{"id":217,"date":"2006-02-06T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/credit-collections\/credit-report-repair-offers-buyer-beware\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T00:14:44","slug":"credit-report-repair-offers-buyer-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/credit-collections\/credit-report-repair-offers-buyer-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Report Repair Offers &#8211; Buyer Beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit report repair services are all over the web, but consumers should beware.<\/p>\n<p>A recent blog post on the WashingtonPost.com reported the following about credit report repair offers &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Credit repair promoters generally charge hundreds of dollars, but don&#8217;t deliver on their claims,&#8221; said Eileen Harrington, the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s deputy director of the agency&#8217;s consumer-protection division. &#8220;The fact is, they can&#8217;t. No one can legally remove accurate and timely information from your credit report. &#8230; There is absolutely no reason to pay for credit repair&#8211;ever.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more on this blog post by Caroline Mayer @ <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/thecheckout\/2006\/02\/beware_of_enticing_offers_to_f.html\">Beware of Enticing Offers to Fix Your Credit Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit report repair services are all over the web, but consumers should beware. A recent blog post on the WashingtonPost.com reported the following about credit report repair offers &#8212; &#8220;Credit repair promoters generally charge hundreds of dollars, but don&#8217;t deliver on their claims,&#8221; said Eileen Harrington, the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s deputy director of the agency&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/credit-collections\/credit-report-repair-offers-buyer-beware\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Credit Report Repair Offers &#8211; Buyer Beware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}