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HSBC Updated this morning and added a bunch of lates...now what!?


angielynne
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HSBC was just listed as a charge off (paid) on all three Reports. It didn't have any late pays listed just a Charge off in Aug of 2006. This morning, they reported to Equifax 120 day late pays from Jan 06- Sep 07 where they show the charge off. Then they are reporting to Experian no lates and a charge off in aug 06. Can they do this? So they changed their reporting, but how can they report to Experian with a charge off in 06 and then to Equifax with a charge off in 07? Don't they have to match.

This was sold to Palisades and then settled and I've actually got the Palisades deleted, but this one is being a HUGE thorn in my side.

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Charge off is one of those weasal word things that doesn't mean what we think it does. In fact, it has two different meanings on credit reports.

First, it means "charge against income for profit and loss purposes", which creditors usually use to indicate that they've balanced their books and recognized that its likely they won't get paid. Doesn't mean squat to us...they still own it, we still owe it, they can still try to collect.

Second, it means "write off / sold to another lender" which is when they finally give up and sell it to a junk debt buyer.

This is all because credit reporting is computerized...and the company doing the reporting has a limited number of options.

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