@Anonymous but remember that makes those count as one scorewise if they were coded correctly and also keep in mind that some credit card companies when you apply, not only does their computer seek a score, but it reads your credit report data.
If it sees too many inquiries it automatically denies you, like US Bank. Lol. In those situations, you can call in sometimes and point out that those were due to rate shopping and then on manual review sometimes they will then be approved, but there is no recon for some issuers, so for those you don't even get a second bite at the apple, like Capital One. In those situations the number of inquiries just causes a denial and there's nothing you can do about it.
But at the same time, I don't know how good manual review would be considering the number of inquiries you have from different credit seeking events anyway.
