topic Re: Account Removed From Report? in General Credit Topics

Account Removed From Report?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:14:03 GMT

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is where this question belongs. I've been checking my credit karma for the past 2 years and today I received this notification.

"Account Removed From Report.

Closed accounts are usually removed from your report after seven years. Once they're removed, the account details will no longer affect your credit score.

Between April 19, 2020 and April 27, 2020, your credit card with CAPITAL ONE / BEST B was removed from your credit report."

Cap One was paid off as of March 15 and Best Buy has been at 0 for 3 months now Both are still active based on each of their websites. I'm just trying to understand what "closed" means on CK. Thanks!

Re: Account Removed From Report?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:27:26 GMT

@Anonymous Looks like CK got it wrong must be a glitch that or inaccurate reporting.

Did it say it came off of TransUnion or Equifax or both? Do you have an Experian account is it still there? You can make a Wallet hub account to double check TransUnion.

Re: Account Removed From Report?

gorgon — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:52:40 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is where this question belongs. I've been checking my credit karma for the past 2 years and today I received this notification.

"Account Removed From Report.
Closed accounts are usually removed from your report after seven years. Once they're removed, the account details will no longer affect your credit score.
Between April 19, 2020 and April 27, 2020, your credit card with CAPITAL ONE / BEST B was removed from your credit report."

I got the same exact message this month as well on both Transunion and Equifax

Re: Account Removed From Report?

dragontears — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:36:12 GMT

how long ago did best buy move from cap1 to citi?

To me it looks like the old pre-citi accounts are falling off....

Re: Account Removed From Report?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:06:36 GMT

@dragontears may have solved this mystery.

Re: Account Removed From Report?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:07:58 GMT

That would be good to know when they transferred so we know how long cap1 actually kept that on the credit report.

Re: Account Removed From Report?

coreysw12 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 04:09:54 GMT

I used to have a Cap1 Best Buy card, and in September 2013 it was reported closed on my credit reports and a new one for Citi was opened (but the "date opened" for the citi account was the same as the "date opened" for the prior cap1 account).

As of last week, the old closed Cap1/BestBuy account was still on TU and EQ (but was never on EX for some reason).

A few days ago I got a MyFICO alert that a retail account got removed from my reports this week, but the alert doesn't specify what account it was. I'll be able to update my Credit Karma report tomorrow and should see it then...

After reading this thread, I'm starting to suspect that Cap1 has decided this week to purge all their old BestBuy accounts from the credit bureaus.

Re: Account Removed From Report?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 04:49:20 GMT

Sounds like you’re exactly right.

Re: Account Removed From Report?

coreysw12 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:44:52 GMT

Just got my Credit Karma report, and yes, my old Cap1 Best Buy account was removed a few days ago.

Being the oldest good-standing account on my reports, I thought I would be sad to see it get deleted, but somehow my FICO actually went up 4 points when it got deleted.

Re: Account Removed From Report?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:49:12 GMT

Yeah but since the Citibank had the same opening date, you kept at least one old account. I’m sure you took an AAOA hit probably not enough to cross a threshold, tho.

Couple points were probably from a different change in your report.

Re: Account Removed From Report?

blindambition — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:08:26 GMT

@dragontears wrote:
how long ago did best buy move from cap1 to citi?
To me it looks like the old pre-citi accounts are falling off....

This would be my guess. Cap One purchased from HSBC, held for 2 years. Announced sale to Citi in Jan 2013.Cap One Sells Best Buy Portfolio

Re: Account Removed From Report?

coreysw12 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:49:31 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Yeah but since the Citibank had the same opening date, you kept at least one old account. I’m sure you took an AAOA hit probably not enough to cross a threshold, tho.

Couple points were probably from a different change in your report.

Good points. Yes, my AoOA remains unchanged, thanks to the Citi account. AAoA only took a very small hit, since I have 20 other account on my report. So it dropped from like 5.6 years to 5.4 years, not enough to affect the FICO scoring.

Re: Account Removed From Report?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:41:19 GMT

Good! 😊

Re: Account Removed From Report?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:43:55 GMT

Thanks for the quick response everyone!