What is the name of your state? OH
Hi,
I just received a letter claiming to be from a law office associated with a company that bought out a company I used to have host my website. When the company was bought out and service quality degraded, I cancelled the account and haven't used it for over a year. I had been pre-paying for my account every year per their agreement. Now, according to the letter they want me to pay an amount that I have no idea what it is for. I had already paid this company $306 for another year of service before I had cancelled, and that kind of felt like a waste. Now I am in disbelief that they are asking another $409.97 (where that number even came from I don't know). The letter states:
This is to advise you that this office now represents your creditor, Interland, Inc. , and is prepared to review this matter with you before brining you to court.
However, if it is not your intent to make satisfactor arrangements regarding payment, then you need not contact us.
We are preparing to have our associates in [town] bring this matter into lawsuit. It shall be our intent to enforce collection through judgment...and a writ of execution thereafter.
Unless you call me by June 15, 2004 to settle this debt, I will have no alternative but to have our associates file the complaint and have you served with summons. Be advised that this complaint would include allowable court costs, interest and attorney's fees."
Funny thing about this letter is, while it does have a correct address, there is no name on it. The only thing is has with the address is a "company name," which is a name I used for my website and is not a real company. Before cancelling the account, I had cleared out my personal information on the website (a practice I usually follow before cancelling any account is to delete or overwrite the personal information). If they knew my name why wouldn't they include it?
The letter seems very impersonal and almost like a junk letter, and I feel it may have been sent automatically. I specifically recall, however, being completely paid off with this compnay before I left (especially considering that they required pre-payment of everything). What should I do at this point? Should I talk to the company, the number on the letter, or ignore it?
This letter means very little to me because I have no idea what the terms like "judgment" "writ of execution" and "summons" mean. This was simply a virtual hosting account I had gotten permission from my parents to set up in high school for my work with websites, and not a thing went wrong with it until now. I extremely disliked the company that bought out the old one (even moreso now) and do not feel that this is a legitimate request.
Thanks
Hi,
I just received a letter claiming to be from a law office associated with a company that bought out a company I used to have host my website. When the company was bought out and service quality degraded, I cancelled the account and haven't used it for over a year. I had been pre-paying for my account every year per their agreement. Now, according to the letter they want me to pay an amount that I have no idea what it is for. I had already paid this company $306 for another year of service before I had cancelled, and that kind of felt like a waste. Now I am in disbelief that they are asking another $409.97 (where that number even came from I don't know). The letter states:
This is to advise you that this office now represents your creditor, Interland, Inc. , and is prepared to review this matter with you before brining you to court.
However, if it is not your intent to make satisfactor arrangements regarding payment, then you need not contact us.
We are preparing to have our associates in [town] bring this matter into lawsuit. It shall be our intent to enforce collection through judgment...and a writ of execution thereafter.
Unless you call me by June 15, 2004 to settle this debt, I will have no alternative but to have our associates file the complaint and have you served with summons. Be advised that this complaint would include allowable court costs, interest and attorney's fees."
Funny thing about this letter is, while it does have a correct address, there is no name on it. The only thing is has with the address is a "company name," which is a name I used for my website and is not a real company. Before cancelling the account, I had cleared out my personal information on the website (a practice I usually follow before cancelling any account is to delete or overwrite the personal information). If they knew my name why wouldn't they include it?
The letter seems very impersonal and almost like a junk letter, and I feel it may have been sent automatically. I specifically recall, however, being completely paid off with this compnay before I left (especially considering that they required pre-payment of everything). What should I do at this point? Should I talk to the company, the number on the letter, or ignore it?
This letter means very little to me because I have no idea what the terms like "judgment" "writ of execution" and "summons" mean. This was simply a virtual hosting account I had gotten permission from my parents to set up in high school for my work with websites, and not a thing went wrong with it until now. I extremely disliked the company that bought out the old one (even moreso now) and do not feel that this is a legitimate request.
Thanks
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