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So I got one of those "you're preapproved" offers in the mail yesterday. The excellent terms consisted of a giant credit limit of $400.00, a tiny AF of $99 and an exceptional apr of 36%. Needless to say, it got ripped up, cut up and thrown in the trash. Those of you that have a long established credit history, do you ever stop recieving offers from these subprime lenders?
actually first premier is one of the nicer offers I have recieved, lately I have been getting personal loan offers with the low low low APR of 240%, guess i'm getting flagged because I had a couple cards with over 80% UTL, though my overall UTL was not over 30%. Which is being paid down, now no cards over 80% and down to 24% UTL reporting.
@Anonymous wrote:Those of you that have a long established credit history, do you ever stop recieving offers from these subprime lenders?
I don't receive any but YMMV. I'm not interested in offers anyway. If I need/want a card I'll find it. I don't need somone to market one to me,
I've never seen an APR that high lol.
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I got the same offer of $400 and a $99 fee. No mention of interest though. I also received an offer for Discover It but I think it may just be a promotional thing. Not ready to pull the trigger on that one and definitely not pulling trigger on First Premier.
I got the 750/175 offer. Yuck. In the shredder!
@Anonymous wrote:So I got one of those "you're preapproved" offers in the mail yesterday. The excellent terms consisted of a giant credit limit of $400.00, a tiny AF of $99 and an exceptional apr of 36%. Needless to say, it got ripped up, cut up and thrown in the trash. Those of you that have a long established credit history, do you ever stop recieving offers from these subprime lenders?
I get those usually mostly via email - sometimes snail mail too - but also credit one regularly. I obviously just toss them anymore. I won't say "established credit" defines me yet (solid 3yrs after having done rebuilding for awhile to get rid of any and all derogs now) however I don't doubt I will always see first premier offers since I had them for a year while rebuilding to get my credit rebounding - the extra positive TL definitely did help some for awhile.