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Post by registerme on Feb 19, 2016 2:34:51 GMT
Isn't it. 85 people voted yesterday. 28 today. I do think these are worthwhile, and I hope SS looks at them and things about them. What to make of them? Good question  . Going forwards though I'd like to see.... more rigorous construction of the polls, and more critical interpretation of the results.
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cooling_dude
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Post by cooling_dude on Feb 19, 2016 6:29:17 GMT
Isn't it. 85 people voted yesterday. 28 today. I do think these are worthwhile, and I hope SS looks at them and things about them. What to make of them? Good question . Going forwards though I'd like to see.... more rigorous construction of the polls, and more critical interpretation of the results. I think that was because on Wednesday the 4 Tranches went live and there were far more people scouring the forums. It's always good to gauge the opinion of other members, the problem is because the poll is on this very website the results will all be slightly flawed, as you are only able to gauge an opinion of SS users that also use this forum. We also need to refine the question, as atm the question is skewed towards the negative side of the poll ( how difficult did you find); you remember criticism the in/out EU referendum got! Finally, we have to refine the answers, as current there is 3 positive (Easy, Fairly Easy, OK) but only 2 negatives (Hard & Impossible). Ideally we need 2 positive, a natural and 2 negative So for the next poll, we need to - Wait for a day when the SS forum user count on these forums is high (i.e. when a loan is going live) - Refine the question - Refine the answers Polling is fascinating stuff, but I do really need to get a life...... 
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Feb 19, 2016 8:15:07 GMT
It also depends on your goal. 'Put £2k into anything at all' is easier than 'buy £30k of PBL 078'
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cooling_dude
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Post by cooling_dude on Feb 19, 2016 8:34:26 GMT
It also depends on your goal. 'Put £2k into anything at all' is easier than 'buy £30k of PBL 078' Good Point.
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Post by goopy on Feb 19, 2016 9:39:26 GMT
I'm new to SS, only joined late January. At first I was a bit disillusioned, I had money waiting to invest but it was impossible to buy ANY loans as my computer/fingers weren't quick enough, I nearly gave up as I thought the whole experience was a bit pointless. I gave it a chance though as I new there was a big loan coming up and I would then be able to see if this made a difference to my SS experience, it certainly did.
I had a target of 40k to invest so I put 10k on each tranche in the pipeline market, as you know there were percentages allocated and in all I ended up with around 15k. I then spent the afternoon hoovering up what I could and by 4 O'clock I had amassed a portfolio of 40k with approximately 30k on the 4 land tranches. With the amount of loans that were flying about it was relatively easy to snap them up and I'm using a 10 year old PC with 5meg broadband, if I had more money I could have easily bought more loans.
In my humble opinion the strategy for this site has to be patience, wait for the big loans to be launched and make your targets in prefunding and during the day or two after it has gone live. It's pointless trying to be the quickest finger in the west between loans, there's always somebody quicker.  It is however good to know that if you want to sell a loan you can do so without any problems.
All in all I would say my experience so far on SS has been very positive, if I can make my 40k target in one day then I don't see why anyone else shouldn't be able to reach their targets, you just need to put a bit of effort in.
Keep up the good work SS, as far as I'm concerned the platform is about right and if there is a big loan launched every month or so that should keep everyone happy, apart from the whingers.
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Investboy
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Post by Investboy on Feb 19, 2016 11:18:43 GMT
The option that is missing for me is "I gave up on SM for the moment." Count me in for this one.
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Post by xyon100 on Feb 19, 2016 11:33:53 GMT
I've picked up about 6k in the last 30 minutes including having to go through that blasted picture thingy.
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Post by ablender on Feb 19, 2016 12:56:07 GMT
I'm new to SS, only joined late January. At first I was a bit disillusioned, I had money waiting to invest but it was impossible to buy ANY loans as my computer/fingers weren't quick enough, I nearly gave up as I thought the whole experience was a bit pointless. I gave it a chance though as I new there was a big loan coming up and I would then be able to see if this made a difference to my SS experience, it certainly did.
I had a target of 40k to invest so I put 10k on each tranche in the pipeline market, as you know there were percentages allocated and in all I ended up with around 15k. I then spent the afternoon hoovering up what I could and by 4 O'clock I had amassed a portfolio of 40k with approximately 30k on the 4 land tranches. With the amount of loans that were flying about it was relatively easy to snap them up and I'm using a 10 year old PC with 5meg broadband, if I had more money I could have easily bought more loans.
In my humble opinion the strategy for this site has to be patience, wait for the big loans to be launched and make your targets in prefunding and during the day or two after it has gone live. It's pointless trying to be the quickest finger in the west between loans, there's always somebody quicker. It is however good to know that if you want to sell a loan you can do so without any problems.
All in all I would say my experience so far on SS has been very positive, if I can make my 40k target in one day then I don't see why anyone else shouldn't be able to reach their targets, you just need to put a bit of effort in.
Keep up the good work SS, as far as I'm concerned the platform is about right and if there is a big loan launched every month or so that should keep everyone happy, apart from the whingers. May I suggest you use the first month's interest to get a newer computer.  
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Post by goopy on Feb 19, 2016 13:13:47 GMT
I'm new to SS, only joined late January. At first I was a bit disillusioned, I had money waiting to invest but it was impossible to buy ANY loans as my computer/fingers weren't quick enough, I nearly gave up as I thought the whole experience was a bit pointless. I gave it a chance though as I new there was a big loan coming up and I would then be able to see if this made a difference to my SS experience, it certainly did.
I had a target of 40k to invest so I put 10k on each tranche in the pipeline market, as you know there were percentages allocated and in all I ended up with around 15k. I then spent the afternoon hoovering up what I could and by 4 O'clock I had amassed a portfolio of 40k with approximately 30k on the 4 land tranches. With the amount of loans that were flying about it was relatively easy to snap them up and I'm using a 10 year old PC with 5meg broadband, if I had more money I could have easily bought more loans.
In my humble opinion the strategy for this site has to be patience, wait for the big loans to be launched and make your targets in prefunding and during the day or two after it has gone live. It's pointless trying to be the quickest finger in the west between loans, there's always somebody quicker. It is however good to know that if you want to sell a loan you can do so without any problems.
All in all I would say my experience so far on SS has been very positive, if I can make my 40k target in one day then I don't see why anyone else shouldn't be able to reach their targets, you just need to put a bit of effort in.
Keep up the good work SS, as far as I'm concerned the platform is about right and if there is a big loan launched every month or so that should keep everyone happy, apart from the whingers. May I suggest you use the first month's interest to get a newer computer. It's not my PC..... I was supposed to be working 
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. Going forwards though I'd like to see.... more rigorous construction of the polls, and more critical interpretation of the results.
It is however good to know that if you want to sell a loan you can do so without any problems.
