I was forced to file a lawsuit against Verizon. I want to explain.

InterNACHI purchased Verizon wireless cards for our staffers a while back and Verizon required that I open the account in my name personally. The cards didn’t work and kept knocking us off line. We returned them and cancelled the account but Verizon would not credit us for the cards (about $1,200) and of course I refused to pay the bogus bill for the product/service that didn’t work. Months went by and my car dealer discovered that Verizon put the charge into collection and reported this to credit agencies. InterNACHI often uses my personal guarantee to acquire favorable deals (such as http://www.nachi.org/accidentinsurance.htm recently) and these deals are reliant in part on my FICO score. I asked Verizon to correct my otherwise perfect credit report. They ignored my request. So I sued them this week for libel.

http://www.nachi.org/documents/GromickoVsVerizon.pdf
.
Check your credit report regularly for errors. It’s a real pain to correct them.

Can you still hear me?

Yes.

I’m rolln off the lot in a used sub compact. in stead of looking fly and rolling fat, now my legs are sticking to the seats and my posse’s get’n laught at. :cool:

Hey Nick,

You need to get a credit monitoring company like Equifax. They have great features like fraud monitoring and unlimited credit reports… only about 15 bucks a month. www.equifax.com

Ray

It took Dan Harris less than 4-hours to try to discredit you as a person and NACHI as an association!:twisted:

This from an ex member who was kicked out of a NACHI for a Code of Ethics violation.

Quote: Dan Harris:
Guess an org has to have good credit as well:twisted:

It looks nickos bad credit caught up with him, ohh well the FREE insurance, another member bennie gone, :roll: :roll:

What a sec… Nich I have a suggestion, why don’t you just take a 2nd mtg out on the printing business you bought, cut the pay for the race driver of nachos race car, or heck just sell some of the hundredreds of thousands of newspaper boxes that are in front of all realtor offices across the country.

The heck with good credit when nachi members own all those assets.
Then you could pay cash for the insurance,

The insurance program was bought already, http://www.nachi.org/accidentinsurance.htm not affected, no bennies lost, many more coming.

http://www.nachi.org/accidentinsurance.htm in force. I’ll donate the $20,000.00 (about what I’ll probably get out of Verizon) to InterNACHI.

Verision is a CR*P company, from my experience.

Try AT&T. Better technology, better service (as in “they get it right”) and actually provide customer service (who’d a thunk it :mrgreen: ).

My only comment, Nick, is shop around a little more, in the future, and only work with reputable companies.

Hope this helps;

It does. I think Verizon will be quite surprised to find a consumer who slaps them with a $75,000.00 suit over an error on his credit report. I suspect their “network” will fix me up pretty quickly :cool:

But, remember Nick. All those guys and gals who follow you around, not to mention the trucks and helocopters and heavy equipment (as seen in their ads), do tend to take up a LOT of space. Knowing you, they would tend to cramp your style. :mrgreen:

Go AT&T. Just a little card, but is actually works. :wink:

Nick, whenever you have a problem with these companies where they don’t refund money. File with the BBB immediately. I got 3 months of free DSL and all my money back after verizon screwed up the last time. I also just got a free $600 phone from sprint after filing with the BBB because they screwed up my bill 6 months in a row and I called in every month to get it fixed. I’ve even had microsoft contact me to fix a BBB complaint I had against them when they were blocking our email for spam. It’s amazing what the BBB can do.

Good luck with Verizon!! They came out last week to fix my phone line and disconnected my alarm. I’ll be sending them the $150 bill for the alarm guys to come reconnect my system. We’ll see how that goes.

Good tip!

To paraphrase Monty Python:

“No one expects the BBB!” :mrgreen:

Why pay good money for lawyers when you can get these guys to fight for you.

BBB FU, it works for YOU :wink:

Comcast Shut off my Service due to an Independent Contractor (Comcast Contractor) excavating the cable recently for over 15 hours.

I now have the service that I originally contracted with PLUS 100 Channels & Pay Per View for the next 12 months at a $20 reduction in subscriber fee…

Thanks comcast…

Nick… I want to sincerely THANK YOU for all that you do for NACHI as an Association and for our individual members!

You Da Man!

{Now if you would just keep the low life expelled and banned “Ex-members” like Dan Harris off of this board life would be much sweeter!

$75,000… i’m sure that amount is worth the pain and suffering you endured during this whole ordeal.

And people wonder why insurance is expensive :wink:

I strongly recommend this company Credit Keeper

Last year my identity was stolen in January and this place was key in keeping an eye on my credit reporting and history. If you sign up for the monthly deal, you get notified if anything is changed or if any requests have been made.

If you have ever had to deal with the nightmare of someone getting into your personal information (and it can happen to anyone), you’ll know how important it is to keep an eye on your credit.

I was one of those guys that thought “it will never happen to me”. I’ll never think that way about anything, again.

In my experience, Verizon are corrupt idiots. They make AOL look like saints.

From: Mark S. Cohen
To: Nick Gromicko
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: Verizon - Am I ****ing great or what?

See below.

— Original Message—
To: mark@cohenhorner.com
Cc:
From:
Sent: 5/15/2008 6:41PM
Subject: RE: Nick Gromicko

>> Hello Mark,
>>
>> I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. After further review of
>> Mr. Gromicko’s account, we have determined that in the interest of
>> resolution, we will remove the derogatory trade line from his credit
>> profile, and expunge the remaining balance. I have requested a copy of
>> the deletion letter that our Recovery Department generates when they
>> delete trade lines. Once I have received it, I will forward a copy to
>> you for both you and your clients records.
>>
>> Thank you for you patience and feel free to contact me with any
>> questions you may have.
>>
>> XXX
>> Analyst - Legal Dept
>> Verizon Wireless *
>> Legal & External Affairs Department
>> 15505 Sand Canyon Ave, E305
>> Irvine, CA 92618
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:28 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: FW: Nick Gromicko
>>
>> Let me know if you want me to do anything on this one.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark S. Cohen [mailto:mark@cohenhorner.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:26 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Nick Gromicko
>>
>>
>> After I spoke with you, a man from your company also called me. He
>> asked me whether Mr. Gromicko would be willing to pay any actual use
>> charges that had been incurred, and I asked him to send me
>> documentation. I have not heard anything since then. Mr. Gromicko is
>> on me to keep this moving, so I hope Verizon will be in touch with me
>> shortly and remove the negative entry from his credit history. Please
>> respond with an update.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark Cohen
>> THE COHEN LAW GROUP
>> A Professional Corporaiton
>> P.O. Box 617
>> 110 Snyder Street, 2nd Floor
>> Nederland, CO 80466
>> Phone (303) 258-0561
>> Fax (303) 258-7893
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>> — Original Message—
>> To:
>> From: MARK
>> Sent: 5/06/2008 12:56PM
>> Subject: Nick Gromicko
>>
>> >> Thanks for your phone call this morning. I hope whoever the decision maker is will do what it takes to remove the negative entry from Mr.
>> >> Gromicko’s credit history because I believe (1) that is the right
>> >> thing to do, and (2) the parties will spend a lot more to litigate
>> the issue(s). I will await your response.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Mark Cohen
>> >> THE COHEN LAW GROUP
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mark S. Cohen
To: nick gromicko
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:04 AM
Subject: Fw: Nick Gromicko

FYI

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: “Mark S. Cohen” <mark@cohenhorner.com>
Cc:
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: Nick Gromicko

Mark,

Attached is a copy of the deletion letter for your client’s Verizon
Wireless account that was sent to the credit bureaus. I wasn’t aware
that a suit was filed, but this should put this matter behind Mr.
Gromicko. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark S. Cohen [mailto:mark@cohenhorner.com]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 9:35 AM
To:
Subject: Nick Gromicko

That is good news. As soon as you can send me some proof of that, I
will dismiss the suit with prejudice.

Thanks,

Mark Cohen
THE COHEN LAW GROUP
A Professional Corporation
P.O. Box 617
110 Snyder Street, 2nd Floor
Nederland, CO 80466
Phone (303) 258-0561
Fax (303) 258-7893
www.cohenslaw.com

Boulder Office:
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Boulder, CO 80302
(303) 546-7937

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