Curtis O Barnes I agree Rip Off Anaheim California
They started of calling on my fiances, quad which was stolen 6 months earlier. He had made a police report, and tried to claim it on home owners insurance. Neither where coperating. He had lost his job shortly after, and it just got worse. They started calling, threatening to garnish his wages, and put a lean on his house, and sue him. They said, "they would sue him till his head turned around!" haha funny huh! He felt threatened so their tatics worked, I told him to let me speek to them, I understand and catch manipulaiton very well.
Well the whole time I understood I was speeking to an attorney, well I was misunderstood I later found out he was just a middle man. We agreed to 3,000 down and 250. a month with the understanding, that if anything changed funds wouldnt be resumed if I declined to sign the agreement paper, and I also Assumed that I would be make a bill payment on my own each month to them. I really was mistaken, I found out they wanted all my account information, so I immediatley declined and turned them down.
I tried to get the 3,000. back which the whole agreement paper work was a tatic to get their money, that either which way it would go threw. Well I told them I would make payment but only under the consideration that I would mail it in myself, they wouldnt have it. I then stated,"DONT CALL ME ANYMORE SEE YA IN COURT!" well they continued to call five more times with more threats with this is your last time were going to court, each time I responded, I will make payments but I will not give my personal information.
Well now 3 months later they called again, same thing. This is your last chance I need an answer immediatley, threats of garnishing wages, and leans on not only his stuff, but mine also. I contacted the better buisness bureau, and The NM bar association I plan to counter sue for harassment, but honestly all I really want is to find who to start paying and keep it out of court. If theirs any new information on this company let me know I will continue to contact better buisness bureau and you guys should too. It will come around. They are rude, disrespectful, and a sceam. Please help us out.
Vwilkes
carlsbad, New Mexico
U.S.A.
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A Friend
Reynoldsburg,Ohio,
U.S.A.
Hope this helps
#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, June 09, 2008
I read your post and thought that I might be of some service since I am an ex-employee of LOCOB. The first thing is NOBODY at The Law Office of Curtis O Barnes is licenced in NM to sue ANYBODY, so dont worry about that. The next thing is they claim that they will not accept mail in payments but they will. They just want to have them secured via pbp ( pay by phone ). All you have to do is mail it to their physical address and they will be cashed,
LOCOB
390 W. Cerritos Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92805
If you want to set up an arrangement with them, make a few monthly payments of the same amount, then call in and your account will be moved to what is called the PPA ( Partial Payment Arrangement ) Desk. This person ( and there is only ONE ) in each office, is over ALL the accounts that cannot pay in full or make arrangements of over $200.00 a month. They work on the odds. Meaning, that they will usually take what they can get and move on because they are over approx 2,000 accounts where as the regular "Front Line Collector" is over 350-450 accounts. They usually will look at an account and see that there have been a few payments made over the last few months and they will be more apt to accept the payments that you are making because it is less work for them.
Here is the key - They claim that they are not making a commission off your payment and they is a LIE !!!!!!!! They make bonus off your payment and they do not want to let you go without getting something.
Hold your ground but remember that even if they refuse to "accept" your payment that if it is mail in, they will.
I hope that this helped you out and if you have anymore questions, leave them here and I will respond as soon as I can.