Card Service International ripoff third party not even their $3700 Simi Valley California

Company
CARDSERVICE INTERNATIONAL
Address:
P.o Box 5180
Simi Valley California 93062
U.S.A.
Phone Number:
1-800-456-5989
Fax:

Well I just received a letter in the mail today, saying i owe cardservice international 3,700 dollars. If I don't pay it they will supposedly put it on my credit report and legal action may be involved as well!!!

I opened my merchant account for 7 Months, and NEVER even USED it AND they want me to pay them 3,700 dollars. THATS A RIPOFF.

So I NICELY tried calling them to straighten this out, cause surely it was a mistake. RIGHT?

Well I talk to a gentleman named Travis and asked him WHY I owe 3700 dollars when I closed my account 7 months after I opened it and never used it, AND the proposed fee was like $120 a month.

He just said it was how much I owed on the non-cancellable lease!!!

Then told me i had to talk to the collections department!!!!

Why do I need to talk to collections?? All they wanted to do was TELL me to pay the bill!!

So after calling AGAIN, and AGAIN,and getting the same RUN - around I just decided to FILE a RIPOFF REPORT.

ITS obvious they don't want to try to straighten this out, or even try talking to me about this. At first I didn't know what to do, they wouldn't even work with me on paying off the $3700 that they claim that I owe. They wanted the whole $3,700 immediately. Then they kept threatening to file police reports and send my account to their legal department. All they want to do is MAKE A FEW QUICK BUICKS!!!

I think I should have to pay something for opening a merchant account for those seven months, and then cancelling it. BUT $3,700 DOLLARS seems extremely steep to me.

I've taken it to my family lawyer who is looking over the "contracts" I signed and working on filing a suit against this company.

I don't know what to do, this company has threatened me, which I've filed a complaint with the Federal Trade commission over, and the threats STILL keep coming, and talked to a credit counseling agency who told me to offer them a percentage of what they claim I owe, just to get it over with. I tried that too and STILL they call and call and call.

All I wanted to do was work something out, but I'm NOT paying $3,700 for an account I didn't even use. At $120 a month, 7 months having the account, which was FINALLY closed April 1st after several months of requesting the cancellation, this account should cost around $840. Where the hell did the other $2,860 come from???

Gregory
Lynden, Washington
U.S.A.