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If you owe a company money and it is placed in collections can you pay the original company or do u have to pay the collection agencies?
You have to pay the collection agency. The original company has a signed contract with the collection agency and they pay the collection agency a % of what they collect from you. That's how they make their $$. The original company did not want to have the outstanding balance on their books.
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Can you use a debt consolidation company if the credit card companies have already sold your accounts to collection agencies?
Yes, but neither a collection agency nor the original creditor has any legal obligation to communicate or accept the terms offered by a debt consolidation agency.
Can I use my credit card after I pay off the collections agency?
No. Once it is sent to a collection agency the company has closed the credit card.
Can a 400 bill that is unpaid affect your credit report even if you make payment arrangements with the debt collector?
Yes, especially if the arrangement is with a debt collection agency and not the original company. That you're paying the bill is good, but the history of having trouble paying it and the bill going into collections will be reported on your credit history.
Does your credit score go up after you pay off outstanding debt?
Yes, but only if it is with the original creditor and not a collection company.
Who sent you to the collection agency?
I presume your question is "how did your debt wind-up at a collection agency". There are 2 methods: (1) the original creditor sold your account to an agency for a price that is a fraction of the outstanding balance on the account (so the collection agency now is your creditor legally), (2) the original creditor contracted with a collection agency to get you to make more payment on the debt than you have while interacting with the original creditor only. In either case, a collection agency is a company that makes a profit by getting debtors to make a payment of sufficiently greater amount (than they had been making to the original creditor) such that a greater return can be realized from this continued effort to collect the debt, and collection agencies usually are profitable companies. In my personal opinion, the first method (# 1 above) is used in the vast majority of delinquent debt collection situations. Any creditor organization of at least medium business size has enough staff to attempt to coax the debtor to make more payment, so there would be no reason to contract a collection agency to try again. That latter point being understood, collection agencies sometimes resell a debt account to another collection agency when they give-up on trying to get more payment from the debtor (and the account has not been settled).
What are some collections agencies?
Alternative Legal Services and Judgement Recovery, American Bonded collection, Armada Collection, and Audit Adjustement Company Inc. are some collection agencies.
Can collection agencies take you to the court?
Absolutely they can ! The only reason a person needs to deal with a collection agency, is because they defaulted on payments to the original company. That company passed the account to a debt-recovery agency, who paid the sum YOU owe to the original company. If you simply refuse to pay the collection agency, they have the legal right to take you to court to recover the debt !
What are some agencies?
Alternative Legal Services and Judgement Recovery, American Bonded collection, Armada Collection, and Audit Adjustement Company Inc. are some collection agencies.
Can a company that has placed you into collections call and remove the amount from collections?
Depends. If the debt (usually credit card) was sold then no. The original creditor will then have nothing to do with having the debt returned. Non-purchased debts can be returned to the creditor depending on the contract they have with the collection agency.
Do collection agencies have the right to collect payments since you never signed or agreed to a contract with that company?
Yes, they are contracted to collect on behalf of the original creditor and it's contracts with you.
How do debt collection agencies obtain work?
There are several ways that debt collection agencies obtain work. One way is when a subsidiary of the company that is owed the debt tries to collect the debt themselves. There are also third party agencies who are hired by a company to collect what is owed and the agencies are paid a fee for this service.
Can a gym send you to collections?
Any company, including a gym, can send a bill to collections if money is owed. If you pay the bill, the collection will be taken off your record.
What is the meaning of ready for collections?
"Ready for collections" means that a company has attempted to collect a debt from a customer without success and has now passed the account to a collections agency for further action. At this point, the collections agency will try to recover the debt on behalf of the original company.
If your credit cards are in collections do you have to report the name and address of the credit card company or the collection agency that has taken over the account when filing bk?
The new bankruptcy law requires that you list the original credit. However, I recommend reporting both. It doesn't cost you any extra money because the bankruptcy court mails out the notices and the harassing phone clals will stop sooner if you notify the collection agencies as well as the creditors.
Can you use a debt consolidation company if the credit card companies have already sold your accounts to collection agencies?
Yes, but neither a collection agency nor the original creditor has any legal obligation to communicate or accept the terms offered by a debt consolidation agency.
With whom can collection agencies discuss your payments?
Legally, only you and the company employing them, oh and the government.
Can a debt be erased if a phone company cannot find your information in their system and says the debt is in collections but collections say they sent it back to the original company?
That would be a decison that would need to be made by the court.
