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Hi, I've been trying to get some sense out of SWIFT regarding my secured loan. I've put my house on the market [4 months ago] without any luck yet. The only reason I've done this is to clear the Swift loan as I am shortly [Jan] only going to be able to pay £100 per month instead of £228. I wrote a letter of complaint to Alan Loblack who sent me a hard lines letter. When I asked for more details I have been ignored [2 months] and a chaser [both sent recorded] has also been ignored. Does anyone know what is likely to happen when I start sending half payment? Merry XXXXX Xmas

 

 

Joe, you posted a while back that you had a letter from Eastern Counselling...can you depersonalise it and post it up for us to see...? Ta..

 

Good advice from Sweet Jane - hang on in there if you can..

 

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If the case against Barclays was successful in that they gave bad and inappropriate financial advice, surely we have the same claim to that argument against Swift.

 

I wonder who'd be daft enough to take financial advice from Swift? You'd need a lie detector in your pocket.

 

Actually, it would be against the broker anyway rather than Swift as they would claim they do not offer any advice (which is probably just as well given the lies they tell in normal life) to the account holder. So no fiduciary duty hangs on Swift. You'd be better to look into what they do and how they do it than trying that on as they'll wriggle out of it like a snake in jelly.

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As I have found with other companies I have investigated and put pressure on and even professionally supplied people to work on behalf of clients, when these type of companies are held to account or set out to circumnavigate their responsibilities one only has to follow the money to find out eventually exactly what they are doing. Had they addressed many if not most of these issues herein described in this thread when they first were made aware of them, then doubtless none of these pressures from the OFT FSA (or even Sparkie) would have emerged. But they didn't and they will suffer the consequences

 

Justice and truth always catch up in the end - they are a wounded animal and it is only a matter of time before they realise there was always a sensible way out if only they had taken the bait. It's still there if they want it, but Swift being Swift have an arrogance which is hard to climb down from - reality will soon take precident - or so I am told.

 

Keep the faith...

 

 

 

You're damned right A1. How many of us have lived in denial over one thing or another in our lives? Once the reality sets in then and only then do you get to the core of the problem. Swift are in denial and have been for years. They live by stealth taking people to court, repossessing them by throwing big time lawyers and barrister at us because they have the money to do it and get away with intimidation.

 

If only they'd face reality and admit their errors like any other business then they may have protected those poor staff in Brentwood who they have and their families who rely upon them for their own livlihoods - I wonder if they ever think of them? How many staff will lose their jobs in that building if the OFT whip their licnece off them because of their business practices - it'll all come back to bite them on the bum shortly you wait and see.

 

Sparkie and all the rest deserve bl***dy medals for the work they have put in barrack room lawyers or not, they have worked damned hard to find out what they have and I know some are suffering dire financial pressures just to see this through so a big thank you to all of them seen or unseen, but Swift will not prevail in all this unscathed as the reality has not yet reached Brentwood or Bedford St...when it does, then the ****e will hit the fan.

 

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