Online Retailer Ran ‘Phone Harassment Campaign’ to Collect a Debt: Complaint

Seventh Ave., an online home furnishings retailer, inundated plaintiff Titus McDowell’s cellphone with a “high volume” of automated prerecorded calls to collect a $600 debt, alleged McDowell’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-00060) in U.S. District Court for Western Wisconsin in Madison. McDowell lost his job and was unable to make his monthly payments, said the complaint. The defendant’s “harassing” collection calls “were relentless and objectively unreasonable,” it said. Its “phone harassment campaign” and illegal collection activities have caused McDowell “actual harm,” it said.