Finally
Today when I called the debt collector, they finally told me that I didn’t owe them any money. It only took 2 1/2 months for them to realize that. When I talked to them in the middle of last week they told me that they contacted AT&T and were told that I still owed them money. At that point I got to call them a liar since I had been talking to AT&T virtually every day and I know they had cleared me of the charge over 2 months ago. Immediately after the debt collector told me that, I called up AT&T again, unfortunately they were closed so I was directed to an answering machine. I have a feeling the message I left had something to do with them finally clearing things up because I went on a pretty long rant on what was going on and how either they were lieing to me or the debt collector was and that I would probably end up having to sue someone to get this taken care of. I’m guessing mentioning the possibility of sueing them got them to pick up the phone and take care of the problem. The debt collector is now supposed to fax me an invoice saying that I don’t owe them any money, but knowing how reliable they are, I doubt it will ever come. I should be getting a statement from AT&T saying I don’t owe any money, which should be good enough to clear things up if this somehow appears on my credit report. I’m just glad this is finally taken care of.