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Simple Credit Question
Does requesting a CC company to lower your limit adversly affect your credit score?
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Re: Simple Credit Question
Possibly. For example, if you have a card with a $10k limit but carry a balance of $5k, your limit-to-balance ratio is 50%. If you have them drop your limit to $5k (with the same balance) then your ratio rises to 100% usage & affects your score. That's a pretty elementary example but you get the point.
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Re: Simple Credit Question
A related question: If you pay off your bill in full every month, do you always have a 0% utilization?
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Re: Simple Credit Question
I had someone tell me about 2 weeks ago that by paying off your CC in full each month, it can actually hurt you.
I told him he was an idiot. Thoughts? |
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Re: Simple Credit Question
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A related question: If you pay off your bill in full every month, do you always have a 0% utilization? [/ QUOTE ] You will if the credit report is pulled during the time between payoff & new charges being billed to the account. It's basically a snapshot. |
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Re: Simple Credit Question
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I had someone tell me about 2 weeks ago that by paying off your CC in full each month, it can actually hurt you. I told him he was an idiot. Thoughts? [/ QUOTE ] You are correct...at least by US standards. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] |
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Re: Simple Credit Question
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Possibly. For example, if you have a card with a $10k limit but carry a balance of $5k, your limit-to-balance ratio is 50%. If you have them drop your limit to $5k (with the same balance) then your ratio rises to 100% usage & affects your score. That's a pretty elementary example but you get the point. [/ QUOTE ] But if you are one who carries zero balance and just believe they have over extended credit to you there would be no harm in having them drop the limit? |
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Re: Simple Credit Question
Nah, probably not.
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Re: Simple Credit Question
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I had someone tell me about 2 weeks ago that by paying off your CC in full each month, it can actually hurt you. I told him he was an idiot. Thoughts? [/ QUOTE ] he's an idiot |
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