Re: How Much Is A Credit Score (FICO) Worth?

On Sat, 17 May 2008 22:16:35 -0500, "Default User"
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>Elizabeth Richardson wrote:
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>> "Default User" <defaultuserbr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > You don't have to have a loan to have a FICO. I didn't have anything
>> > but credit cards up until I bought a house, and I certainly had a
>> > FICO.
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>> In what way is a having and using a credit card not a loan?
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>You call that a loan? That's not any definition of a loan I ever heard
>of.
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>Brian


Come on now.  You're posting in this group and don't know that you are
borrowing money from a credit card company when you buy something
using a credit card?  You don't think that's a loan?  What do you call
it when someone else pays your bill and you have to pay them back that
money?
Thumper

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