2104 annual report €1.2 million loss on €1.45 m turnover

Well at least as long there's new lenders ,the platform might live till my few good loans are repaid . No doubt they will expand even more and flood it with poor quality loans there's no reasons to think otherwise. As for diving blindly, I discovered the site by reading the economist, and some blog especially wiseclerk one convinced me to do so.Sounded serious company and a good idea , they have a fair share of responsability in this disaster and lured me to my demise....5000 euros  invested 800 interest gained but 1500+ and growing default with no progress on recovery at all  even if they do seems to make more calls to the debtors.

Some recommendations on using Bondora:

1. Don't believe what Bondora says about underwriting practices. This is based on:
1a. lending to only "young professionals" who were under 25 that in reality was to tellers, fitters and others with low grade jobs and low education who were not anywhere close to being young professionals.
1b. lending from April 2014 to December 2014 that was supposed to be varying interest rate with risk but with only a few exceptions it lent to anyone in Estonia at 15%.
1c. "verified income and expenses" that seems to have in at least some cases meant "nothing really verified much at all", like the old woman receiving child benefit payments with lots of existing loans who had borrowed a huge amount of money from many places.

2. If you choose to use the lending profile system sell loans that you get in Slovakia (if it ever returns), Spain and perhaps Finland as soon as you get them and keep the ones from Estonia. Maybe make a few exceptions, but this is likely to serve you well. But maybe better not to use the automated lending at all.

3. Read what people here have to say and what wiseclerk and those who post on the related site say. There is lots of good information about how to pick the loans that are likely to do better.

4. Consider whether the risk-adjusted returns at Bondora are really worth having. They use a benchmark interest rate that includes secured lending but do no secured lending and there are better options for secured lending available if you don't mind using non-Eurozone UK places. 12% secured on physical things is available from some places like MoneyThing and Ablrate. As a UK-based lender i've no reason to use Bondora now becasue I can get better deals in the GBP zone.

5. If you sell loans at a discount on the secondary market leave the offers live only:
5a. From 1900 Friday to 0100 Monday Estonian time or
5b. Between 1900 and 0100 Estonian time.
5c. Sunday is the lowest risk time.
This is because if a payment is made you will often find that the loan is bought at the discount even though the discount is no longer a correct price for the state of the loan. The times I have given are those when there are few payments made and even fewer for loans that are late. One person checked and found that about half of discounted loan sales happened just after a payment was made, before the price could be changed. Don't be one of the victims, the times I give have greatly reduced the number of times when I have been a victim of this.

6. Don't hesitate to sell a loan that appears likely to default. Some people have tax advantages, like being able to deduct default capital from their income for tax purposes. Let them take the risk and benefit from their better tax position that makes defaulted loans more valuable to them.

7. Remember that Bondora is not your friend. Their business objectives like growth do not coincide with yours, like high and reliable investment returns. This does not mean that Bondora is your enemy, just not friend.

8. Don't. For about two years Bondora was a great place to be investing but it is no longer anywhere close to being as good as it was during that time.

If you look at one of your loans, you will see that beside APPLICATION the reason for the loan is shown in blue which is a link to the original loan application. There you can see the country of the borrower which they don't want to be easily found, but there would be an uproar if they removed it completely.

If you use the PM you will not get many Spanish loans unless you go for D and higher ratings, however interest rates are low for ABC.

Unfortunately there are now very few Estonian loans available for manual investment as the PMs run first, which is a recent change.