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Very basic data point here that I meant to post about months ago... I received zero points when my AAoA crossed from 6 years to 7 years. I know this isn't significant, but thought some may want to know.
Do we know for sure where any of the AAoA break points are? I know for sure there is one at the 1 year mark, but what about after that? I'd figure that as the years go by there would be fewer thresholds to be crossed; I assume most of them are earlier on?
I had an account drop from my CR and it lowered my AAoA from 7 to 6 and I lost a few points
Interesting. Seems this may be profile specific. Were you in a clean or a dirty bucket at the time? Also what was your AoOA and AoYA at the time?
Doubt it's profile specific but some scorecards have suggested new accounts penalty.
I found one at 2 years explicitly, I did not see one at 3 years. Will try to catch 4 years but may be hard as I may be on a clean scorecard at that point and all bets are off. Not certain on the explicit 1 year one on my data but my file was stupidly busy at the time and I didn't try to control for that like I did 2/3 years.

@Anonymous wrote:Very basic data point here that I meant to post about months ago... I received zero points when my AAoA crossed from 6 years to 7 years. I know this isn't significant, but thought some may want to know.
Do we know for sure where any of the AAoA break points are? I know for sure there is one at the 1 year mark, but what about after that? I'd figure that as the years go by there would be fewer thresholds to be crossed; I assume most of them are earlier on?
From what I've read, I believe 6 yrs is the final threshold for AAoA point increases, but I could be wrong on that BBS.
@Revelate wrote:Doubt it's profile specific but some scorecards have suggested new accounts penalty.
I found one at 2 years explicitly, I did not see one at 3 years. Will try to catch 4 years but may be hard as I may be on a clean scorecard at that point and all bets are off. Not certain on the explicit 1 year one on my data but my file was stupidly busy at the time and I didn't try to control for that like I did 2/3 years.
Rev, what do you mean by on a clean scorecard all bets are off? Does AAoA impact clean cards verses dirty cards differently and if so, how?
@sarge12 wrote:From what I've read, I believe 6 yrs is the final threshold for AAoA point increases, but I could be wrong on that BBS.
Really? I always thought that the final threshold was a lot higher, maybe 10 or 11 years... just that there were quite diminishing returns when you get to that point, like 10 over 7 means far less than 6 over 3, for example. Where's T.Thumb, he may know where the final threshold stands with respect to AAoA...
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@sarge12 wrote:From what I've read, I believe 6 yrs is the final threshold for AAoA point increases, but I could be wrong on that BBS.
Really? I always thought that the final threshold was a lot higher, maybe 10 or 11 years... just that there were quite diminishing returns when you get to that point, like 10 over 7 means far less than 6 over 3, for example. Where's T.Thumb, he may know where the final threshold stands with respect to AAoA...
If anyone here knows for sure it would probably be T Thumb.