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

CFPB complaint data Grade B 8 complaints

Advantage Credit, Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 7 states, reputation grade B.

Complaints by issue type

What consumers report about Advantage Credit, Inc.

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database
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Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record advantage-credit-inc Advantage Credit, Inc.

Grade B · 8 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed

  • VOL 8
  • GRADE B
  • 12MO 4
  • STATES 7
  • TIMELY 100%
  • ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
  • RANK #2,671
  • COMPOSE Not ranked

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: A+ Loans, Inc. (8 complaints)

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

Advantage Credit, Inc.'s 8 CFPB complaints sit next to A+ Loans, 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 →

How the 8 complaints break down

Every complaint issue type on record for Advantage Credit, Inc., not just the top ones shown above.

Reputation score breakdown

B
Composite reputation score
64.3/100
Advantage Credit, Inc.

Blends complaint volume, timely-response rate, dispute rate, and recent trend from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database into one comparable 0-100 score. Not an official CFPB rating and not a finding of wrongdoing — see methodology for the exact formula.

Complaint volume C
8
Fewer complaints relative to graded peers scores higher; volume reflects footprint as much as conduct.
Timely response A
100%
Share of complaints answered inside the CFPB’s 15-day window.
Dispute rate N/A
N/A
No dispute rate reported.
Recent trend D
Rising
Whether the last 12 months of complaints are rising, stable, or falling vs the prior period.

Spiky monthly series

Illinois is the plurality state for Advantage Credit, Inc. (25.0%)

Peak share is this collector's company_monthly maximum divided by its own stored monthly total. Corpus placement method.

Plurality state
Illinois 25.0%
Mid-band (15–30%) · 7 states with ≥1 filing
Spike month
2019-04 18.2%
2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Corpus ranks
#2,671 volume
Composite not ranked (fewer than 200 complaints)
Volume rank among 5,420 collectors

How does Advantage Credit, Inc. compare to its peers?

How does Advantage Credit, Inc. compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count
Advantage Credit, Inc. National average
Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better
4
0
268
Timely-response ratehigher is better
100%
78%
91%
Consumer-dispute ratelower is better
0%
0%
19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Response speed vs. dispute rate, among similar-volume collectors

Timely response and dispute rate track only weakly together nationally (r=0.22 among collectors with 5+ complaints): answering promptly does not reliably buy Advantage Credit, Inc. a lower dispute rate.

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 entities by Timely response rate (%) (X) and Dispute rate (%) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Responsive but disputedSlow & disputedResponsive & trustedSlow but undisputed 0%50%100%150% 0%20%40%60%80% Timely response rate (%) Dispute rate (%) Advantage Credit, Inc. vs. 7 similar-volume peers, by response speed and dispute rate Accudata Credit Systems LLCAutomotive Management Services, Inc.Account Information Management CorporationBaxter Bailey & AssociatesAccess Financial LLCCBS Collections, IncA.R.C. Accounts Recovery (U.S.A.) Corporation LLC
Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

Advantage Credit, Inc.'s complaint volume in context

Advantage Credit, Inc. vs all collectors by complaint volume

Where this collector's total CFPB complaint count sits among every tracked debt collector (volume, not a quality ranking)

8 51st percentile higher than 51% of 5,420 collectors

0–20: 3,504 collectors (65%). This entry sits in this band. 20–40: 565 collectors (10%). Above this entry. 40–60: 260 collectors (5%). Above this entry. 60–80: 163 collectors (3%). Above this entry. 80–100: 112 collectors (2%). Above this entry. 100–120: 63 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 120–140: 67 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 140–160: 53 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 160–180: 42 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 180–200: 55 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 200–220: 536 collectors (10%). Above this entry. Advantage Credit, Inc. 0 220 tracked debt collectors, bucketed by value

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Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database · September 2026

Complaint Trend (24 months)

Rising ↑
2014-07 2025-05

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed
5
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
2
Written notification about debt
1

Where do complaints against Advantage Credit, Inc. come from?

Advantage Credit, Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Top states by complaints against Advantage Credit, Inc.

Across 7 states with at least one filing

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Advantage Credit, Inc.: 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: 8.

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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