Complaint Review: Palisades Collection - Englewood Cliffs New Jersey
- Palisades Collection 210 Sylvan Avenue Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey U.S.A.
- Phone: 201-567-5648
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O.K. so Palisade's Collections and their attorneys Wolpoff & Abramson were trying to get 500 dollars out of me for cancellation fees on an account i never cancelled. There was also a past due bill..
After repeatedly calling both the collection agency and the attorneys (who, by the way, wouldnt speak to me or let me have the # of the attorney handling it), I prepared an answer and an extensive document demand. here's a copy of the doc. demand.
You have the right to these documents and they HAVE TO provide them. The thing is, they try and strong arm you into payment when they have no proof of the documents and transactions since they buy the account from someone else and dont get those documents.
Plus, its so costly that it wont be worth it to them
Needless to say, I faxed the copies last night and was offered a settlement today of the amount owed minus the 500 contested amount. This is in New York.
So, FIGHT THESE SOBs!!!!!
good luck!
*CAPTION ON YOUR SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT*
Pursuant to Article 3120 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, NAME, defendant herein, demands that PALISADES COLLECTION LLC, having possession of information material and necessary in the prosecution or defense of the above captioned matter or their attorneys produce and furnish to the undersigned to the defendant (your name) at (your address) on or before (date, 30 days from when you send it out) all documents and things set forth:
INSTRUCTIONS:
As used in this Request:
1. The term document is intended to be comprehensive and to include, without limitation, all original writings of any nature whatsoever, copies and drafts which, by reason of notes, changes, initials or identification marks are not identical to the original, and all non-identical original copies thereof. In all cases where original and/or non-original copies are not available, document also means identical copies of original documents and copies of non-identical copies.
2. The term document includes, but is not limited to, correspondence, memoranda, agreements, records, reports, evaluations, summaries, opinions, journals, notes, transcriptions, telegrams, teletypes, telex messages, telefaxes, recordings of telephone calls, email printouts and all other communications, including but not limited to notations, notes, memoranda and other writings of or relating to telephone conversations, tapes or other recordings, logs and any other information which is stored electronically, by means of computer equipment or otherwise, and which can be retrieved in printed, graphic or audio form.
3. The term relating to includes referring to, embodying, in connection with, commenting on, corresponding to, sharing, describing, concerning, analyzing, reflecting or constituting.
4. Terms in the plural include the singular and terms in the singular include the plural.
5. A request that the party produce documents means that the party must produce all documents in possession of the party, and all documents belonging to the party in the possession of the party's representatives, agents, employees or attorneys.
6. If any document described in this request was, but no longer is in your possession or subject to your custody or control, or in existence, please state whether it is missing or lost; whether it has been destroyed; whether it has been transferred, voluntarily or involuntarily, to others; or whether it has been disposed of otherwise. In each instance explain the circumstances surrounding such disposition and identify the person directing or authorizing the same, and the date thereof. Identify each such document by listing its author, and the author's address, type of document (e.g., letter, memorandum, telegraph, or email), date, subject matter, present location and custodian, and state whether the document (or copies) are still in existence.
7. If any document, or any portion of any document, is withheld under claim of attorney-client privilege or upon any other ground, the petitioner withholding the document shall furnish a list, signed by the person supervising the response to this request, identifying each document withheld and stating with respect to each:
a. the date and number of pages of the document and the identities of its author, addressee and each person to whom copies were sent or were to be sent;
b. the subject matter of the document;
c. the identity of each person to whom the document, its contents, or any portion thereof is known or has been disclosed;
d. if the document is withheld on the grounds of attorney-client privilege;
(i) each basis for such claim of privilege and
(ii) the identity of each person who was privy to any assertedly privileged communication reflected in the document; and
e. if the document is withheld on any ground other than attorney-client privilege, each basis which respondent contends justifies withholding the document.
(7) The term the media includes, without limitation, television, newspapers,0 magazines, radio and internet websites.
Time Frame
1. All requests for documents cover the period from (date contract entered into with your original provider) to Present, unless otherwise specified. Pursuant to CPLR 3101, Petitioner is required to supplement or amend its response promptly after securing information which would make the previous response materially misleading.
DOCUMENTS REQUESTED
1. All documents, including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies relating to the original contract entered into between AT&T and defendant .
2. All documents, including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies relating to the original contract entered into between AT&T and defendantfor account # 7.
3. All documents, including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies, monthly billing statements listing all alleged charges and telephone calls, both incoming and outgoing, receipts of payment, cancelled checks and all other documents regarding the billing of defendant's account # 7.
4. All documents including but not limited to audio recordings of telephone conversations between AT &T and defendant relating to account # 7.
5. All documents including but not limited to transcripts of recordings of telephone conversations between AT &T and defendant relating to account # 7.
6. All documents including but not limited to audio recordings of telephone conversations between AT &T and defendant .
7. All documents including but not limited to transcripts of recordings of telephone conversations between AT &T and defendant
8. All documents including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies, correspondences, e-mails, telephone log entries, demand for payment notices and all other documents sent by AT & T to the defendant .
9. All documents including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies, correspondences, e-mails, telephone log entries, demand for payment notices and all other documents sent by Palisades Collections LLC to the defendant .
10. All documents including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies, correspondences, e-mails, telephone log entries, demand for payment notices and all other documents sent by Wolpoff & Abramson LLP to the defendant .
11. All documents including but not limited to records telephone calls, records of telephone logs, audio tapes made of telephone calls and messages left, and transcripts of telephone calls made by AT & T to the defendant .
12. All documents including but not limited to records telephone calls, records of telephone logs, audio tapes made of telephone calls and messages left and transcripts of telephone calls made by Palisades Collections LLC to the defendant 13. All documents that reflect that due demand for payment has been made by AT & T to defendant .
14. All documents that reflect that due demand for payment has been made by Palisades Collections to defendant .
15. All documents that reflect that due demand for payment has been made by Wolpoff & Abramson LLP to defendant .
16. All documents including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, correspondences, notes, emails and all other documents relating to the alleged cancellation of defendant's AT & T services.
17. All documents including but not limited to audio recordings of telephone conversations between the defendant and Palisades Collections LLC.
18. All documents including but not limited to original transcripts, copies of transcripts, and all other documents relating to telephone conversations between the defendant and Palisades Collections LLC.
19. All documents including but not limited to notes, ledger sheets, balance sheets, financial documents and all other documents relating to the calculation by AT & T of the alleged amount of debt owed by defendant.
20. All documents including but not limited to notes, ledger sheets, balance sheets, financial documents and all other documents relating to the calculation by Palisades Collections of the alleged amount of debt owed by defendant.
21. All documents including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies relating to the original contract entered into between AT&T and Palisades Collections.
22. All documents including but not limited to original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies relating to the original contract entered into between Palisades Collections and Wolpoff & Abramson .
23. All documents, including but original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies relating to the written notice pursuant to and required by Section 809 of the FDCPA (15 USC 1692g) sent from Palisades Collections to the defendant
24. All documents, including but original documents, drafts of original documents, photocopies relating to the written notice pursuant to and required by Section 809 of the FDCPA (15 USC 1692g) sent from Palisades Collections to the defendant .
THE FOREGOING DEMAND IS A CONTINUING DEMAND. IN THE EVENT ANY OF THE ABOVE ITEMS ARE OBTAINED AFTER THIS DEMAND, THEY ARE TO BE FURNISHED TO DEFENDANT _________________ at____________________________, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS OF RECEIPT BY DEPONENT OR HIS ATTORNEY. IF NONE OF THE ABOVE ITEMS EXIST, YOU ARE TO SO STATE IN A SWORN REPLY TO THIS DEMAND.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that upon your failure to produce the aforesaid information and/or documents, a motion may be made to preclude you upon the trial of this motion from offering evidence relating thereto, whether such evidence consists of written records or oral testimony. If none of the above items exist, you are to so state in a sworn reply to this demand.
Dated: Queens , New York
January 25, 2007
Yours, etc.,
___________________________________
TO: WOLPOFF & ABRAMSON LLP
FATIMAT O. BALOGUN, ESQ.
300 Canal View Blvd. 3rd Floor
Rochester, New York 14623
John
Kew Gardens, New York
U.S.A.
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#1 Consumer Suggestion
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AUTHOR: P - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Friday, January 26, 2007
from budhibbs.com
Agency Details
Wolpoff & Abramson, LLP
702 King Farm Blvd. Ste 500
Rockville, MD 20850-5775
Phone: (240) 386-3000 800-850-0948 800-303-0930
800-678-7720 - 800-365-6584 -888-200-4417
Fax: (240) 386-3822 & 240-386-3823
Web Address: www.wolpofflaw.com (Warning: Links to W&A Payment Center)
Head Debt Collectors:
Stuart J. Wolpoff, President
Harry K. Wolpoff, CCCE, Partner
Laurence C. Abramson, Partner
Ronald Marc Abramson, Partner
Bud Says...
ONE OF AMERICA'S WORST COLLECTION AGENCYS!
Can you say BILLIONAIRES?? Yes, Wolpoff & Abramson are on target o become the first BILLIONAIRES of the collection industry.
They have an incredible network of law firms across the country who sue on debt that were purchased for pennies, then many have arbitration claims files and/or sue upon. They buy themselves whatever they want and sometime, whomever they want to achieve their goals. To put this empire of scam in perspective here are some of the players:
First, one false rumor is that Wolpoff & Abramson (W&A) own the National Arbitration Forum (NAF); that is FALSE! They are the single largest supplier of claims to the NAF and at $ 250.00/per claim, it's easy to see why they win approximately 95-98% of all claims filed. This is further bolstered by the fact that NAF pays their arbitrators (attorneys, retired judges) a fee of $250/hour to handle claims. The rules state they must handle six claims per hour for this $250, so you can understand that any claimant would be lucky for even a cursory review of documents.
Buying bad debts for 2-3on the dollar (many for a lot less), paying the NAF $250 with an almost guaranteed award in your favor and a network of lawyers filing suits spells money on the level of a South American drug cartel to Wolpoff & Abramson.
W&A pulls the strings for NCAN; the National Collection Attorney Network which is comprised of over 100 law offices across the U.S. of attorneys who sue on debts. A few of these attorneys are good, honest, hard working, many more are inept, have very little understanding of the FDCPA, have no knowledge of any material facts other than what they are told to say and do. They get paid a contingency fee to show up in court, many never do, hoping to take default judgments.
Thank goodness for NACA attorneys who have the skills and experience to litigate against them, I recommend you always contact one at: naca.net
Think your going to beat an arbitration claim? Not when the arbitrator is being paid $250/hour and can be fed claims all day long. Think your rights under the law mean anything? Think again! I have been contacted on hundreds, perhaps thousands of arbitration claims and only one attorney from Texas had the guts to stand up and sayHey! This is wrong! The good news is he took his job seriously; the bad news is he is no longer an arbitrator for the NAF. Many of these arbitrators would feel very comfortable performing their jobs in a Nevada brothel as the two jobs perform similar services.
Think your going to get satisfaction from the Montgomery County, MD or Maryland State Bar for ethics complaints against W&A? NOPE! Seems Daddy sits on both boards and not many complaints ever go very far. Here is a partial list of collectors owned/used by W&A:
Alegis Group, Sherman Acquisitions, LVNV Funding, LLC
Arrow Financial Services
Asta Funding
Colonial Credit Corporation
Palisades Collections, LLC
Preferred Platinum Plan aka The Porn Collectors
Great Seneca Financial
Centurion Capital
Sage Financial
Monarch Financial
Hawker Financial
W&A cannot purchase debts as a law firm, so they apparently use these shell organizations to accomplish that goal.
Some of their largest NCAN Attorneys include:
Cohen & Slamowitz, LLP
Hosto & Buchan
Javitz, Block, & Rathbone, LLP
Mitchell N. Kay, P.C.
Love, Beal & Nixon, P.C.
Mel S. Harris & Associates
Messerli & Kramer
Johnson, Riddle & Mark fka/Riddle & Associates
Trauner, Cohen & Thomas
Weltman, Weinberg & Reis
W&A also has offices in many cities where the phones and faxes all ring in at Rockville, MD. They use an auto dialer that calls some consumers as many as 20 times daily (according to complaints I received) and make it near impossible to get wrong persons removed.
They file cases by the hundreds every day and reportedly even supply court clerks to work side by side with real court clerks to get the filings done.
Want to validate a debt? Fuggettaboutit! Won't happen! Slows them down, who gives a d**n about the law and consumer rights? They have daily, weekly, monthly goals to hit. Besides, they will manufacture most documents in-house for court filings; even notarize them by employees attesting to hearsay facts that are not admissible in most courts.
Some smart consumer attorney may one day put W&A employees under oath and learn that Affidavits that are legally supposed to be signed in the presence of the person attesting to the truthfulness (?) of the documents, have instead taken them home to be stamped and signed because of the work load. Again, the law and consumer rights are not the issue at W&A, profits are!
NOTE TO EMPLOYEES AT W&A:
THINK YOU HAVE PRIVACY WORKING THERE? THE NEW SECURITY PEOPLE (former CIA?) HAVE CAMERAS EVERYWHERE INCLUDING SEVERAL IN AREAS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT. THINK YOUR COMPUTER ISN'T BEING MONITORED? THINK AGAIN! THERE ARE EYES EVERYWHERE, WATCHING YOU, CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY, THIS IS SECURITY CIA STYLE' NOTHING IS SECRET AT WORK!
W&A will go to no end to protect their Niagara Falls of cash flowing into their coffers. Nobody is protected, nothing is sacred, whatever it takes. Money rules this organization, EVERYTHING else is secondary. They don't own the NAF but they d**n sure control them. My advice is to make them spend as much money as possible on each and every account they collect. Send them validation notices and tie up their collectors for as long as possible. NEVER fail to show up in court-- they miss a lot more court dates than they keep. Make the NAF work, send them validation notices, and force them to prove you are party to any arbitration agreement. Many, many courts are moving closer to consumers, and attitudes are changing, W&A has lost several BIG court decisions; keep as much pressure on them as you can. Each and every consumer fighting at the grass roots level will help, as well as making their illegal deeds known to your Congressman, Senators, and Judges. Use the experts at NACA naca.net
This is a struggle Americans can win, one account, one consumer at a time.
After you get over getting mad, GET EVEN! Make it costly to come after every account, it adds up quickly, a phone call, a stamp, a collector who can't collect; dispute, validate, make them pay with time and money at EVERY step.
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