Bodog Collections email

[ChicagoRy]

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It depends how hard you want to fight. The easiest thing might be to just pay $400. If you don't pay and stay on top of it you should be able to collect something form the collectors. Generally collection agencies ignore the FDCPA because the maximum they can lose to a law suit for it is $1k and most people that owe money hide rather than sueing these people. Generally after they violate the law you send them a draft of a complaint to be filed in federal court and they send you a check and go away.

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Can you go into a little more detail about this?

[FatalError]

dude you might owe money to bodog.com but you don't owe [censored] to those imposters at newbodog.com

[RR]

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It depends how hard you want to fight. The easiest thing might be to just pay $400. If you don't pay and stay on top of it you should be able to collect something form the collectors. Generally collection agencies ignore the FDCPA because the maximum they can lose to a law suit for it is $1k and most people that owe money hide rather than sueing these people. Generally after they violate the law you send them a draft of a complaint to be filed in federal court and they send you a check and go away.

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Can you go into a little more detail about this?

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Well there are laws outlining what a third party debt collector can do in the collection of debts. The damages for violating this law are capped at $1000 per action (at the federal level) so they they feel pretty free to violate this law because most people that have unpaid debts are sophisticated enough to sue them. 2 weeks ago a collector called my wife for a hospital bill that had in fact been paid. They called 7 minutes prior to the time they could legally call. We emailed their corporate counsel asking for $1k in damages, she emailed back offering $850. We had a check less than a week later.

[BradleyT]

I dont think Bodog can even report you to any of the CRA's. A 3rd party collection agency definitely can but I don't think bodog qualifies as the type of business that can report that because they aren't extending you credit or giving you any type of loan.

[Henry17]

It is the same as writing a bad cheque.

[FatalError]

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I dont think Bodog can even report you to any of the CRA's. A 3rd party collection agency definitely can but I don't think bodog qualifies as the type of business that can report that because they aren't extending you credit or giving you any type of loan.

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this is a total scare tactic, i'd imagine this would be an incredibly easy thing to fix if they somehow did sneak it onto you account, tell them to go to bodog.com LOL!!!!! does not exist!

Not paying them is so +EV it's a joke, and if a debt collector calls, they might call your cell a lot but you'll just seem popular

[ChicagoRy]

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It depends how hard you want to fight. The easiest thing might be to just pay $400. If you don't pay and stay on top of it you should be able to collect something form the collectors. Generally collection agencies ignore the FDCPA because the maximum they can lose to a law suit for it is $1k and most people that owe money hide rather than sueing these people. Generally after they violate the law you send them a draft of a complaint to be filed in federal court and they send you a check and go away.

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Can you go into a little more detail about this?

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Well there are laws outlining what a third party debt collector can do in the collection of debts. The damages for violating this law are capped at $1000 per action (at the federal level) so they they feel pretty free to violate this law because most people that have unpaid debts are sophisticated enough to sue them. 2 weeks ago a collector called my wife for a hospital bill that had in fact been paid. They called 7 minutes prior to the time they could legally call. We emailed their corporate counsel asking for $1k in damages, she emailed back offering $850. We had a check less than a week later.

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If you'd rather talk on PM that's fine, but what kind of time windows or other fairly obvious restrictions do these companies have? Is it federal like the 1k cap or is it state by state? I had an unpaid debt awhile back, kind of makes me wish I still did, but I have a few friends that still have some stuff in collection.

[Squattage]

I tried to do some recollections of my playing time with Bodog.

I remember that I used a debit card to deposit, they credited my account, and a few days later said they don't accept debit cards. At that point I lost my deposit of $400 already, and so my balance became -$400. I don't know why this is coming up now though, as it was over a year ago.

Does this change anyones thoughts?

[PLOlover]

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Does this change anyones thoughts?

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give them your debit card info again and tell them to feel free to take 400 from your account.

[steel108]

LOL; we all know you paid with your credit card, donked it off and did a charge back. Stop being an idiot and just man up. As to your problem, if you don't even have 400 to pay off a gambling debt, then BoDog is the least of your concerns. Who cares about your credit, you a f'ed for life with no money. Just man up, tell the truth, and get a job.