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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2005-10-23 11:45 pm

They should be taken out and shot

I just opened some junk mail that had arrived here for [livejournal.com profile] tisme - offering credit - "No matter your credit history", at the low, low rate of 29.9% - but with the first week only costing £1!

Oh, and you had to buy from their store, where they were selling wide-screen TVs, over-priced computers and "authentic" leather beds.

So, they're aiming it at people with no money, a history of bad debt, a taste for stupidly expensive things, and no idea that 30% interest rates are a mindnumbingly horrible rip-off

They should all be fucking shot repeatedly through the head.

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
I have never actually -owned- (well, mortgaged, property), I live in a rented flat.

Reading about mortgages (since I'm trying to study for an CFP), when they're actually discussed in depth as a product, they sound even more than usual like a really elaborate scam on the part of the banks ;-)