Have heard nothing from Chase - need advice

I am in basically the same situation. Although I get calls maybe once a week from a 3rd party collector on my cell (but I don't pick up).

I believe I am about 100 days late.

Advice is appreciated.

Hi Guest64,
I hope you don???t mind me asking a probing question.
Who are you working with, or what source is being consulted, that is encouraging you to send DV letters while an account has not been charged off?
The answer is not as important as much as the fact that you are getting bad direction.
Sending letters, of virtually any nature, to the OC when the account is in pre charge off only increases the likelihood of legal placement. This goes for almost all national credit issuers.
Chase is very busy right now. They are doing assignment to collection firm???s pre charge off. Your letter writing is in Chases file and can lead to increased risk for legal action in order to collect!
Now, having gotten that melodrama out of my system, your account is likely just in a determination stage for assignment, sale or legal placement. That decision may have already been made, but not enough time has gone by for the collection Borg to have assimilated your account.
My point (not a slam on guest64): Quit sending letters that only increase the risk of attorney placement.

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To Someone Else - I sent a validation letter to Bureau of Collection Recovery (BCR) not to Chase. BCR's letter to me represented themselves as a collection agency, not as being in any way a part of Chase, so I am not sure where you are coming from. I did not send anything to Chase telling them not to contact me or asking them to validate my debt - all of that correspondence went to BCR.
If Chase is doing as you say and doing assignments to collection firms pre charge-off, then what was wrong with me asking a collection firm to validate the fact that they were legally allowed to collect my debt with Chase? Are you suggesting I should have ignored their letter completely?

Hi 64,
The letters you send in pre charge off, regardless of the named recipient, will become part of the file information that will later be used to determine placement of a charged off account. While debt validation requests are most certainly applicable to a 3rd party collection outfit, its use in the situation you described in your initial post is premature. Any contact from a 3rd party, pre charge off (generally 6 months delinquency) is just an extension of the original creditor.

Chase has been doing a lot of pre-legal placement this year. Other creditors do too. I only see it increasing. One of the triggers that I can squarely place as a reason for legal placement has been letters such as what you sent. This information is not sourced from my nether region, it???s first hand. It has been the case for some time. Even settlement offers made by consumers, that are sent unprovoked, can trigger adverse placement. No letters sent, of any nature, no increased risk exposure.

Companies and websites have been promoting this letter thing for years past its usefulness.

Further:
Assignment only, to a 3rd party, post charge off, is still something that can be seen by the OC and used for a different determination on placement if the account cycles back to them. They may even have a provision for yanking it from the 3rd part for this reason. If the original creditor maintains the legal right to collect on a debt post charge off (they did not sell it), they can see anything you sent to the CA at will. Post charge off is admittedly safer to send correspondence than pre charge off though.

Most major card issuers have, and/or are, developing procedures, on an ongoing basis, to maximize their return on non performing accounts. The environment is pretty fluid. Major banks are willing to settle. They also see (whether wrong or right) the process as being abused. They are reacting to that. Send a form letter, or what would be determined by a clerk to be a form letter, take your chances.

To answer your question after my bout of histrionics; If it were me, or me working with you, I would not have written to them. It would not have gone ignored though.

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What is "pre-legal placement"? I was just informed by a CA that my Citi card shows "pre-legal" status. If they sue me, my only option is bankruptcy. Why would they want to push me into Chapter 7 and get nothing?

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