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  • November 16, 2011 at 3:17 pm in reply to: Capital One Secured Card Graduating to Unsecured #2658
    Shizume
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    Here is the reply I got this time around…

    Quote:
    Capital One will periodically review accounts for graduation from

    secured to unsecured cards, but we cannot provide specifics on when

    these reviews will occur.

    November 15, 2011 at 11:53 pm in reply to: Orchard Secured Card #2630
    Shizume
    Participant

    Thanks, everyone.

    I’ll hold off on applying for any new credit cards, as I’ve been approved for an unsecured Capital One card, apparently. I don’t know what the limit is yet, I’m currently awaiting the card and additional information. I’ll post more once I get the details in hand, but needless to say that I’m pretty excited about this!!

    November 14, 2011 at 3:46 am in reply to: Capital One Secured Card Graduating to Unsecured #2654
    Shizume
    Participant

    That’s why this is sooo confusing. We’ve got employees telling one person one thing while other employees are telling other employees something else. Fontanaman, if you do call and ask, can you share your answer? I’ll be asking myself as well and then we can compare the responses we get.

    I’ve read the stories of those who had the card for years without it graduating, however, I was just told something different on Friday. Hopefully the policy has changed and I wasn’t just misinformed.

    I’ll post back when I get a response.

    November 7, 2011 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Hello everyone! #2613
    Shizume
    Participant

    Thank you. I’m happy to be here.

    November 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm in reply to: BOA Cash Rewards Secured Credit Card #2473
    Shizume
    Participant

    Hello to you as well and thank you for the welcome.

    I am trying to do a bit of both, as my credit history is limited and I also had a not so good run with my first credit card when I was 18. It was a Capital One unsecured card and it was my very first. Needless to say that I was inexperienced and didn’t handle it well at all. It was closed and eventually charged off but was dropped from my credit report at the beginning of this year.

    So I started over with the secured card in May, it didn’t start reporting/wasn’t officially opened until June. I’ve been following the reviews religiously and was so happy when I found this blog’s entry on the Capital One card. I was constantly coming back to read the comments and I still do so, but now I read the forums as well.

    I had to put down the full 200.00 for the deposit and I recently sent in an additional 200.00 to increase my limit to 400.00. I am currently waiting for my new balance to show on my account, which should happen by this Thursday. I plan on increasing my limit periodically.

    As for managing the account, I’ve educated myself now and try to spend as little as possible on it. There have been some emergencies and unexpected events that made me spend more than what I designated as my own personal limit but I always pay the balance in full. There was only one month that I couldn’t pay the balance in full, but I still made my payment, and thus I had to pay interest. I don’t plan on having that happen again.

    However, I’m thinking that I need another secured card to help me out since all the reports I’ve viewed keep telling me that A.) my account history is too short, B.) I have too little revolving accounts and C.) my credit limit is too low. I can’t risk shopping around and putting in applications because I don’t want any more inquiries on my report. In the meantime, I suppose I’ll increase my current limit when I can and keep paying it on time.

    My utilization is currently reporting at eleven percent, which makes me so happy, since it reported last time at eighty-three percent due to unexpected expenses popping up and me not being able to get the balance down in time.

    I have three collections on my report, totaling 126.00 and I know that is negatively impacting my score. I don’t really know how to handle collections, unfortunately. I could just pay them off, but would that make them be deleted from my report entirely? Can collection balances be transferred to a credit card? I don’t know much about how transferring balances works either. Obviously I still have much credit education to do.

    As for the collections, according to my Experian report, one should be dropping off the record next month and another in January of 2012. The last one won’t be falling off until December 2013. So do you have any advice for how to handle those pesky collections?

    They’re the only thing that is on my report, other than the secured card and once they’re gone, I can say goodbye to that “potentially negative” section of my credit report. And hopefully for good.

    Strange enough though, my Equifax report only shows one of the collections on it. The one it does show is the one that my Experian reports says will be on record until next month.

    Whew, sorry for being so long-winded. I don’t really have anyone to go to for credit advice, so I guess I wanted someone to share with. In closing, I’ll share my scores. I’ve checked all of my credit scores for this month and they’re reporting as follows:

    Transunion – 654

    Equifax – 621

    Experian – 614

    And they all put me in the D grade level. Naturally, I would like to improve them all and get as far away from the D as possible. But in my defense, I did start off in the F level, so that D isn’t looking too bad after all.

    November 6, 2011 at 7:45 am in reply to: BOA Cash Rewards Secured Credit Card #2471
    Shizume
    Participant

    Fontanaman: If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of deposit did you have to put down to receive the cash rewards secured card from Bank of America? The full 4000.00?

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