I have been dealing with this company for a little over 1 year. I experienced all the threats and phone calls that most of you all have. I learned after the first intial call that they have this bad guy, good guy routine going. The bad guy calls initially to rattle you and then He/She hangs up after they threaten to take you to court. When you call back because they have scared you into it, you usually encounter Mr/Ms. nice guy, who conventiently listens to everything and makes every effort to "work" with you. I set up a payment plan with this person and had been paying religiously. When they ran out of postdated checks, Bad guy called back again and he was super outragous, yelling, cutting me off, accusing me of not wanting to be responsible for my debt. I tried to explain that I had been making payments according to my arrangement. He just kept screaming stuff and demanding I pay the remainder of my balance. I refused and then informed him that he would either accept my payments or not, he hung up on me. I did not get frustrated or nervous this time around. I just called back, refused to speak with this man again and requested a supervisor, who was a good cop, made arrangements, complained about bad cop and hung up. I then wrote a cease and desist letter, requested a full account of my debt and requested that any communication be via mail. I received an account of my debt, but I have not heard from them via phone since our last arrangement. Feeling a little daring, I called back and asked to speak to bad cop, when he came on the line I informed him that he was super silly for acting like such and idiot, because in the end, they ended up taking my payment arrangement anyway, despite his insistence that they would not....he hung up on me....lol.
BTW, my payments are what I can afford and no more than that. When I set up the first payment, I start with double what my monthly arrangements will be. In other words, I give them $200 on my first payment and then $100 for the next 6 months. I am almost paid off and will be free of them by April.