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Supermommy
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Asset Acceptance LLC

Does this collection company have the right to report as a factoring company? Thanks for your help!

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AgentT
Established Member

Re: Asset Acceptance LLC

No they do not.

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guiness56
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RobertEG
Legendary Contributor

Re: Asset Acceptance LLC

+1

Factoring is a perfectly legal business practice, and simply reporting as a factoring company is accurate.  It informs that they own the debt.

 

However, the secondary issue that arises is when a factor asserts, based on their purchase of the debt, that the consumer now has an account, such as an installment loan, with them.  That seems to be a growing practice with some debt collectors.

They are a debt collector subject to the FDCPA.  You dont have an account agreement with them, and they cannot report delinquencies

 

If reporting as a factor is accompanied by reporting of an account with the consumer or delinquencies on that "account," that is where they cross the line.

 

 

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raisinitup
Regular Contributor

Re: Asset Acceptance LLC

So what do we do ? Dispute, DV, what's our recourse ?
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Shogun
Moderator Emeritus

Re: Asset Acceptance LLC

Technically, they can.  Should they?  No.  A factoring company by definition buys good debts or portfolios from the OC to generate cash flow for the OC.  They are really CAs.  Now, they can report as a factoring company, it's what they do with that that may bring things into question.  Seeing as they can report as an OC using this ability, they sometimes do things that are beyond the scopes of the CA.  When this happens, you can fight them on it.

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raisinitup
Regular Contributor

Re: Asset Acceptance LLC

I knew it. So how do we fight them ? Through the CRA, BBB or another route ?
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Shogun
Moderator Emeritus

Re: Asset Acceptance LLC

Fighting them for listing as a factoring company is pointless.  Like said before, it's if they use that listing to report incorrectly that you can use to fight them.  Such as changing the settings set forth by the OC.  Changing the DOFD, changing the type of account, etc.

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hoping2rebuild
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Re: Asset Acceptance LLC

I had asset acceptance listing as a factoring company, and listing as open account and 120+ days late to my CR

 

I had to file a complaint with the BBB but that did the trick they deleted


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Shogun
Moderator Emeritus

Re: Asset Acceptance LLC

They were listing lates as a CA.  That's a No No.

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