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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago
[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Did you read my comment? I tried and they threatened to send me to collections.

But that same person couldn't cancel my account, but they could transfer me! Rinse, wash, repeat.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Send them a certified letter, wait a week and then call. Record the call, tell them it's recorded and mention the letter. Tell them that your account is cancelled and you're no longer paying. Then don't pay, and or charge back. If they threaten to send you to collections, let them. If they actually do, just tell the collection agency the debt is invalid and send them proof.

Just don't pay. I have had to do this a handful times in my life, and it has never hurt my credit score or went anywhere, never even needed the evidence I collected. Collections will just give up after a while, and if it somehow ever does become an issue you have all the proof you need to show its not valid debt. But, it likely won't actually go anywhere.

I did have one really annoying collection agency one time that really didn't seem to want to let it go. So I started generating invoices for my "research time" and send it to them. When they would call I would start the call by saying "by continuing this conversation, you agree to pay for research fees". Not sure if that did anything or they just coincidentally gave up... I was kind of hoping their AP department would just blindly pay the invoices for my time haha.

[-] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

That sounds like the kind of conversation worth recording and taking to a lawyer. I can't imagine a call that goes "Hi, I'd like to cancel my service. What do you mean you can't do that? No one at the company can help? I've been on the phone with 4 different reps. Fine, I'll just call my card to stop paying. What do you mean you're going to send me to collections?!" wouldn't get done kind of positive movement.

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. I'm actually working with a lawyer now and am involved in correspondence with the company. Hence why I haven't named and shamed them (yet). It's progressing slowly, but positively in my favor. It's just annoying that it had to come to this.

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