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$\"Gravatar\"$ wow...it's like I'm friends with Ralph Nader. Go get 'em, B!
amandakins | 05.21.09 - 11:56 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I was just going to say something similar. Someone fucks with Bethany, she gets all righteous on their ass -- with documentation! Me, I usually just sort of take my lumps until tears of bitter outrage are wellin' up inside. Then I'm apt to speak with cutting sarcasm and explosive exasperation to a haplesss clerk*, a fruitless endeavor if ever there was one.

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* Having been a hapless clerk myself, I generally make it clear that I understand them to be personally blameless.
Daniel | 05.22.09 - 11:30 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Oh, I may have also sent a brief note to some of their customers, too, namely: The City of Garland, Texas DPS, and The City of Austin.
Bethany | Homepage | 05.22.09 - 11:48 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Municipal Svcs Bureau is being sued. Their real name is Gila Corp. The court filings in the lawsuit are public record, and can be found here:

http://tccweb.co.travis.tx.us/in...=387362&t=CIVIL

or here:

http://tinyurl.com/nqq3j5

On page 23 of the PDF linked to above is an agreed order that resulted from an investigation by the Attorney General's office for similar hijinks by these guys years ago.

Here is the Texas Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division site:

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consu...mer/index.shtml
Anon | 06.25.09 - 4:27 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Miss Know-it-all,

The FDCPA doesn't apply to court collection, since they aren't collecting credit debt, they're collecting on outstanding legal matters (tickets, court fees, etc).

You can't just tell them to quit calling just because you don't want to be bothered. Per FDCPA (which they're not legally obligated to follow) a debt collector can make contact with a debtor once per 24 hour period. You claim you're getting multiple phone calls a day, but if you're not answering, there's no contact.

I'm pretty sure that the ticket you're being called about does in fact belong to you, otherwise you wouldn't be so hell bent on fighting it.

And even if they have made a mistake in calling you, suck it up and do what FDCPA requires you to do to have them cease contact. Since you know FDCPA so well, I'm sure you know that you must send a written request that contact stops. Even though court/legal collectors aren't obligated to follow FDCPA guidelines, I'm pretty sure that once recieving written request to cease contact, they'll stop.

So please, Miss Know-it-all, quit being such a drama queen and get a life.

signed,

a person who's sick of dead beat whining babies complaining about collection companies.
Anonymous | 07.22.09 - 1:54 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Actually, it didn't. We got a call back from the company president later, who apologized profusely.

Our number apparently belonged to someone else before we got it.

How's about an apology?
Bethany | Homepage | 07.22.09 - 2:14 pm | #

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