Credit Bureaus Ignore Deletion Promises Made by Creditors
After paying off a debt in full per a verbal agreement that included credit report deletion, the creditor failed to remove the negative marks as promised. Consumers have no reliable way to enforce pay-for-delete agreements.
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Consumer paid a collection in full after the collector verbally promised to delete the item from the credit report, but the item remains. Pay-for-delete agreements are commonly made but rarely honored, leaving consumers with paid collections still harming their credit. This broken-promise pattern affects credit recovery for millions of consumers.
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