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acavaliero
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Petal Card Visa Reporting

Hi Everyone,

I improved my credit to the point where I was accepted for a Petal Card about a year ago and I have used it and paid faithfully every month.  I'm happy that I will not be participating in the 22% interest anymore, I just paid the card off 100%. I have noticed something in the last year of monitoring my credit but I really never addressed it - Petal Card perpetually reports behind or incorrect on all 3 bureaus. I've seen it 3 months behind in acknowledging a payment I made and the balance shown has been a mystery. I don't know what balance and at what time it's reporting.

Again it's currently at a 0 balance and I would like that 0 balance reported as such as soon as possible on all 3 CRAs (for obvious reasons)

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Even a pointing in the right direction, an article, a previous post would be amazing!

Thank you everyone for this space!
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silver_idle
Established Contributor

Re: Petal Card Visa


@acavaliero wrote:

Hi Everyone, 

 

I improved my credit to the point where I was accepted for a Petal Card about a year ago and I have used it and paid faithfully every month.  I'm happy that I will not be participating in the 22% interest anymore, I just paid the card off 100%.  I have noticed something in the last year of monitoring my credit but I really never addressed it - Petal Card perpetually reports behind or incorrect on all 3 bureaus. I've seen it 3 months behind in acknowledging a payment I made and the balance shown has been a mystery. I don't know what balance and at what time it's reporting.

 

Again it's currently at a 0 balance and I would like that 0 balance reported as such as soon as possible on all 3 CRAs  (for obvious reasons)  

 

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Even a pointing in the right direction, an article, a previous post would be amazing! 


Thank you everyone for this space!

 


They should be reporting a couple of days after the statement closing date, but it can also take up to 30 to 45 days for it to reflect on your CR. It could be due to them being new they are just scheduling it all in bulk at a specific time than to have it be based on the statement closing, though Petal is issued through Webbank, so I would assume it would be a couple of days after statement closing date. It doesnt sounds like it is incorrect information being reported but that they are falling behind on reporting. I dont have petal so I wouldnt know personally but maybe someone who does can chime in. I do suggest giving them a call to get more information on what is going on.

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acavaliero
Established Member

Re: Petal Card Visa


@silver_idle wrote:

@acavaliero wrote:

Hi Everyone, 

 

I improved my credit to the point where I was accepted for a Petal Card about a year ago and I have used it and paid faithfully every month.  I'm happy that I will not be participating in the 22% interest anymore, I just paid the card off 100%.  I have noticed something in the last year of monitoring my credit but I really never addressed it - Petal Card perpetually reports behind or incorrect on all 3 bureaus. I've seen it 3 months behind in acknowledging a payment I made and the balance shown has been a mystery. I don't know what balance and at what time it's reporting.

 

Again it's currently at a 0 balance and I would like that 0 balance reported as such as soon as possible on all 3 CRAs  (for obvious reasons)  

 

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Even a pointing in the right direction, an article, a previous post would be amazing! 


Thank you everyone for this space!

 


They should be reporting a couple of days after the statement closing date, but it can also take up to 30 to 45 days for it to reflect on your CR. It could be due to them being new they are just scheduling it all in bulk at a specific time than to have it be based on the statement closing, though Petal is issued through Webbank, so I would assume it would be a couple of days after statement closing date. It doesnt sounds like it is incorrect information being reported but that they are falling behind on reporting. I dont have petal so I wouldnt know personally but maybe someone who does can chime in. I do suggest giving them a call to get more information on what is going on.


Thank you for your response! I will call them and I see if I can get them to report right away. 30 - 45 days is a long time to wait to go from a balance of 1200 (which is from months ago anyway) to a 0 balance. 

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Anonymous
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Re: Petal Card Visa

I'm new to this process so please take my advice with a grain of salt. I'm sure others will chime in tho!

 

Have you checked your scores lately? Do you have any derogs on your report? It might be time to widen the portfolio and bring on some more cards, perhaps with better potential for growth. At the very least, you might acquire a card that reports accurately and consistently and let the Petal sit at $0 balance until it reports $0 balance for some time.

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Anonymous
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Re: Petal Card Visa

Usually you can sign up for Credit Karma and you can look at your accounts there and see what date they report, you look under the balance updated field.
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acavaliero
Established Member

Re: Petal Card Visa


@Anonymous wrote:
Usually you can sign up for Credit Karma and you can look at your accounts there and see what date they report, you look under the balance updated field.

Hey Birdman, thanks for chiming in. I currently use CK and pay for Experian. 

 

I see you in your signature you request of those you support lots of info about their credit history.  How do I express my current reality here? 

Something like this link?

 

Thank you BM! 

 

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Anonymous
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Re: Petal Card Visa

@acavaliero Yeah the information I need depends upon the type of question asked, but the information I ask for allows me to approximate scorecard and evaluate utilization, so I’m able to give the best answers that I can. The only thing really missing on what you posted is the dates the first delinquency (DOFD) on the baddies.

If you’ve got CK and Experian you’re doing great. Experian is typically the first one to update usually. You can go to Experian and pull up the specific account and look for when the balance was updated last and that will tell you what date they reported on. Likewise you can go back and look at your reports from the past on Experian and see whether or not that was consistent or if there are other dates they have been reported on as well.

Likewise you can go to Credit Karma and pull up the account and look for the last update as well. Most lenders consistently report on the same day each month give or take a day.

Some lenders report sporadically and unreliably like synchrony. I don’t have personal experience with the petal, but if they waited three months to report, they may be another lender that’s unreliable for reporting dates.

With that said, after reviewing the information you posted, I want you to know that you can only have one chargeoff status per account. It doesn’t matter how many you see on one account, that’s just an update of the current status. What happens is a lender has the right to update your account each month with the chargeoff status.

Once it’s chargeoff status, it is chargeoff status. Status simply goes by the worst delinquency at least you do not have any collections it appears. But those chargeoffs that are unpaid could be referred to collections which would cause an additional reduction in score.

Some lenders choose to update monthly. It’s unfortunate when they do, because it keeps the charge off current and prevents it from aging which continues to suppress your score.

Once you pay them or settle them, they will update it to paid or settled and then there will be no more updates and the charge off will begin to age and overtime your points will begin to recover.

With that said, they will hurt until they are removed from your report. That’s typically seven years from the DOFD. you can find the removal date or DOFD on your credit report directly from annualcreditreport.com.

The main thing you need to address is the COs. But depending on when the DOFD is, you may choose to proceed in different ways.

You are in a dirty scorecard, so you’re probably gonna have a maximum score that you can reach until you are reassigned to a different scorecard.

The two things I see for you is number one address the COs and in the meanwhile you gotta keep utilization low to try to get to the highest score you can.

Do you have any other specific questions I can help you with? See if you can get the DOFD’s for me. And please confirm you have no collections.
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Anonymous
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Re: Petal Card Visa

You also need to get some more revolvers so you can start racking up positive payment history. I see you have plenty of AUs, but you need more primary accounts.

An SSL would also benefit you most likely. Do a search for the SSL thread and try to get the longest term you can if and when you can do it.

I wonder if your AU accounts are being considered on version 8? But you definitely need more cards even if you have to go get $300 secured cards. The credit limit doesn’t matter as long as you keep utilization low. By the way how old is the petal account? You didn’t tell me the opening dates.
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acavaliero
Established Member

Re: Petal Card Visa


@Anonymous wrote:
You also need to get some more revolvers so you can start racking up positive payment history. I see you have plenty of AUs, but you need more primary accounts.

An SSL would also benefit you most likely. Do a search for the SSL thread and try to get the longest term you can if and when you can do it.

I wonder if your AU accounts are being considered on version 8? But you definitely need more cards even if you have to go get $300 secured cards. The credit limit doesn’t matter as long as you keep utilization low. By the way how old is the petal account? You didn’t tell me the opening dates.

Hey Birdman, 

 

I'll answer both of your replies here. 

 

Thanks so much for you detailed response. 

 

Could you point me in the direction of the an SSL and / or Revolver that you believe would be good for me? I'll go to SSL thread. Just go apply? 

 

I have had Petal Card since Feb 2019. I signed up for Self Lender also about a year ago, I finished it and amassed 545$ after the year of payments, I could do that again. This is an installment loan.  I guess I could apply for some of the high APR cards like Creditone, FingerHut and also Petal has a pretty high APR and my credit is $1500 with them. I have applied for a lot of different cards that I thought I would qualify for because of the leaps of I have made but still denied. 

 

I'm not sure if the AUs are on the FICO Version 8, how can I find out?

 

As far as collections go, as you probably saw in my last email, I paid off AMEX Delta that was in charge off collections status so they should report "charge off paid as agreed" something like that. Perhaps I could request a better reporting. I believe I qualify for the amex optima card now. 

 

I was able to go to annualcreditreport.com and I started by getting my Transunion report. I was able to see the estimated fall off date there however I left the page open too long and I was not able to save as PDF,  it timed out. I emailed ACR and they should respond and give me access. So this what I can remember : the Wells Fargo Baddie comes off in 2021 and Barclays comes off in 2022. Here they are : Barclays and with this Wells Fargo from Experian, you'll see the DOFD and the SOL. 

 

I can also go in and get the other bureuas from ACR and as I previouslly stated I'm paying for experian.com

 

As far as which to proceed, it looks like I have build build build and wait wait wait for Wells Fargo and Barclays to go off. I understand that they are other possibilities including building my credit to the point where I get a loan however they haven't sued me yet and I'm not sure they can even take a dollar from me.  How else could I address those COs? 

 

Dirty scorecard is my current situation the SL lates, the BIG SL, the two baddies and the needing more credit?  Fixing this would have my scorecard reassigned?

 

I'm full aware of your generosity and everyone's here, feel free to answer what you feel compelled to answer and point me in the direction of anything else, links, threads etc. 

 

Thank you Birdman.

AC

 

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Anonymous
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Re: Petal Card Visa

If you qualify if you can get in navy that would be the best place to do the SSL. No the self lender’s terms were too short, repeating it kills your average age. You want to do it somewhere that you can have a decent term hopefully at least five years. You’ll have to read the threads on SSL.

Check Discover Citibank and Bank of America for secured cards. If you have a relationship with a credit union, get one there as well. If you don’t start some relationships.

Avoid store cards and predator cards like credit one and Fingerhut and all those.

Yes if it’s not in collections status that should be removed. I’d ask American Express that would be easier than dealing with the bureaus probably.

Yes you’re going to see some pain until they fall off. The reports you get from ACR will give you more data than the one from Experian even though you have a membership.

You can do Goodwill campaigns for charge-offs and usually have to try try try again but sometimes you’ll have some luck otherwise you have to wait them out.

Yes you need to get several revolvers and let them start aging and acquiring positive payment history. And then when those lates finally drop off you will change scorecards and your score will improve dramatically.

I have more to say but I’m on mobile and I’m late to be somewhere so I’m gonna have to chime in again later. I haven’t viewed your links yet but I will. and we’ll talk about the AU accounts.

Meanwhile other members will chime in with some great advice as well I’m sure.
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