Comments on: Poor Advice from Steve Bucci Concerning Old Debts Pursued by a Collection Agency http://www.consumerblotter.com/bad-advice/poor-advice-from-steve-bucci-concerning-old-debts-pursued-by-a-collection-agency/ Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:45:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: KS http://www.consumerblotter.com/bad-advice/poor-advice-from-steve-bucci-concerning-old-debts-pursued-by-a-collection-agency/comment-page-1/#comment-1406 KS Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:59:12 +0000 http://consumerblotter.com/2007/11/28/poor-advice-from-steve-bucci-concerning-old-debts-pursued-by-a-collection-agency/#comment-1406 There is a time and place for an attorney to step in and the initial leave me alone letter is not one of them. I fully agree before feeding a lawyer, try to write to the company yourself and state your case. Keep copies of every communication with them, send all letters certified mail, return receipt. If you are contacted again, send a follow up letter getting tougher and threaten legal action should they continue to contact you again. Should they still not heed the warning have an attorney draw up a simple cease and desist letter which usually does work. BUT make it your last resort to do this. If you read and know the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) you can state your case with statute back up very well without the aid of an attorney. There is a time and place for an attorney to step in and the initial leave me alone letter is not one of them. I fully agree before feeding a lawyer, try to write to the company yourself and state your case. Keep copies of every communication with them, send all letters certified mail, return receipt. If you are contacted again, send a follow up letter getting tougher and threaten legal action should they continue to contact you again.

Should they still not heed the warning have an attorney draw up a simple cease and desist letter which usually does work. BUT make it your last resort to do this.

If you read and know the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) you can state your case with statute back up very well without the aid of an attorney.

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