Experian reported that there was a " hard '' credit inquiry from a credit card merchant processing company on XXXX XXXX, XXXX on my personal credit bureau report. That was not for me personally ; it was made in error. I contacted them directly, since they are a credit card merchant processing company, and I am the XXXX Financial Officer of our company, and we have been a client of theirs for over six years. What happened is that back last XXXX XXXX we requested a new Merchant ID for XXXX of our divisions, and I signed off on the applications ( as I always do ) as the XXXX of our company. 

After contacting them, and speaking with our client representative, and later with other staff of them, I found out that someone in their Underwriting Department made an inadvertent mistake, and ran my personal credit report, instead of running a XXXX & XXXX ( or something similar ) on our company. Since I am not an owner of our company, only an officer, they should not have had access to my social security number, and they should not have done a " hard credit '' inquiry on my personal credit report. And they understand that, and have apologized to me. But they did not contact, to the best of my knowledge, Experian, to clear up the matter. 

So, I sent a letter to Experian dated XXXX XXXX, XXXX, and I informed them of this matter, and I asked them to please remove that hard credit inquiry from my credit report. However, they sent me a copy of my credit report back, dated XXXX/XXXX/XXXX, and did not specifically say how they handled it, but it still showed up in the " hard credit inquiry '' section. Somewhere in their documentation they insist that they simply must report all companies that legitimately request a credit report, and it counts as a hard inquiry. And it does not appear to me that they have any intent to do anything about that, regardless of the circumstances. They did not reach out to the credit card merchant processing company, to the best of my knowledge, and thus the issue is probably " resolved '' in their minds, but certainly not in my mind. 
