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Credit card non usage vs closure or AA questions

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SUPERSQUID
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Credit card non usage vs closure or AA questions

I know some cc's wont start any AA during a bt paydown, in my experience Discover and Penfed are 2 off the top of my head.

I am close to paying off a bt offer at zero from my penfed pcr.

If i wanted to make a purchase of say 1200 and pay it down 100 per month will penfed see this as non use during that long period and kick in AA?

Are any other cards in my lineup vulnerable for AA in that type of situation?

{ BK7 DC 12/2019 } target 2800/ kohls Visa 7000/ discover IT cb 5800 / 2nd discover IT cb 6000/mercury 4100 /legacy 3500 /HUE cc 3500/ cap1 QS 5000/ cap 1 savor one 3100 /Bread rewards Amex 4650, Penfed PCR signature visa 10k/ penfed gold 5600 /NFCU signature visa cash rewards 21700/bread cashback amex 8000

>/ nfcu platinum 15k, BABY NEEDS NEW SHOES !!!!!
closed-- reflex, applied bank, first digital, mission lane, ikea, fingerhut, big lots, valero gasoline, ollo, more to come
Rebuilding since September 2020
who i burned - chase, cap 1, TD bank, Sync, were the biggies
Income 55k
Total utilization above 50 pct.
Ficos ,most are slightly above 700, the 9's slightly higher than the 8's

TCL - about 110k
Retired since 2017
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Revelate
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Re: Credit card non usage vs closure or AA questions

This really isn't worth worrying about.

 

Anecodtally lenders balance chase at far higher monetary values than that.  As for non-usage closures that's not very common right now even from my own experience, 2/3 of my inactive tradelines don't seem to care and the ones that do sent me a polite email to swipe it before they closed.  

 

I'm just merrily PIFing along since I started on this forum, if you don't need to carry the balance don't... massively favorable APR situations excepted.

 

Lender AA usually is for more squirrley things in people's financial or credit reports and we rarely get complete details, and the impact unless you get EVERYTHING closed (which never happens AFAIK except if you file BK) is basically zero even mid-term.




        
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Anonymous
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Re: Credit card non usage vs closure or AA questions

@SUPERSQUID

You're getting squishy Smiley Happy
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