Dogwell

It probably is the same type of group that usually just tow the walk-offs away under contract with a couple of local tow facilities. And to be honest, I have absolutely NO qualms with a private company towing non-customers, especially when the signs are quite prominent in their placement... This lot didn't have signs, just 1 hour markings on the spots. I was there for all of 15 minutes.

Got a bogus parking ticket in a private lot of a shopping center a couple days ago and I'm wondering if these things ever hit your credit report. I shopped in one of the stores of the complex, but the reason given is "walk-off." There's no way that I'm going to give a cent to these scammers, so I'm wondering if they can send it to collections or what the deal is. Obviously if it were a city ticket I would pay it, but this is different and I didn't see anything about private lot citations when I searched. Thanks for any info.

So, in theory, putting charges on all of your cards every 90 days or so would increase the score after the balances zeroed again?

I signed up for a trial of Score Watch on the 22nd and was given a score of 757, which I figured was down because of a coupla Inqs. Well, I knew that Nationwide was about to report, so I was sure that the score would drop further due to avg. age decreasing. I also made a small charge on an Amex I don't usually use at Costco and I figured it would drop my score as well since it was a balance on another card, but the score update today (that cites those changes) is an increase of 13 points to 770. I suppose that other accounts aging beyond certain thresholds might mitigate some of it, but at best I would have expected it to be a wash. I'm kind of curious now why it would have gone up at all. Any ideas?

Weird that the mother is trying to get him caught.

Wow, that's crazy. Do you just close them when they try to jack you or do you have some where the banks close them on their own?

All I did was waste money with F.I.C.O. I had no baddies But paying off massive debt (0.00% BT's) didn't show a massive increase either (more down than up) But as with everything--->YMMV Some think it is better than SLICED BREAD (even if it doesn't move up or down) You could always sign up for a free trial of scorewatch and cancel after a month if you want to know what your EQ score is right now. That's what I just did. Like George, I am philosophically opposed to paying for something that I think should be free. Also, George, I was going to ask you in another thread if you've applied for anything lately or if you pretty much leave everything alone for long periods of time. I lost the will to apply when I was AMEXED ...and it has been downhill ever sense CLD/TOTAL CLOSURE/APR JACKAGE So much for perfect credit history saving you from all things bad I remember the AMEX thing, but I didn't read this forum for more than a year, so were there other issuers as well or just them?

All I did was waste money with F.I.C.O. I had no baddies But paying off massive debt (0.00% BT's) didn't show a massive increase either (more down than up) But as with everything--->YMMV Some think it is better than SLICED BREAD (even if it doesn't move up or down) You could always sign up for a free trial of scorewatch and cancel after a month if you want to know what your EQ score is right now. That's what I just did. Like George, I am philosophically opposed to paying for something that I think should be free. Also, George, I was going to ask you in another thread if you've applied for anything lately or if you pretty much leave everything alone for long periods of time.

Oh, splendid.

I'm thinking that the 7.24% is the lowest APR I have. Doubt it will last in this climate, but it ain't bad.

"Don't ask, don't tell," but making up stories or lying will backfire almost always... some employers will even blacklist you and share their list with other employers. Doubt they'd risk a lawsuit doing something that stupid. If employers are afraid to tell the truth about a past employee, they're not going to "blacklist" someone with other employers and risk a lawsuit purely out of spite. "Clearly you are lying, sir, nobody is really a libertarian. Excuse me for a moment while I slander your good name."

That is a pretty large number, but he could claim that it was a mixup due to lottery winnings in 2000 or that he's a die-hard libertarian or something. If that were the only negative, it might not look so bad.

7500 as well...looks like the lunacy is over. I'm still going to use it as my primary because it occurs to me that I don't actually care about utilization. Monthly cashback is cool.

Amex used to hit me a coupla times a month and I thought it was crazy. I wonder what kind of data their computers actually receive and what the thresholds are for the siren to go off.

Wow, I've never seen a frequency that high. They must not pay per pull, or that would be a total waste, especially on a long zeroed account.