Fall of dates, and companies that are selling the debt

[Anonymous]

I'm confused and need help. Let's say I have a debt with ACME, I don't pay it and they sell it to  collection Company A If collection company A hangs onto a debt for 3 years, then sells it to company B, does that now mean that Company A and B are both on your credit report, and will it be 4 more years before Company A falls off, and 7 years before company B falls off? If that's the case, then the debt will never fall off of my credit report right? Or will it fall off from the date that ACME reports it?

[llecs]

The Fair Credit Reporting Act spells out that baddies, like a charge-off or collection, can remain for up to 7 to 7.5 years from the date of first delinquency (DOFD). In short, DOFD is the date you first went late and never recovered. So, when an OC like ACME reports a DOFD, and sells the debt to a CA, the CA must report the same DOFD. They cannot report it any longer than the OC would have reported.