wrote:
What are the credit scores to likely get approved for this card?

Do they accept a bankruptcy at all?

Amex has many different cards, and they all have slightly (or greatly) different underwriting standards. Which particular card are you interested in?

In general, they will refuse for BK almost always.

Re: AMEX

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:24:28 GMT

ok thanks guess I will be waiting till I get my BK off which will not be until 2013

Re: AMEX

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:25:32 GMT

I was really interested in any AMEX card just to add to my portfolio however I have had a BK back in 2003 so I guess I will be waiting for about 5 more years to even qualify unless some guidelines change in the near future

Re: AMEX

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:56:09 GMT

AWLEGZ wrote:
I was really interested in any AMEX card just to add to my portfolio however I have had a BK back in 2003 so I guess I will be waiting for about 5 more years to even qualify unless some guidelines change in the near future

The Delta card seems to be the entry level card. I wonder if anyone on here has gotten that card with a BK. In the mortgage world 4 years is enough time.......

Re: AMEX

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:06:26 GMT

chiwiseguy wrote:

AWLEGZ wrote:
I was really interested in any AMEX card just to add to my portfolio however I have had a BK back in 2003 so I guess I will be waiting for about 5 more years to even qualify unless some guidelines change in the near future

The Delta card seems to be the entry level card. I wonder if anyone on here has gotten that card with a BK. In the mortgage world 4 years is enough time.......

Unfortunately, in the Amex world it's 7 years. This is a general rule, and YMMV, but it seems pretty reliable.

If you have an EX INQ to burn, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try, as long as you know that the most likely outcome will be one more INQ and nothing to show for it.

Message Edited by cheddar on 01-04-2008 08:06 AM

Re: AMEX

sunrise — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:17:58 GMT

Does AMEX only pull EX?

Darn, if this is true...it is my lowest and most stubborn! They hate me!!! I feel love from TU and EQ...their scores are always within a few points of each other...but darn old EX stays a steady 50 pts. behind!!! No matter what I do, EX refuses to budge when it comes to correcting wrong info...everything comes back "verified."

TU and EQ seem to actually investigate!!

Re: AMEX

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:22:43 GMT

They always pull EX-

They sometimes pull the others as well.

sunrise wrote:

Does AMEX only pull EX?

Darn, if this is true...it is my lowest and most stubborn! They hate me!!! I feel love from TU and EQ...their scores are always within a few points of each other...but darn old EX stays a steady 50 pts. behind!!! No matter what I do, EX refuses to budge when it comes to correcting wrong info...everything comes back "verified."

TU and EQ seem to actually investigate!!

Re: AMEX

haulingthescoreup — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:13:10 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I was really interested in any AMEX card just to add to my portfolio however I have had a BK back in 2003 so I guess I will be waiting for about 5 more years to even qualify unless some guidelines change in the near future

There's nothing magic about having all four bank cards in your wallet (although fun, maybe!), but if you would really like to have something that says AmEx, you can look into the co-branded versions, for instance the one from BofA. I have one from USAA, and it does everything the regular one does. I happen to think that the USAA rewards program is a heckuva lot more practical and understandable if you don't fly all over the planet every week, and it has the consumer protection deal that regular AmEx's have, it doesn't have F/R's...

AmEx (the real AmEx) is getting shoved back on my wish list. It's a bit high-maintenance these days. In another year or so, as my reports get cleaner and cleaner, and as they calm down from this weird thing they're going through, I might consider them then.