April 23rd, 2009 by Alec

Ted xxxstein & Collections Lawsuits

With the economy in, well lets just say ’serious decline,’ All SMB owners, including myself, have turned to debt collectors to try and recoup money from some of our NPC’s (non-paying clients). However, I’ve been alerted to a common trend in debt collection which is really, REALLY terrible. Apparently debt collection companies and credit card companies alike are going after people, who may have paid their debts, but can’t prove it. This has led to a rise in collection lawsuits.

Now, I hadn’t paid much attention to this topic, nor did I know that this was a serious issue. However, I added another telephone line a few weeks ago (now I think we’re over 8… oy) and I’ve been getting calls for Tex xxxstein, who apparently had the number before me. Okay, the guy could have been a deadbeat… after all, he doesn’t have the telephone line anymore, it’d make sense.

A few days ago I began receiving very aggressive collection calls on another one of my telephone lines for a woman with a foreign name (undoubetdly the previous owner of that phone number). Okay, thats fine, it happens, nothing suspicious…. I thought. Now, today, on a third line, I began receiving calls for another random person! This has to be a pattern.

If old, paid, debtors are going after innocent payees for satisfied debts, I absolutely understand why lawsuits against bill-collectors are on the rise. This is predatory, unjustified, and unethical. Worse, its turning big-companies and their army of bill-collector drone against the general public. I called off my collections-dogs today, and I’ll be sending very polite letters to my NPC’s tomorrow in an attempt to arrange a plan with them that they can afford.