 TITLE: Can a Collection Agency Sell Your Debt? CONTENT: Can a Collection Agency Report Old Debt as New?\n-----------------------------------------------\nIf a collection agency has been unable to recover money from you, it can resell the debt to another collection agency. However, the debt will retain the original date of the delinquency. Therefore, the collection agency cannot report old debt as new debt.\nLet's say the original delinquency date occurred in 2018 but the debt was resold in 2019. In that scenario, the original delinquency date would remain in 2018, not 2019. Even though the debt was sold a year after the account first became delinquent, the amount of time that this negative item appears on your credit report is not extended. END