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Gotagoal
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Scorewatch going away?

I received an email last week that basically said that the Scorewatch notifications were going away. Anyone else get this? I don't understand. Isn't that the reason we pay for Scorewatch?
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Gotagoal
Regular Contributor

Re: Scorewatch going away?

Let me be more specific. Here's the email. I like getting notifications about my score going up or down. If I'm reading this correctly, that service will go away. Am I reading this right?

Dear Score Watch® subscriber:

The myFICO® team has been pleased to be able to offer the Score Watch credit and FICO® score monitoring system to thousands of myFICO customers over the past three and a half years. As one of our valued subscribers, we want you to be aware of some new developments currently underway within Score Watch.

As part of our continuing commitment to providing myFICO customers with the highest quality products and services possible, we have recently identified some new technologies that will improve the way Score Watch alerts are provided to you. We expect these changes to be implemented by the end of summer 2008.

The first step toward implementing these improvements will include the elimination of the Score Watch alert option indicating that you will be alerted whenever your FICO score changes.” As of July 13, 2008, this alert setting will no longer be available.

We regret having to discontinue this feature; however, our research has found that the offering of this alert option has resulted in technical complications within the Score Watch monitoring system that make this decision unavoidable.

Over the next few months, we will be implementing additional system improvements to the Score Watch monitoring service. These upgrades are expected to increase both the accuracy and speed with which your Score Watch alerts are delivered.

We apologize for this inconvenience as we work to make sure that our Score Watch credit monitoring service continues to serve your needs into the future. For additional information about the latest Score Watch developments, please read our FAQ .

Thank you again for subscribing to Score Watch, as we look forward to providing an improved Score Watch credit and FICO score monitoring service to you over the next few months.

Best regards,

myFICO Customer Care
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Anonymous
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Re: Scorewatch going away?

Please see the updated Score Watch message sticked at the top of this forum.
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marty56
Super Contributor

Re: Scorewatch going away?

Any Score Change
(Discontinued as of 7/13/08)
 Subscriber can turn on or off.
 Triggered whenever the score changes from the score on the last Score Watch score update.
 
Target Score
 Subscriber can turn on/off and set target score.
 Triggered whenever the score reaches or crosses the target score set by the subscriber. The target score can be set above or below the current score. If the target score is set equal to the current score, an alert is triggered by any score change either up or down.
 
It doesnt appear you would loose anything if you set your score alert equal to the current score.
 
Scary thing is that I get why they are doing this.
1/25/2021: FICO 850 EQ 848 TU 847 EX
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Anonymous
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Re: Scorewatch going away?



@marty56 wrote:
Any Score Change
(Discontinued as of 7/13/08)
Subscriber can turn on or off.
Triggered whenever the score changes from the score on the last Score Watch score update.

Target Score
Subscriber can turn on/off and set target score.
Triggered whenever the score reaches or crosses the target score set by the subscriber. The target score can be set above or below the current score. If the target score is set equal to the current score, an alert is triggered by any score change either up or down.
It doesnt appear you would loose anything if you set your score alert equal to the current score.
Scary thing is that I get why they are doing this.



don't think so, first you would have at least 1 above to allow for increase, and that's want it tracks, if you score falls below your target score you won't get jack
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Anonymous
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Re: Scorewatch going away?

Not true. I didn't have the "Score change" thingie set -- just had "Target Score" set to my existing score. And whenever it went up or down, I got an alert. Whether up or down, I set the "Target Score" thingie to my THEN existing score ... always got updates that way.
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