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Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

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Neblett
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Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

My scores keep dropping in the last couple of weeks - went from 668 to 585 in 14 days, and all because I applied for an online car loan before I really should. That'll learn me.

Here are some things in the pipeline, that I am curious if people think will give me any kind of boost on my credit score?

1. Have sent GW letters to about 6-10 creditors - two have already worked and deleted accounts. Am waiting for decisions from the others.

2. Paid off Ford Charge-Off - account will go from $5400 balance to zero. And NO, I didn't pay the whole $5400, but the settlement offer I accepted did explicitly state that it will appear on my CR as "Paid in Full," not "Settled for Less than Full Balance." Ford has also removed repo comments from my reports.

3. Requested some duplicate and erroneous inquiries be removed from my reports.

4. Waiting for investigation to conclude from EX - called Dell the other day to find out result of a GW letter I sent, and they have no record of my account on file. So, I disputed as "Not Mine" and am hoping that EX finds that the account has been deleted from Dell's files.

5. Target card balance is finally below 10% utilization, and Target is removing some 30 to 60 Days Past Due comments from my file (Feb-April) that should never have posted because I was enrolled in a payment plan to get caught back up with them, and I paid more than the minimum each month to get it paid off, and part of my agreement with them when I enrolled was that it would stop all the late pays on my credit reporting as well as late charges.

6. 4-6 Student Loan accounts will report as Closed (Paid) as part of a loan consolidation.
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Anonymous
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

That is one heck of a score drop.
 
Let us know how it works out,
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Neblett
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

Yeah - I got excited about my 668 and applied for a CapitalOne Auto Loan and got turned down in 10 minutes. And it cost me close to 85 points after 2 weeks. That was fun.
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Anonymous
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

All from a single inquiry? Something ain't right. Has to be something else on your report you've overlooked.
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Neblett
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

Well, it was actually two inquiries. One auto loan inquiry and one because I applied for a Best Buy card.

I have pored over the the report for 2 weeks trying to see if there is anything else that changed, and the only thing else that happened was a creditor reported a positive pay history on a closed account because of a GW letter I sent in.

According to MyFICO Alert History:

6-15: Score is 668. Yay!

6-19: Three accounts report positively. No change in score.

6-21: Score drops to 655 (-13 points) because of the Best Buy inquiry.

6-27: Score drops to 622 (-23 points) because a closed Wells Fargo account changes status from Past Due (Not on Record) to Past Due ($0) and Account Notes include "Customer disputes this information - Investigation in Progress" - GW Letter

6-29: Score drops to 585 (-37 points) because the Capital One Auto Loan inquiry hits my account - there is also a RoadLoans inquiry, which COAF does automatically, but they should only hit me as one inquiry, right?
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Anonymous
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?



Neblett wrote:
6-29: Score drops to 585 (-37 points) because the Capital One Auto Loan inquiry hits my account - there is also a RoadLoans inquiry, which COAF does automatically, but they should only hit me as one inquiry, right?


When was the Roadloans inquiry?
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Neblett
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

RoadLoans inquiry was same day as COAF - if COAF doesn't approve you, they automatically bump you over to RoadLoans. The auto loan inquiries were technically on 6-15, which I thought affected the initial score drop, but FICO alerts say they didn't affect my credit score until 6-29. Not sure I really believe that, but that's what I get for being excited about my high FICO score. I should have just waited to apply until I went to the dealership.
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Anonymous
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

You might wanna call MyFico customer service. 37 points from a single inquiry seems like an awful lot. Ask MyFico specifically whether they can tell if the two inquiries are coded as auto loan inquiries and thus should be in the same de-duplication cycle. IOW, they count as one inquiry.
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Anonymous
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

Inquiries don't tank scores like that. Something else pulled the score down...maybe you went into another scoring pool, or a long-standing positive TL dropped off your report.
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Anonymous
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Re: Scores Keep Dropping - Will This Work/Help?

More than one person has reported calling FI, talking with customer service, getting a lot of helpful info. At least one person I recall saying they talked with Barry and got a LOT of helpful info and analysis of their report.
 
Compared with the outsourced CSRs at the Big Three, it is night and day IMHE.
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