About once every three years I check our credit report from the 3 major companies. I pay $29+ for the three reports, and never get them free. I was looking at our credit card the other day and noticed a $14.95 charge every month for the last five months.
It seems that the small print says that they will bill you $14.95 a month every month unless you opt out when you get a Free Credit Report. (Which I didn't even get.)
The girl I talked to actually ended up hanging up on me after refusing to credit my account, so I have a protest coming from MC. My niece had the same thing happen, but the girl at the credit card company gave her a credit immediately.
My point of this post is to tell you to be careful and check your card bills. I am extra careful to not get taken advantage of, but they did.
About once every three years I check our credit report from the 3 major companies. I pay $29+ for the three reports, and never get them free. I was looking at our credit card the other day and noticed a $14.95 charge every month for the last five months.
It seems that the small print says that they will bill you $14.95 a month every month unless you opt out when you get a Free Credit Report. (Which I didn't even get.)
The girl I talked to actually ended up hanging up on me after refusing to credit my account, so I have a protest coming from MC. My niece had the same thing happen, but the girl at the credit card company gave her a credit immediately.
My point of this post is to tell you to be careful and check your card bills. I am extra careful to not get taken advantage of, but they did.
I payed for one and got 3 months but I did opt out so it didn't continue. I actually marked on my calendar when to opt out. It is a scam but I knew that going in. Very deceptive.
This is the only site per the feds that is free. I can attest first hand for the past 3 years I have pulled my reports free from each of the three major reporting companies using this site:
The only time I paid anything was when I wanted to see my credit score, which is not provided under the law for free. It cost me about $9, but all the rest of the basic reporting was in fact free. You only get it free once every 12 months.
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In my opinion, all of the "Free Credit Report" offers are scams (tricks, schemes, or devices) to steal money using misleading advertising. These companies should be prosecuted for theft.
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It's pretty simple. if you keep getting credit card offers regularly your credit is good. If not you have something to be concerned about. Instead on spending 14.95 a month you wil need to buy a schredder though. There is supposed to be a way to opt out of the mailings but All my attempts have not succeded.
In addition to the above you can get a free credit score from a place called www.quizzle.com I heard about this on a radio show called Clark Howard check out his website he will help you out to...SAM
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Contacting the credit reporting agencies and places you do business with, phone, credit cards, loans, etc requesting to opt out of any sharing of info in addition to an unlisted phone number will dramatically reduce the junk mail and phone call solicitations you get. The opt out is free, and unpublished phone numbers do cost and those rates vary from LEC to LEC (local exchange carrier).
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Got mine free also. Didn't go for the score because I took the time to read the small print where it told you there would be a monthly charge until you canceled.
Last edited by CanoeStream; 02-16-2009 at 07:21 AM.
Reason: be nice
Not sure if Experian is still doing this .... Experian was selling credit scores when people were requesting them after a solicitation by Experian. The scores from Experian were "consumer" scores and not scores that were being used by any industry making credit decisions. The Experian "consumer" credit scores tended to be 5 to 30 points higher than the scores the banking industry would get when they ran credit. So a consumer thought they had a higher score and it wasn't really fact. Experian did supply a disclosure statement about what the consumer was getting. However few people ever read it before having the credit score pulled.
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This is the only site per the feds that is free. I can attest first hand for the past 3 years I have pulled my reports free from each of the three major reporting companies using this site:
The only time I paid anything was when I wanted to see my credit score, which is not provided under the law for free. It cost me about $9, but all the rest of the basic reporting was in fact free. You only get it free once every 12 months.
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