First off, I admit I am one of those people who have not answered their phone for the last 3 months, unless the caller ID showed a name that I knew.
This week (I filed chap. 7 on 10/13) I tried answering a coulple of times, but got put on hold while they rang another number and hung up.
One co. has been calling us 4 - 8 times a day. Metris Co. Today I finally answered and waited to talk to a real person. A pleasant woman answered and using my best business voice I verified that who I was and she told me she was calling because I owed Direct Merchants a payment of $1082.
I told her that I had filed Bk and I would give her my attorneys' name.
Very politely and surprisingly pleasantly she said all right, please give me a moment to get those forms. I gave her all of the info she requested Lawyers' name, phone #, address, date filed, and chapter 7 or 13. She verified tht I was still living at the same address and simply said thank you and hung up.
Why don't I ever follow my own advice...
For the last 30 years I have remembered a slogan,
If you have to swallow a green frog, don't look at it too long first.
If you have more than one green frog to swallow, begin with the largest.
I know that not everyone will be that nice and that I "may" continue to get calls from the same co., but I must say that as of now, I admired the manner in which they handled this and from now on, if the phone rings, I'm going to answer it.
"The fear and anxiety caused by the anticipation of pain is often far worse than the pain."
This week (I filed chap. 7 on 10/13) I tried answering a coulple of times, but got put on hold while they rang another number and hung up.
One co. has been calling us 4 - 8 times a day. Metris Co. Today I finally answered and waited to talk to a real person. A pleasant woman answered and using my best business voice I verified that who I was and she told me she was calling because I owed Direct Merchants a payment of $1082.
I told her that I had filed Bk and I would give her my attorneys' name.
Very politely and surprisingly pleasantly she said all right, please give me a moment to get those forms. I gave her all of the info she requested Lawyers' name, phone #, address, date filed, and chapter 7 or 13. She verified tht I was still living at the same address and simply said thank you and hung up.
Why don't I ever follow my own advice...
For the last 30 years I have remembered a slogan,
If you have to swallow a green frog, don't look at it too long first.
If you have more than one green frog to swallow, begin with the largest.
I know that not everyone will be that nice and that I "may" continue to get calls from the same co., but I must say that as of now, I admired the manner in which they handled this and from now on, if the phone rings, I'm going to answer it.
"The fear and anxiety caused by the anticipation of pain is often far worse than the pain."
....I remeber the first creditor to call after we filed. Once I told them my BK info, they were SSSOOOOO nice....I was like WOW...last week you made me feel like crap....LOL
no matter how many times i tell these
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