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Believe it needs to be a bank card and not a store card.
@Anonymous wrote:Believe it needs to be a bank card and not a store card.
+1. Store cards are YMMV if they will count or not. Definitely experiment with a major bank card reporting instead of your store card and see if it makes a difference. The best advice is to not use a card from Chase, Synchrony, or a credit union. Chase and Sync will mid-cycle report which could mess up your AZEO. If you were planning an important app that could be bad. CUs usually count, but seem to be excluded in certain cases like store cards.
I just did my first AZEO (using my SDFCU card) and I got a 20 point jump on FICO 8. I have 8% reporting.
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Update on this: so the day I made this post, I ordered some things I had been saving in a cart for when I had the free cash to spend on it. I charged $280 to my disco card. This made up for the final $251 that I paid off of my last cc with a balance. Just got the update from TU when disco updated and I got back the same amount of points that I lost when I paid everything down. So I guess with my profile and TU, they definitely do NOT consider brooks brothers store card into the cc algorithm. Now just waiting for the other score that dropped to reflect the disco charge and hopefully come back up. In reflection, I didn't see any rise in credit scores when I got to azeo. But then again, I didn't quiet get a 20-25 point drop like I've seen on the board for having no cc debt. With all cc's being at zero except for the store card, I was at 8%. Now it's back to 10% and I got those points back. Hopefully next month, I'll have 3 derogatory accounts fall off and see another healthy point boost.
Yes, it's hard to do AZEO with a dirty file. The subtle score boosts just aren't there sometimes.