| How long before... How long will it be before some greedy company starts billing people for NOT choosing their service? And if I get such a bill, and ignore it, how long before same greedy company puts collection info on my credit report for not paying a bill for not choosing a service?
If practices such as this are allowed what is to stop Dell from sending me a bill because I chose instead to buy at Mac? Granted, most businesses don't have the complex service agreements that ISPs have adopted, but given the trend... what's to stop these practices from expanding beyond the ridiculous? |
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| If they have your SS#, they will do whatever. If they don't they can't really do that. |
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| Oh you would think so. Me & dad both have bad checks that were sent to collection agencies on our credit reports. The places listed we've never wrote checks to and never given our SSN to. |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | reply to jus_wonderin
said by jus_wonderin :How long will it be before some greedy company starts billing people for NOT choosing their service? And if I get such a bill, and ignore it, how long before same greedy company puts collection info on my credit report for not paying a bill for not choosing a service? I've received "bills" for things that I have never ordered or requested. Often they are for magazines and used as a ploy to attract new subscriptions. I mean, if you got a bill, you obviously need to pay it...
It's deceptive. And may be against the law. Or it may not. Or some grey area in between. But it definitely does happen. |
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I had something like that happen to me in the past. Actually, I had Comcast trying to collect from me in a town that I had never lived in. I had to show THEM proof that I never lived at the address or they were going to send it to collections. Weird world we live in when that's how things work. |
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said by jjeffeory:If they have your SS#, they will do whatever. If they don't they can't really do that.
Not true. Back about 17 years ago, I got a letter from a collection agency informing me that I owed Columbia House around $80 for CD's I never paid for, despite the fact that I wasn't a member of their CD club. After a couple of phone calls, I determined that what happened was that I'd moved, and the new tenant at my old apartment had gotten a mailing from them addressed to me and decided to send it in and simply not pay for the discs when they arrived. So, after a while, it ended up in collections. Clearing it up wasn't difficult (one call to the collection agency and a call to a number at Columbia House that they gave me, telling them that I hadn't lived at that address for almost a year), but obviously, Columbia House never had my SSN, yet they sent the bill to collections anyway.
From then on, anything I get like this goes into the shredder. It wouldn't have helped in that case, but I do what I can. |
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