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« Reply #9900 on: March 19, 2019, 03:59:41 AM »

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« Reply #9901 on: March 20, 2019, 05:37:07 AM »
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/staten-island/news/2019/03/18/nypd-won-t-respond-to-minor-accidents-on-staten-island

Gonna see a lot of contested liability claims going forward.

I never understood the need for having to wait for cops for a simple accident.

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« Reply #9902 on: March 20, 2019, 09:44:24 AM »
I never understood the need for having to wait for cops for a simple accident.
And to block the road for your convenience...

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« Reply #9907 on: March 23, 2019, 09:38:39 PM »
“As far as what would motivate them to offer 7k, I suggest a YOUTUBE search for "David Dao United Airlines"
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« Reply #9909 on: March 24, 2019, 12:08:00 AM »
Crazy that nobody took $5k
+1 I never saw or heard of this high of an offer.
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« Reply #9910 on: March 24, 2019, 12:21:36 AM »
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« Reply #9911 on: March 24, 2019, 12:51:54 AM »
Insane.
I would have taken that in two seconds, I don't understand how someone would be willing to take $7k but not $5k
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« Reply #9912 on: March 24, 2019, 03:56:09 AM »
I would have taken that in two seconds, I don't understand how someone would be willing to take $7k but not $5k

They were probably discussing the logistics of splitting up and would have taken 5 if they hadn't gone up to 7.

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« Reply #9913 on: March 24, 2019, 09:56:57 AM »
I would have taken that in two seconds, I don't understand how someone would be willing to take $7k but not $5k

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« Reply #9914 on: March 24, 2019, 11:26:05 AM »
They were probably discussing the logistics of splitting up and would have taken 5 if they hadn't gone up to 7.
Fair point
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« Reply #9915 on: March 24, 2019, 11:26:17 AM »
Things you may regret saying at your sheva brachos
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« Reply #9916 on: March 25, 2019, 02:39:27 PM »
https://legalnewsline.com/stories/511787748-class-action-lawyer-sweet-on-white-chocolate-starbucks-clif-bars-ask-courts-to-toss-cases

Was looking for a place to find these for cheap because they are ridiculously good but also ridiculously expensive and stumbled on the above  ::)
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« Reply #9917 on: March 25, 2019, 02:48:02 PM »
And my points are:

1. MCAs are a financial wild west, and even with a publicly traded large player in the business, there's a lot of bad things going on. There are many smaller sales operations that will use Ondeck (interestingly their website says all over that they provide LOANS) for back-end funding the MCAs, padding it with additional fees. There's zero regulation and tons of abuse, unethical practices, and outright lies by the people marketing the "Cash Advances". Regulation, education, and crack-down are long overdue.

2. Unless someone can prove me otherwise, I would say that an overwhelming majority of MCAs are just additional (or sometimes the last) nails in the coffin of an operating business. However, as someone mentioned upthread, there's fraud on both ends. Since these transactions are underwritten solely on bank cash flows, if someone is able to defraud and misrepresent those, then the MCA company will end up losing.

3. Most people that take MCAs as a source of funding, aren't aware of the APR equivalent being charged, and if they signed a confession of judgment, they definitely didn't understand the ramifications of that. If something similar to a Truth In Lending document (despite the obvious shortcomings of those) would be required to be read out loud by the business taking the funds, I would guess that the landscape would change immensly.


As for the articles and political posturing, well I might have mentioned before that those are amongst the lowest of occupations in my mind, possibly even worse than the people selling the MCAs, so this might be another point where we agree.

And now the writers of the article have come out with a short video with a real story.



Some of the brutal comments (I would guess this is from people in the industry):
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Dumb Americans who have absolutely zero personal responsibility deserve to be preyed upon. If you sign up for such loans from loansharks, you deserve what you get. Not to mention this Bush guy trying to weasal out of his obligations. With slimey borrowers like him, of course lenders are going to use tough measures

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All voluntary transactions should be legal. This guy obviously knew he couldn't afford it but yet he still took the loan. He deserves to lose everything.

And then a comment that seems to be coming from some actuary:
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Analysis would show that based on a credit rating a risk of loss (probability %) and possible return on investment % are determined. Further that can be analyzed are income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, etc and any information that may even be requested in order to secure the loan. Client meetings can be established to determine credit worthiness.

Lenders should understand the risk they take in lending and accept when they have losses from poorly made investments, despite the irresponsibility of those receiving the loan.
Mods might want to prune this entire discussion to a separate thread.
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« Reply #9918 on: March 25, 2019, 04:10:50 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/25/british-airways-flight-dusseldorf-lands-edinburgh--mistake

At least they are guaranteed some compensation.

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As well as the bonus trip to Edinburgh, passengers should be receiving at least €250 (£215) in compensation under EU flight delay regulation 261, after landing five hours and 20 minutes behind schedule on what should have been an hour-long hop.

On my last flight back to JFK, IB had the IFE showing LHR as the destination on the flight map and data, all the way until landing in JFK.
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