What is the most common complaint against Professional Placement Services, LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Professional Placement Services, LLC is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 190 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Professional Placement Services, LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Professional Placement Services, LLC are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Professional Placement Services, LLC's reputation grade?

Professional Placement Services, LLC has a reputation grade of C (score: 56.0/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Professional Placement Services, LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Professional Placement Services, LLC has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 19% of cases.

In how many states does Professional Placement Services, LLC operate?

Professional Placement Services, LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 22 states, with the most complaints from Wisconsin (82 complaints).

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

Professional Placement Services, LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 22 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

74
Written notification about debt

47
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

21
Communication tactics

16
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

11
False statements or representation

10

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record professional-placement-services-llc Professional Placement Services, LLC

Grade C · 190 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #563 · compose #3155

VOL 190
GRADE C
12MO 0
STATES 22
TIMELY 100%
DISPUTE 19%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #563
COMPOSE #3,155

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: D2 Management LLC (190 complaints)

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

Professional Placement Services, LLC's 190 CFPB complaints sit next to D2 Management LLC 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

43.2% of Professional Placement Services, LLC's CFPB filings land in Wisconsin

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Professional Placement Services, LLC is volume #563 but composite #3,155, while Wisconsin dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Wisconsin 43.2%; 82 of 190 filings · 22 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2025-11 9.1%; 8–15% band · 41 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #563 volume; #3,155 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,592 places worse than volume

How does Professional Placement Services, LLC compare to its peers?

How does Professional Placement Services, 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

Professional Placement… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

95%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

22%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2024-04 2026-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	74
Written notification about debt	47
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	21
Communication tactics	16
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	11
False statements or representation	10
Disclosure verification of debt	8
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1
Improper contact or sharing of info	1
Taking/threatening an illegal action	1

Where do complaints against Professional Placement Services, LLC come from?

Professional Placement Services, LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Wisconsin

82
Illinois

59
Texas

11
Georgia

6
Minnesota

5
Arizona

4
California

4
Florida

4

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Professional Placement Services, 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: 190.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 100%.

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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