Credit card debt collection

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 5:07 PM UTC

nbadg wrote: post #377

pjmlp wrote: post #347

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I can only reply that west of Hamburg, Karte means any kind of card. Credit card is explicitly Kreditkarte. I also speak German fluenty, including partial knowledge of some dialects, and Swiss German. Since my last time in Berlin was 10 years ago, I'll have to take it.

Even in the local Ämtern? In my experience they're the worst offenders here. For example, Zahlungsmöglichkeiten on these two pages: [1] "Am Standort kann bar und mit girocard (mit PIN) (ehemals EC-Karte) bezahlt werden." This means nothing with Visa/Mastercard, period. Doesn't matter if you have a direct debit account or revolving credit. If you try to pay with eg an N26 Debit Mastercard, they say "Leider akzeptieren…

Post by 303uru » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

hiatus wrote: post #356

DoubleGlazing wrote: post #315

There was a case a few year back around the time of the 2008 recession where a man in debt used the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to earn a decent living from their aggressive/dishonest practices. I did try Googling for the story, but I could find it. His process was to let them lie to him - he even encouraged it, all while he was recording the call. After the call ended he'd launch a legal claim for compensatio…

Seems like that might not be possible these days. > On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a plaintiff must suffer a concrete injury resulting from a defendant’s statutory violation to have Article III standing to pursue damages from that defendant in federal court. The Court also held that plaintiffs in a class action must prove that every class member has standing for each claim asserted…

Post by devnullbrain » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

vikingerik wrote: post #365

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #234

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Back in the early '10s I was reading a report from a guy who had stellar credit and the card limits to go with them. He ran up about $100,000 of debt on his cards on purpose and stopped making payments. He then approached his bank to settle the debt and negotiated a 60% discount. The account was marked "paid by customer" so it never appeared on his on his credit report as a default. He did get dinged for missing paym…

I have a family member who did something similar - perfect credit and defaulted on purpose. On a rental property, he was underwater on the mortgage at the time of the 2008 crash, so he simply stopped paying and let the bank foreclose and came out ahead that way. Trashed his credit rating but he never had any need for it, he had enough to buy his own house and car outright.

Post by devnullbrain » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 5:16 PM UTC

didntcheck wrote: post #244

Aardwolf wrote: post #218

> you, reader, use credit cards in preference to debit cards as a payment instrument Reader from Europe here. I use debit cards for daily payments, that's just the most standard expected payment method in Europe (with mobile payments now replacing it. Is a mobile payment app more like a debit or like a credit card? I have no idea actually!). But credit cards for online payments on the internet because (despite some d…

[In the UK] despite the verbiage on most sites still saying "credit card", I've been using ordinary debit cards (from both Visa and MC) online for as long as I've shopped online, and never had a single issue related to them being debit. For many years I didn't even have a credit card Edit: it's possible that this is an issue of semantics. My cards have been debit cards in every sense of the term - they are labelled a…

Post by polski-g » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 5:26 PM UTC

jiofj wrote: post #256

krapp wrote: post #221

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Someone with poor credit may be assumed more likely to commit fraud or steal from the company. Someone with poor credit might also be assumed to be personally irresponsible and lazy, and more likely to slack off, ignore necessary details or cut corners. It isn't fair but in the US money carries moral weight, and many people assume the less of it you have, the worse of a person you are.

>It isn't fair but in the US money carries moral weight, and many people assume the less of it you have, the worse of a person you are. This isn't about money, this is about debt. Owing money around really does sound like something a bad person would do.