I am a few months past due on one my credit cards. I have no desire to not pay them, skip out on the bill. I am not a deadbeat, we are just really struggling now like so many others. I don’t even owe them a great deal of money. So last night my elderly neighbor calls because she got a phone call from a credit rep inquiring to my welfare!

Now my neighbor is facing her own challenges. Her husband is also quite ill. She was confused and upset wondering why I would give out an unlisted cell phone number that they have.
They are not on any emergency contact list, why would they be? I was upset as well thinking what the heck kind of right do these bill collectors have to chase a debt?

I called them immediately to find out how in the world they have the right to invade someone’s privacy? How come they called my neighbor and how did they find an unlisted cell phone number?

Get this, they go to Google Earth and pull up your address. Then they target your neighbors homes, go to a search engine put in the address and lo and behold- they have all types of information about your neighbors! If calling one of your neighbors doesn’t get your attention, they keep calling all around you until you answer them? ?

I was pissed and told them so. I have been a good customer now for quite some time and until recently never late on my payments.

Once they found out how ticked I was, they put me on “special arrangements.” Once I pay this card off, it will be destroyed. I will never use it again. I don’t care if it hurts my credit. For me, they crossed the line and they should never have invaded anyone’s privacy like they did.

I will not say who they are, not publicly, not yet. I have contacted several news and legal sources to find out if this sort of tactic is even legal or ethical. But I will tell you that I will never shop at their “Specialty Women’s Store” ever again.