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First Card: WF Platinum back in 2007. Did not know what I was doing and bank closed it 2013 for non payment. Paid off.
Starting 10/2015:
Been a lot of work since the end of 2015, but my scores and available credit have skyrocketed. I remember how stoked I was when I got a Quicksilver One
How about you guys?
Do we iclude store cards?
Starting 10/2015
1. Capital one secured - turned to unsecured this month
2. Capital One QS One - transferred bal to Venture then closed 3 mo ago
3. Capital One Venture 12/2015
4. EBay MC 12/2015
5. AMEX Delta 5/2017
6. AMEX BCE 5/2017
7. PenFed Promise Visa 7/2017
8. NFCU VISA 8/2017
9. Chase Slate - PC to Chase FU before activating 8/2017
10. Discover It 8/2017
Received about 8 store cards between 11/2015 - 8/2016.
2013
Freedom - Open
2014
Discover - Open
PRG - Closed 2016
Sallie Mae - Closed 2017
BCE - Open
Brooks Brothers store card - Closed 2017
2015
CSP - Open
EDP - PCed to ED 2016
Arrival - Open, may close
IHG - Open
Hyatt - Open
2016
AA Platinum - PCed to Costco 2017
Schwab Platinum - Open
Prestige - Open
2017
SPG - Open
@Anonymous wrote:Do we iclude store cards?
Yes! Store card was my second. ONLY purpose it served was a stepping stone to expedite the process of getting better cards moving down the line. I went from 500 SL with just cap1 to $4500 overnight with the store card (had to call overstock and ask for the CLI, but no hard pull).
2013
Amex BCE
Discover it
2014
Capital One Quicksilver Visa
Barclaycard Sallie Mae MC (closed in 2017)
2015
Capital One Venture Visa (product changed to Quicksilver)
Citi ThankYou Premier MC (product changed to Double Cash)
2016
Barclaycard Arrival Plus MC (product changed to Rewards)
Bank of America Merrill+ Visa
Synchrony Marvel MC (will likely be closing by Jan 2018)
1. Cap One Secured Feb. '16 (still secured)
2. Discover Secured Sept. '16
3. Amazon Prime Store Card Sept. '16
4. BOA Cash Rewards 99/500 Secured Oct. '16
5. Chase Freedom Oct. '16
6. Citi Double Cash Nov. '16
7. AMEX BCE Dec. '16
8. Chase Amazon Visa June '17
I'll play:
1998:
Capital One Venture One
Mervyn's store card (closed 1999, store gone 2007)
Citibank Visa (forced into Diamond Preferred MasterCard this year)
Abercrombie and Fitch (closed 2005)
1999:
Amex Zync (backdated, actually opened 2012)
Care Credit (closed 2001)
AT&T Universal Card (now a Citi Thankyou Preferred)
Associates Visa (closed 2001)
Amex Gold (my first Amex, closed 2005)
Amex Blue (backdated, actually opened 2008)
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2000:
Citi Dividend
GECCC Best Buy (closed 2002, Best Buy was going to close anyway as they decided to use Household as their lender)
FIrst Union Visa Gold (closed 2001)
2001:
Kohl's (closed 2017)
FNBO Visa (closed 2007)
BofA Visa Gold (now Cash Rewards Visa Sig)
Chase Manhattan Visa (closed after 5 months)
Fleet Visa (closed 2002)
Chase Manhattan MasterCard (now a Chase Freedom Unlimited)
2002:
Discover Platinum (closed 2004)
Fleet Visa (Closed 2004)
2003:
Nordstrom Visa Classic (updated to Platinum and now Signature)
2006:
FirstBank Colorado Visa Gold (now Visa Signature)
2007:
Macy's (on the chopping block after it turns 10 on 9/1/17)
2009:
BofA Visa Signature WorldPoints (now a BBR MasterCard)
Walmart Discover (closed shortly after opening....d'oh!)
2010:
Chase Freedom Visa SIg
2014:
PenFed Promise Visa (on the chopping block)
2016:
NFCU Cash Rewards Visa Signature (my go to card)
Yeah....I got bit by the credit bug at 18 and went a little crazy with app sprees in my early 20s LOL. Of this list I still have 16 of these bad boys opened
1976 Chevron closed
1976 Unical closed
1977 Sears closed
1978 some kind of Visa/MC
too **bleep** old to remember exactly what happened in the next 40 yrs.....