Data-driven look at America's brutal, racist debt-collection machine

I’m glad you can - where I live to hire a law firm is 700 up front - and that’s on the cheap side.

That being said - if I pay a lawyer 600 or I pay the agency 600 - it’s still 600 I’m out - honestly I felt responsible (I tell my better half to check accounts monthly for abnormalities - she’s not very good at it) so whatever. I’ll remind you that the claim was for 800 - not 600 - wonderful stuff they just tack on - it’s much like a bounced check fee (haven’t seen one of those in around 9 years) where you get 35 bucks from the bank and 25 from the store - yup - it’s your fault for bouncing a check - but there is little you can do to the 60 bucks you are now ‘out’ in fees.