Has anyone successfully negotiated their sign on bonus or any other debt with the collection company? I never got a call from my company but received a letter from collection company to pay back 30k sign on because I left in less than a year.

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Sounds like it’s too late to negotiate. Did you not bring this up before you left your old company?

I negotiated with my former employer to pay back the sign on bonus over an extended period of time.

Now that's with collection, I'm not sure. Your credit will very possibly take a hit. Let this be a learning moment to never let bills go to collection.

They would have had to give you notice to send you to collections if it hit your credit. I was able to negotiate by calling, telling them this is the first notice I am getting of paying, and will pay in full if they remove the points against my credit. Wasn’t able to talk down the total owed (it wasn’t very much anyways). My sister was able to negotiate with a collections company that had her student loans because they were desperate but she also had minimal income. Worth a chat, but it ultimately will come down to the company and rep you talk with.

I would find a good CPA or a credible credit repair person on possible routes to handle this well. If it’s in collections, it’s going to affect your credit. For a 30K bill, I’m going to assume you’re going to get hounded for sure.

Collections asked me to respond by end of next month. I don’t think it hits credit history if I pay the collections. My question was can you negotiate with the collections company?

The collections first make an attempt to collect the debt before it goes to credit history. They have given me till end of October to respond first

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