Originally Posted by
ericdabbs
The best thing to do is not make any more charges on the card 3 days before the statement closes. Unless you have a lot of spare funds in BB or some other method that is not through the Amex online BP, I wouldn't try to risk it if your goal is to achieve $0 balance on your CC by statement close.
Thanks but my issue was just not checking due date yet. I never expected that my statement would cut only a week after I opened the acct. However, I did get caught on my other card that was opened the same day and closed the same day a week later. Luckily, it wasn't too much balance reported. Unfortunately, it was right at 10% utilization.
Can you explain your second statement though? I don't understand.