Allied Interstate/Palisades Collections getting fishier yet
Date: Fri, 01/26/2007 - 07:32
:shock: Some of you may remember me posting last week regarding allied interstate's illegal practice of charging a $9.95 fee to pay by credit or debit card. I got a letter from them today saying my payment, and the $9.95 fee had been processed, so I called Mastercard immediately to tell them I had documentation, in black and white, of what they were doing. The lady was the same one I spoke to last week, and she told me that their investigators couldn't even find Allied Interstate OR Palisades Collections as one of their authorized merchants. I have to wait until my husband gets home so he can access his statement and find out what name he was charged under. Soooo...it looks like this co. has AT LEAST three names it's using. FTR, I've reported them to FTC (got a canned response from them), and I will also be reporting them to the IRS for an audit (chances are, if they are violating one federal law*, they're violating others) *The fee is not only a violation of merchant agreement, but federal law as well. Can anyone who wants to please post other names that you know of this co. using, or names that have billed you?
Thanks
Thanks
Thanks for the update, that is very useful info. Just makes me
Thanks for the update, that is very useful info. Just makes me wonder how many other such companies do the same thing and get away with it.
I have no idea as to other names this company uses, hopefully other forum members know and can post them.
Finding their names should be fairly easy.They are a publicly tr
Finding their names should be fairly easy.They are a publicly traded corp.