BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.


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"Products" offered by BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC. with at least one, but usually more complaints:

Bank account or service - Checking account
Bank account or service - Other bank product/service
Checking or savings account -
Checking or savings account - CD (Certificate of Deposit)
Checking or savings account - Checking account
Checking or savings account - Other banking product or service
Checking or savings account - Savings account
Consumer Loan - Installment loan
Consumer Loan - Personal line of credit
Credit card -
Credit card - General-purpose credit card or charge card
Credit card - Store credit card
Credit card or prepaid card - General-purpose credit card or charge card
Credit card or prepaid card - General-purpose prepaid card
Credit card or prepaid card - Gift card
Credit card or prepaid card - Payroll card
Credit card or prepaid card - Store credit card
Credit card or prepaid card - Student prepaid card
Credit reporting -
Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports - Credit reporting
Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports - Other personal consumer report
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports - Credit repair services
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports - Credit reporting
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports - Other personal consumer report
Debt collection - Auto debt
Debt collection - Credit card
Debt collection - Credit card debt
Debt collection - Federal student loan debt
Debt collection - I do not know
Debt collection - Medical
Debt collection - Medical debt
Debt collection - Mortgage
Debt collection - Mortgage debt
Debt collection - Other (i.e. phone, health club, etc.)
Debt collection - Other debt
Debt collection - Payday loan debt
Debt collection - Private student loan debt
Debt collection - Telecommunications debt
Debt or credit management - Credit repair services
Debt or credit management - Debt settlement
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Check cashing service
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Debt settlement
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Domestic (US) money transfer
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - International money transfer
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Mobile or digital wallet
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Money order
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Refund anticipation check
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Virtual currency
Money transfers - Domestic (US) money transfer
Mortgage - Conventional home mortgage
Mortgage - Home equity loan or line of credit (HELOC)
Mortgage - Other type of mortgage
Other financial service - Credit repair
Payday loan -
Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan - Installment loan
Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan - Payday loan
Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan - Personal line of credit
Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan - Title loan
Payday loan, title loan, personal loan, or advance loan - Installment loan
Payday loan, title loan, personal loan, or advance loan - Personal line of credit
Prepaid card - Mobile wallet
Prepaid card - Other special purpose card
Student loan - Federal student loan servicing
Student loan - Private student loan
Vehicle loan or lease - Loan

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Complaint ID: 5998949

Date Received: 2022-09-20

Issue: Problem with a purchase shown on your statement

Subissue: Credit card company isn't resolving a dispute about a purchase on your statement

Consumer Complaint: XXXX XXXX Received YOUR response on my complaint. I still to this day have not received anything stating they denied the claim. I was told when I called in the complaint that not to pay the item and disregard the late fees and interest. I was confused on their reply, they did not even investigate the complaint. I called XXXX XXXX and was told they had not call on the charge. I have been as customer for more than 25 years on this card. It is great until you have a problem I had to mail in XXXX letters to XXXX different address and was told they never got them. on my XXXX call to the customer care ( a joke ) one person told me I need to do this on line. Which I did, I believe a total of 5 times and sent in all the information along with the reservation print out that states it is a free cancellation. They did not even call rXXXX or XXXX to find out why both charged a fee of XXXX. Within XXXX minutes of my booking I called rXXXX and was told to late so sorry. I then called COMENITY BANK and told them not to pay this amount, was told can't do this until it hits your bill. Call back in a few days ... which I did. This is when this bank turned XXXX and XXXX. I would like the information they received when they investigated this and the people they spoke with. This is not a BANK it's a loansharking operation. Their reviews should have already shut them down. Who will investigate them?? This amount needs to be removed from my closed account. The only call I received from the COMENITY BANK WAS FROM THEIR COLLECTION DEPT. HE HAD NO CLUE ABOUT THE PROBLEM AND COULD CARE LESS.

Company Response:

State: FL

Zip: 342XX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-09-20

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5998857

Date Received: 2022-09-20

Issue: Closing your account

Subissue: Company closed your account

Consumer Complaint: ERRONEOUS CLOSING OF MY VICTORIA SECRETS ACCOUNT XXXX I recently called into Victoria Secrets to see if I owed anything this month for my credit card and to my shock and surprise I was told that my credit card was closed due to fraud. I never called and reported fraud on my Victoria Secrets card or to any of the credit bureaus concerning Victorias Secrets. This has hurt my credit score and my business I have a small business and I use the products from this company to fill my orders. I have spent a great deal of money with this company to be treated like this. I called on last week to speak with someone in the fraud department and they told me that they would escalate this to a manager and call me back. I have not heard back from a fraud manager or anyone. This has caused undue stress, with the uncertain future of my business. I have had this card for years. The credit bureaus are supposed to provide accurate reporting. Please forward this note to the attorney general in your state I am in the state of Texas so I can handle the Attorney General filing on this end. Consumers should not have to endure this type of anguish. Today I called Victorias Secret to speak with someone and the automated system hung up on me after I put my information in because it said that my account was closed. This is also embarrassing because it reads on my credit report that account was closed by creditor as if I dont pay my bills. This is defamation of character and an invasion of privacy. This error also violates the FCRA.

Company Response:

State: TX

Zip: XXXXX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-10-05

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5998777

Date Received: 2022-09-20

Issue: Written notification about debt

Subissue: Didn't receive enough information to verify debt

Consumer Complaint: I am writing in regards to the collection with XXXX XXXX. They are trying to collect {$940.00} for Comenity Bank / Boston Store. I spoke to them on XX/XX/22 and I requested an itemized bill. Also, Boston Store went out of business about 3 years ago. I spoke to a XXXX XXXX who said she would send verification. To this date, XX/XX/22, I have not received verification from them. I also called them again 2 weeks ago to request the verification. The representative argued with me and still has not sent proof that I owe this bill. I tried to dispute the item with XXXX and it came back saying that the case that the dispute investigation was done. I know I do not owe this bill. The collection agency has failed to provide me with proof. I want this to be removed from my credit record.

Company Response:

State: WI

Zip: 53209

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-09-20

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5997712

Date Received: 2022-09-20

Issue: Incorrect information on your report

Subissue: Account information incorrect

Consumer Complaint: My account has been paid off for 10-12 weeks. The company is still reporting a {$900.00} balance. The last reporting date by the company was XX/XX/2022. Ive contacted the company twice by phone and once by mail. Ive received a response via email that I must wait 45 days for resolution. Ive waited twice that time already. My credit score is XXXX and I dont think it will impact my score much. However, my concern is for the people- perhaps thousands- who are being negatively impacted by this. Having been in financial institution lending, I know all too well how many people have damaged credit resulting from lenders who cant generate a simple electronic report update.

Company Response:

State: MI

Zip: 49203

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-10-11

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5996799

Date Received: 2022-09-19

Issue: Incorrect information on your report

Subissue: Account information incorrect

Consumer Complaint: Today 's date is XX/XX/2022. I paid off my balance of {$9600.00} on my XXXX XXXX on XX/XX/2022. As of today ( more than 3 months later ) XXXX has still not reported to the credit bureaus that I paid that amount and now have a XXXX balance on my account and this is affecting my credit score. I attempted to call XXXX to discuss this matter and was told that XXXX was not reporting to the credit bureaus at this time. I explained this was affecting my XXXX XXXX. I was then told I would be transferred to a billing specialist to discuss this matter further. After holding for 5 minutes for the billing specialist my call was then disconnected.

Company Response:

State: NJ

Zip: 077XX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-10-12

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5996613

Date Received: 2022-09-19

Issue: Problem with a purchase shown on your statement

Subissue: Credit card company isn't resolving a dispute about a purchase on your statement

Consumer Complaint: 2 fraudulent charges were made on my credit card. I didn't make the purchases. In XXXX, XXXX I received a bill. I knew the charges were not made by me. I called the company and reported to the fraud department. They opened an investigation XX/XX/XXXX. I continue to receive calls from Comenity Bank collections ( weekly ). I explained charges are not mine and a fraud investigation is open.. I called fraud department back XX/XX/XXXX. Still not complete on investigation. I continue to receive calls from XXXX XXXX I've spent at minimum 5hours on the phone for this situation. Please help me. I need the harassing calls of collections to stop, I've never used this card, I should owe {$0.00} and I had the account closed immediately upon seeing the fraud charges early in XXXX. I am concerned this will be sent to collections, and I have not made any purchases on this account.

Company Response:

State: WA

Zip: XXXXX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-09-19

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with monetary relief

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5995709

Date Received: 2022-09-19

Issue: Problem with a purchase shown on your statement

Subissue: Credit card company isn't resolving a dispute about a purchase on your statement

Consumer Complaint: I had reached out to my financial institution Comenity Bank now known as Bread Financial regarding a transaction that was placed on XX/XX/XXXX for the amount of {$710.00} from the merchant BJs as I had never gotten my package at first. Later on, it did show up but later than expected as I needed it for a gift for someone, so I had returned it back to the merchant on the XXXX of XXXX and it was delivered to the merchant warehouse on the XXXX of XXXX. However, the issue is that the merchant has yet to have refunded me for the transactional my account despite returning the merchandise to their warehouse. So, I'd reached out to my financial institution to update and clarify the situation and dispute to further reflect that I had never received a refund despite returning the merchandise. I had also first reached out to the merchant to attempt to remedy the issue and in regard to receiving a refund however they refused to assist me in any way and so I reached out to my bank, but the problem is now that my bank themselves are denying my claim despite clear proof was returned to the merchant and had recently reversed the transaction making me liable for merchandise I no longer have.

Company Response:

State: NY

Zip: 14206

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-09-19

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with monetary relief

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5995548

Date Received: 2022-09-19

Issue: Getting a credit card

Subissue: Application denied

Consumer Complaint: Bank subject to complaint is Comenity Bank. I applied for a line of credit for a credit card through their XXXX the XXXX of Jewelry Card. I was given the following reason for my rejection : " because you are under the age of majority ( the age to legally enter into a contract ) in PA, we are unable to extend credit to you at this time '' This is incorrect, as the age of majority is XXXX in PA, and i am XXXX XXXX XXXX. The notice I received had no contact information on how i can dispute the incorrect decision. I called Comenity 's main line, where the customer rep told me that there is nothing she can do and that the rejection notice was final. I asked for a supervisor, and she agreed but said " they will tell you the same thing ''. The supervisor transferred me to a new department, but the transfer led me to an automated message with no action to dispute the incorrect decision. I was told I could " write '' to the address on the letter, but given that my application was rejected under false pretenses and the need to take out a line of credit, The lack of contact points Comenity provides is not a good-faith effort, and it's plausible they reject applicants on false pretenses to hope they avoid going a tedious communication method. It's complete age discrimination I am facing here. I have more than enough income to supplement the credit i am asking for, and Comenity denied my application based off of false pretenses. When i informed them of this blatant error, I was given no choice to actively discuss why my application was denied. Its despicable.

Company Response:

State: PA

Zip: 19145

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-09-19

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5994727

Date Received: 2022-09-19

Issue: Advertising and marketing, including promotional offers

Subissue: Didn't receive advertised or promotional terms

Consumer Complaint: Comenity took over account from XXXX. This is the NFL Card, which is supposed to have a 6 months 0 % promotional rate on ticket purchases. They have NEVER applied the purchases to the promotional balance. This also causes my payments to be incorrectly applied every month to what appears to be current purchases, causing interest on the promotional balances that expire. I call every month, I have sent them a spreadsheet of how the account balance and payments should have been handled. I waste an hour every month ( I'm on the phone with them 36 minutes this month and on-hold ) and I'm sure I'm not the only person this has happened to. The other 'perk ' to this card is Rewards. They have not had the rewards balances available the entire time they have had this account ( this is on ALL NFL cards ). My only purchases on this card are my season tickets. They are being billed monthly, the same amount, from the Washington XXXX XXXX, XXXX MD. There is NOTHING else I could be buying from the Washington XXXX XXXX.

Company Response:

State: PA

Zip: 166XX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-09-19

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with monetary relief

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 5994492

Date Received: 2022-09-19

Issue: Improper use of your report

Subissue: Credit inquiries on your report that you don't recognize

Consumer Complaint: I Have a hard inquiry on my report from a company I did not apply for.

Company Response:

State: WI

Zip: 53223

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2022-10-05

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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