Anything in this? Attempt by banks to close this Forum Down. (edit: No.)

[yourbank]

This is the funniest thing I have read on the forum for a while.

April 1st, anyone?

 

Might as well go with it, after all, it would be ridiculous if it was true.

I heard that the credit crunch was hitting the forum really badly and that shares in the holding company had shot down as a result. However, on italkoutofmybehind.com, the story produced on the first post, said that the 7 banks in the OFT test case were going to mickey mouse court in London to close the site down cos they had nothing better to do with their time......

LMFAO. Can I ask what is the definition of "active members" cos I am not a member of this forum but a user:p

 

Bear Garden anyone?

[UnmoderatetheNet]

Rooster, I know this is a slight digression but of the 190,00 odd members you quote how many are active?

I suspect that a large number of members sign on to discuss their own problem, and when that is resolved, don't come back.

 

You are totally missing the point. TOTALLY

190,000 registered users.

Population of UK 60,000,000

Percentage of population in debt and suffering at the hand of DCA’s.

So without actual percentages I kinda hope you are starting to get it.

It’s not about how many regular contributors (no offence to you 900+ users), what happens when someone is about to consider suicide because of DCA harassment. That one person they speak to might have just used CAG and offer advice, sure they get the help they need and go away after but if they tell just one other person.

That’s what is important.

This site needs to grow to such a point that every debtor in the UK knows how to deal with these companies.

When DCA’s have to remove telephone lines because nobody is calling them and lay off telephone collectors….That’s how you measure victory.

While I’m on the subject make draft letters available to non registered users that is just petty business we have come to expect on the net.

[AA99]

Oh boy, am I happy I found this site. However, having had my own little problem with MBNA and a couple of others started on the road to resolve purely through this site, am feeling that more publicity could be put out?! Local press, international press, etc. Am I missing a thread? News of the World kinda newspapers spring to mind?! I would so love to see the people on this forum's problems splattered all over the front page of the Sunday papers? Is there a link somewhere I've missed? Would be happy to start one...............

[mcuth]

others come and bring a sleeping bag

 

Pfffbt, you said there was plenty of room for us all

 

 

Cheers

Michael

[Lula]

I have had my own room here for a while now lol

[AA99]

Close this thread? Is there nothing the banks cannot do? Who do they think they are? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[Rooster-UK]

Well I came here in March 2006, to read the electricity meter. I couldn't find my way out again, so I've been wandering around the site, ever since.

I get the Red Cross parcels, every so often. Then there is the occasional chocolate Hob-Nob.

Have things changed very much in the outside world, in the last two & a-half years?

[Bookworm]

This site needs to grow to such a point that every debtor in the UK knows how to deal with these companies.

While I’m on the subject make draft letters available to non registered users that is just petty business we have come to expect on the net.

There's your contradiction.

 

If the templates were available to non-registered users, this site would never have grown to the point where it is now.

 

It's not petty, it's common sense. People are not being asked for anything except their registering and be counted. Thanks to that, this site is the largest consumer site on the net and keeps on growing exponentially at no cost to its users. Petty? Anything but.

[MandyLou66]

Rooster, I know this is a slight digression but of the 190,00 odd members you quote how many are active?

I suspect that a large number of members sign on to discuss their own problem, and when that is resolved, don't come back.

 

Hello Palomino I could be considered to be one of the people in your quote, I will be forever grateful for the help I received from you and others who helped me. I don't say much because there are so many regulars who know so much more than me but I do log on frequently to enrich my knowledge, I'm sure lots of newbies are the same.Regard ML

[creditcardmug]

Hello Palomino I could be considered to be one of the people in your quote, I will be forever grateful for the help I received from you and others who helped me. I don't say much because there are so many regulars who know so much more than me but I do log on frequently to enrich my knowledge, I'm sure lots of newbies are the same.Regard ML

 

Hi, dont be afraid to speak or feel in any way intimidated by any ones knowledge on here, i know we are all interested in Everyones views.

Were all learning!

 

Kind regards CCM.

[jon888999]

Close this thread? Is there nothing the banks cannot do? Who do they think they are? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Perhaps what my friend at the bank had heard about was the forthcoming libel case. Maybe the banks are more involved in that then anybody thinks.

I'll speak to my friend in Canary Wharf and see what the latest rumours are. Altough you'd think the banks may have something more to worry about at the moment!!

[Goldlady]

Well at the very least it shows that we are giving the banks cause for concern if the prospect of CAG being closed down due to a libel case is creating discussion. It would be rough justice indeed if it was closed for that reason as it is something the banks could never achieve;)

[cashins]

Perhaps what my friend at the bank had heard about was the forthcoming libel case. Maybe the banks are more involved in that then anybody thinks.

 

 

Thought had crossed my mind as well.

 

David

[Bookworm]

No.

 

Let's put to bed this conspiracy theory now.

 

The initiators of this case are not the banks, they're not DCAs, they're not the establishment in any form or shape. We are talking of a couple of disgruntled individuals, one of them with money. That probably might make it even more pathetic. Allegedly.

[AA99]

Perhaps what my friend at the bank had heard about was the forthcoming libel case. Maybe the banks are more involved in that then anybody thinks.

I'll speak to my friend in Canary Wharf and see what the latest rumours are. Altough you'd think the banks may have something more to worry about at the moment!!

 

Right now mate, my blood is boiling with ALL banks, as they are my creditors that are ruining my life with their extortionate interest rates and charges :mad: but I am not going to let them make me personally pay for their recovery. There'll be a Revolution :twisted:

[Hullabaloo27]

Talking of DCA's, has anyone else seen this?

 

http://www.imfs.co.uk/downloads/sp-jan08.pdf

 

It's a cheerily written brochure from one firm proudly proclaiming to have won the 2007 DCA of the Year award!! That's right, they all have a gala dinner together and pat each other on the back!

 

There's even a cartoon funny about a struggle with debt, to cheer you up of course.

 

One quote that might make your blood boil even further, is the one in the orange box about the Credit Crunch, actually hoping it is financial meltdown as they'll all be super busy then.

 

 

Edited October 13, 2008 by Hullabaloo27

[Mr lex]

The cartoon is enough for me, perhaps we should take them up on their offer. We might make it our mission to ring the number given to 'discuss any of the points mentioned in this article*

 

Lex

[AA99]

The cartoon is enough for me, perhaps we should take them up on their offer. We might make it our mission to ring the number given to 'discuss any of the points mentioned in this article*

 

Lex

 

My thoughts exactly, who are they trying to kid ??????:?

[alanalana]

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[Bookworm]

Oh please, AA, not even as a joke! I've seen enough of that on MSE, with morons with about as much economic knowledge as my dog going on and on blaming reclaimers for it all... one of them even said that he wasn't sure "the taxpayers would be too happy to bail out people who couldn't manage not to go over their limits". (Note the patronising assumption that obviously reclaimers can not possibly be taxpayers themselves, now can they?)... I replied that thankfully, it's not up to the taxpayers to uphold and enforce the laws of this country.

 

Yeah but no but yeah, it's all our fault anyway, innit.

[alanalana]

Oh please, AA, not even as a joke! I've seen enough of that on MSE, with morons with about as much economic knowledge as my dog going on and on blaming reclaimers for it all... one of them even said that he wasn't sure "the taxpayers would be too happy to bail out people who couldn't manage not to go over their limits". (Note the patronising assumption that obviously reclaimers can not possibly be taxpayers themselves, now can they?)... I replied that thankfully, it's not up to the taxpayers to uphold and enforce the laws of this country.

 

 

Sorry my post offended you.

 

duly deleted

 

aa

[Bookworm]

I wasn't offended, I was kidding! The should have been a clue!

[AA99]

Phew Thought it was this AA you were going on about - I thought OH NO, did I have a wrung out senseless session on the PC the other night? LOL !

 

Better make alanalana aa and me AA