I definitely will keep you guys in the loop!
Be patient though--it takes a bit to evaluate everything.
With the current possibilty, I did the cardholder agreements, W9, got my cards enrolled. Will need to sell some lines, see how their AU add process is, customer service is, posting, payment, etc. etc.
It won't be something that tomorrow I'll be on here saying "Yup, here we go"--it'll be a few weeks. I don't want to rush into a bad decision, as I'll be using the program, too, and wouldn't feel right recommending something that I wasn't at least somewhat confident in.
Luckily, nothing is changing with the old company until December, so keeping the cards enrolled with them in November makes sense anyways.
And it may make sense afterwards--there's a good chance I evaluate several options and decide that sticking with the current one is the best move. I don't know yet. But I am thoroughly exploring.
And I'm letting them know it. ;)
So many Mustachians enrolled led to less sales, but on the plus side represent a decent chunk of high tradelines, which is attractive for them, meaning possible negotiating room for us.
I sent this to several of them (slightly edited):
I'm looking at a number of factors: customer service, chance of cards getting shut down, number of tradelines sold each month, amount paid per tradeline, etc. etc. So far I've been very happy with [current company], but it would be a disservice to the people asking for a referral for me not to look into other options as well. Honestly, it's to my benefit to advise all the people already with [current company] to stay there, especially the higher limit ones, where I'm getting a higher commission. But I can't ethically tell people to stay with a different company--even if that company is paying me more--if it's to that person's disadvantage. I want to advise people to choose the better company for them, not the better company for me.
With that in mind, perhaps there could be some sort of "incentive" that's exclusively available to this group--a signup bonus after their first AU posts, a slightly higher commission schedule for the card holder, maybe custom quotes for higher end cards, etc.--something beneficial for them, not me, that would help tip the scales one way or the other. If you're not interested in something like that right now, because you want to keep everyone on the same thing, that's fine, too, I'll just be comparing whatever info I have for them, baseline or otherwise.
(Emphasis original--I wanted to make that clear when they were focusing more on "wooing" me than benefits to you guys.)
So who knows. I'll be choosing what I think is the best company, and I'll lay out why (and you all, of course, are free to decide for yourselves, or disagree, but I'll put all the information out there to make a choice), but if we can get a "perk" for Mustachians, too, that would be neat.
It may even be useful to have some cards enrolled with one, and some with another, to try and get sales from both (on the theory that too many cards with one program could overload it, and you can't know how many investors they have versus incoming orders, so hedging your bets is a good idea), but I'll lay all that as well. :)
But, like I said, a few weeks. It'll be as fast as I can, but some of it is waiting and evaluating how it goes. :)