What is the most common complaint against Adesa Corporation?

The most common issue consumers report about Adesa Corporation is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Seized or attempted to seize your property". This is based on 10 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Adesa Corporation increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Adesa Corporation are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Adesa Corporation's reputation grade?

Adesa Corporation has a reputation grade of C (score: 61.7/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Adesa Corporation respond to consumer complaints?

Adesa Corporation has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Adesa Corporation operate?

Adesa Corporation has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 6 states, with the most complaints from South Carolina (3 complaints).

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

Adesa Corporation - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 6 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

8
Attempts to collect debt not owed

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record adesa-corporation Adesa Corporation

Grade C · 10 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #2462 · compose #2119

VOL 10
GRADE C
12MO 0
STATES 6
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #2,462
COMPOSE #2,119

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 208 Capital Holdings LLC (10 complaints)

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

Adesa Corporation's 10 CFPB complaints sit next to 208 Capital Holdings LLC 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

30.0% of Adesa Corporation's CFPB filings land in South Carolina

Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: South Carolina 30.0%; 3 of 10 filings · 6 states touched
Spike month: 2024-06 100.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Corpus ranks: #2,462 volume; #2,119 composite; Among 5,420 volume-ranked / 5,278 scored collectors

How does Adesa Corporation compare to its peers?

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

ADESA CORPORATION National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

17%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2024-06 2024-06

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	8
Attempts to collect debt not owed	2

Where do complaints against Adesa Corporation come from?

Adesa Corporation's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

South Carolina

3
Georgia

2
North Carolina

2
Mississippi

1
Texas

1
Virginia

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Adesa Corporation: 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: 10.

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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