Hello all. So I thought I kind of figured out the building credit game, but apparently I’m wrong.
A couple months ago I opened a credit card with Capital One. It gave me a $10k limit, and I thought if we used 20-30% of that, it reflects really good for your score. So far I’m using about $300 of it and paying it off on time and all.
Well yesterday I got emails saying that my credit card usage went up and my available credit decreased, and my score dropped from around 780 to 726. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong, I thought opening up more accounts was good.
Before this, the only card I had was a TJ max credit card with a $2300 credit that I used around $150 of each month, and I closed it around the same time I opened the new one. There was a month that went buy were a payment of $0.00 was due, as I was using the rest of the rewards and whatnot.
Does anyone have any advice? Is a jump in credit like this normal? I personally do not like credit cards at all and prefer using my debit mostly, the only reason I’m getting these is to build my credit. Any advice is appreciated.
Opened up a credit card and am using less than 20% of credit, but my score dropped by a lot?
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