Consumer complaint received 2019-06-25
Company: ALLY FINANCIAL INC.
State: VA
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem
Sub-issue: Their investigation did not fix an error on your report

Complaint:
This incident has been ongoing since XX/XX/XXXX. I currently have a lease with Ally and I have never missed a payment in my entire credit history. When you make payments higher than the amount required for your monthly obligation the extra amount goes into the next month therefore some months you may not have a monthly payment. I was also enrolled in Autopay which automatically withdraws money from my checking account to pay my lease. For some reason the AutoPay was not processed, one would think within the 30 day timeframe Ally would make a valiant effort to reach out to me. As soon as I receive a credit alert I called XX/XX/XXXX and spoke to representative and told him the situation. I have always made on-time payments with all my creditors and never missed a payment which explains why have a 700+ beacon. He stated that he would put a request for a removal and it would take 30 to 45 days I said thank you for looking into my account and submitting this for me. Late XXXX comes around I contact Ally once again to get an update the representative place me on a hold and stated to me that everything was APPROVED and it will normally take 30-45 days to remove from all three of the credit bureaus I said this great. I am in the process of buying a house for my family and this would help because now with this negative record report I am in the low 600s now. I contact today XX/XX/XXXX, now they state to me that it is still in review status. I stated that on my last conversation the representative stated that all I had to do is wait 30-45 days and it will be removed now your telling me that it is being reviewed and letter was just sent on XX/XX/XXXX. I asked representative to speak to the supervisor and I spoke to supervisor and stated the story all over again. She just kept repeating that I can't answer any of your questions a letter has been sent. I am thinking to myself your a manager  at large bank and there is no way for you to find an answer in the resolution center if the request for the removal was complete or not complete because I am getting conflicting information based on my last conversation when I contacted. I asked her if you were in the same situation would be really satisfied with " there is a letter in the mail '' when you are talking to a person of authority at a large bank. I asked her if she could talk to the credit department, quality control to replay the conversation with last representative, review the notes on the account, I worked on a XXXX XXXX  before and I knew what resources I had when a customer contacted me it just didn't seem like they really cared to find a resolution in the resolution center that was answer a customers simple question. I am just trying to buy a house for my family and this is the only issue that is holding me back. I can pay off the entire balance if wanted to right now but I like building on my credit, establishing long relationships with my creditors by making the payments on time as i always have in the last 15 years I was able to establish credit. I just the derogatory to be removed ; I would like Ally to give resolution center more than a few scripts to read to the customers. I would like to speak to an actual person not a script. At this point you can replace the employees with " XXXX '' if you want robots working for you because really do not value anything with customer service so you might as well cut the payroll and employ " XXXX ' because at least she will find an answer.

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation