It doesn't ding your score. Nearly every credit card provider offers this service now. Not sure why it doesn't hurt your score since reports are being run every month, but that's just how it is. And they know your credit score by your social security number. That score is your fico score which comes mainly from your experian score.
The reason it doesnt hurt your credit score is because they are counted as soft pulls. A soft pull doesnt hurt your score versus a hard pull does. A hard pull is when a potential lender for a loan, credit card, landlord, etc check your credit score. One or two hard pulls wont really effect your score because you have to have a hard pull to obtain a credit card, but if you are applying to a bunch of things they will all perform a hard pull and therefore your credit score will suffer. Hope that helps.
The reason it doesnt hurt your credit score is because they are counted as soft pulls. A soft pull doesnt hurt your score versus a hard pull does. A hard pull is when a potential lender for a loan, credit card, landlord, etc check your credit score. One or two hard pulls wont really effect your score because you have to have a hard pull to obtain a credit card, but if you are applying to a bunch of things they will all perform a hard pull and therefore your credit score will suffer. Hope that helps.
Thanks, guys.
I applied for and was accepted for the Amazon card yesterday and got an email today saying my score dropped like 8 points. Could it have reacted that quickly?
heister:
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Since the hard pull versus soft pull is explained I will ask: Why use Capital One? There are plenty of better credit card grantors with great spend benefits.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Since the hard pull versus soft pull is explained I will ask: Why use Capital One? There are plenty of better credit card grantors with great spend benefits.
Please do list them. I use CapOne QuickSilver for 1.5% cash back.
Amex Blue for 2-3% on gas and groceries
Amazon for 3% on Amazon (and $40 gift card; I'm poor)
I need to get into that travel hacking shit.
heister:
Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad.
https://arthuxtable.com/
Since the hard pull versus soft pull is explained I will ask: Why use Capital One? There are plenty of better credit card grantors with great spend benefits.
Please do list them. I use CapOne QuickSilver for 1.5% cash back.
Amex Blue for 2-3% on gas and groceries Amazon for 3% on Amazon (and $40 gift card; I'm poor)
I need to get into that travel hacking shit.
Discover offers 5% on certain purchases although these offers vary by quarter. One quarter the cash back will be on gas, the next on restaurants, the next on retail etc.
The hard vs soft pull makes sense. I recently got a Barclays and a Citi card and my score dropped about 12 points.
I really like being able to track my score now. What do you guys think?
If you want an actual score, look at Credit Karma(CK), the Capital One score is still a proprietary score that transunion comes up with, often its less than your actual "FICO" score. CK used to show the same score as capitalone because it came from the same source, but in the last few months they started offering actual scores from transunion and one of the other ones, I think Experien. So actually you will find your "true" credit score is higher. So when I compared my Discover FICO score to the old CK or capitalone score, it was notable different. Now they are pretty close with differences only due to timing of when they were reported.
CK also shows all of your credit reporting information updated periodically so you don't have to pull them from the free gov't site only once per year and look at hard inquiries and see when they will fall off, look at your credit history length and other factors. You sign in basically like you're logging into one of the reporting entities to look at your free annual credit report. Doesn't cost anything.
I think because the credit agencies contract with the card companies and already have your reporting information they are able to feed it in without a hard pull of your report since you're not requesting new credit.
Capital One and I think most cards you can get a rate limit increase for the most part without a hard pull, you can at least request one and see what they offer before authorizing a hard pull.
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It doesn't ding your score. Nearly every credit card provider offers this service now. Not sure why it doesn't hurt your score since reports are being run every month, but that's just how it is. And they know your credit score by your social security number. That score is your fico score which comes mainly from your experian score.
The reason it doesnt hurt your credit score is because they are counted as soft pulls. A soft pull doesnt hurt your score versus a hard pull does. A hard pull is when a potential lender for a loan, credit card, landlord, etc check your credit score. One or two hard pulls wont really effect your score because you have to have a hard pull to obtain a credit card, but if you are applying to a bunch of things they will all perform a hard pull and therefore your credit score will suffer. Hope that helps.
I applied for and was accepted for the Amazon card yesterday and got an email today saying my score dropped like 8 points. Could it have reacted that quickly?
Since the hard pull versus soft pull is explained I will ask: Why use Capital One? There are plenty of better credit card grantors with great spend benefits.
I need to get into that travel hacking shit.
Double post lolol
Discover offers 5% on certain purchases although these offers vary by quarter. One quarter the cash back will be on gas, the next on restaurants, the next on retail etc.
The hard vs soft pull makes sense. I recently got a Barclays and a Citi card and my score dropped about 12 points.
I really like being able to track my score now. What do you guys think?
If you want an actual score, look at Credit Karma(CK), the Capital One score is still a proprietary score that transunion comes up with, often its less than your actual "FICO" score. CK used to show the same score as capitalone because it came from the same source, but in the last few months they started offering actual scores from transunion and one of the other ones, I think Experien. So actually you will find your "true" credit score is higher. So when I compared my Discover FICO score to the old CK or capitalone score, it was notable different. Now they are pretty close with differences only due to timing of when they were reported.
CK also shows all of your credit reporting information updated periodically so you don't have to pull them from the free gov't site only once per year and look at hard inquiries and see when they will fall off, look at your credit history length and other factors. You sign in basically like you're logging into one of the reporting entities to look at your free annual credit report. Doesn't cost anything.
I think because the credit agencies contract with the card companies and already have your reporting information they are able to feed it in without a hard pull of your report since you're not requesting new credit.
Capital One and I think most cards you can get a rate limit increase for the most part without a hard pull, you can at least request one and see what they offer before authorizing a hard pull.
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