Michigan

Who looks silly, now, NPR?

I was recently interviewed by National Public Radio ("NRP" to you nerds who regularly listen to it...o.k. I listen to it, too). The reporter from NPR was doing a story about how social media has affected the debt collection profession. As a debt collector, let me just get this out in the open once and for all, because I really don't care what the bleeding heart liberals of NPR think.

YES, MY OFFICE USES SOCIAL MEDIA TO TRACK DOWN DEBTORS. Yeah, I said it. What are you going to do about, NPR? I tell you, my dear readers, what they did do. NPR did the story and painted me as something beyond callous hard hearted. They characterized me as a violator of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA"). Well guess what, NPR, the joke is on you because I am an expert under the FDCPA and I am right in what I am doing. I may be a heartless debt collector (or "bottom feeder" as some of you like to say...but sticks and stones, right?), but I am good at my job and I do it well.

Full post as published by Michigan Collection Law Blog on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).