Letter from Verizon Wireless - huh?

[Repo-ed]

My apologies, I just had my information checked, and you are in fact correct.  However, it takes quite sometime for VZW to report to an outside agency. They do not report late payments, suspensions or disconnects of service due to non-payment (provided you set up PA to have services restored) or the like, but they WILL report after the account has been charged-off and THEN it is sold to a CA.

They will try for as much as 1 year (or more in some cases) before reporting to the 3 agencies as a CO.

I think the reason why GW won't work, is because there isn't a group in place to read them.  Only an IHR dept to speak to directly, and I'm being told they are fairly flexible SO LONG as you are within that year timeframe. Outside that timeline, and they direct you to the CA the account was sold to.

Again, my apologies.

[Anonymous]

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@Repo-ed wrote:

My apologies, I just had my information checked, and you are in fact correct.  However, it takes quite sometime for VZW to report to an outside agency. They do not report late payments, suspensions or disconnects of service due to non-payment (provided you set up PA to have services restored) or the like, but they WILL report after the account has been charged-off and THEN it is sold to a CA.

They will try for as much as 1 year (or more in some cases) before reporting to the 3 agencies as a CO.

I think the reason why GW won't work, is because there isn't a group in place to read them.  Only an IHR dept to speak to directly, and I'm being told they are fairly flexible SO LONG as you are within that year timeframe. Outside that timeline, and they direct you to the CA the account was sold to.

Again, my apologies.

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No apologies needed in this forum. We are all here to help and assisst as best as we can with our own knowledge and experiences. 

Thank you for updating and giving more information.

[Anonymous]

Very Interseting. I just receive the EXACT same letter. The catch...I have not disconnected any of my lines. I called VerizonWireless and they have no record of the letter and told me it was spam.

[re383209]

Just saw this post I'm rather new into the credit world but its true that wireless companies usually don't report payment history other than a collection the reasoning is that the number is still active and available if you want to come back or port out to another company I'm actually one of the guys that does this work, there is a 12 month window where that contracted number is physically your and if an overage is there say you pay $1 over we are liable to credit it to any wireless account of your choosing or a refund check but a $00 will stay in our system for our own credit check if you come back, just like a manual review or blacklist like credit card companies, of you owe us $20 bucks and wanna come back and your credit is in a "grey" area you'll have a deposit with starting back service but don't expect anything under $20 to effect you credit report in any way