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Have you asked the OC's to recall the debts? That would help.
Comcrap has been known to recall the CA and known to say they will and dont. Flip a coin on hope it falls on what you called. Its a toss up.
If you paid the original creditor, can you not dispute the collection that is being reported for the following reasons:
And provide a copy of the payment that you made to the original creditor?
If you pay the original creditor, there is no longer any remaining debt.
The OC must then notify their assigned debt collector that the debt is paid, which terminates their authority to continue collection on the debt.
The debt collector is then required, under FCRA 623(a)(2), to promptly update the balance on their collection to $0 and clos their collection.
Payment of the debt is not basis for requiring deletion of the collection; it only requires update to show closed, $0 balance.
In fact, the common credit reporting manual used by each of the big-4 CRAs, and incorportated into their reporting agreements with debt collectors, is that they are NOT to delete based on payment of the debt. It is not basis for a dispute.
Deletion of a paid collection should be pursued via good will requests to the reporting debt collector.