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Post by yorkshireman on Aug 18, 2015 17:01:58 GMT
Wait until the next good-sized new loan is launched and you should be able to pick up not only a slice of that but parts of many other existing loans too, as existing holders look to diversify. Wishful thinking, sir
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Post by ramblin rose on Aug 18, 2015 17:06:28 GMT
Wait until the next good-sized new loan is launched and you should be able to pick up not only a slice of that but parts of many other existing loans too, as existing holders look to diversify. Wishful thinking, sir I understand your sentiment after today's road crash, but the crucial part of SteveT's post was ' good-sized new loan'. Today's three were very small by SS standards. The larger ones typically stay around for long enough after the initial scrum for his statement to be valid. Even these days.
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Post by yorkshireman on Aug 18, 2015 17:12:18 GMT
I understand your sentiment after today's road crash, but the crucial part of SteveT's post was ' good-sized new loan'. Today's three were very small by SS standards. The larger ones typically stay around for long enough after the initial scrum for his statement to be valid. Even these days. I don’t call a total in excess of £1.3 million small and as I say on another thread, that’s not sour grapes.
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Post by SteveT on Aug 18, 2015 17:28:36 GMT
I understand your sentiment after today's road crash, but the crucial part of SteveT's post was ' good-sized new loan'. Today's three were very small by SS standards. The larger ones typically stay around for long enough after the initial scrum for his statement to be valid. Even these days. Yes, these were tiddlers by recent SS standards. That said, after 30 mins of patient clicking (on a mobile phone on a dodgy signal area on holiday in Croatia) even I managed to invest the couple of K I was looking to re-home in 2 out of the 3 loans.
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Post by ramblin rose on Aug 18, 2015 17:37:21 GMT
I understand your sentiment after today's road crash, but the crucial part of SteveT's post was ' good-sized new loan'. Today's three were very small by SS standards. The larger ones typically stay around for long enough after the initial scrum for his statement to be valid. Even these days. I don’t call a total in excess of £1.3 million small and as I say on another thread, that’s not sour grapes. One man's 'peanuts' is another's 'major feast' to be sure. But these days £1.3 million is towards the small side for SS. It's the ones over £2.5 million that I mean when I say 'good sized', but even they will get chomped up more and more quickly. Unless of course lots of lenders go and play elsewhere
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Post by ilmoro on Aug 18, 2015 18:01:55 GMT
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Post by xyon100 on Aug 18, 2015 19:20:25 GMT
Thank you. :-)
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Post by supernumerary on Aug 19, 2015 8:51:17 GMT
I have asked SS to implement anti-bot measures and they have said they would. IMO it is worth doing whether or not any bots are currently being used (I have proved to my satisfaction that they are.) The fact that some loans can be obtained manually proves that the bots are not hoovering up everything but does not prove that they do not exist. The accounts will need replenishing with money periodically, and the bots might be programmed to be selective. Even if you doubt the existence of bots now you cannot surely suppose that they will never arrive? Yesterday, I was going to reply to you and say that I think you are wrong... Then I thought, it is your opinion, so I'll leave it at that. Today, Property Bridging Loan 035, WENT GREEN, after my clicking refresh a few times and we are talking only a matter of seconds in between on the whole list... Clicked on the loan, NOTHING to invest. It was showing £0.00 INVEST. Click on the investment activity and £1,000 sold on the 19th August 2015. After witnessing the speed of that sale, I now think that your concerns, do have some merit to them...
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Post by xyon100 on Aug 19, 2015 9:13:35 GMT
Yesterday I spent pretty much the whole day watching the loans page refresh every 15 seconds or so. With the exception of a couple of sub- £100 scraps that the person/thing I now call Mr speedy did not seem to want, I managed to get precisely nothing until the end of the day when there was a flurry of loans that all came up at once just before the new loans arrived. Despite a 15 second refresh, EVERYTHING decent during the day was gone when I INSTANTLY hit the invest button.
One thing I discovered is it is an almost super human task to spend hour after hour watching a page refresh yet some people seem to be doing it, and doing it with more success than I had, for hour after hour. From morning till late night. This morning I saw £200 come up in loan 11, gone within, I estimate, 6/7 seconds of me seeing it. And that is the pattern.
I know nothing about bots and this could just be an incredibly fast and dedicated investor who is just faster on the trigger than I am. Perhaps many people are sitting there hour after hour watching a page refresh every few seconds. I don't know. I just know that doing that manually was largely futile and complete exhausting and boring beyond belief.
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Post by adrianc on Aug 19, 2015 9:36:16 GMT
From morning till late night. There was £1,200 in 38 sitting there at about 10pm. I know, because I got some of it - and the rest was there for a good few minutes.
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Post by xyon100 on Aug 19, 2015 9:43:35 GMT
Yesterday I saw nothing sit there for minutes. However, this morning I have just refreshed and seem to have bagged some of 33, the rest was gone by the time I clicked back on it, seconds. Now let's see if it actually stays in my summary.
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Post by xyon100 on Aug 19, 2015 9:47:18 GMT
Correction.....There was no "rest of it", so ignore my last comment. :-)
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Post by sam i am on Aug 19, 2015 11:52:53 GMT
From morning till late night.
There are certainly some night owls around. I put £6k of PBL29 and PBL30 on the SM last night at 12.45am thinking that someone would pick them up in the morning. It was all gone in 5 minutes (2 investors).
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Post by ilmoro on Aug 19, 2015 19:36:52 GMT
Yesterday I spent pretty much the whole day watching the loans page refresh every 15 seconds or so. With the exception of a couple of sub- £100 scraps that the person/thing I now call Mr speedy did not seem to want, I managed to get precisely nothing until the end of the day when there was a flurry of loans that all came up at once just before the new loans arrived. Despite a 15 second refresh, EVERYTHING decent during the day was gone when I INSTANTLY hit the invest button.
One thing I discovered is it is an almost super human task to spend hour after hour watching a page refresh yet some people seem to be doing it, and doing it with more success than I had, for hour after hour. From morning till late night. This morning I saw £200 come up in loan 11, gone within, I estimate, 6/7 seconds of me seeing it. And that is the pattern.
I know nothing about bots and this could just be an incredibly fast and dedicated investor who is just faster on the trigger than I am. Perhaps many people are sitting there hour after hour watching a page refresh every few seconds. I don't know. I just know that doing that manually was largely futile and complete exhausting and boring beyond belief.
Apparently you can get a Chrome (other browsers available) extension that does it for you and alerts you to any changes ... every second (max). Though I suspect you may well end up hypnotising yourself
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Post by xyon100 on Aug 19, 2015 20:26:48 GMT
That was me last night, and why I'm not doing it again. On a more serious note does this app actually notify you of changes or just refresh? Refresh is no problem but every second is pointless when it takes seconds to refresh, but notification of a change? Sounds botty....;-)
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