I received a letter regarding my account in mid-January and it was the first letter I had received. I own a small business and January is the busiest month for yearend tax issues, payroll, and closing books, etc. I did not respond within the ten days she gave me. On January 29th I received a phone call from an investigator who stated he was hired to perform an asset and liability investigation of my company and stated he had contacted my banks, the secretary of state, and made several threatening statements about coming out to photograph my vehicles and the inventory in my store.
He gave me the name and number of someone with a company called Vericore to contact and I have since done so. I have also done some investigating of my own and have found that Vericore is one of the slimiest companies for collections in the country. I received faxed copies of the invoices that remain open which I am researching to verify payments I believe I made, not showing on these invoices, were in fact received and have not credited to my account.
I have been doing business as a distributor of Hal Leonard's products for about 5 years.in that time, I have been a good customer and have sold thousands of dollars of books for Hal Leonard. Now that the economy is in a slump and the country is in crisis, I am being treated like a criminal for a balance that I don't consider worthy of such low class and unethical (not to mention unlawful) collection tactics.
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