What is the most common complaint against Advantage Recovery Services, Inc.?

The most common issue consumers report about Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Threatened to arrest you or take you to jail if you do not pay". This is based on 5 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Advantage Recovery Services, Inc.'s reputation grade?

Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. has a reputation grade of B (score: 65.2/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. respond to consumer complaints?

Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. has a 60% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. operate?

Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from Arkansas (4 complaints).

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

Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

1
Communication tactics

1
Disclosure verification of debt

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record advantage-recovery-services-inc Advantage Recovery Services, Inc.

Grade B · 5 CFPB filings · 60% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #3066 · compose #1743

VOL 5
GRADE B
12MO 0
STATES 2
TIMELY 60%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #3,066
COMPOSE #1,743

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Aaron Worldwide Collections Inc. (5 complaints)

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

Advantage Recovery Services, Inc.'s 5 CFPB complaints sit next to Aaron Worldwide Collections 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

80.0% of Advantage Recovery Services, Inc.'s CFPB filings land in Arkansas

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. is volume #3,066 but composite #1,743, while Arkansas dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Arkansas 80.0%; 4 of 5 filings · 2 states touched
Spike month: 2018-06 50.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,066 volume; #1,743 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,323 places better than volume

How does Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. compare to its peers?

How does ADVANTAGE RECOVERY SERVICES, 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 RECOVERY SER… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

60%

20%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2018-06 2024-04

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	1
Communication tactics	1
Disclosure verification of debt	1

Where do complaints against Advantage Recovery Services, Inc. come from?

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

Arkansas

4
South Carolina

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Advantage Recovery Services, 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: 5.

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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