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Jetblue?
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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1160 on: August 23, 2015, 12:20:49 AM »
Update: Citi lets you add AUs online without entering any DOB or nothing.

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1161 on: August 23, 2015, 01:40:29 AM »
Update: Citi lets you add AUs online without entering any DOB or nothing.
I think amex business cards don't ask for dob. Definitely not ssn. Maybe biz spg?
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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1162 on: August 23, 2015, 03:11:29 AM »
what happens if dont add dob and ssn for an au and a while later when i add it, amex doesnt like their credit? do they get kicked off as au?
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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1163 on: August 23, 2015, 12:43:59 PM »

What reason did you put?
I noticed some amex AUs pop up on my CR last week and disputed online (saying that they are AUs of accounts already on the CR.)  A week later it still says " being investigated."  How long does it take?

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1164 on: August 23, 2015, 01:36:48 PM »

I think amex business cards don't ask for dob. Definitely not ssn. Maybe biz spg?
Online or phone?

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« Reply #1165 on: August 23, 2015, 01:37:44 PM »
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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1166 on: August 23, 2015, 02:25:22 PM »
I tried to add a card to my amex biz account online and it says I need to call. Any way around?

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1167 on: August 23, 2015, 02:28:10 PM »
I tried to add a card to my amex biz account online and it says I need to call. Any way around?
Did you try chatting?

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1168 on: August 23, 2015, 02:30:07 PM »

Did you try chatting?
Figured it out. For some reason they were giving me small business card info. I got it now.

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1169 on: August 23, 2015, 05:35:38 PM »
Online or phone?
Definitely online, can probably push it off on the phone as well.
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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1170 on: August 23, 2015, 06:37:45 PM »
Definitely online, can probably push it off on the phone as well.
By phone I knew it's possible. Question was online, personal is impossible without DOB and SSN.

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1171 on: August 23, 2015, 06:38:22 PM »
By phone I knew it's possible. Question was online, personal is impossible without DOB and SSN.
Well it is possible for business.
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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1172 on: August 23, 2015, 06:45:45 PM »
Well it is possible for business.
Thank you. Will I need the info to set up online accounts? (Aka amex checkout... )

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1173 on: August 23, 2015, 06:48:26 PM »
Thank you. Will I need the info to set up online accounts? (Aka amex checkout... )
YMMV. Or a rep that'll do it for you.

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1174 on: August 23, 2015, 07:27:12 PM »

YMMV. Or a rep that'll do it for you.
Thanx

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« Reply #1175 on: August 23, 2015, 08:35:20 PM »
Thank you. Will I need the info to set up online accounts? (Aka amex checkout... )
Very YMMV. I had lots of issues when they didn't add all the information to each card. Cards with all the info added right away.
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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1176 on: August 23, 2015, 10:49:12 PM »
Figured it out. For some reason they were giving me small business card info. I got it now.
I had same thing. How did you activate online without providing ssn and dob?

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« Reply #1177 on: August 23, 2015, 10:59:51 PM »
I had same thing. How did you activate online without providing ssn and dob?
From past experience I don't think you can. Do it over the phone or leave them unactivated. Cards work 

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Re: Authorized users
« Reply #1178 on: August 24, 2015, 12:25:46 PM »
I just dug down into my Experian Report, and for open Amex cards, I am an AU on 8 cards.  On my wife's Amex account, I am an AU on 2 personal and 3 business cards. On my Amex account I am an AU on 2 personal and 3 business, although the AU on 1 personal is from a few days ago. Regardless of how it works, I am an AU more than 1 time and more than 1 card, but it is not showing up a crazy amount of times. So it might show on your report, but not more than 1x per card account.

Want to clarify this.  Is this still correct that if I add myself 10 times on the same card as an authorized user, with my social, it will only show up once on my credit report?

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« Reply #1179 on: August 24, 2015, 12:34:55 PM »
Also want to clarify how I remove secondary users (under my own name) from my Amex account, and that doing this will remove it from my credit report completely, as if I didn't get this new card at all.