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LadyEllen -> RE: I just got a collection notice... (11/25/2008 5:09:54 AM)
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Well Ray, they are paid to be pricks IMO.
Take the dick I spoke to at a certain debt collection agency that kept sending letters to my address for a young lady (my last tenant) who moved out six years ago. That they are now time barred to get their payment didnt worry them - they rely on the ignorance of people to a huge extent.
But his real dickheadery came when I tried to explain she'd long since gone; whilst its nice that he thought I was her on the phone, he firstly refused to countenance the notion that I wasnt this woman, and kept asking for my name - which I refused to give following a similar experience in the past whereby my name having been given the bills for that other tenant started arriving in my name. This is where its good in the UK if you know a little something - one letter from my legal services department (my holding company, which can be anything it wants to be) and that stopped pretty damned quick.
Then he insisted I pay her bill, to which I said something to the effect of WTF? "your address will be listed as the location of the bad debt and you will be affected too". I told him to go ahead and issue his court proceedings - which he did. Again, knowing a little something helps - two letters, one to his managing director and one to the managing director of the creditor company explaining the error and proposing legal action should my address be blacklisted over this, and it stopped abruptly. And yes, I let them spend their money on issuing court notices and all that before writing!
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