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Originally Posted by fintstone
The best way to keep debt collectors from calling...is for you and your family to pay their bills (and don't have "friends" that use you as a contact/reference when obtaining loans that they will never pay). If you buy/sell a part or service here on PP and not get the part or your money...don't you try to resolve the issue?
Obviously, if you are not the person they are looking for, tell them and they will eventually move on. tell them that you are on the national "don't call' list. They probably call a few times because folks who don't pay their debts tend to duck calls from those they owe money. They likely used one of the online search engines that linked your names somehow. Personally, I blame the person that does not pay their bills. If the terms were not great (like a payday loan), it was their choice to borrow under those terms. If a friend or relative, get the caller's number and give it to them and tell them to straighten it out (and that you will expect no more calls). If they don't take care of it...that is quite telling...and it is probably legitimate.
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Fintstone, she's told me she has taken care of it. I've told the callers that I'm not the person they're looking for. So guess what they do... Do they give up, or do they resell it to someone else? Which solution gets them a little money? So then it starts all over again with the next agency. See this comment -
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Originally Posted by smadsen
That "receivable" has been bought & sold so many times it has a life of its' own. Now it's trickled down to robo calls from the Philippines. Eventually they will give up when no one will buy it because it ages out.
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I think we're going on 4 years of calls since this has started. Yes debt ages out, but that doesn't seem to matter to the collectors.
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Originally Posted by mepstein
You can ask / demand that they remove your number from their list - but they won't. If it bothers you, change your number.
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That's what I did, I changed my number. I re-used the old house number, and that's what bugs me. She's never lived at my address, we have different last names, so how did they decide my number would be a good one to call? It's probably because her mother did a change of address when she moved in with me and they figure if one member of the family moved here, they must all have moved here. Ticks me off. I don't want to give up the old house number, it's the only one my aunts and uncles know.