Flowchart: How To Save Money On Credit Scores

February 8, 2011 By Jonathan Ping 6 Comments
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I’ve written several posts on credit scores, credit reports, and how to minimize your spending on them. While there are times when you might just have to plunk down your hard-earned money on a credit score, most of them time you can avoid it.

Here’s a flowchart that I just whipped up that will help guide you to what you need. No matter what, you’ll pay less than retail. Anything blue is a click-able link to more guidance and information.

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Last updated: October 15, 2011
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  1. Andy says
    February 8, 2011 at 6:05 am

    Excellent flow charting skills!

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  2. swc says
    February 8, 2011 at 9:06 am

    Why do you still say it’s an estimate from Credit Karma.
    It was estimate (and have a different scale) at the beginning, but it was changed a long time ago to use a score directly from TransUnion.

    is the TransRisk from TransUnion not the credit score?

    http://www.creditkarma.com/about/faq#scoredifferences

    The TransRisk score is calculated by TransUnion using their proprietary scoring model and is the original credit score provided on Credit Karma.

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  3. Jonathan says
    February 8, 2011 at 11:21 am

    Very few lenders actually use the TransRisk score to determine your creditworthiness, the predominant one is the proprietary formula by FICO. Anyone can make a credit “score”, but if the number is different than the one that a lender uses, what’s the point? Since the difference is anywhere from 0 to 50 points, I call it an estimate. More here:

    https://www.mymoneyblog.com/credit-reports-credit-scores-fico-fako-explained.html

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  4. David says
    February 8, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    Looks like you have a copycat…

    (link removed by Jonathan to limit publicity to said copycat)

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  5. Jonathan says
    February 8, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    @David – Haha, it looks like you’re right. Kind of funny, he had to retype out everything manually since I had mine as an image map.

    I had to remove the link, why give the dude more traffic. You should comment on his blog instead to show you noticed. 🙂

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  6. Jon says
    February 9, 2011 at 10:25 am

    Wonderful flow chart. Been looking for something like this for years haha. i have personally used KreditKarma and really like it. i did notice a bump down on my score due to opening new credit cards. Hopefully this goes back up soon. Good post Jonathan.

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