SO I was perusing my report a while back. I had contacted a collection agency regarding an old old account (5+ years) and the agency has now re-reported two other accounts from roughly the same timframe. The original entries for the re-reported accounts are off the report but the new entries reflect the original reporting date. The original entries would have gone off the report early next year based on the 7-year rule. The question is, are these new reports going to fall off based on the original reporting date or by re-reporting them am I stuck with them for another 7 years?
I already know I can challenge them and the original creditor probably won’t be able to verify them but I’d rather not bother with that unless I have to. Also not interested in being told that I should pay them. I didn’t pay them originally because I didn’t believe I should have been charged the costs (long story whcih I will not relate here). I’m just wondering if creditors can extend the time negative items appear on a report indefinitely by re-reporting them every few years or if the original reporting date still holds for the 7 years.