What is the most common complaint against Absolute Recovery Services, LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Absolute Recovery Services, LLC is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 182 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Absolute Recovery Services, LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Absolute Recovery Services, LLC are rising. The company received 60 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Absolute Recovery Services, LLC's reputation grade?

Absolute Recovery Services, LLC has a reputation grade of D (score: 54.1/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Absolute Recovery Services, LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Absolute Recovery Services, LLC has a 78% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Absolute Recovery Services, LLC operate?

Absolute Recovery Services, LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 14 states, with the most complaints from Tennessee (108 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Absolute Recovery Services, LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 14 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

85
Written notification about debt

43
False statements or representation

24
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

19
Communication tactics

4
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly

3

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record absolute-recovery-services-llc Absolute Recovery Services, LLC

Grade D · 182 CFPB filings · 78% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #582 · compose #3520

VOL 182
GRADE D
12MO 60
STATES 14
TIMELY 78%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #582
COMPOSE #3,520

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: American Adjustment Bureau,Inc. (182 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Absolute Recovery Services, LLC's 182 CFPB complaints sit next to American Adjustment Bureau,Inc. on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

59.3% of Absolute Recovery Services, LLC's CFPB filings land in Tennessee

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Absolute Recovery Services, LLC is volume #582 but composite #3,520, while Tennessee dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Tennessee 59.3%; 108 of 182 filings · 14 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2025-05 11.1%; 8–15% band · 11 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #582 volume; #3,520 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,938 places worse than volume

How does Absolute Recovery Services, LLC compare to its peers?

How does Absolute Recovery Services, LLC compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Absolute Recovery Serv… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

78%

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2024-02 2026-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	85
Written notification about debt	43
False statements or representation	24
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	19
Communication tactics	4
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	3
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	2
Disclosure verification of debt	1
Taking/threatening an illegal action	1

Where do complaints against Absolute Recovery Services, LLC come from?

Absolute Recovery Services, LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Tennessee

108
Mississippi

26
Texas

11
Arkansas

10
Alabama

6
Georgia

5
Louisiana

3
Missouri

3

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Absolute Recovery Services, LLC: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 182.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 77.84810126582279%.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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