topic Re: Score Watch false notifications? in Rebuilding Your Credit

Score Watch false notifications?

DiabolicallyRandom — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:21:44 GMT

Is anyone else constantly getting notifications on their phone or Ipad app, only to find that there is no update what so ever?

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:24:16 GMT

I have Score Watch for my Equifax report and Quarterly monitoring for my TransUnion (from myFICO) and neither have I got anything like you've described...

actually my problem is with Credit Karma right now - they've got stuff on there that is totally wrong (like listing a credit card with a limit of $7800 that I don't have...).

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

signguy17 — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:28:00 GMT

my SW looks like this ^v^v^^v^^_______________________________________________________________________________________________.

I think smy score has rigomortise. I come from the land that FICO forgot....

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

DiabolicallyRandom — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:33:48 GMT

Yeah mine seems dead on arrival as well. Even when things change it takes forever to get genuine alerts. I had a collection come off my Equifax two days ago and still haven received an alert. I just keep getting push notifications for the app on my phone and Ipad, get all excited and check only find that there are now new alerts.

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

traveler2005 — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:23:57 GMT

It won't notify you when an account is deleted or falls off. Sorry!

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

DiabolicallyRandom — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:39:26 GMT

LOL I understand that. I keep getting push notifications, those are alerts issued by the app to let me know that I need to check the app. The app is alerting when there are no alerts. Im guessing no one else has download the equifax app lol.

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

DaBears — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:40:19 GMT

@DiabolicallyRandom wrote:
Yeah mine seems dead on arrival as well. Even when things change it takes forever to get genuine alerts. I had a collection come off my Equifax two days ago and still haven received an alert. I just keep getting push notifications for the app on my phone and Ipad, get all excited and check only find that there are now new alerts.

Score Watch won't alert you if a collection is removed and depending on what's being reported on your CR at that point of time you may or may not see a score change.

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

lg8302ch — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:49:15 GMT

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Is anyone else constantly getting notifications on their phone or Ipad app, only to find that there is no update what so ever?

does MyFico has an app for IPhone and iPad? did not find anything....how is it called?

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

DiabolicallyRandom — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:48:22 GMT

Its an Equifax app. I dont know if it makes a difference by I signed up for score watch directly through the equifax website. So I go to equifax to check my alerts. I have never used the one through MyFico.

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

sarahcatherinemay — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:48:27 GMT

SW will alert you if there is a change in a status of something on your CR (like a judgment going from unpaid to paid), a score change according to your settings, an added account, etc .. but not when something falls off. So if it doesn't trigger something like a score change then it doesn't notify you. If you want an alert for every point, you'll have to change your settings to alert you when your score goes above your current credit score.

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

DaBears — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:02:32 GMT

Score Watch through myfico is the same one from EQ website.

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

DiabolicallyRandom — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:08:01 GMT

So if you sign up through MyFico and you can still sign into the Equifax website? If so, will someone else download the equifax app so they can get the random pointless push notifications too? Lol its driving me insane because I know a score change is coming, not a notification of a collection being removed, i get the little noise and there is a 1 showing on the app. When i check it there is nothing.

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

DaBears — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:14:22 GMT

@DiabolicallyRandom wrote:
So if you sign up through MyFico and you can still sign into the Equifax website? If so, will someone else download the equifax app so they can get the random pointless push notifications too? Lol its driving me insane because I know a score change is coming, not a notification of a collection being removed, i get the little noise and there is a 1 showing on the app. When i check it there is nothing.

I don't know if it works like that cause you pay myfico for the score watch product. Good question tho!!! I usually make a pot of coffee at night, send my wife and daughter to bed sit in front of my laptop and every 5 mins press the F5 key to refresh the browser. Wife comes down and says what the hell you doing up still? I reply to her go back to bed im waiting for my score watch to update

Re: Score Watch false notifications?

DiabolicallyRandom — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:20:12 GMT

LOL I am about to uninstall the app. Its like it is taunting me. i hear the notification and rush to check it. The only thing missing is it saying "SUCKER" in bold red letters at me.

On a side note, I always get my alert e-mails between 2 and 3 in the morning. So that makes checking it in the middle of the night seem very reasonable to me lol.