dermot
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Post by dermot on Jan 30, 2017 16:08:07 GMT
Guess there aren't many other loan opportunities around this afternoon ...
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Post by ladywhitenap on Jan 30, 2017 16:13:11 GMT
Yes diabolically slow. I was online just before 4pm with good reload time and then it has taken me 9 minutes to make one purchase.
And only 30% left when I managed to connect.
Usually 20M Broadband here.
More capacity need methinks MT!!
LW
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Post by sannytwist on Jan 30, 2017 16:15:37 GMT
Yup , l'm a gamer and l got the fastest internet money can buy on fibre optic line with top of the range pc. Couldn't even load at 16.00pm for 1 minute.
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Post by james on Jan 30, 2017 16:17:41 GMT
Looking on the bright side, that's half a million raised on the Wandsworth loan in the first ten minutes with the remaining £145k looking unlikely to last long. The ongoing challenge of picking the bid limit, of course. If you're stuck for opportunities I think there are still a couple of ten percenters on the Ablrate primary market and a fair bit more at up to around 14% on the secondary. That market tends to see new supply offered if what's around is taken. My circa 180 megabits per second doesn't help much when the site is slow.  Added later, all 645k gone in 59 minutes. |
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Post by dermot on Jan 30, 2017 16:24:12 GMT
Looking on the bright side, that's half a million raised on the Wandsworth loan in the first ten minutes with the remaining £145k looking unlikely to last long. The ongoing challenge of picking the bid limit, of course. If you're stuck for opportunities I think there are still a couple of ten percenters on the Ablrate primary market and a fair bit more at up to around 14% on the secondary. That market tends to see new supply offered if what's around is taken. My circa 180 megabits per second doesn't help much when the site is slow. I just managed to get the slice that I wanted - and my 4GHz I7 box on a 200Mbit connection didn't help at all .... I've not dipped my toe into Ablrate waters as yet - is it as simple to use as MT? I tend to go into primary loans and hold through to completion usually, or perhaps sell a bit early if I feel the need. Only rarely do I trawl around the SM ...
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Post by james on Jan 30, 2017 16:40:45 GMT
I've not dipped my toe into Ablrate waters as yet - is it as simple to use as MT? I tend to go into primary loans and hold through to completion usually, or perhaps sell a bit early if I feel the need. Only rarely do I trawl around the SM ... The primary market is pretty much as simple, the secondary a little more complicated because it allows variable pricing. Some people don't like that, I do. I really like what they do overall. They have done the right thing on the ethics side in the one default they have had so far, still working through the legal process. Went to the High Court to get an emergency freezing order on borrower and director almost immediately. Director was not best pleased when he found that his personal bank would only let him withdraw enough for living expenses... Not the sort of approach you typically see from P2P firms but the director made it the right thing to do through his actions. If you do take a look, debit card credits appear instantly twenty-four hours a day. Withdrawing normally a day or two but give them a ring if you have a genuine urgent need and they can do it faster. I think it's still the CEO who signs off on every payment. Nice folks, same sort of thing I write about MoneyThing. Ablrate and MoneyThing are the two that I normally recommend to beginners in another popular forum.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jan 30, 2017 16:50:17 GMT
Yup , l'm a gamer and l got the fastest internet money can buy on fibre optic line with top of the range pc. Couldn't even load at 16.00pm for 1 minute. One minute was pretty good .. I basically couldn't get any sort of response from 16:00:01 until around 16:10, at which point it was normalish again. And this on a loan where I would have expected the feeding frenzy to have been slower than normal - I guess Ed's guess at £1600 turns out to be 'way high' again .. with the second 24 hour limit, it makes sense to go for smaller limit on day1, if MoneyThing can stand the cash drain (and can't implement 'guess it right the first time').
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Post by marcusponds on Feb 2, 2017 16:08:07 GMT
very slick today- all 4 parts in under a minute, using a dongle me too, perhaps nobody wanted a slice.
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Post by caesium on Feb 2, 2017 18:27:20 GMT
very slick today- all 4 parts in under a minute, using a dongle me too, perhaps nobody wanted a slice. As I believe someone noted in another thread, £25 chunks just isn't enough to get a lot of people excited, me included. My time is worth more than the few pence interest that would gain over the year.
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Post by adrianc on Feb 2, 2017 18:56:26 GMT
me too, perhaps nobody wanted a slice. As I believe someone noted in another thread, £25 chunks just isn't enough to get a lot of people excited, me included. My time is worth more than the few pence interest that would gain over the year. Which is why there's still over £30k left at 7pm. Y'never know... Perhaps we'll get the chance to pick up another £25 of each tomorrow?
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