If a business doesn't take care of its customers, some other business will.
Our recommendation is that under NO circumstances ever use Environmental Testing & Consulting.
A contractor we'd hired to do work at our home scheduled Environmental Testing & Consulting to come to our home. A Jack, who identified himself as the owner of Environmental Testing & Consulting, showed up and the first words out of his mouth was his demand we pay him everything up front for his service. The contractor told us we had to do so, so we did. Jack from Environmental Testing & Consulting gave us a receipt for paid in full, and our paid in full payment to them cleared on our credit card
We just obtained our annual free credit reports and were very surprised, shocked and distressed as we have always had perfect credit, to find Environmental Testing & Consulting had turned us over to a collection agency! That was the first we knew about it!!
So, we dug up our receipt from Environmental Testing & Consulting and our credit card statement that our payment to Environmental Testing & Consulting had cleared. We then contacted Environmental Testing & Consulting. Wow, just wow. A Darlene answered and immediately went off on a screaming tirade peppered with several curse words and threats liberally screamed at us telling us she had turned us over to collections and there was nothing she could do and hung up on us. We have a captioned phone so have it all in writing.
We then contacted the collection agency showed them our ETC receipt, credit card statement, and they told us we can't dispute with them the account turned over to them, as all they do is collect, and referred us back to Environmental Testing & Consulting since we "truly didn't owe the debt."
Our credit scores are very important to us. Our entire credit report is very important. It determines whether we can get a mortgage, an auto loan, an apartment, or any kind of credit and at what interest rates. Our creditworthiness follows is and, to all lenders, it defines us. This false turning us over to a collection agency has severely damaged us and caused us significant emotional distress as it is an attempt to deprive us of our rightful assets. So we met with a lawyer.
Nevada law takes a strong stance against elder financial abuse. The state categorizes financial exploitation of the elderly as a form of elder abuse. Nevada law defines financial exploitation as any action involving deceit, breach of fiduciary duty, or abuse of authority to deprive an older person of their financial independence or rightful assets.
We then filed a police report and a complaint with the Nevada Attorney General for fraud and deceit as we have all the documentation we don't owe this business anything, elder abuse to us, deceptive trade practices as Nevada Secretary of State has this business as in default, and threats to us who are elder and senior persons, to which we attached our Environmental Testing & Consulting receipt as paid in full, our credit card statement that our paid in full payment to them had cleared, pictures of the violent phone conversation they has with us, and the screenshot from Nevada Secretary of State this business is in default.
For others who have had issues with this company, we recommend they also file a police report and a complaint with the Nevada Attorney General for NRS 598 Deceptive Trade Practices. The Nevada Attorney General Office told us that when they get several complaints against the same business, they open an investigation and can take action against the business.
P.S. Don't message me because in spite of several complaints to yelp, for years now I am unable to open up any messages in yelp to me :-( read more