<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">><br>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:34 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:<br>>> Waaaay OT, but the fact that you max'ed the card is not the dinger on
<br>>> your credit score. It's whether you *carried* that max for any period.<br>>> If your history showed that balance for the six months, then *that*<br>>> would hurt.<br>><br>> I think it's sort of potluck. Credit reporting is so sloppy that I
<br>> often see data that's way out of date reported as current, not to<br>> mention plain old typos. (One of the bureaus has five different<br>> spellings of my name on file.) It could easily appear to have stayed
<br>> for six months even if I paid it off sooner than that.<br><br> Some banks will file duplicate negative reports for a card that has<br>been lost or stolen so the same negative information shows up n+1 times<br>on your credit report. Needless to say I won't deal with that bank anymore.
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<div><br>You won't see me complaining about posts here much... but sheesh!!!</div>
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<div>Credit scores?</div>