BC really that hard up for money? - Page 4

mark · #31 07-23-2009, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

and one a few years back with a fitness company that went out of buisness befor I could finnish paying for my membership. aparently they were choked that I felt if they went out of buisness 1 month after they signed me up then I didn't have to make any more payments other than the first. (that was an interesting one)

Steve

the bankruptcy sure must of been hunting for money for the creditors on that one

BlueAbyss · #32 07-23-2009, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

what I realy like are the cell phone contracts.. if you want to stop it early your pay out is the remainder of the contract.. not like a mortage where it is a couple months interest payments.

Tell me about it, when I lived in Sasktoon I had a Roger's cell phone as my only phone. They contacted me about adding a second phone to my account for a nominal fee (it was a good deal, actually), and were to send me a pair of free phones. Well, 2 months went by, no phones... but the extra charge was added to my bill. Eventually I refused to pay the extra charges, and had a run-in with some lackey at one of the Roger's offices... needless to say, I cancelled my service sooner than later, and refused to pay the excess charges.

I have yet to hear from collections about that one, but suspect that bill to be still floating around somewhere.

mark · #33 07-23-2009, 02:56 PM

another concern I have with the Collection Agency, now there's a bunch of nut jobs with a grudge that there's no commission with all my personal info.

BlueAbyss · #34 07-23-2009, 10:05 PM

Ouch, I hadn't thought of that, mark... stop it, you're scaring me

StirCrazy · #35 07-24-2009, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by mark

another concern I have with the Collection Agency, now there's a bunch of nut jobs with a grudge that there's no commission with all my personal info.

I wouldn't be concerned, there are lots of files that get dropped.. and for the 2 bucks commision they would have got off ya it isn't worth anything to them.

Steve

danny zubot · #36 07-24-2009, 03:50 AM

I think everyone wants a bit more money these days. My Brother-in-law just had a collection agency call him on behalf of his old Columbia House account. They claim he still owes them from 1996! All he did was quote them a few lines from the Canadian statute of limitations and they left him alone. I guess during times of economic growth these companies will let a few bucks slip through the cracks. Now that times aren't so good, they have to scrape the bottom for every red penny.