{"id":649,"date":"2007-06-29T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T21:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/06\/29\/debt-collectors-and-consumeristcom\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T21:32:27","slug":"debt-collectors-and-consumeristcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/06\/29\/debt-collectors-and-consumeristcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt collectors and consumerist.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While trolling the news for useful information to post on shlep, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/consumer\/blogs\/make-debt-collectors-prove-they-own-what-they-say-you-owe-260537.php\">this\u00a0blog post<\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/\">Consumerist.com<\/a>.\u00a0 It advises people who are being pursued by debt collectors to make sure that the company who is trying to collect really owns the debt that it&#8217;s claiming\u00a0the person\u00a0owes.\u00a0 They also point to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alabamaconsumerlawblog.com\/2007\/05\/alabama_consumers_sued_by_debt.html\">great article<\/a> offering tips for people being sued by debt collecters over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alabamaconsumerlawblog.com\/\">Alabama Consumer Law Blog<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have heard about Consumerist before, but today was the first time I visited their web-site, and I highly recommend it.\u00a0 They analyze new products, discuss the customer service of various companies, and as the above article indicates, offer useful tips for consumers who are dealing with various sorts of problems related to buying and selling.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great web-site for all things related to consumer rights.<\/p>\n<p>A quick perusal of the archives showed pages\u00a0dealing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/consumer\/debt-collectors\/\">debt collection<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/consumer\/early-termination-fees\/\">early termination fees<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/consumer\/fraud\/\">fraud<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/consumer\/identity-theft\/\">identity theft<\/a>, and much more.\u00a0 You can also send them\u00a0tips when\u00a0a company treats you unfairly.\u00a0 Check it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trolling the news for useful information to post on shlep, I came across this\u00a0blog post\u00a0at Consumerist.com.\u00a0 It advises people who are being pursued by debt collectors to make sure that the company who is trying to collect really owns the debt that it&#8217;s claiming\u00a0the person\u00a0owes.\u00a0 They also point to this great article offering tips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,1694,896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-notable-weblogs","category-resources-consumer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}