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Post by xyon100 on Aug 19, 2015 7:44:48 GMT
I'm just laughing at the hypocrisy of those complaining about deep pockets. Is that not what we are all trying to achieve?
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Post by ilmoro on Aug 19, 2015 7:58:51 GMT
I'm just laughing at the hypocrisy of those complaining about deep pockets. Is that not what we are all trying to achieve? Hey, we're all Corbynites here, none of those champagne socialists.  Everyone's just trying to achieve a level playing field ... tilted in their direction  DEATH. TO BOTS!
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Post by sam i am on Aug 19, 2015 8:06:21 GMT
I read the full thread. I don't share most of the feelings. I'm really happy with savingstreamI guess their investment proposition is really good as compared with other p2p that explains so much want for their loans: 1) Instant accruing of interests upon investment 2) payment of interests on defaulted loan (on one occasion) 3) instant money transfer 4) discretionary buffer fund 5) segregated trust (coming soon) 6) 12% apr I cannot find any p2p offering all of the above. Or we are all here because of their sophisticated and hypnotic ads? No, I didn't get a bite this time, so what it's not the end of the world. They will give another gig soon. I might not go quite as far as 'really happy' but the advantages you list still significantly outweigh the problems for me at the moment. As you quite rightly point out, if the SS proposition wasn't good we wouldn't have this much demand.
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Post by xyon100 on Aug 19, 2015 8:18:00 GMT
I'm just laughing at the hypocrisy of those complaining about deep pockets. Is that not what we are all trying to achieve? Hey, we're all Corbynites here, none of those champagne socialists. Everyone's just trying to achieve a level playing field ... tilted in their direction DEATH. TO BOTS! Bots? There's no bots on SS, just unbelievably dedicated and astonishingly fast folk sitting there glued to an ever refreshing loans page for 15 hours a day. Well, maybe.
Just noticed that the 500 I thought I had actually managed to wrangle away from this astonishingly dedicated and duper fast page refresher has now vanished again. Still, on the bright side my little slice of loan 52 seems to have stayed put.
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Post by ramblin rose on Aug 19, 2015 9:05:08 GMT
That’s a rather worrying statement, whilst the banks do have problems at times you can hardly say that most banks mess up when it comes to processing figures so why should p2p platforms be excused for their mess ups? To err is human but p2p platforms are responsible for other people’s money and this is a recurring problem with SS. Of course p2p platforms shouldn't be excused for their mess ups - I've never suggested that they should. And if people don't want to be patient with them while they're being held to account I'd expect them to go elsewhere. Just because I'm patient (on this matter) doesn't mean I'm not expecting it to be sorted. If they did something that lost you your money and did nothing about it I'd be jumping up and down and spitting feathers too, on your behalf. Being unable to invest in loans for a while because the IT infrastructure is groaning at the seams and has burst in some places does not come into that category for me. The reason the p2p platforms mess up is because they aren't these big multi-national organisations like the banks are - they are small outfits and part of why we're getting such a high interest rate to compensate us. I repeat, for the avoidance of doubt, I don't think that means they should be excused. I just,personally, am happy to be patient. Those who say 'MT have it just right' are comparing apples and pears - when SS were at MTs stage of development and had MTs size of loans they didn't have these problems either, and MT (and I agree they're great) had the benefit and significant advantage of being able to learn from all the others who have gone before them. If, as I hope, MT turns out never to have these problems it would be a more meaningful comparison, but there's a long way to go with MT before we can know that. (You accidentally managed to misattribute my words to sam i am in your post, but corrected here, as I do remember saying them even though it was as long ago as yesterday evening  )
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Post by j on Aug 19, 2015 10:21:08 GMT
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Post by ilmoro on Aug 19, 2015 10:30:37 GMT
I'm amused that we are on page 9 of a thread that was started less than 20 hours ago Yep, so much sound & fury its actually spontaneously combusted.... and no sign of a fire extinguisher 
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Post by paulgul on Aug 19, 2015 10:43:37 GMT
I'm amused that we are on page 9 of a thread that was started less than 20 hours ago But still no comment from savingstream unless I missed it 
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Post by yorkshireman on Aug 19, 2015 11:35:06 GMT
That’s a rather worrying statement, whilst the banks do have problems at times you can hardly say that most banks mess up when it comes to processing figures so why should p2p platforms be excused for their mess ups? To err is human but p2p platforms are responsible for other people’s money and this is a recurring problem with SS. Of course p2p platforms shouldn't be excused for their mess ups - I've never suggested that they should. And if people don't want to be patient with them while they're being held to account I'd expect them to go elsewhere. Just because I'm patient (on this matter) doesn't mean I'm not expecting it to be sorted. If they did something that lost you your money and did nothing about it I'd be jumping up and down and spitting feathers too, on your behalf. Being unable to invest in loans for a while because the IT infrastructure is groaning at the seams and has burst in some places does not come into that category for me. The reason the p2p platforms mess up is because they aren't these big multi-national organisations like the banks are - they are small outfits and part of why we're getting such a high interest rate to compensate us. I repeat, for the avoidance of doubt, I don't think that means they should be excused. I just,personally, am happy to be patient. Those who say 'MT have it just right' are comparing apples and pears - when SS were at MTs stage of development and had MTs size of loans they didn't have these problems either, and MT (and I agree they're great) had the benefit and significant advantage of being able to learn from all the others who have gone before them. If, as I hope, MT turns out never to have these problems it would be a more meaningful comparison, but there's a long way to go with MT before we can know that. (You accidentally managed to misattribute my words to sam i am in your post, but corrected here, as I do remember saying them even though it was as long ago as yesterday evening ) To err is human
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Post by ilmoro on Aug 19, 2015 11:41:47 GMT
Somebody seems to have mysteriously acquired 50k worth of these 3 loans. The odd thing is two of these investments occurred yesterday but werent showing in the activity last night.
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Post by ilmoro on Aug 19, 2015 13:28:57 GMT
Somebody seems to have mysteriously acquired 50k worth of these 3 loans. The odd thing is two of these investments occurred yesterday but werent showing in the activity last night. In fact, activity logs are a right mess, whole load of investments appeared dated yesterday which werent there before, some are actually after todays bids! Guess SS are trying to sort out the choas brought on by IT systems dropping off. Wonder how many people have ended up with loans they didnt know they had and have lost chunks they thought they had. 2 out of 3 gone negative again so some bits hitting the SM ... maybe!
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Post by Liz on Aug 19, 2015 14:02:06 GMT
52, and 53 still over subscribed, someone peepe are going to still miss out.
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Post by nw99 on Aug 19, 2015 14:07:54 GMT
SS should not list 3 at a time as it crashed the website again. I missed out on all 3
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Post by mv on Aug 19, 2015 16:32:34 GMT
SS should not list 3 at a time as it crashed the website again. I missed out on all 3 But at least this way you only wasted 1/2 hour. If they listed 3 seperately it would have crashed 3 times and you will probably have wasted 1.5 hours!
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Post by ramblin rose on Aug 19, 2015 16:38:43 GMT
I'm amused that we are on page 9 of a thread that was started less than 20 hours ago And it's one of the peak holiday weeks to boot - the forum has bundles of tumbleweed blowing through it everywhere else 
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Everyone's just trying to achieve a level playing field ... tilted in their direction 
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