Posted on 10/14/2012 12:27:35 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Edited on 10/14/2012 12:30:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A debt collector, angered that a disabled US Army veteran was living off of disability payments, told him he
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Too bad our enemies aren’t limited to Russia, China, the Islamic world and North Korea. Those comments could’ve easily been written by millions of people in this country and I’m not so sure the first one wasn’t. Remember: The Internet is everywhere. Just because the site is called “Russia Today” doesn’t mean everyone there is Russian...
My son who does not live with me owed on student loans.... I was being harassed by a debt collector for weeks....
I finally solved the problem....
1. Before you talk to them ask for a name and call back number in case you get disconnected...
2. Explain you do not owe the debt and I need to be taken off your call list
3. If they can’t or won’t ask to speak to a supervisor...
4. Keep going up the ladder until you get the person with the authority to remove your name from their call list... Remember at every level get a name and all back number with extension
5. When you finally get the manager with the ability to remove your name and won’t simply explain that for every time I get a call I will personally call your extension and harass you every hour on the hour...until you do...
Never failed to work... I promise them they will rue the day they don’t take me off the call list....
I've had several Freepers in the past try to explain that certain things are 'so' contrary to logic, law AND reason.
Sometimes being ornery can be a good thing. :-)
Vets who are 100% disabled don’t need student loans. They can go to school on the VA’s dollar. So I’m guessing it was before he went into the army.
Sounds like the debt collector graduated from the ‘Biden School of Jerkdom’...
The comments below the article are more disturbing than the article.
It's articles like these that my wife refuses to read Free Republic. I can't show this to her. Our night would be ruined. She just doesn't/can't get over sh!!te like this. It takes her days. She would be in tears.
Me? I'm so frickin mad that I'm shaking! I swear that my blood pressure is through the roof right now.
Russia today?
The comments below the article are disgusting.
Yes, if they’re service-connected veterans. I went to college on VA vocational rehabilitation as only 10% (at that time) but usually it’s 20% or more. The article is leading us to believe that the veteran is on SSDI, not VA disability, where in reality he’s probably on both and the reporter either knows nothing about the VA or didn’t bother/didn’t know enough to inquire about the other program. Most journalists have trouble spelling “military” and have no first-hand experience with it.
Plus, IIRC, serving in the military absolves your student loans, though I don’t recall what the formula is.
You can sue them for $1000 per incident after the first call if you’ve told them to cease and desist. I have done so in the past and it works like a charm. FReepmail me if you want the link to the law firm I used.
I tried most of what you listed twice and it had no effect; they actually started calling more. What did work was telling them I used my contacts in the FBI to get a trace on their location and I knew who leased the space in the building they were calling from. That got their attention and presto - no more calls.
I sat on the phone with them for hours as they closed all of the online account information and made new accounts. Each and every time, an email would go out with updated account info.....thankfully I was cc'd on the email or I wouldn't have known. This happened over the span of a week and all the techs could tell me is some, one, ? of their servers might not have the updates to the account processed.
Enough was enough, I finally spoke to a supervisor to have the account closed and early cancellation (for three lines) waived. I was informed that this was a "non-waiver event." I asked him if violating the Privacy Act of 1974, you know federal law, wasn't enough then what was? Well, they agreed to cancel the account and waive all the fees.
Except I had $90 in credit on the account; the check was in the mail (supposedly). Verizon's internal collections began to call and harass me for the early cancellation fees (apparently yet again their servers didn't update) even though they owed me money. I asked nicely for them to stop calling me and provide me my refund. Each conversation ending up being 1 1/2 hrs+ as I talked to "supervisors" trying to "fix" the problem.
Finally, I had enough. I got the number to the collections department (gotta love caller id) and I began to call them repeatedly throughout the day. As I also had the normal customer service numbers and several supervisors' desk numbers, I took the liberty of calling them and asking "where's the money?" I also made sure to tell them that I was a happy Sprint customer.
It took two days, but I got a call from two different (customer service and one from collections) supervisors apologizing and the tracking number for my check.
Any person with such low regard for those that sacrifice, often all, on their worthless behalf is not worthy of any mercy.
What was the official and unofficial treatment given the Loyalist Tories following the Revolution? That is how today’s liberals should be handled today.
As I understand it, student loans are forgiven when one receives disability.
It worked that way for me.
I didn’t know it was Russia Today. The Moderator filled in that bit of information for us after I posted it. I simply posted it as an article from the mysterious source rt.com, because that’s all I could find out about their identity.
I know one thing, I’ll never post anything from them again! Freeper comments have convinced me there are a lot of fishy things about this story. I now even doubt the story is true and wish I hadn’t posted it. Reading it now, it reads as an unfounded hit piece on the collection industry as a whole which, of course, is needed in any free market capitalist society.
There’s an audio out of a guy who always answers these calls by saying that the person they are trying to reach has just been killed and that he is a member of the local police and needs to know how the caller knows the decedent and all of his contact info so that they can send a member of the local police where the telemarketer lives to interview him. It’s a riot!
My family has letters and other records from my Great-great-great-great-great-great (I think that's the correct number of 'greats') grandfather and his sons. They fought for Washington and stayed on after the British surrender at Yorktown, to hunt down and apprehend Tories.
One letter I read clearly indicated that many Tories were summarily executed, hanged, by their pursuers when caught.
IMO, we never should have allowed them to find sanctuary in Canada, but I understand Washington not wanting to fight another war in Canada after just barely, and luckily, winning the most important one to the south. One in the hand is worth two in the bush.
How fantastic to have letters of one’s history during the Revolution!
If R2 were forced upon us, I would suspect the “loyalists” could expect the same treatment.
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