PFD Questions

[SHAI]

My current scores are TU-429, EX-431, EQ-423. I just got PFD for 6 of nine accounts. The PFD are as follows: Verizon $65, $75,203. Imagine Master Card $794, T-mobile $446, 1st Continental $517. How much of a pint increase can I expect I still have three other collections I'm working on.

[Anonymous]

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SHAI wrote:
My current scores are TU-429, EX-431, EQ-423. I just got PFD for 6 of nine accounts. The PFD are as follows: Verizon $65, $75,203. Imagine Master Card $794, T-mobile $446, 1st Continental $517. How much of a pint increase can I expect I still have three other collections I'm working on.

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Anyone's guess. Unless these are really, really recent collections, I wouldn't expect that much of an increase.

You get dinged more for having a collection, then how many or amount, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Sidewinder is right...you get the biggest ding for having the collection, with the size of the ding being heavily dependent on the recency of the collection. Subsequent collections just increase your percentage of negative accounts, which is a far less influential variable.

The upshot of it is, if you're hunting down collections and charge-offs, focus on your most recent. Nailing the runner-up or the third in the pack will, unfortunately, not help your score more than a few points, if at all.