I rented a car in the city I live some 3 years ago. Now I get this letter from a creditor demanding I pay the $76! Would you pay it? If not, what repercussions are there?

 

Heck no. They only send it to creditors to try to get a fraction of what they had. Since they can't obviously trace it back to you...

Thats the great thing about "bill me later" magazines

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by thunderchicken
Heck no.

 

if a creditor got ya... thats bad. that means you just got some marks on your credit. i'd call, bitch about it and find out what the is going on

 

Maybe I got confused between a creditor and a collection agency.

 

They can indeed trace it back to you. I used to work at Enterprise and we got tickets in the mail all the time. We check the date and time of the ticket versus the rental record of the vehicle and find out who had it. If they don't cough up the $$ you just charge their credit card since it is in the system anyways.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TrojanHorse
They can indeed trace it back to you.

 

isnt it illegal to charge something to someoen's credit card without them authorizing it first ?!?!?!??!

 

Whatever company you rented from may have different procedures than we did. They may submit the tickets to a collection agency. That is how it eventauilly tracked you down.

As for authorizing the charge I beleive if you read the fine print of the rental contract you will see that you are responsible for any tickets you may incur while renting the vehicle.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by wantone
I rented a car in the city I live some 3 years ago.