https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/Locking-Experian-before-credit-application/m-p/5015984#M539314 THINGS THAT WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT ON MF<BR />-freezing credit files before apping to manipulate credit pulls<BR /> Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:31:53 GMT fltireguy 2017-08-04T16:31:53Z https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/Locking-Experian-before-credit-application/m-p/5015979#M539313 <P>I've seen mentioned a couple of times about locking your experian credit profile before applying for credit so that there is no hard-pull against them.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Can anyone shed some light on what's specifially worse about experian vs the other CRA's and what happens to the application if you do that? Does the company just automatically try the other CRA's.</P> Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:22:49 GMT https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/Locking-Experian-before-credit-application/m-p/5015979#M539313 Anonymous 2017-08-04T16:22:49Z https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/Locking-Experian-before-credit-application/m-p/5015984#M539314 THINGS THAT WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT ON MF<BR />-freezing credit files before apping to manipulate credit pulls<BR /> Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:31:53 GMT https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/Locking-Experian-before-credit-application/m-p/5015984#M539314 fltireguy 2017-08-04T16:31:53Z https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/Locking-Experian-before-credit-application/m-p/5015991#M539315 <P>hmm... ok, did not know that. Never mind I guess.</P> Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:39:29 GMT https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/Locking-Experian-before-credit-application/m-p/5015991#M539315 Anonymous 2017-08-04T16:39:29Z