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MSE News: Speedy Cash 'preying on kids' by offering 'photos with Santa'
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Former_MSE_Helen
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"Speedy Cash handed out leaflets enticing families into payday loan shops with the promise of free photos with Santa..."
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So ?
Look at the leaflet, or not, don't like it, don't go.
Take some personal responsibility for parenting your own children rather than accusing firms of 'grooming' and what not ?
If the children have been taught the basics of money management by their parents, they would never need to go to Speedy Cash or any other firm.
It's a publicity stunt during the festive period. Creative thinking by the firm.
APPARENTLY NO ONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ASPECT OF THEIR OWN LIFE.0 -
If the lion offers you free candy if you walk into his den, do you walk in?
Then when the lion asks if you'd like him to eat your kids, do you say yes?
Replace Lion's den with Speedy Cash shop, and "kids" with "wallet".
Anyone stupid enough to take out a payday loan "just because they were in the shop" is a bit stupid. Or spineless. Or both.0 -
Agreed, it's not an "all-time low" sales technique by any means, no matter what the excitable article says. IQs must have dropped sharply if people can't use their own judgement and say no."Can't you have your ***** cut off ?" "It's not as simple as that, Nigel"
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Speedy cash are just another bunch of American loan sharks the same as Wonga
This is why they are flocking here, they are legislated against heavily in the US and have just taken advantage of the lax laws in this country's banking sector.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e52da39e-2011-11e1-8462-00144feabdc0.htmlBlessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z. Member #35 Butterfly Brain + OH - Foraging Fixers
Not Buying it 2015!0 -
Butterfly_Brain wrote: »Speedy cash are just another bunch of American loan sharks the same as Wonga
This is why they are flocking here, they are legislated against heavily in the US and have just taken advantage of the lax laws in this country's banking sector.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e52da39e-2011-11e1-8462-00144feabdc0.html
I'm afraid that any impression that your post intended to give that you actually know what you are talking about disappears completely on the basis that Wonga is in fact very much a British company.0 -
I'm afraid that any impression that your post intended to give that you actually know what you are talking about disappears completely on the basis that Wonga is in fact very much a British company.
That is correct. They have that in their favour....just.
"Can't you have your ***** cut off ?" "It's not as simple as that, Nigel"
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nothing new. the local branch near me has free soft drinks, clowns and ballon animals on offer most weeks.0
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Shops pull stunts like this all the time, not sure why a PDL suddenly becomes the antichrist for having a Santa in store.
They can't get any lower than they already are anyway
What will your verse be?
R.I.P Robin Williams.0 -
...........and Santa's little helper used to be a Santander manager but couldn't hack the job so got a cushy job working at MSE.0
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I've heard that payday lenders laugh at the disabled and kick puppies too. For fun."Chuck Norris can remain solvent for longer than the markets can remain irrational"0
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