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toadsworth
Regular Contributor

US Bank CLI using ancient link

My Cash+ hit the 6 month old mark, so I decided to try for the $1500 SP CLI using the very old link that is still floating around. Submitted it; whether approved or denied it takes up to 10 days, so fingers crossed!
Kind of have everything I want now, creditwise. Undeliberately gardening until I have some spending to do and find a 100,000 Amex Platinum offer lol

Started my credit journey August 2016, after abstaining from credit for years after some poor financial choices in high school. Started with scores in the 580s. Current scores 11/6/18 - EQ: 754 TU: 757 EX: 743

From oldest to newest: DuPage CU Visa Platinum, SL 500 now 3750, Cap1 Platinum SL 300 PC'd to QS now 1600, Alliant Credit Union Share Secured Loan $500, Amex BCE SL 5000 now 600, Neiman Marcus SL 700 now 10000, Target RedCard SL 400 now 2900, Amex ED SL 10000 now 500 (combined with Cash Magnet), Chase AARP SL 800 now 3300, Chase Amazon Prime SL 1000 now 10000, Honda Lease, Discover it SL 1000 now 7000, Synchrony PayPal 2% CB SL 3000 now 10000, Barclays Uber Visa SL 800 now 2100, Citi ThankYou Preferred SL 3300 now 5300, Chase Ritz-Carlton SL 10000 now 1500 (moved to other cards to get annual fee refund), Comenity Total Rewards Visa SL 2000 now 3250, US Bank Cash+ SL 500 recon'd to 10000, US Bank Reserve LOC 1000, Union Bank Rewards Visa SL 5000 now 5000, Amex Cash Magnet SL 9900 now 20000, Cap1 Venture SL 10000 now 10000, Discover it 3000 SL now 4000, Amex SPG Luxury 3100 SL now 3100, Amex Amazon Business Prime 10000 SL now 10000, Amex Gold NPSL, US Bank Premier LOC 5000, US Bank Visa Platinum 5400 SL currently reconning

Combined revolving CL $135,300

Goal: Spring 2019 800+ club, $50,000 combined Amex limit
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UncleB
Credit Mentor

Re: US Bank CLI using ancient link


@toadsworth wrote:
My Cash+ hit the 6 month old mark, so I decided to try for the $1500 SP CLI using the very old link that is still floating around. Submitted it; whether approved or denied it takes up to 10 days, so fingers crossed!

Any word from U.S. Bank on the CLI yet?

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toadsworth
Regular Contributor

US Bank using TU Fico 9

Used the old link that’s floating around for US Bank CLI a few weeks ago, and got a denial letter in the mail... the interesting part about it though: “We obtained your credit score from TransUnion and used it in making our credit decision. There are many versions of credit scores that are available to both financial institutions and consumers, the version used was TransUnion FICO Score 9”.

The weird thing, is they said my score was 748, and I was denied for “insufficient credit bureau file or references in file are too new to rate”. I have 2 years showing on my file and it’s thick, doesn’t seem to make sense?
Kind of have everything I want now, creditwise. Undeliberately gardening until I have some spending to do and find a 100,000 Amex Platinum offer lol

Started my credit journey August 2016, after abstaining from credit for years after some poor financial choices in high school. Started with scores in the 580s. Current scores 11/6/18 - EQ: 754 TU: 757 EX: 743

From oldest to newest: DuPage CU Visa Platinum, SL 500 now 3750, Cap1 Platinum SL 300 PC'd to QS now 1600, Alliant Credit Union Share Secured Loan $500, Amex BCE SL 5000 now 600, Neiman Marcus SL 700 now 10000, Target RedCard SL 400 now 2900, Amex ED SL 10000 now 500 (combined with Cash Magnet), Chase AARP SL 800 now 3300, Chase Amazon Prime SL 1000 now 10000, Honda Lease, Discover it SL 1000 now 7000, Synchrony PayPal 2% CB SL 3000 now 10000, Barclays Uber Visa SL 800 now 2100, Citi ThankYou Preferred SL 3300 now 5300, Chase Ritz-Carlton SL 10000 now 1500 (moved to other cards to get annual fee refund), Comenity Total Rewards Visa SL 2000 now 3250, US Bank Cash+ SL 500 recon'd to 10000, US Bank Reserve LOC 1000, Union Bank Rewards Visa SL 5000 now 5000, Amex Cash Magnet SL 9900 now 20000, Cap1 Venture SL 10000 now 10000, Discover it 3000 SL now 4000, Amex SPG Luxury 3100 SL now 3100, Amex Amazon Business Prime 10000 SL now 10000, Amex Gold NPSL, US Bank Premier LOC 5000, US Bank Visa Platinum 5400 SL currently reconning

Combined revolving CL $135,300

Goal: Spring 2019 800+ club, $50,000 combined Amex limit
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Shadowfactor
Valued Contributor

Re: US Bank using TU Fico 9

That’s news to me.

USB has always been a mortgage score puller when it came to credit apps.

Very recently I did start getting hammered with preapprovals for RLOC, PLOC and premier loans from them.
I’ve never had any issues getting any credit products with USB as I bank with them but I’ve never exactly had preapprovals either.
I wonder if this scoring method change has improved my score as my mortgage scores weren’t great but weren’t bad either




Total Revolving Limits $254,800

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K-in-Boston
Epic Contributor

Re: US Bank using TU Fico 9

They've been plying me with constant offers for the Altitude Reserve.  At the time of my Cash+ app last year, the mortgage score they used for me was considerably higher than the one FICO 09 score I've seen (EQ), although my EQ09 has been climbing lately.  When Navy and PenFed started using those, I was shocked how much lower my 09 was than my 08 (lots of reports of those with clean files having that, with those with dirty files having much better 09s)!

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Anonymous
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Re: US Bank using TU Fico 9


@K-in-Boston wrote:

They've been plying me with constant offers for the Altitude Reserve.  At the time of my Cash+ app last year, the mortgage score they used for me was considerably higher than the one FICO 09 score I've seen (EQ), although my EQ09 has been climbing lately.  When Navy and PenFed started using those, I was shocked how much lower my 09 was than my 08 (lots of reports of those with clean files having that, with those with dirty files having much better 09s)!


Confirm my clean credit reports with lower FICO 09 Scores over the FICO 08. Frustrating! Smiley Frustrated

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imaximous
Valued Contributor

Re: US Bank using TU Fico 9

Sorry guys, but I can't complain if this is the case now.
I don't know my TU Fico 9, but for reference, my EQ is 756 Fico 8 and 800 Fico 9.
My TU Fico 8 is 750 so I can only hope my Fico 9 is also up there.
When they approved me for my 2 USB cards, they used a scoring system that put me at 696 or so, while Fico 8 was in the 750s. This is good news for me Smiley Happy
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