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TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

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Re: TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

#11

If I log-in to my TeamViewer account, there is no indication of what a "license" is or if I have a pending payment. When I tried using TeamViewer with a client, it said license is no longer valid, so I purchased again. I don't understand how they justify such practices. I am the tweet author. Not sure how such things are legal. I am scared from getting threat of legal action from a foreign entity. This is what I rece…

That looks like a spam/phishing email. Is that a real company?

Re: TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

#13
post #5

Why not cancel the new invoice and pay the old one as they said?

They are not asking for direct payment. They want me to pay the collection agency. I am not going to make an international payment to some random company that I have no idea about. I suspect they want me to do this because closing internally with the company will mean admitting to the agency that they sold a bad debt.

> I am not going to make an international payment to some random company that I have no idea about.

Why not? You do have an idea about them: TeamViewer asked you to pay them.

> I suspect they want me to do this because closing internally with the company will mean admitting to the agency that they sold a bad debt.

Maybe. Maybe that's just how it's easier for them.

Re: TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

#14

If I log-in to my TeamViewer account, there is no indication of what a "license" is or if I have a pending payment. When I tried using TeamViewer with a client, it said license is no longer valid, so I purchased again. I don't understand how they justify such practices. I am the tweet author. Not sure how such things are legal. I am scared from getting threat of legal action from a foreign entity. This is what I rece…

I changed to AnyDesk looong ago, more OS's supported and the "no commercial" version does not kill your connection after 10 minutes. When i start to smell greed i change as fast as i can.

Re: TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

#15
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your assuring words. It is ~ €300 which is the price of their annual business plan. I redacted the precision and decimals to avoid identifiable info when uploading media to imgur.

Gotcha. I mean even here in the United States, if someone won a court judgement for $300 there's probably no way that they could enforce it. So, while I am not an attorney lol, I am very confident that it can't be enforced with thousands of miles and a few continents between the parties :) It costs them nothing to send an e-mail and see if you'll maybe pay

> Gotcha. I mean even here in the United States, if someone won a court judgement for $300 there's probably no way that they could enforce it.

If they're at the point where they've won the judgment, they've got a fairly easy way to enforce it: wage garnishment. Since they've won the judgment but you still refuse to pay, the next (very easy) step is to get a court order for wage garnishment, after which your employer's payroll processor (like ADP for example) will simply start taking the money before your checks even get deposited.

Re: TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

#17

If I log-in to my TeamViewer account, there is no indication of what a "license" is or if I have a pending payment. When I tried using TeamViewer with a client, it said license is no longer valid, so I purchased again. I don't understand how they justify such practices. I am the tweet author. Not sure how such things are legal. I am scared from getting threat of legal action from a foreign entity. This is what I rece…

That looks like a spam/phishing email. Is that a real company?

TeamViewer support has confirmed that they "transferred the case" to this agency since I didn't respond to their email.(Screenshot of their response in Twitter thread)

While they were doing this, their website portal showed no indication of any pending payment and let me purchase their business plan.

Re: TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

#18
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your assuring words. It is ~ €300 which is the price of their annual business plan. I redacted the precision and decimals to avoid identifiable info when uploading media to imgur.

Gotcha. I mean even here in the United States, if someone won a court judgement for $300 there's probably no way that they could enforce it. So, while I am not an attorney lol, I am very confident that it can't be enforced with thousands of miles and a few continents between the parties :) It costs them nothing to send an e-mail and see if you'll maybe pay

Being hounded by debt collection agencies for months on end is miserable even if you don't end up needing to pay.

Re: TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

#19
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are not asking for direct payment. They want me to pay the collection agency. I am not going to make an international payment to some random company that I have no idea about. I suspect they want me to do this because closing internally with the company will mean admitting to the agency that they sold a bad debt.

> I am not going to make an international payment to some random company that I have no idea about. Why not? You do have an idea about them: TeamViewer asked you to pay them. > I suspect they want me to do this because closing internally with the company will mean admitting to the agency that they sold a bad debt. Maybe. Maybe that's just how it's easier for them.

What a stupid suggestion. If a company cannot be trusted to fix a simple billing issue, I sure as hell wouldn't trust their choice of random foreign company that for some reason they want me to send money to to fix their mistake.

This screams of dodginess and shoddy unfriendly customer service.

Re: TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That looks like a spam/phishing email. Is that a real company?

TeamViewer support has confirmed that they "transferred the case" to this agency since I didn't respond to their email.(Screenshot of their response in Twitter thread) While they were doing this, their website portal showed no indication of any pending payment and let me purchase their business plan.

Nuts! That's shady! I hope you get it resolved or find another app that does what team viewer does.

Maybe one of these will suit your use case. https://alternativeto.net/software/teamviewer/?license=free

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