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can i post a link to something scarey
Numpty_Monkey
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The link is to a "sky news" story about loan interest rates
what interest rate do you think she ended up paying:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
anyone remember the saying "pick a number, double it and add a 0
start the bidding at 100,000% interest
what interest rate do you think she ended up paying:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
anyone remember the saying "pick a number, double it and add a 0
start the bidding at 100,000% interest
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go on then...Nerd no 109 Long haulers supporters DFW #1! Even in the darkest moments, love and hope are always possible.0
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I saw that too - CRAZY!! - but I won't ruin the surprise for others by posting the amount
As a slight aside - there is someone who has posted a thread asking for advice on a payday loan so anyone who comes on here and has had dealings with them please go and look at the thread called New Year Res? Payday are demanding 590 back and won't accept installments and the poster is keen for advice on dealing with them.£34,547 (Dec 07); Current debt: £zilch (Debt free December 2010)
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I went and searched it out, and I'm sitting here with my jaw on my knees!
That's completely outrageous... but apparently legal
:eek: :eek: I'm an adult and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want and I wish someone would take this power from me.
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where's the link?0
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How can that be legal, I know it is but it shouldn't be :mad::heart: Think happy & you'll be happy :heart:
I :heart2: my doggies
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1298006,00.html
A Loan? That'll Be 2.6 Million Percent...
Updated:11:44, Friday December 21, 2007
A woman desperate for cash has been given a loan by a UK finance company - at an interest rate of more than 2.6 million percent a year.Ex forum ambassador
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now i've never heard of THAT much before!!! High ones yes but that high!!!!!!
Browntoa you posted that as I had just found the story and replied lol0 -
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That's horrificNo longer using this account for new posts from 20130 -
surely that cant be real surely no one could be that daft surely0
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That is just shocking.
It's hard to believe that people do it but we all know how desperate you can feel when you are short of cash.
These kind of lenders should be made illegal but can't see them stopping whilst people still use them.Proud to be dealing with my debts - DFW No: 712
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