Why does credit scoring differ from two or more different websites?
Thursday, March 4th, 2010I have two credit cards both have membership services. Both report to all three credit agencies. And both offer the service of credit watch, with score watch. Why do the scores not match, I understand the the three reporting credit agencies will be different, but shouldn’t the info reported be consistant from one wedsite to another. If yes how reliabel are anyone scores who really can give a real reported score. I also understand that the FICO system is only used by Equifax, what are that two other systems?
The three are:
Empirica Score from Transunion
Beacon Score from Equifax
Fair Isaac Score from Experian
the closest you can for accuracy is a trimerge report from a lender or another company that regularly needs to pull credit for loan purposes.
If you are looking for the free credit report and score national site, check out this site
http://Free-Credit-Score-National.com/
Here you can check your 3-in-1 Report from all three credit reporting agencies and your credit score rating for free, fast and secure.
Hope this help,
The scores do not match because not all creditors submit to all three agencies.
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