What is the most common complaint against Pendleton & Sutton LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Pendleton & Sutton LLC is "Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not mine". This is based on 4 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Pendleton & Sutton LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Pendleton & Sutton LLC have been stable. The company received 1 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Pendleton & Sutton LLC's reputation grade?

Pendleton & Sutton LLC has a reputation grade of F (score: 46.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Pendleton & Sutton LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Pendleton & Sutton LLC has a 0% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Pendleton & Sutton LLC operate?

Pendleton & Sutton LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from Kansas (3 complaints).

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

Pendleton & Sutton LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

1
Disclosure verification of debt

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record pendleton-sutton-llc Pendleton & Sutton LLC

Grade F · 4 CFPB filings · 0% timely · lead issue: Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed · vol #3463 · compose #4453

VOL 4
GRADE F
12MO 1
STATES 2
TIMELY 0%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Cont'd attempts collect de…
RANK #3,463
COMPOSE #4,453

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 90 Day Credit Experts (4 complaints)

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

Pendleton & Sutton LLC's 4 CFPB complaints sit next to 90 Day Credit Experts 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

75.0% of Pendleton & Sutton LLC's CFPB filings land in Kansas

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Pendleton & Sutton LLC is volume #3,463 but composite #4,453, while Kansas dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Kansas 75.0%; 3 of 4 filings · 2 states touched
Spike month: 2015-03 33.3%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,463 volume; #4,453 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 990 places worse than volume

How does Pendleton & Sutton LLC compare to its peers?

How does Pendleton & Sutton 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

Pendleton & Sutton LLC National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

25%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2015-03 2021-07

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	1
Disclosure verification of debt	1

Where do complaints against Pendleton & Sutton LLC come from?

Pendleton & Sutton LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Kansas

3
West Virginia

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Pendleton & Sutton 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: 4.

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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