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Debt Collection

  • 09-01-2018 1:54am
    #1
    Fake News
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭


    I saw them advertised as Field Operatives in the UK. Does anyone know what the job is like?


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  • #2
    patchyamac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭patchyamac


    Immoral?


  • #3
    Fake News
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭Fake News


    Tbh I think they're the scum of the earth but I'm interested in knowing how much they make.


  • #4
    SuperSean11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭SuperSean11


    patchyamac wrote: »
    Immoral?

    Why?


  • #5
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    Fake News wrote: »
    Tbh I think they're the scum of the earth but I'm interested in knowing how much they make.

    Why?.

    People knowingly enter contracts for services, and when they don't pay for that service as agreed, debt collectors are necessary to recover monies owed. Unless there is a consequence to not paying, why would anyone pay? Also,from reading the many, many threads on here about DC's, they only get involved after the service provider themselves have made many efforts to engage with the debtor and recover fees.


  • #6
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    davo10 wrote: »
    Why?.

    People knowingly enter contracts for services, and when they don't pay for that service as agreed, debt collectors are necessary to recover monies owed. Unless there is a consequence to not paying, why would anyone pay? Also,from reading the many, many threads on here about DC's, they only get involved after the service provider themselves have made many efforts to engage with the debtor and recover fees.
    Which means they are largely dealing with people who have real difficulty in paying. Which makes for a fairly ****ty job, I would think.


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  • #7
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Which means they are largely dealing with people who have real difficulty in paying. Which makes for a fairly ****ty job, I would think.

    No doubt about that, it wouldn't be a career choice for most. But they are none the less, doing a job. They are not "immoral", nor are they "scumbags", they are employed to collect monies owed by those that can't, or won't pay. Very few of the posters I've read over the years have admitted to not engaging with the service provider, it is always asked, but rarely answered.


  • #8
    Fake News
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭Fake News


    davo10 wrote: »
    Fake News wrote: »
    Tbh I think they're the scum of the earth but I'm interested in knowing how much they make.

    Why?.

    People knowingly enter contracts for services, and when they don't pay for that service as agreed, debt collectors are necessary to recover monies owed. Unless there is a consequence to not paying, why would anyone pay? Also,from reading the many, many threads on here about DC's, they only get involved after the service provider themselves have made many efforts to engage with the debtor and recover fees.
    davo10 wrote: »
    Fake News wrote: »
    Tbh I think they're the scum of the earth but I'm interested in knowing how much they make.

    Why?.

    People knowingly enter contracts for services, and when they don't pay for that service as agreed, debt collectors are necessary to recover monies owed. Unless there is a consequence to not paying, why would anyone pay? Also,from reading the many, many threads on here about DC's, they only get involved after the service provider themselves have made many efforts to engage with the debtor and recover fees.
    Debt collection is unregulated. They use stages with people who don't pay and they increase those stages every week until the debtors pay or life becomes so unbearable for them, that they top themselves.


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