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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:31 pm Subject: The scam of Arbitration

(From Bud Hibb's Blog)

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The Scam of Arbitration
Filed under: Arbitration Justice — budhibbs @ 4:13 pm
The Scam of Arbitration

Debt collectors, junk debt buyers and bottom feeders are looking to enrich themselves through arbitration claims filed with the National Arbitration Forum, Minneapolis, MN. Some of the organizations filing arbitration claims include Wolpoff & Abramson, Baltimore, MD, Collect America (CACH & CACV) Denver, CO, Mann-Bracken, Atlanta, GA ,NCO Financial Systems, Baltimore, MD and Midland Credit Management.Arbitration is an area most consumers have little or no knowledge of and the system is set up to take advantage of that. The National Arbitration Forum (NAF) is biased in favor of those who file claims because their filing fee of $250/per account is what keeps them in business.

To give you an idea of how this functions, let’s use our Washington bureaucracy for an illustration: NAF is the Congressional representative writing laws. Debt buyers are the lobbyists looking for favorable results on their investments. They write a check to the NAF, the arbitration claim is filed, the NAF pays a local lawyer to rubber stamp awards in favor of the debt buyer and just like Washington, they make a ton of money, while you get screwed. Sound familiar?

The attorneys they use are from your local area (with exceptions) who are also paid a fee of $250/hour with the expectation they will handle up to six claims per hour. Do the math, does this sound ethical? The arbitrators rubber stamp their approval, many lie and sign statements that are false and perjured so they can stay on the money side of the NAF.

The arbitration process conducted by the NAF is a corrupt system of big bucks designed to screw the consumer who is mostly kept in the dark about the process and how it evolves. I have seen many awards where attorneys lied in their statements just so they could collect the $250/fee. (Does this sound like a lobbying organization?)

There are ways to take on this corrupt system and turn the tables on the National Arbitration Forum and the lawyers they pay to make awards against you they may not be entitled to. A national group of consumer attorneys is fighting the arbitration system head-on.

If you are threatened with, or served an arbitration claim get in touch with me for assistance and referral to an expert who can assist you. If you fail to respond to an arbitration claim, it could eventually end up with a judgment against you, so the time to take action is when you are threatened or served.

Contact us at: budhibbs(at)budhibbs.com assistance


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:02 pm Subject:

Great information Anthony, more useful information that I will store away for potential use in the future should the occassion ever arise.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:22 pm Subject: loan

Thanks Anthony for that post. I have always heard this. Budd Hibbs rocks. KYSIDE38
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:54 pm Subject:

Consumers will one day very soon be too informed to fuk with.
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:28 pm Subject:

How does one determine whether it IS a scam, or not? There are Arbitration laws, I wouldn't want to get myself in deep trouble for thinking it was a scam, if it wasn't. I recently received Arbitration papers from Mann Bracken LLC, for a Chase Credit Card. It looks so complicated that I am dreading dealing with it. So, in closing, how does one determine whether this is a scam or not? Confused
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:08 pm Subject:

I wouldn't call it a scam as much as calling it a dirty trick to get a judgment award without having your day in court. Send papers to the arbitrator refusing to mediate and demand your day in court so you are given your right to due process.
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:06 pm Subject:

I have the right to refuse arbitration? According to Bud Hibbs, on his website, he suggested demanding a copy of the clause. I've been in a quandry about this since I received these papers, researching it, etc. I wasn't aware I was able to refuse mediation and demand a day in court. Is there information somewhere that states this? I've read and read the arbitration laws and couldn't make heads or tails out of it. Confused
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:24 pm Subject:

Arbitration is a mediation process and any party should have the right to bow out and accept court date as a alternative.
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:47 pm Subject:

Well, I appreciate you enlightening me on this matter, I will probably continue researching it, but I'm not so sure I'm ready to dive into it, I still have a couple of weeks to respond. Confused
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:09 pm Subject:

Is this different from mediation?
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:25 pm Subject:

The heck if I know, I haven't even attempted to learn about it, yet.
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:00 am Subject:

Arbitration is a form of informal mediation.It is a good process to have provided it is fair & impartial to both parties.
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