I have requested online my credit reports from the XXXX bureaus for myself and my wife on XXXX XXXX on XXXX. I received a message for Experian XXXX that they could not provide my credit report due to technical difficulties. For my wife, I received a similar message from Experian. I went back three days later to pull the missing reports again and was told that I was not eligible to receive the reports since I already requested them. I then wrote to XXXX, who then sent me a letter stating that they could not help me and I had to take up the issue individually with each bureau. They only provided mailing addresses, no phone number, or email. The credit bureaus ' websites also did not provide any contact information besides mailing addresses. It is very costly for consumers to have to deal separately with each credit bureau in order to get the reports that they are due by law. 
In addition, I have been trying to verify the credit freeze status of our reports and this has proven impossible. We have had freezes put on our reports in the past for security purposes, but these have been lifted temporarily when we were getting a mortgage and I wanted to verify that they are in place. As far as I can tell, the only way to be sure that our reports are frozen is to pay to refreeze them and that just seems plain wrong. 
On a more general note, it is disturbing that there are these credit bureaus out there that amass information about me, whose information provision has a substantial impact on my financial life, yet who make it tremendously difficult for me to actually contact them or communicate with them. 
