What is the most common complaint against Merchants Acquisition Group LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Merchants Acquisition Group LLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Threatened to sue you for very old debt". This is based on 2 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Merchants Acquisition Group LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Merchants Acquisition Group LLC are rising. The company received 1 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Merchants Acquisition Group LLC's reputation grade?

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC has a reputation grade of A (score: 75.4/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Merchants Acquisition Group LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Merchants Acquisition Group LLC operate?

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 1 states, with the most complaints from California (2 complaints).

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

Merchants Acquisition Group LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 1 states, reputation grade A.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

2

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 #4202 · compose #818

VOL 2
GRADE A
12MO 1
STATES 1
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #4,202
COMPOSE #818

Volume peers

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

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 →

State-heavy filing map

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

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Merchants Acquisition Group LLC is volume #4,202 but composite #818, while California dominates the geography. 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)
Divergent corpus ranks: #4,202 volume; #818 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,384 places better than volume

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 … National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

67%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

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.

California

2

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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