Dear Consumer Advocate, I am writing to escalate an issue I am running into with XXXX XXXX. My account opened under XXXX originally and in 2013 this company merged with XXXX XXXX. As a customer, I have never been late with my payments. In fact, I worked diligently to keep all my accounts in order to carefully build my credit back up after a Chapter XXXX dismissal. I had numerous technical issues after the XXXX companies merged, including not being able to access my online account for which I contacted Customer Service three times to help with this issue that kept recurring. With XXXX ( now XXXX XXXX ) and all my other accounts, I have reminder notices setup so that I could diligently make sure my payments were sent on time, for which I relied on. I did not use this credit card much, but last year getting ready for my wedding, I missed my XX/XX/XXXX payment. I never received a notice, thus I realized I was late because I had a credit reporting alert setup, for which XXXX XXXX reported to. My balance was approximately {$40.00}. Again, I had never been late with this company before. I contacted their Customer Service department immediately and the agent I spoke with understood, was very concerned and added a dispute code. She mentioned it was likely they could remove it because she did acknowledge all the system errors they had. I paid my balance in full immediately. Since then I am refinancing my home, and also trying to keep my finances as low as possible and making the best decisions, I realized that entry is still on my credit report. I 've written a letter to XXXX XXXX and spoke with XXXX agents who say there is nothing they can do and keep repeating the same thing over and over. This does not seem fair considering my costs incurred to refinance because I did not get my reminder notice I duly relied on -- especially at that critical time in my life. There should be some exceptions! The cost does not match the action per se. I would think as a consumer, and having been a very good customer, they would have acknowledged their system glitches and helped me out. After the last letter I received from them this week, I called this morning again and spoke to a 'supervisor. ' She finally admitted they did not have any alerts set on my account. She was the first person to tell me this after the merge from XXXX and all the technical issues I had. She says I should have known to reset all my alerts! I am very frustrated because I have been working very hard to build my credit back up. I am hoping your organization will be able to assist me in some way. Please advise. 

Best Regards, XXXX XXXX XXXX