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Increase Your Credit Score Quickly With the Shopping Cart Trick
“After reviewing your credit history, we regret to inform you…”
If you have fair or poor credit, you probably recognize these words. They’re basically a polite way of saying, “Sorry, your credit sucks. We don’t give people like you credit cards.”
I don’t know about you, but I feel frustrated, discouraged, and sometimes a little embarrassed whenever I have a credit application rejected. And trust me, I’ve had plenty of them rejected. My credit used to be awful, even after repaying some of my debts. I couldn’t get anyone to give me a credit card — not even a freaking secured card — until I discovered the shopping cart trick.
Almost everyone gets approved using the shopping cart trick. I tell you this from personal experience (more about that later), and I’m confident that most people can get a credit card using this simple trick. Yes, even if your FICO is below average or you have bad credit due to student loans or collections.
The shopping cart trick helped me rebuild my credit after a bankruptcy, but you can also use it to establish credit. I raised my FICO from 434 to 590 in less than a year, and it’s partly because of the shopping cart trick.
