Edward Carlino J.
This company violates the Massachusetts…
This company violates the Massachusetts state laws on bill collection. They have called me up to 30 times in a given month the max any company can contact you in Mass is 2 times a month the laws from the website is right here below : Creditors, debt buyers, and collection agencies cannot: Threaten to call the police to arrest you if you do not pay your debt. Call, text, or leave a voice message at your personal number more than twice a week per debt. Call, text, or leave a message for you at any place more than twice per debt in any 30-day period. Call you at work if you told them not to. If you tell them not to call you at work, they cannot call for 10 days. If you want them not to call you at work at all, write to them within 7 days after you first talked to them. In the letter, tell them not to call you at work. If they reach out to you at work, they need to send you a written notice of your rights within 30 days after they first reached out to you. Charge you for long distance calls, text messaging, download and data usage fees, or similar charges. Threaten to take legal action if they are not planning to take you to court. Use profane or obscene language. Visit or call your home before 8:00 AM and after 9:00 PM. Visit your home more than once in 30 days for each debt. Visit you at work. Send collection notices in envelopes that show you owe a debt. For example, they cannot mail you postcards or have descriptive return addresses. Tell anyone about your debt. This includes your friends, neighbors, relatives, and employers. Now…They have left messages on my answering machine at my store leaving specific information about my bills and the entire store with customers heard it. A complete violation. I have contacted our attorney and he is going after them for these actions after this weeks situation. This is outrageous that they take this matter personally and call my store two times a day plus emailing me on two different email addresses. The employees that work for Marlin/Peak either do not know the laws or do not care about them and they should be held accountable for their actions. This happened to me with this company a few years ago and the company was made aware of it by an attorney that worked for Them!!!! When he heard that they left sensitive information about my account on my fathers home answering machine, that’s correct, they started calling everyone in my family about the situation, the lawyer for Marlin awarded me the machine we bought as a result to thwart losing in court because he knew they did wrong, I was shocked. He actually called me at work and said Mr Carlino I’m not going to sugar coat this, we did wrong thing here and we’d like to fix this. They evidently have still not learned their lesson after almost ten years later. I tried Calling the Vice President of the company after getting a threatening letter around Xmas time 2023 and the asst Sherri Scardaville, refused to let me talk to him.the very latest email sent by Roxanne Smith demanding a double payment now that is not even due yet shows the voracity of these employees. They are only allowed by law to leave their company name and contact number and no other sensitive information about the bill so others can possibly know your information . I have recordings left by them that go on for multiple minutes of time with detailed information and emotional almost scolding personal tone to these messages from these Marlin employees.They daily and constantly sent me messages and call my store every day twice a day from different numbers, one stating Marlin Leasing and the other stating speak Solutions on the Caller id. They call me every single day about my bill against Massachusetts law that clearly states they can only contact you twice in a 30 period max. These people do not learn…. I have 30 vendors in my store not one of them act like this company. Marlin leasing was absorbed by PEAC solutions much in the way GE Capital got absorbed by Synchrony bank by having bad business practices under their wing, they had no choice but to change their name and ownership so that people couldn’t search for the problems that were going on. That is much in the way of Marlin leasings employees. Judging from my experience with them and what I have witnessed myself and what my employees have told me that they’ve heard them leaving messages, They seem to make their own rules as far as collection efforts go and violate the rights of the consumers ruining the experience of obtaining equipment to run their business. We have kept the recorded messages as proof of this. This is not going away this company needs to stop this immediately. The Massachusetts attorney general’s office was made aware in December when this initially happened and now that it has surfaced itself again we have informed them of the situation and are awaiting a result.
Response from Marlin Leasing Corporation DBA PEAC SolutionsMar 13, 2024
Hello Edward Carlino Jr, we do apologize for any inconvenience or dissatisfaction you may have experienced with dealing with our organization. Please know that we at PEAC Solutions remain committed to delivering an elevated level of customer service and value your opinion. We were able to locate your contract information from your Trustpilot post. Your concerns have been escalated to our Legal Team. They will review all account details and reach out when able. Warmest Regards, Briana – Customer Ambassador



