Allied Interstate Resolved

I decided to look this company up under complaints a few months ago and thank god I did! I had a Providian acct. several yrs ago that I defaulted on when I was out of work and in debt to alot of other places at the time. We decided to pay the bills once we got back on our feet by starting with the smaller ones and working our way up. This was the last acct. to be paid. It had been sold to Allied. I explained what we were doing and told them I'd eventually get to them. Every day I'd get another phone call. One day I was at work and received a call from our HR dept. explaining they usually don't put outsiders through to us but the man told them he was from State Farm Ins. I work with the public in a hospital and had a pt. in my office only to have some man verbally abuse me. Since I couldn't say what I really wanted to, I simply told him I did not want calls at work and hung up. He called me right back 2 more times with their threats. I called them that night and got a decent enough person and set up arrangements w/him after telling him I did not ever want to get a call at work again. Per our agreement, I paid them $100/mo and every 6 mos. it would go up another $50. After 18 mos. of paying them automatic payments, I received another call because I had not yet set up the next 6 mos. of check numbers. Oh, and that was right after they had recv'd my last payment so the next one wasn't due for another mo. One day, my boss called me in to ask who would be calling HR to get in touch w/me. She said they would not give my # to the man but he had called the HR secretary twice and was so rude to her. She explained the man was verbally harrassing the girl and had her extrememly upset. I came home and found your site and after reading the comments posted here, I decided to send the sample letter. Well! it worked. I received a letter back from a co. called Resurgent Capital Services saying they had looked into the matter and the acct had been marked as paid in full the mo. I had sent the letter. It has now been noted on my credit report also as paid in full after I disputed it on my report. It did take some time (about 3 mos.) but I will never have to deal with these people again, hopefully!
Send the letter and hope your situation turns out as good as mine seems to have.