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

CFPB complaint data Grade A 2 complaints

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 1 states, reputation grade A.

Complaints by issue type

What consumers report about Merchants Acquisition Group LLC

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database
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Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record merchants-acquisition-group-llc Merchants Acquisition Group LLC

Grade A · 2 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

  • VOL 2
  • GRADE A
  • 12MO 1
  • STATES 1
  • TIMELY 100%
  • ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
  • RANK #4,202
  • COMPOSE Not ranked

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 1 Auto Finance, Inc. (2 complaints)

1 Auto Finance, Inc.1 Auto Finance, Inc.21st Alliance Lending, LLC1st Alliance Lending, LLC21st Capital Finance of South Carolina, Inc.1st Capital Finance of South…21st Preference Mortgage Corp1st Preference Mortgage Corp2Merchants Acquisition Group LLC (this)Merchants Acquisition Group …2
CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC's 2 CFPB complaints sit next to 1 Auto Finance, 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 2 complaints break down

Every complaint issue type on record for Merchants Acquisition Group LLC, not just the top ones shown above.

Reputation score breakdown

A
Composite reputation score
75.4/100
Merchants Acquisition Group LLC

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 A
2
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.

State-heavy filing map

100.0% of Merchants Acquisition Group LLC's CFPB filings land in California

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

Dominant state
California 100.0%
2 of 2 filings · 1 states touched
Spike month
2015-03 50.0%
1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Corpus ranks
#4,202 volume
Composite not ranked (fewer than 200 complaints)
Volume rank among 5,420 collectors

How does Merchants Acquisition Group LLC compare to its peers?

How does Merchants Acquisition Group 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
Merchants Acquisition Group LLC National average
Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better
1
1
268
Timely-response ratehigher is better
100%
67%
91%
Consumer-dispute ratelower is better
0%
0%
19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC's complaint volume in context

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC 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)

2 Bottom 22% higher than 22% 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. Merchants Acquisition Group LLC 0 220 tracked debt collectors, bucketed by value

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Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database · September 2026

Complaint Trend (24 months)

Rising ↑
2015-03 2015-07

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
2

Where do complaints against Merchants Acquisition Group LLC come from?

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Top states by complaints against Merchants Acquisition Group LLC

Across 1 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 Merchants Acquisition Group 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: 2.

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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