Company X is the only one that can clear your name, which is important as many people rely on the opinions of Intrum Justice (Latin: "enter justice" !!)
Write to company X and ask them nicely to clear your reputation with Intrum Justice. Tell them you are legally insured, and would prefer the matter to be quietly sorted.
I doubt it Justitia would bother to go to court knowing you have all the proof. To do exactly what lose the case and pay costs of proceedings? But this is CH afterall, so you never know
The problem is the Intrum Justice has no more legal power than you or I, but employers and lenders do respect their opinions. Only company X can remove the bad report on the file held by Intrum Justice, and they need to be motivated to do so.
Long story short on last facture of company X, it is explicitly written that:
dernier delai (last date to pay) is 25.12.2013 and if not they give it to intrum justitia. this date is written everywhere even on the Versement thingie that you keep when you pay it.
i paid 21.12.2013 immediatelly sent a photo of paid facture to company X.
Still intrum justitia sents letter which states that they are ok with the fact that i paid the company they state it as -150 chf on their facture but they still demand another 150 chf because they were treating this matter
aint that cute?
Now what i want to hear if this is even possible if i have proof that i paid on 21.12.2013 ?
After being divorced 5 years, Winterthur decided to come after me for unpaid car insurance premiums. Exactly at this time I was applying for a job in the Swiss security industry, where you needed to be squeaky clean. It took two weeks to persuade Winterthur to write to the Bern Betreibungsamt cancelling the Betreibung, during which time I lost the job.
My ex-wife went back to Britain & decided she didn't need to inform Winterthur that she had sold the car, and didn't need insurance, but Winterthur just added up the debt owed, and then sued me. I also had a claim from something similar to Intrum Justice, after a dentist in Bern was owed money by her. I called the dentist and the secretary didn't want to consider there had been an error. A friend then called the dental practice and persuaded him to remove the complaint. It is a very real problem, and it should not be ignored. It will likely come back to haunt the OP, better to kill it now while memories are fresh.
The OP could also offer to pay interest on the delay in payment. Bills are due to be paid immediately, and most companies give at least 10 days grace, but they do not have to wait for payment, and compensation might be a sweetener.
According to your dates, somebody is takings you for a ride or you us? I can accept payment made on 21.12. There was festive season which might have contributed to delay in payment but still it would have arrived on 23 or 24.12.2012. I do not see any explanation why would company X have summoned debt collectors. Something smells here ...
If the payment was made over the post office counter (ie Manual payment, the OP mentions a printed slip as receipt) then the payment would take 4 working days to reach company X account. So paying in on Saturday 21.12.2013 would bring a payment to company X account on Friday 27th or Monday 30th December.
If the payment was made online on Saturday 21st, then it would have been action-ed by the computers on Monday 23rd and the payment would arrive on the account of company X on Tuesday 24th.
Nothing smells. The OP didn't make the payment in the time requested, and will have to pay the price.
I don't understand why no one hasn't stated the obvious. And what I am normally told by when I have been told to pay by a certain date. And even if know one told me, I still would think of it. A payment slip is obviously slower to register then calling the company up, and paying with a credit card.
So if you pay with the pink slip, you get the copy they stamp in front of you, then you hand it back to them at the poste and request them to fax it to the billing number, attention to the person you spoke with and get the proof of the fax going thru.
Except for taxes, I certainly know back on the check system in the US, if a creditor said the last date payment needs to be received by is say the 28th, I certainly don't post it on the 28th and think it is the same thing.
The pink slip is just one form of payment. You can always go directly to the creditor or utility and pay direct, use a credit card, bank transfer.
It's actually the OP's fault. It did not go directly into collections because he did not pay his debt a week or two late. Interim Justia is 3 or more months of non payment. Because the OP waited to the last minute, the collection agency and the people he owes money to are hardly to blame.
Anyways it's not that big of a deal. He will have to pay the charge, which is like 25 to 90 CHF to Interim Justia, and ask who he owed money to have this forgiven, and they almost always do, and have it wiped from any record.
Take this as a learning experience and make a better effort to pay your original bill on time, or in accordance with the agreement.
I've had a bill open with Intrum Justicia for 6 years now. I paid the original bill with Intrum Justicia + their interest, and they send me bills every 6 months or so for their "legal fees". As long as the amount for the bill + interest is paid, you're in the clear. Their extra fees are completely illegal. They may threaten to go to poursuites for those "fees" but they won't.
It's kind of amusing though I get some "30% summer sale" bills. I still haven't paid it though.
Let's get this clear. You do not have to pay Intrum Justicia anything! You never instructed Intrum Justicia to work for you, and you do not have to pay them a cent!
You have to pay for the original claimant's bill and any moderate interest, to Intrum Justicia if you wish to, but you can also pay the original claimant directly, with the interest.
They can but I'll just oppose it because the only thing left are their administrative and legal fees, which technically are illegal.
I double checked this with a free legal service with the city of Lausanne, I can't remember who it was, or when I called, they were only open one morning a week. But they are the ones who advised me to just pay the bill + interest and leave the rest open.
Niemand kann verpflichtet werden, einen gewerbsmässigen Vertreter zu bestellen. Die Kosten der Vertretung dürfen nicht dem Schuldner überbunden werden.
Loosely translated, it means that when a creditor uses a debt collection agency he may not pass on the cost for their services to the debtor.