I went to Experian's website today to learn my FICO credit score. I usually just get my credit score from Credit Karma, but as we all know they don't give you the FICO score but some other credit score that isn't as commonly used. They also don't tell you your Experian score at all. So I decided to go to Experian directly to get my FICO score. On the website they said I could get my FICO score for only 1 dollar. Well to make a short story even shorter, as I was signing up to get my score, I noticed that the 1 dollar fee they were advertising seemed to offer a whole lot of benefits. Way more benefits than what you would normally expect for just paying 1 dollar. So I decided to look up this service on Google and see if this was some kind of scam and you won't believe this, it was scam. Experian advertises a 1 dollar fee to get your FICO score, but then they secretly sign you up for recurring payments of $27 a month for their stupid credit monitoring service.
I, of course, didn't give them any credit card information or anything like that once I learned about the scam, but I am angry about this. Why do we let these companies do whatever they want? It's bad enough that this company, that I have never interacted with personally before today, is somehow allowed to keep a file on me and give me score that will affect everything from my ability to buy a car or rent an apartment, but I have to pay to get this life altering score and when I try to pay they still try and screw me over.
I think Bernie Sanders is OK as person, but I think most of policies are either doomed to failure or just bad ideas. But you know what? If he is president I think he will reign in these fucking financial companies. The banks. The credit card companies. The credit score companies. They will all get what is coming to them if Bernie Sanders wins the nomination and election. I honestly believe that and it is the only reason why I want for him to win.
I, of course, didn't give them any credit card information or anything like that once I learned about the scam, but I am angry about this. Why do we let these companies do whatever they want? It's bad enough that this company, that I have never interacted with personally before today, is somehow allowed to keep a file on me and give me score that will affect everything from my ability to buy a car or rent an apartment, but I have to pay to get this life altering score and when I try to pay they still try and screw me over.
I think Bernie Sanders is OK as person, but I think most of policies are either doomed to failure or just bad ideas. But you know what? If he is president I think he will reign in these fucking financial companies. The banks. The credit card companies. The credit score companies. They will all get what is coming to them if Bernie Sanders wins the nomination and election. I honestly believe that and it is the only reason why I want for him to win.