As long as we're off-topic lately:
Any thoughts or comments regarding how the credit bureaus will deal with th is Coronavirus pandemic. Does anybody here believe strongly that those cre dit scoring models are really up to the task?
My own FICO-9 just score dropped 6 points, at a time where if anything, it should have gone UP. I just made the last payment on a personal loan (take n out specifically to see if I could bump the score, as I don't really use a lot of credit at this stage in life.) And, I paid down the balance on my two credit cards (which, typically don't carry much of a balance anyway, b ut I wanted to get them near zero to see what effect it has on FICO.) Answ er appears to be "none", BTW.
More importantly, I still have my job, so I'm still accruing cash via paych eck direct deposit (not sure bank account balances figures into FICO?). Un like a lot of folks out there, I'm not dipping into reserves in order to su rvive.
I'm starting think this whole FICO-9 credit score scheme might be a bit of a scam? Maybe not in the "big picture" way..., but I wonder what the equat ions are? My score hovers in the 780-800 range.
And why keep the models secret? I mean, if FICO was worried about people g aming the model, then they should fix the model, right? Or is it secret ju st so they can sell it to banks and companies extending credit to customers ? And BTW, I realize there are lots and lots of scores by various companie s, and used for different purposes, and that FICO-9 is but one of them.
Anybody know the equations for FICO-9 scoring? :)