These people are rude, unprofessional rip off artists. It blows my mind that this type of business is even legal and tolerated by a CITY! I was trying to pay off three tickets to the City of Spokane, Washington and got behind a couple of months due to financial difficulties so they sent me to Empire Collection Agency. My tickets were almost tripled!!!!!!!!!! One ticket was$25. Their fee for that ticket was $25.00 and the interest was $20.00. The next was $35.00. Their fee was $35.00 and the interest was $22.00! So two tickets originally were $60.00, ended up costing me $162.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No matter how many times I called, emailed and wrote them to settle this debt at a lower more ethical and moral charge, I got no response!
What a bunch of criminals. And this stuff is legal. Shame on the companies/cities who use such schmuckers.
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