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Do Too Many Credit Cards Hold Back Your Credit Score?

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Published on June 17th, 2011 03:45 PM

CNN Q&A about too many credit cards.
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Dirty Credit Card Secrets

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Published on April 8th, 2011 07:15 PM

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Credit Card Act: The Fine Print
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Published on April 8th, 2011 06:02 PM
Bloomberg video discussing a few of the details of the Credit Card Act.

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Definitely wait at least until all accounts have aged six months or more. You could get a denial along the lines of... "Too many new accounts opened

Re: Amex zync?
Joeyman February 6th, 2012, 11:28 AM

My guess is because I opened 3 out of 4 accounts in the past 12 months, and I had balances on most of them.
My utilization at that point was around

Re: Amex zync?
kwil142 February 6th, 2012, 08:36 AM

Assuming you're young and your first credit card was opened 7/10, what had caused your scores to stay below 700? What is your current total utilization?

Re: Amex zync?
Joeyman February 6th, 2012, 12:07 AM

I really want to get my foot in the door with AMEX. So I've read that Zync appears to be the easiest to get.
I currently have 4 Credit Cards (Citi

Amex zync?
kwil142 February 5th, 2012, 11:39 PM

At least I know from my experiences when I was in my twenties and not so responsible about credit, sometimes after a few years have passed, some former

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