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Old Apr 13, 2021 | 6:01 pm
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Originally Posted by AAdamE
I changed checking accounts and accidentally paid with my old acct number so it bounced. Went to pay the following month, and account was shut down at this point it was 32 days past due. Was offered to do a hard pull to reopen - was told my Fico of 705 was not good enough (mind you this was like an AMEX everyday starter card). Lost out on 12k MR points - but wasn't really savy about points back then. Since it was the lowest interest rate of any of my cards, I paid it off slowly and when it was at a 0 I was still blacklisted and got them to manually underwrite my Platinum app and they unblacklisted me.
Really surprised Am Ex would close an account oer that seeing your high fico score and only being one month. It has to happen a lot with people forgetting to update bank accounts.

I had a Dillards account years ago and they didn't have a payment option back then and I used a banks bill pay service back when you had to enter the mailing address and Dillard's changed their lockbox and I missed a payment and they not only didn't close the account they waived the interest and late fees since I paid it in full every month.
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