On Sunday 25 March 2007 11:38:56 pm Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:32:04PM -0700: > > Lan Barnes wrote: > > > Ever check your credit report? Ever try to get something false off it? > > > > Yes and yes. Just last month in fact. > > Likewise, yes and yes, although it's been a lot longer since I > contested anything. > > Some things are easy to change, some hard, and some virtually > impossible. > > > > They are unaccountable and they act like it. > > > > I thought the rules of accountability were fairly reasonable. If you can > > prove it is false it usually isn't a problem getting it off. > > Um.... I don't think we're talking about the same sort of > accountability. The Credit Bureaus are not accountable for much > of anything -- if they have bad data, it's no skin off of their > nose. Sure, getting stuff changed isn't hard if you're lucky, but > if you're not lucky, it's serious money to the lawyers to change > things. > > > It is in > > their interest to have accurate credit reports. They gain nothing by > > reporting incorrect information on you. > > That's back-to-front; they *lose* nothing by reporting incorrect > information on you -- they've cleverly made it your responsibility > to ensure that /their/ database is correct. > > They gain by not having to spend resources to ensure correctness. > > -- > That it could be better is not to say that it couldn't be worse. > Stewart Stremler
Sounds remarkably like a SORBS list. C. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
