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Channel 4 Dispatches - Undercover debt collection exposè - Marlin Financial Services

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  • insideinfo
    insideinfo Posts: 97 Forumite
    This is well worth watching! If this nonsense has happened to you. get your complaint in to the FSA, FOS, Trading Standards.
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    insideinfo wrote: »
    This is well worth watching! If this nonsense has happened to you. get your complaint in to the FSA, FOS, Trading Standards.

    Already a thread running on this, so have merged this in. Tweaked the title of the other thread as well to show it is tonight. :)
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  • pepe2008
    pepe2008 Posts: 5,158 Forumite
    There is a blog site for the Credit Industry ( which keeps getting invaded by 'customers') I cant find my link but you should read the whingeing that goes on about how badly they get treated......by US!!!!

    I'll keep looking for the link, it should be 'www.itsjustnotfairwhydonttheyjustletusabusethemforcommission.com'?:p
    :D:D stay wonky :D:D

    ....one-way ticket to Portugal booked !
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    pepe2008 wrote: »
    There is a blog site for the Credit Industry ( which keeps getting invaded by 'customers') I cant find my link but you should read the whingeing that goes on about how badly they get treated......by US!!!!

    I'll keep looking for the link, it should be 'www.itsjustnotfairwhydonttheyjustletusabusethemforcommission.com'?:p

    Do you mean?

    http://www.credittoday.co.uk/forum/index.cfm

    If not, then please find that link.;) :)
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  • pepe2008
    pepe2008 Posts: 5,158 Forumite
    fermi wrote: »
    Do you mean?

    http://www.credittoday.co.uk/forum/index.cfm

    If not, then please find that link.;) :)

    Thats the one Fermi! What a bunch of blithering idiots, the stories of incompetence and waste are simply never ending......and its NEVER their fault.
    :D:D stay wonky :D:D

    ....one-way ticket to Portugal booked !
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    pepe2008 wrote: »
    Thats the one Fermi! What a bunch of blithering idiots, the stories of incompetence and waste are simply never ending......and its NEVER their fault.

    Gone a bit quiet nowadays.

    Don't think they like the attention. :rolleyes: ;)
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  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    They should send a camera crew over to maccie hall, the donkey end of the Debt Collection Industry.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
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  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »
    They should send a camera crew over to maccie hall, the donkey end of the Debt Collection Industry.

    They could probably get enough material there for an entire series. :laugh:
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  • ukmonkey
    ukmonkey Posts: 3,024 Forumite
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    Looking forwards to this show, should be interesting.

    Just a note to people not to take what is said/shown on the show as the absoloute truth. The makers of previous Dispatches have been known to embellish and simply makeup "facts" to make their show more controversial (namely the one about royal Mail a fair few years ago, when they claimed that someone had stolen a credit card and used it. The credit card company later stated that the card wasn't sent through Royal Mail! There were other lies I believe, but my memory isn't great!).

    Still, it should make for interesting viewing...
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    The thing is, you couldn't "make up" the threats and nonsense that most DCAs come out with. :rolleyes:

    I'm sure dispatches are not short of content.;)
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