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ZipDebt Client Comment Forum (2007-2019)
This post is intended to provide a forum for ZipDebt clients to post comments about their experience with the program. Recently, I spoke to a person interested in my program, and they told me that they didn’t bother to read any of the testimonials on my site because “everybody fakes testimonials.” Well, that’s probably true…
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Debt Collection Madness in Massachusetts
The Boston Globe recently ran a scathing 4-part special report on abusive debt collection practices in Massachusetts. Part One, “No Mercy for Consumers” describes the tactics of two area collection agencies that purchase old delinquent debts and enforce collection by filing lawsuits in small claims courts. The preferred method of forcing payment is the repossession…
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Is the Collection Industry Good for the U.S. Economy?
The debt collection industry is good for the U.S. economy! I’ll bet you didn’t know that, right? This conclusion was reported recently in a study commissioned by ACA International, the trade organization for the collection industry. Surprisingly, there has been very little media attention about the report. Given the mountain of bad publicity that the…
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Buffalo Collection Industry in the Cross-Hairs
The Buffalo News has run two articles highly critical of the local debt collection industry. The first article, “Merchants of Debt,”focuses on the large collection industry presence in the area. Many of the complaints made by consumers about collectors are against firms located in Buffalo, which is a major hub of the collection industry. The…