Complaint

0
Kari
Country: United States
My husband and I have been harassed by BMG Music.  They are saying that we owe them money for CD’s that we ordered in 2006.  We haven’t ordered anything from them since 2002 when we cancelled our service.  We have never received letters, bills, emails, or calls from them until last month and now the calls are coming almost daily.  They refuse to send us any documentation that we owe them this money.   They are threatening to put it on our credit report.   I have done some research and found that many others are having the same issue and some of them have it on their credit report and can’t get it removed.  This sounds like a scam to me.  If they called 500 people a day and got $25-$50 from 100 people they are racking in the money.  Please help!!!  I hate to see this happen to anyone else.

Comments

  • 0
    tj
    | 1 reply
    Similar complaints:
    https://complaintwire.org/complaint/6JIBAAAAAAA/national-recovery-agency
    https://complaintwire.org/complaint/tZoBAAAAAAA/national-recovery-agency
    https://complaintwire.org/complaint/RJ8BAAAAAAA/nra-group
    https://complaintwire.org/complaint/ppcBAAAAAAA/national-reacovery-agncy

    Most likely you are dealing with a deceptive collection shakedown run by one of a small number of collection agencies who do this with old BMG/Columbia House accounts.  the names that come up most often in connection with this fraudulent collection are NCS, NRA Group, and Thakar.

    BMG/Columbia House sold to a lot of kids and unsophisticated young adults.  They apparently ran their own shady marketing, with reports of order cramming, even cramming "membership" sign-ups on people who didn't sign up, and the collection agencies who handled their accounts appear to have known how to play the game.

    Get an attorney, and they will likely back off real quick.  If you catch them in violations of FDCPA or FCRA, sue them.  You can find a consumer attorney in your state through www.naca.net
    • 0
      tj replies to tj
      Correction: Takhar Group, not "Thakar".
  • 0
    James
    I was 20 years old and ran my credit. There was a credit collection on my credit for 450.00 to BMG music. I never had BMG music in my life and contacted the credit collection agency in OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. The collection agency insisted that it was mine and argued that I must pay. I hung up the phone. I tried getting off my credit and had no luck. BMG music was once located in Indiapolis but somehow went out of business. I finally found a number and got through to a high executive representative of BMG in NEWYORK CITY. I told her that it was not mine, and she looked up my name and said that I had a bill but had no track record of what I owe them money for, no cd's no anything... She could not tell me what I owed them money for. She finally said she would call me back (which never happened). Finally I decided to write the Attorney General In Oklahoma ( debt collector ) and insisted that they are illegally putting bills on peoples credit that do not owe these debts. A month goes by and finally the attorney general sends me a letter that stated that they wrote the credit company collecting the debt. The company responded and said that they were ceasing all collections on the debt and would no longer collect on it. 3 weeks later  I checked my credit, and the debt was off..  Hope this helps.Good Luck, it happened to me

Post a new comment