Program kinks but a customer service star
I am using Anchor Law debt negotiation program. From a program and process perspective, I would give the company a C- overall. They do not really explain what will happen over time for normal human beings, and they do a terrible job defining what my responsibilities should be. And they miss deadlines and make things difficult (documents sent in and received (I tracked via Priority Mail) but still not sent to the legal folks, 3 attempts to send mail before it got there (how address was given to me is not the format needed by the USPS self-service kiosk in my town), I have to track what they are (or are not) doing. My belief is that the lawyers are probably overworked and underwater, and just go from brush fire to brush fire. And while I accept my ultimate accountability for the eventual outcome of the program, some regular communication about what actually has happened or not does not seem like asking for too much. Certainly, there was no lack of communication during the sales cycle....but once the money started flowing to Anchor, it all seemed to stop.
Having said all that, I will say that the Customer Service team does a really fine job doing a very tough, and often thankless front line job. This was especially true this week on Monday. I called to inquire about the most recent set of documents that I sent and knew had been received. Once the phone rep found them in the system, she was able to escalate them to the legal group as they somehow had not triggered the correct next internal process step. (And one does have to wonder why that happened, and how often it happens.) She was responsive, gracious and serene. I cannot remember her name, but she was a star in my experience.