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Loan "brokers", and a receipt?

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  • Pixie5740
    Pixie5740 Posts: 14,515 Forumite
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    Good luck!
  • Gaz83
    Gaz83 Posts: 4,047 Forumite
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    ReggieK wrote: »
    I hope she has to, I've gone mental as it were and said the companies who con people rely on clowns who don't read the basics. That didn't go down well

    At least you were honest with her rather than do what many people do and refuse to admit they are in any way liable.
    "Facism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... [it] doesn't walk in saying, "our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
  • ReggieK
    ReggieK Posts: 19 Forumite
    Gaz83 wrote: »
    At least you were honest with her rather than do what many people do and refuse to admit they are in any way liable.

    It's got a huge banner on the home screen screaming £69.95 fee.
    The companies themselves I don't agree with, as they don't find a loan but just take the £70 in what I see is a very underhand manner.
    But tbh it's all there in plain view, if you get conned it's your own fault IMO

    She's now on the phone to Halifax, will update :cry:
  • dealer_wins
    dealer_wins Posts: 7,334 Forumite
    I need to set up a loan broker service, easy money or what!!
  • ReggieK
    ReggieK Posts: 19 Forumite
    Well, she's had to close her bank account, and now trying to get another is very tricky.
    Barclays basic account is nothing like what they advertise, can't do direct debits from it for example
    Going to try the Co op now

    As an aside, anyone recommend a bank which just does a normal account as in pay money in, direct debits etc but don't need any overdraft or anything like that
  • Tixy
    Tixy Posts: 31,455 Forumite
    There is a link about half way down this thread https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/basic-bank-accounts which leads to a comparison table of basic bank accounts and the facilities etc they offer. The majority allow DDs to be set up.
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