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Economics for Life

Finally, if you are seriously delinquent on a credit card, you can try a discussion called pay for deletion. Since the financial institution will have to sell the debt for 20% of its face value to a collection company once they write off the debt, the collection specialist at the financial institution (before it gets sold to a collection company) will be willing to make a deal. Offer them 30% or 40% of the outstanding balance with the agreement that he/she will delete the negative reporting from the credit agency’s report.