The Check Came...

For those of you who don't know, here is the back story...When Dane and I were in Vegas we would get calls daily from a collector called Allied looking for the people that had our number before. It was just a recording that said to call them back so I would never answer but Dane called them back and told them we now have the number and we don't know the previous people. They said they would remove our number from the list within 48 hours, then we didn't get a call for about two days and they started again. Sometimes they would call more then once a day and one particular day they called after 8 pm (which if you didn't know, is a HUGE no-no in the collection world). Dane tried to call them back again that night to tell them we don't know the people they are looking for but he got an after hours message over and over and the vm box was full so he couldn't leave a message. Long story short, this went on for a while and Dane talked to them at least three times asking them not to call anymore and would get the same 'your name will be removed within 48 hours'. The last time Dane called and got the same reply he told them that he has been given that answer every time he calls so he wants to know what more he needs to do so they won't call anymore and I kid you not, the guy came back with the same reply 'your number will be removed within 48 hours'. Dane being my cute but a little nerdy husband then hit the Internet to browse for anyone else that had maybe had the same problem and knew how to fix it. He went to google and typed in Allied Interstate and the first thing that popped up was a company that sounded like it was pretty much devoted to shut Allied down so Dane clicked on it, filled out a little questionnaire and not even 15 mins after he was finished filling it out we got a phone call from an attorney asking Dane all sorts of details about our experience with Allied. The attorney said if we would like they will send Allied a Cease and Desist Letter and if we still get phone calls they would proceed to a lawsuit. Well it ended up going to a settlement and the attorney asked for $2000 our share was $900 but free $900 for us, sweet deal! All we cared was that the annoying calls stopped and they did and then we moved shortly after :) The other day (ok it has been a while but I finally put the picture on our computer) we got the check so I figured I would let everyone know!