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Question by booradley: When you get your credit report online, can you pay the difference to get your credit score?
I know you can get it free in the mail or over the phone.
But online with Equifax or Transunion(Canada), when you buy the instant credit report for $ 15(or however much it is), after you view it, do you have the option to see your credit score as well for the 7 or 8 dollars more? Or do you have to pay the whole $ 23 again to see your credit score?
Best answer:
Answer by BungalowMo
Please don’t pay for the scores that come with those reports. All of those 3rd party credit report sites have (for the most part) correct account information. Who your creditors are, how old the acct is, are your payments up to date, etc.
BUT…each of these 3rd party sites also sell their own scores. Those scores mean nothing.
Here’s just one article that popped up when I googled FICO vs FAKO: http://credit.typepad.com/credit/2005/06/fico_vs_fako_sc.html
Education is the first step to becoming a credit guru. Do the homework & know that not all “scores” are created equal.
I have specifically chosen the FICO logo as my avatar. If you don’t see that logo, it’s not a real FICO. And lastly…Experian will not sell us consumers our FICO scores. They want you to believe their “Vantage” score actually counts for something. We all know better, tho…
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
CRIME Police logs Nov. 28 to Dec. 4
10:16 am A woman came to the police station to report a fraud. The victim stated that on Nov. 25 she had received multiple calls from someone claiming to work for a credit company. The caller stated that the company would reduce the victim's payments, …
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