Me 3. C* on 6/20. I just started getting b* too. At least I got a few to fall off.

Showed 120 softs on 6/21 and 59 softs today.

I pulled my full Equifax report yesterday (6/22) using CWG and all my soft inquiries still show up, I have about 103 of them.

Guess it all depends on how many softs you have to start with and how good you are about sticking to 24+1. I started getting b* above 110 softs. Since I am down to mid 50's after c*, 3 services should do for me.

EDIT: Looks like c* went from 50 days to 30 days

Pulled my 6/23 report and all my softs are still showing. Up to 106 now. Hope I don't get chopped.

I used the privacy matters 7 day trial in the last week of April and then started using TrueCredit on 6/17 and all those soft hits still show up. My report from today (6/23) shows:

TrueCredit/PRIVACY MATTERS 123 04/21/08
TrueCredit/VERTRUE 04/25/08, 04/24/08, 04/23/08, 04/22/08, 04/20/08
TRUELINK 06/23/08, 06/21/08, 06/20/08, 06/18/08, 06/17/08
TRUELINK 06/18/08

FYI

TU bumpage dead - old bumped inquiries reappear 7/2/2008

tuffghost said:Pulled my 6/23 report and all my softs are still showing. Up to 106 now. Hope I don't get chopped.

I used the privacy matters 7 day trial in the last week of April and then started using TrueCredit on 6/17 and all those soft hits still show up. My report from today (6/23) shows:

TrueCredit/PRIVACY MATTERS 123 04/21/08
TrueCredit/VERTRUE 04/25/08, 04/24/08, 04/23/08, 04/22/08, 04/20/08
TRUELINK 06/23/08, 06/21/08, 06/20/08, 06/18/08, 06/17/08
TRUELINK 06/18/08

Thought I would post an update to my effort to bump my 22 hard inquiries from EQ. I have been pulling for nearly a month now, now up to using 5 services daily: Keybank My Privacy Matters, Chase ID Protect, EQ Credit Watch Gold, True Credit, and Credit Secure. Using CWG I have been able to pull my full EQ report and see my soft hits every day. The soft hits have all successfully stacked up for all 5 services and I haven't yet gotten any c*.

On 6/23 I reported having 106 soft hits. Now I am up to 181 softs on my latest 7/13 report. I kept pulling and waiting and was beginning to think I would never get bumpage but finally on 7/9 my 163rd soft hit bumped off my oldest hard inquiry. Now I am down to 9 hards remaining. Here is the timeline of how the hards have dropped off:

Date - # softs / # hards
7/7 - 153 / 22
7/8 - 158 / 22
7/9 - 163 / 21
7/10 - 169 / 16
7/11 - 174 / 12
7/13 - 181 / 9

The hard inquirys are dropping off oldest first, except for 2 of them which were skipped. These were both mortgage inquirys. I remember someone else mentioned earlier in this thread, they couldn't bump mortgage inquirys from EQ. Could these inquirys be stored in a separate "bucket" so its not part of the same queue that the other inquirys are stored in?

I also wonder why I needed so many soft hits - 163 in order to get b* when so many others reported only needing from 120-150 and in a few cases under 100. Could it be that certain types of soft inquirys are also counted in a separate bucket from that of the hard inquirys that we are bumping. I know I already had a high number of account reviews (about 50) before I started pulling daily, more than compared to some others I've seen before. Many of my ARs stack up on my report and do not re-date themselves like other people have reported. Maybe the ARs aren't counted?

Rorer714 said:Got hit again (C*) on 7/16.Tuffghost...I'm very pleased to see your hards going away from Equif@x (163 pulls! damn!)...in light of Rorer714's post, I'm curious to know if you have recent choppage?

per my 7/18 EQ credit file:

TRUELINK 07/17/08, 07/16/08, 07/15/08, 07/14/08, 07/13/08, 07/12/08, 07/09/08, 07/08/08, 07/07/08, 07/05/08, 07/03/08, 07/02/08, 07/01/08, 06/30/08, 06/28/08, 06/27/08, 06/26/08, 06/25/08, 06/24/08, 06/23/08, 06/21/08, 05/31/08, 04/30/08

last choppage for my credit file

edit: added my experience regarding choppage.

RobInBoston said:sry for the ignorance but this is all a foreign language to me. any link to explain these terms?bumpage and choppage defined

choppage again on 07/16 ... this confirms to me that choppage now occurs every 30 days. I may quit trying to b* since there is no way to do it now w/ only 3 services. You will need at least 4-5 services pulling daily within those 30 days to get the required b* on Equifax.

I have 18 TU, 12 EXP and 10 EQ inquiries. Most of these will drop off the end of February as 2 years will have elapsed. Is it worth it, or even possible to try to B* these off?