And as you might have guessed by now, this would lower the average length of your credit history,
thus damaging your credit score.
Not exact matches
Pre-approvals and pre-qualifications won't be reflected in
credit reports and
thus won't
damage credit score.
The long - term effect of a closed / $ 0 balance card is that
damage can be done to your
score when the account is eventually removed from your
credit report and
thus excluded from your
score after about 10 years.
Thus, this lessens the
damage to your
score from having several
credit checks.