@Anonymous wrote:
@Lushi wrote:Hello, I would like to payoff an old, charged off, Amex debt (included in BR 7 years ago). What telephone number should I call? I've been getting a bit of a run around. Also, my company is going to require me to get an Amex corporate card, and I'd like to clear this old debt up to prevent any issues with obtaining the corporate card. Thank you for your help!
If your company is requiring you to get a corporate card, they're likely checking the history of the company when it comes to using charge or credit cards and not yours. You would be an authorized user, so I don't think it would be a big deal if they had one of their corporate cards with your name on it,as long as it isn't your account but the company's.
I know this sounds extremely weird but about 5 years when I had no good credit left and still had CO AmEx account, I applied for AmEx corp account through a big enough company and was denied. They asked me to call and AmEx wants me to pay off my old debt first before they would approve for me for this corp card even though I wasn't going to be a primary user but AU. I wish I had done that partly because that would have a long 5 years relationship since then.
As for what number to call, I was searching for it but couldn't locate it but I remember last year around this time I got a call from a third party saying that they are calling on behalf of AmEx and they asked me if I wanted to settle or they can keep on reporting to CRAs. I wanted to because I wanted to get new AmEx card but after I spoke to them I think I called AmEx global collections and they sent me back to that same agency who had called me earlier.
If you can find, look for AmEx global collections and call them. Unfortunately I don't think they will be able to take payments but you can try. Another thing you can try, go to AmEx and see if you prequalify. If you do they may have taken you off the list and may let you in. If they have you on their blacklist they will straight up deny you when you apply without any hard pulls
@Lushi wrote:Hello, I would like to payoff an old, charged off, Amex debt (included in BR 7 years ago). What telephone number should I call? I've been getting a bit of a run around. Also, my company is going to require me to get an Amex corporate card, and I'd like to clear this old debt up to prevent any issues with obtaining the corporate card. Thank you for your help!
I can't help with a number to help you pay back your account that was IIBK, however I can say that I also included them in a BK7 back in 2000. Less than six months after my discharge, I was promoted and had to get a Corporate card as well, and there was no problem.
In my case the company I was working for was a Fortune-100 (very big) so that might have had something to do with it. I'll admit that I was 'sweating bullets' while the application was being processed, and honestly I was a bit surprised they approved it at all, but they did.
I can't promise your experience will be identical, but depending on the size of your company your BK might not be an automatic show-stopper when it comes to your getting a Corporate card. 
@darwin_wins wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Lushi wrote:Hello, I would like to payoff an old, charged off, Amex debt (included in BR 7 years ago). What telephone number should I call? I've been getting a bit of a run around. Also, my company is going to require me to get an Amex corporate card, and I'd like to clear this old debt up to prevent any issues with obtaining the corporate card. Thank you for your help!
If your company is requiring you to get a corporate card, they're likely checking the history of the company when it comes to using charge or credit cards and not yours. You would be an authorized user, so I don't think it would be a big deal if they had one of their corporate cards with your name on it,as long as it isn't your account but the company's.
I know this sounds extremely weird but about 5 years when I had no good credit left and still had CO AmEx account, I applied for AmEx corp account through a big enough company and was denied. They asked me to call and AmEx wants me to pay off my old debt first before they would approve for me for this corp card even though I wasn't going to be a primary user but AU. I wish I had done that partly because that would have a long 5 years relationship since then.
As for what number to call, I was searching for it but couldn't locate it but I remember last year around this time I got a call from a third party saying that they are calling on behalf of AmEx and they asked me if I wanted to settle or they can keep on reporting to CRAs. I wanted to because I wanted to get new AmEx card but after I spoke to them I think I called AmEx global collections and they sent me back to that same agency who had called me earlier.
If you can find, look for AmEx global collections and call them. Unfortunately I don't think they will be able to take payments but you can try. Another thing you can try, go to AmEx and see if you prequalify. If you do they may have taken you off the list and may let you in. If they have you on their blacklist they will straight up deny you when you apply without any hard pulls
+1
This is definitely worth a shot.
I'll just add that they seem to treat CO due to bankruptcy quite different than just a 'regular' CO, so you might have a difficult time getting them to agree to accept payment. By Federal law they can't try to collect any amount included in a bankruptcy, so they tend to go to great lengths not to give the impression they are even trying.