What is the most common complaint against Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Attempted to collect wrong amount". This is based on 5 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC have been stable. The company received 1 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC's reputation grade?

Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC has a reputation grade of C (score: 60.1/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC has a 80% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC operate?

Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from New York (4 complaints).

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

Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

2
False statements or representation

2
Attempts to collect debt not owed

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record riehlman-shafer-and-shaw-llc Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC

Grade C · 5 CFPB filings · 80% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #3220 · compose #2352

VOL 5
GRADE C
12MO 1
STATES 2
TIMELY 80%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #3,220
COMPOSE #2,352

Volume peers

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

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

Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC'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 Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC's CFPB filings land in New York

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC is volume #3,220 but composite #2,352, while New York dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: New York 80.0%; 4 of 5 filings · 2 states touched
Spike month: 2014-06 21.4%; 3 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,220 volume; #2,352 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 868 places better than volume

How does Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC compare to its peers?

How does Riehlman Shafer and Shaw 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

Riehlman Shafer and Sh… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

80%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2013-10 2016-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	2
False statements or representation	2
Attempts to collect debt not owed	1

Where do complaints against Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC come from?

Riehlman Shafer and Shaw LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

New York

4
Michigan

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Riehlman Shafer and Shaw 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: 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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