Curious - how unreasonable is this scenario:
Applied for membership to Credit Union Lender A.
Didn't know at the time that membership meant a HP.
CSR called and said since you have a HP, might as well try for a product.
At the time, I felt I wouldn't be approved because of my #s (was only applying for membership to try for a CC in the future), but since I wasted a HP I figured I might as well go for it.
Went for it, DENIED, which I figured.
Less than 6-weeks later same Credit Union Lender A offers me a CC all I had to was accept terms, which I did and I got another HP (and the CC).
Question: How unreasonable is it to try to have that first HP removed?
To me, it doesn't seem right they HP me 2Xs when nothing much changed in those 6 weeks where they should have just approved me 6-weeks prior.
I mean - is it illogical to think this way?
I mean, it's already been 8-months since this all transpired and my relationship with Credit Union Lender A has been great so far but that darn extra HP is bothering me.
Both pulls were for a permissible purpose, so you couldn't get either removed by the bureaus. You could ask the CU to recode one of the HPs, but I doubt they would, since they were both incured through their normal membership and lending procedures. Additionally, six weeks can be a long time from a pull, depending on the lender; the CU I used to work at would only consider a pull valid within 30 days of the pull date.
@FinStar wrote:What institution is Credit Union Lender A?
Personally, I'd let it be. While you may not think that the span of 6 weeks matters, but each CU has their own internal UW policies on membership and/or credit originations. Believe it or not, things can change even in 2 weeks (reporting-wise). But, 8 months ago? Chances are the data of your initial membership application or whichever products you had applied for at the time is inaccessible to make changes. 30 or 60 days ago, possibly (at least to determine if recoding was possible as mentioned upthread). I can see it from a standpoint if the information online displayed one thing and the opposite happened.
I think you're letting a single HP rent space in your mind than what it should. At the end of the day, it'll be unscorable in less than 4-5 months and off your CRs in less than 2 years 🤷♂️
Good info & advice, to which I think I'll take. Thanks @FinStar 
@rostrow416 wrote:1) it was completely reasonable for them to pull your credit for both of those situations and unlikely that they would change anything
2) it's been 8 months, your score has mostly recovered from the little dip anyway. At 12 months, the point penalty from a hard inquiry is gone. So it's not even going to affect you even if it was removed.
Thanks @rostrow416 , both valid points.
HP's are very hard to remove. I recently tried and got the runaround ('you'll have to contact the reporting agency' 'you'll have to contact the credit card' rince and repeat). Horrible. If they put it on, they should be able to take it off. There should be a system to help with this.
