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Chanduwar
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Amex charge card

Hi,

 

What lowest credit scores you may need to obtain an Amex Green Charge card? Which Credit Bureau do they usually check?

 

Chanduwar

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Walt_K
Senior Contributor

Re: Amex charge card

They pull Experian.  If your file is borderline, they might pull one or both of EQ and TU. 

 

I don't know what their minimum score is. It would be hard to say.  Not all scores are created equal.  A person with very little history could have a 700 score and may still be denied.  A person with a lot of history, no recent negatives, and a 680 score might get approved.  Check out whogavemecredit and see if there is any info there. 

 

If I had to guess, all else being equal, I'd say 680 is probably pretty safe.  Generally, they don't like to see lates within the past 2 years. 


Starting Score: ~500 (12/01/2008)
Current Score: EQ 681 (04/05/13); TU 98 728 (01/06/12), TU 08? 760 (provided by Barclay 1/2/14), TU 04 728 (lender pull 01/12/12); EX 742 (lender pull 01/12/12)
Goal Score: 720


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nicholasyud
Valued Contributor

Re: Amex charge card

+1

Maybe list out your credit file and we work from there.

Starting Score: 560
Current Score: ?
Goal Score: 800
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maceto
Contributor

Re: Amex charge card

Got an SPG after AU for 6 months, had fico 703 with 8 year tradeline (AU) on a City, primary just one one lousy card with a 2K limit. But high income, but it's the tradeline that did it for me... Call your mom or someone in the fan that can add you as an AU and you are set to go
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chnceit
Valued Contributor

Re: Amex charge card

AMEX pulls EX all the time for me. I seen on here that 650+ could get you in, but YMMV.  Have you tried the pre approval site?


Last Pulled EQ: 809
Last Credit Card App: 02/05/2016
Last CLI: 02/06/2016
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distantarray
Established Contributor

Re: Amex charge card

people have gotten in as low as 620's but not common, probably had a solid credit file but with few derogs like medical collections. Amex doesn't seem to take medical collections as seriously as other banks.


total credit limits $108,400 Credit scores Ex 728 EQ 738 TU 758
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exdoll
New Member

Re: Amex charge card

like the guy said, try the pre-approval site ..it works, I got to choose between 3 card ...zync ,green and gold... no hard pull  .....just your last 4 numbers of  your s.s and name. My gold card was in my hand in 6 days

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Repo-ed
Senior Contributor

Re: Amex charge card

www.whogavemecredit.com
5/2012: 560 credit scores across the board
12/2014: 750+
3/2017: 780+
11/2019: 833
2/2023: Experian via Chase United Explorer CC pull - 891
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jamesdwi
Valued Contributor

Re: Amex charge card

With AMEX income is a big factor if you are making north of 40k a year your chances are better, and since charge cards are only 1 month loans they have very low credit requirements, if you have good income and have a 650 or higher fico and a year of credit history with no recent baddies, you stand a good chance. 

 

 

Cards: Chase Southwest 20k & CSR 17k & CSP 10k & FNBO 30k Oregon Duck 5k, & AMEX BCP 32.5k & Amex Magnet 15k&amg; Hilton Surpass 7.5k & Delta Gold 12k & Zync NPSL, Fidelity AMEX 17k Commerce5.9k & Cash Forward 7.5k & Sams Club MC 20k, Paypal Extras MC 10k, Paypal Credit 7.25k CapOne Venture 15k, QS 2.5k, QS 750, Amazon 10k, Walmart 10k, Citi Simplicity 18k, Discover IT 23k and a nice stack of store cards.
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distantarray
Established Contributor

Re: Amex charge card


@Repo-ed wrote:
www.whogavemecredit.com

it's honestly a horrible site, I would go to creditboards credit pull database since it's more accurate since most people who post there know the difference between Fico and Fako. whogavemecredit i suspect is mostly fako.


total credit limits $108,400 Credit scores Ex 728 EQ 738 TU 758
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