I Paid for Microsoft’s Mistake

Re:I Paid for Microsoft’s Mistake by jrockway on Monday April 26, 2010 @11:37PM (#1297138)

Despite the error by Microsoft, I have no choice but to pay the outstanding invoice.

There's the other choice: continue to not pay it. Your obligation is to Microsoft, not the collections agency. Microsoft mistakenly sold your account to the collections agency; that is Microsoft's problem, not yours.

Consulting a lawyer would also be helpful.

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Re:I Paid for Microsoft’s Mistake by ars on Monday April 26, 2010 @11:54PM (#1297162)

Consulting a lawyer over $99 is not worth it, unless it's for the principle of the thing.

The simplest is to tell them "It's a mistake", and then ignore them utterly.

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Re:I Paid for Microsoft’s Mistake by jrockway on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @06:04AM (#1297742)

Especially if they don't have your SSN.

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