When you’re out of job and aiming to repay a loan, the chances of you reaching a sympathetic representative is like finding a needle in a pit of jagged, used syringes.
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Dealing With Abusive Debt Collectors By Phone
By 7.25.06
When debt collectors violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act:
Pay Up, Deadbeat
By 7.20.06
Back when we were being stalked by debt collectors, our only recourse to their insistent demands was ripping up their letters and living on the top floor of a three-story building accessible only by a locked steel door. It turns out that debtors actually have rights and collection agents, limits. Neat.
Collection Agencies Add Insult to Snowboard Injury
By 4.27.06
Grant had the misfortune to get into a snowboarding accident. Then he had the further misfortune of living in America where it’s nigh impossible to get a bruise removed from your credit report.
UPDATE: Getting Out of Credit Card Debt
By 4.26.06
T’is a pity for the flower of youth to be wrinkled by the radioactive belch of credit card debt. Yesterday, we asked the readers about how college boy L.S. should get out of his $2150 in credit card debt set at exorbitant rates and here’s what we think he should do.
Ask The Consumerists: Getting Out of Credit Card Debt
By 4.25.06
Ah, to be in college again, free of care, living life to the hilt, and mired in thousands of dollars of credit card debt .
Maxed Out Movie Details America’s Pit of Debt
By 4.18.06
- “…back in the ’60s and ’70s … a lot of bankers objected to credit cards and said they were not going to give consumers the noose from which to hang themselves–that was immoral, that was unethical … They understood that people would abuse credit if given too much of it, and the banker had to fill this role of regulator. That philosophy doesn’t exist any more.”
Mesothelioma, Debt, Lawsuits Tops Google AdWords List
By 3.27.06
Seen via Boing Boing, seen via Battelle, this list of the top Google AdWords. We’re not ashamed to admit that we’re amazed at the strong showing of mesothelioma on the list… hell, we had to look it up. Who knew absestos huffers were such a lucrative clientele? The rest of the list, of course, is an interesting vivisection of the American psyche: debt and lawsuits are the biggest businesses.
Advertising A-Go-Go-Gog
By 2.27.06
Here’s a freakin’ roundup of the sweetest commercials floating around this morning.
Disentangling Automatic Payments Laborious, Some Discover
By 2.23.06
Automated payments may be handy but cancelling them can be like eradicating a persistent tapeworm, some consumers find.
Credit Hacks: Pretty Way to Picture Your Debt
By 2.17.06
s a nifty way to take master your credit card debt. Punch into John Madea’s free analyzer the APR, minimum monthly payment percentage, the principal and monthly payment.
