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Age: 49
Sign: Sagittarius

City: BRENTWOOD
State: Tennessee
Country: US
Signup Date: 5/12/2006

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 
A collector's job is not to help your overall situation. They are out to get your money only – whatever it takes. Credit card collectors are NOT your friends. Think I'm lying?

One day Connie in Nashville called me on the radio. She was 3 months behind on her credit card payments and being threatened by some collectors. They said they were going to take her house away if she didn't pay her debt off immediately.

Well, I'm here to tell you that these collectors are SCUM! They lie and break federal law on a daily basis. I've worked in this business for 17 years, and I've never seen a credit card company sue someone or garnish the wages of someone who is 3 months behind on payments. If they are going to take a lien against your house or other action, they have to sue you first, win, and get a judgment against you. They don't do that to people who are 3 months behind. It's a total bluff by some idiot in a cubicle 500 miles away.

Listen to the call from Connie and read the rest of this post

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John the Viking, Coming Soon to Africa!
John Daly

 
All of those collectors are scumbags, agreed. However, isn't somebody who borrows money and won't pay it back also a scumbag?

I can't imagine why anybody would want to do what collectors do for a living, but keep in mind that that's exactly what they're doing- trying to make a living. If you legitimately owe money then there's absolutely no excuse why you shouldn't pay it back, but I agree that it is certainly the course of a scumbag to unreasonably pester people about it.

I've had roommates run out on me owing me lots of money, so I know what it feels like to be owed money. All I'm trying to say is that you should make certain that you're paying on time before you dare call anybody a scumbag that you legitimately owe money to.
 
Posted by John the Viking, Coming Soon to Africa! on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:40 PM
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