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So my Exp as of today on CCT and on my recent approval letter from Amex is 656. But I got denied for Chase Amazon on 4/23 and they pulled an Ex of 593. That's dead wrong. By a long shot. My other approvals pulled my scores correctly two weeks ago which is 656. What's the deal with Chase? Makes me want to recon.
Chase does use their own scoring system. I applied and was approved for the Chase Amazon Prime Visa about 2 months ago. While Chase pulled both my Experian and Equifax reports, they ultimately used their own "Card Acquisition Risk Score" (CARS). It upset me as my CARS score is in the 650s, while both my Experian and Equifax scores are in the 730s. This explained my $2,000 credit limit.
Does anyone know what may cause your CARS score to be higher or lower than your FICO 08?
Someone should check those Chase scores to vantagescore and see if they are similar. I have been reading that in 2016 8+ billion credit card applications used vantagescore not fico to approve the cards, the banks won't tell you that either.
From consistent reading they have been seperating credit cards from mortgages and loans. More banks are using vantagescore for credit cards and CLI and FICO for everything else. Some people won't believe it but they have to do there own HW to see for themselves than just 1 person mentioning it. Vantagescore was created by the 3 CB agencies and with vantagescore 4 coming out the CB's are forcing banks to update there information for accuracy.
For all we know there internal scoring system is probably no different than what vantagescore or is comparable.
@JustcallmeTM wrote:Someone should check those Chase scores to vantagescore and see if they are similar. I have been reading that in 2016 8+ billion credit card applications used vantagescore not fico to approve the cards, the banks won't tell you that either.
From consistent reading they have been seperating credit cards from mortgages and loans. More banks are using vantagescore for credit cards and CLI and FICO for everything else. Some people won't believe it but they have to do there own HW to see for themselves than just 1 person mentioning it. Vantagescore was created by the 3 CB agencies and with vantagescore 4 coming out the CB's are forcing banks to update there information for accuracy.
For all we know there internal scoring system is probably no different than what vantagescore or is comparable.
Different score range, it's not Vantage.
Chase used to UW on Vantage at one point for some products / customers (my Freedom denial pre-recon came with a VS score) but they were trialing an internal algorithm as well back in 2013/2014 IIRC along with Vantage.
They've since shifted to internal for a bunch of their apps, haven't seen anything which matches Vantage in years from Chase, and if it were FICO it'd say FICO.
Just like there's no real comparison between FICO and Vantage scoring (other than broad strokes, BK or missed payments bad for example) there isn't any correlation to Chase's internal model. Also I assure you Chase has the resources to develop their own algorithm, heck the much smaller lender I worked at developed their own algorithms, Chase likely spends orders of magnitude more money on theirs... comparing Chase's filings vs. the bureaus or vs. FICO's, well, lots more resources and a whole bunch of internal data too makes for a winning scenario.

Understandable I know most banks have there own internal scoring system for the most part just don't know which they lean on more FICO or Vantage to determine how they score it.
I would assume going forward Vantagescore will become more popular and used more for credit cards to stop the abuse on it. Only way to stop churners/high CL chasers/Card collectors and padders and so on is to fully adopt Vantagescore on all CC apps since it will severely impact your score for stuff like that.
@Anonymous wrote:So my Exp as of today on CCT and on my recent approval letter from Amex is 656. But I got denied for Chase Amazon on 4/23 and they pulled an Ex of 593. That's dead wrong. By a long shot. My other approvals pulled my scores correctly two weeks ago which is 656. What's the deal with Chase? Makes me want to recon.
What exactly does it say on the denial letter from Chase?
Does it show that they pulled Ex, and then does it reference your CARS score? (CARS is Chase's internal score)
Also, remember that there are MANY different FICO version as well...
@JustcallmeTM wrote:Understandable I know most banks have there own internal scoring system for the most part just don't know which they lean on more FICO or Vantage to determine how they score it.
I would assume going forward Vantagescore will become more popular and used more for credit cards to stop the abuse on it. Only way to stop churners/high CL chasers/Card collectors and padders and so on is to fully adopt Vantagescore on all CC apps since it will severely impact your score for stuff like that.
I think that's speculation. VantageScore will not be taking over FICO any time soon. The "only way to stop churners" is to adopt VantageScore? You haven't been following real churning news lately, have you? 5/24, 8/65, 6/6, 2/90, 1/16, 24-mo rule, once in lifetime. The score is never the point