I left the company 10 months ago. It was an unpleasant surprise to receive a letter from them this week requesting I payback $2k in commisions. Is this legal?
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Do like them. Ignore.
With the amount of fraud in our sales and retail groups, I'm not surprised. I hope they find more of it and go after it.
Not true. Totally illegal.
They will withhold your W2 until you pay it back.
They will withhold your W2 until you pay it back.
if it goes to collections, will be on your credit report for 7 years.
100% legal especially if the commissions paid out were determined fraud, which there has been a shitload of. They will prove it if that’s the case and take you to the ringer. Oh and if the feds jump in on as it was a large amount of fraud you could be looking at more serious consequences. Had a colleague commit a ton of fraud and it allll came back to him.
I didn't pay back the direct TV got for free for 10 months after they laid me off. I paid out of mt diecy deposit so when I left, they had no way to get the $. They chased me bit gave up.
Just don’t pay them. It’s not enough for them to fight you on. They sent their .37 cent letter and that’s all the will do. It’s not worth collection costs. They can’t send you to collections because there we no terms established for repayment.
Isn’t it only a 6 month (180 day chargeback period)
Make them provide full documentation for every sale. Usually charge backs are within a 6 month period.
I wouldn't give them a fricking penny.
They will end up sending to a collection agency and it hits your credit report in like a year. It will roll off of there soon enough.
Eff them dude. They are desperate. Titanic comes to mind.
The smart thing to do would be to Request a breakdown of every order and Account that was pulled. Tell AT&T if they can't produce that information then take them to small claims court. Then tell the courts how AT&T will randomly pull compensation out of PayeeWeb without sending you a CAIRS request and how you need to manually look for orders that were pulled. Then tell the courts how you don't have the Ability to place Albert tickets to get compensation reinstated and drop the case. I heard this on a Bolton Townhall and AT&T basically admitted too it and said they were using some new system named Scout that helped prevent them from fraudulently taking sales from sellers.
Totally legal bro.
You sales guys are funny. Dont you read the fine print? Of course its legal, and the longer you wait the more you owe.
100%