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Are Amigo loans going into administration?

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  • jonesMUFCforever
    jonesMUFCforever Posts: 28,898 Forumite
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    poppy10_2 said:
    Amigo loans were being kept afloat by well known sucker Neil Woodford pumping money into them. Now that he has gone bust, the company won't last long
    Do you know how shares work?
    Woodford may/may not have bought shares in Amigo but the company does not get a penny from purchase and sale of their shares. The shareholders make/lose money by seeing the share price go up/down.
    Now if you are saying he lent money to the company as a loan then that is completely different but I don't think that's what you were saying.
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,644 Forumite
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    edited 5 March 2020 at 3:55PM
    The founder James Benamor has left Amigo, maybe things will change.

  • John_
    John_ Posts: 925 Forumite
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    Of course they are going into administration, when short term lenders now have to be 'granted access' to your bank account or at minimum see 3 payslips (more if paid more frequently) - I cannot begin to explain the humiliation when you have to ask a short term lender Aka payday lender to decline your application in favour of benefit fraud. When sick of explaining you only have one credit card and in x amount of years have never borrowed from Paul to give to
    Peter where that's concerned.
    seems good old Martin got his wish at the right time! Convenient when Universal Credit is such a mess, the job scene never worse. Just think in years time there shall be no need for the debt free wannabe forum not when the finance industry has collapsed.
    lets all get down the bookies with our house deeds. That's how bonkers being a guarantor is. Who the hell would risk their house on a mate.
    This post really doesn’t make any sense, and I can’t see how much of it relates to the OP’s question, or the thread.

    Does anyone assist you in any way, and if so, have you spoken with them recently?
  • poppy10_2
    poppy10_2 Posts: 6,597 Forumite
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    poppy10_2 said:
    Amigo loans were being kept afloat by well known sucker Neil Woodford pumping money into them. Now that he has gone bust, the company won't last long
    Do you know how shares work?
    Woodford may/may not have bought shares in Amigo but the company does not get a penny from purchase and sale of their shares. The shareholders make/lose money by seeing the share price go up/down.
    Now if you are saying he lent money to the company as a loan then that is completely different but I don't think that's what you were saying.
    Look up how share issues work
    poppy10
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