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Past Due

Hollywood's uncollected debts

by Michael Betzold

posted 3/7/2011

If you feel guilty because you never got to Hollywood Video before it folded to pay your fines for overdue DVDs, checking your credit report could change that guilt to anguish and anger. It certainly did for Dale Johnson, who discovered his $2 in late fees had been inflated by a collection agency to a $125 debt (including a $75 collection fee) that besmirched

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