Welcome Finance - This company needs to be banned.

[Sol]

And you know why they continually phone you? They charge £10 for the privilege!

[jamiethemac]

Just out of interest, what is Cattles, and what do they have to do with Welcome?

[Sol]

Cattles are the parent company who own Welcome Finance.

[chrisb333]

And you know why they continually phone you? They charge £10 for the privilege!

 

 

How can they charge me for phone calls when I am up to date with my payments?

 

Are you sure about this?

[jamiethemac]

Cattles are the parent company who own Welcome Finance.

 

Any what's going on with Cattles? There was a lot of speculation about them going under on an earlier thread

[Sol]

It's in their terms and conditions and if they're phoning to check payment dates etc., they may add these as charges. I would check it with them to make sure.

 

jamiethemac said:

Any what's going on with Cattles? There was a lot of speculation about them going under on an earlier thread

 

Their share prices have dropped drastically recently. Most prob because of the credit crunch and their banking licence application being delayed. They've also stopped lending apparently and have made redundancies.

[082stewie]

Low-paid lose access to cash as Cattles restricts loans - Times Online

 

This is interesting Welcome have suspended all lending!!

 

chrisb333 said:

How can they charge me for phone calls when I am up to date with my payments?

 

Are you sure about this?

 

 

Yup they do, I have just got a full statement from them. £10 a call. One day I got 3 calls at £10 a shot:eek:

 

Ill be posting it on my thread on Monday at work;)

 

I have no arrears

[jamiethemac]

Wow, looks like Cattles are really struggling! So if companies such as theirs go under, where can people with averse credit turn to in the future?

[felixfly]

Well they have withdrawn their application. Sounds to me like they realised they had no chance.

 

Cattles withdraws banking licence application - Times Online

 

Its not looking good for Welcome is it.:lol:

[sillygirl1]

The article aso states they are shedding 1000 jobs, wonder if that is on top of the Welcome job losses.....

 

At last the FSA seems to be able to stop these sharks growing.

[Sol]

Their share price has dropped further, to 13p

[jamiethemac]

So what will happen if they go bust? What about all the people who owe them for loans etc?

[Sol]

They'll still be collected by administrators or a new buyer I presume

[eeeezzzyy]

Oh i hope Welcome finance die a slow and painfull death...heres hoping !!!

[eeeezzzyy]

How do they intend to re-finance their debt with an "internal cash generation of £200m"...or does that really mean we will "continue to rip off existing customers...miss sell products etc etc "

 

DIE WELCOME DIE

[Us versus Debt]

I wouldn't be surprised if they have lost a lot of income from people realising PPI is not worth it for them.

 

I have a car finance with them, car is great (got lucky but am now looking for some wood to touch).

 

I've seriously conned myself, as after all I accepted their high interest, and have been paying for over 2 yrs with no missed payments but loads still owing.

[eeeezzzyy]

i have a funny feeling or should that be (good feeling) that we are witnessing the last days of Cattles... or at least we can hope, they have caused me nothing but grief and aggro

 

DIE WELCOME DIE

[Johncena]

I Realised my mistake and just wanted out so I executed my right (as per the contract) by asking them to collect the car after i paid more than half in 2005.

They charged me a fortune in interest just on the PPI, as well as the loan for the car.

I am now thinking of claiming back the money they robbed off me and the interest because they bullied me into taking out the PPI when i was so desperate.

[sickntired]

I have a secured loan with Welcome, can you cancel the ppi after you have paid the first instalment if I take out an independent insurance? I am having a complete nightmare with them.

[BIGMAN2708]

I was made redundant in November 2008 and unfortunately still seeking employment. I only receive JSA (£60.50), housing benefit and council tax relief. The housing benefit is paying most of the rent, less £80 per month until 15th February and the Council tax relief is only £12 per week. At present I am in deficit of £60 per week.

 

I have two loans with Welcome Finance, one is a personal loan (£3689) and the other was for hire purchase on a car. I have succeeded in a Voluntary Termination on the car account, so it has now reverted to a none priority debt (£6002.26).

 

Since being made redundant I wrote to my local Branch and notified them of my financial situation and that I would not be able to make payments on the accounts for the time being. All started well with this, but they soon started phoning me constantly asking for payment, even asking me to BORROW money so that I could make a payment to them. With all this happening I sought advice from the National Debtline, who advised me on what to do. First thing was to ask Welcome to hold any action for 28 days and freeze interest and charges. This they refused to do. In one week the car account balance increased by nearly £100!!!

 

Still the calls persisted. I spoke to their Call Centre and they said I should speak to the Manager of the branch. This I did, and she agreed to not contact me until my circumstances change. Which is what I asked for in the first place. Still no mention of interest freezing though.

 

I then sent a letter asking again for charges and interest to be frozen for at least 28 days, offered a token payment of £1.00 per month and that all future correspondence be in writing.

 

Today, I received a phone call from the local branch, again asking me if my circumstances had change, even though it had only been three days since I had spoken to the manager. Again, he asked if I could BORROW money, to which I said he was out of order and acting illegally.

 

Should I know push forward with a complaint to OFT and the Financial Ombudsman? Or make a complaint to their complaints department first?

 

Any advice would be greatly received. These people are killing me.

[MarkieMark]

can any one help with this i took the loan with welcome but land registy have it as progressive financial services can they do that my loan is with welcome den

 

This is what I found on the companies house:-

 

Name & Registered Office:

WELCOME FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED

KINGSTON HOUSE CENTRE 27 BUSINESS PARK

WOODHEAD ROAD

BIRSTALL, BATLEY

WEST YORKSHIRE

ENGLAND

WF17 9TD

Company No. 00133540

 

Status: Active

Date of Incorporation: 23/01/1914

 

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Company Type: Private Limited Company

Nature of Business (SIC(03)):

6522 - Other credit granting

Accounting Reference Date: 31/12

Last Accounts Made Up To: 31/12/2007 (FULL)

Next Accounts Due: 31/10/2009

Last Return Made Up To: 24/05/2008

Next Return Due: 21/06/2009

Last Members List: 24/05/2008

Previous Names:Date of changePrevious Name23/12/2002TELEPLAN RENTALS LIMITED27/10/1987REFUGE SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED01/12/2006PROGRESSIVE FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITEDBranch Details There are no branches associated with this company.

[MarkieMark]

I have a friend who really and truely got.... you know what.

 

His loan was just of 13k ppi was 3,500 apr 32.20 he would have to payback just over 41k back

 

I has decided to assist him using a firm of solicitors who specialise in consumer credit law

[DinDon]

I am relieved to have found this site and found the Welcome thread most interesting, my situation is that in Feb 06 I paid off a welcome car loan (for partners car taken out via YES Finance) and took out a new loan (i know seemed a good idea at the time) - since the loan was taken out there have been numerous problems with them - they tried to collect the direct debit on a differnt date to what was agreed usually a week or so before pay day so there was not always sufficent funds hence i incurred charges, the loan was then discussed with my husband without my knowledge or consent. In November 07 the property the loan was secured on was sold and welcome received a payment of £7k from the sale but say that there is still £10k left to pay - i cannot see how the loan was for £10k - can i claim the ppi they sold me and what can i do to get them to give me the right amount left? i cannot seem to get through to them - they want me to do a statement of means and thats come out of the blue from nowhere

[heidi83]

We've been with welcome for a couple of years now. They've been mostly OK, we pay on time so we never really hear from them. The rates are rubbish but then we knew that when we signed up but we were desperate and we just rushed to get the money/car.

 

We are currently paying £195 a month over 5yrs for the car loan and £75 a month for an unsecured loan of £1100 over 3 years.

As it stands it is becoming more of a problem every month to meet the payments. Has anybody here ever successfully negotiated paying them a lower rate every month? We've not asked them yet, we are a bit concerned we'd lose the car which we really need ATM/

[Dipply75]

Hi Heidi83, thats a lot of money you are paying them back! I know the rates are terrible etc, but you obviously have the insurances etc for payments like that, don't you?

 

Please avoid re-financing with them, they will only trap you into a lot more borrowing over a lot longer. You could try making a payment arrangement with them (in writing, recorded) if you are struggling, or if you decide you do not need the insurances cancel them to lower your payments.

 

Unsure about the car loan, have not dealt with them much but that should be a last resort anyway and a long way off.What type of agreement is the car loan?