I signed up for Superior in late-2006 with 45K in cc debt. I kept paying my student loans and kept one low credit limit (no balance) credit card for emergencies. The first year was a constant stream of letters and phone calls from the 3 other credit card companies. I changed phone numbers and forwarded all mail from the ccc's to Superior. Most of the letters and phone calls stopped after the first account was settled - they probably figured out what was happening. If you pay the delinquent accounts at any time, it resets the account time, which may be okay in the short term, but won't be so good in the long term (credit scores, actually getting rid of the debt). Anyway, after a little less than 3 years all of my accounts were settled for between 25-40% of the account balance.