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Post by d_saver on Nov 30, 2016 16:54:47 GMT
Hi,
I'm fairly new to p2p, but decided to put some funds into a few places, including AC. It's been a couple weeks, but not much is moving their side. I understand that demand outstrips supply, but I wonder what the point of this is
30th Nov 2016 at 09:34 Purchase loan part 1xxxxx4 (old id 1xxxx9) for 0.0000000000000000000600000000000000000000 GBP - annualised rate 7.000, loan: Bxxex8)
£0.00 30th Nov 2016 at 09:34 Instant withdrawal from Quick Access Account (5) < £0.01
I've a bunch of them, totalling less than 1 pence in total! I'm going to need a hell of a lot of these to use up my deposit!
I realise they have to do something with the fractions somehow, but surely spreading these across accounts is simply useless to clients and just complicates paperwork accounts? I can't see any value in it? Surely they should aggregate these into some reasonable value and put them on client accounts. I'm hoping loans are not so thin on the ground that the small parts that become available to clients get allocated like this?
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Post by Butch Cassidy on Nov 30, 2016 17:17:02 GMT
AC argue that this is the best/most accurate/correct way to distribute loans; technically they are correct but most investors hate it, as it not only generates pointless/meaningless/worthless transactions as you already pointed out but also makes it virtually impossible to sell out of a holding, seemingly always being left with a fraction of nothing. I would happily give away this residual to clean up my account but that appears not to be technically possible either.
Feel free to contact AC directly to register your dismay as most of us have got tired of trying to improve the situation & just accept it is one of the minor irritations that lending through AC brings however, on the bright side, if you go through the entire loanbook & set targets for the loans you like the look of & want to invest in the shrapnelator will eventually buy them, usually in small parts, with no further effort on your behalf. Thereby allowing you to accumulate holdings in virtually any loan over time, obviously the older & more secure the loan (especially with the better rates) less is usually available.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Dec 2, 2016 12:57:05 GMT
People use this nonsense as an argument against the 'set a target and forget it' investment system, but actually it is not a requirement of such a system .. I'd be much happier with something which just randomly allocated £x sized chunks among the queuing vultures until none were left (even if I got none at any particular feast). It's still better than hovering over a hot keyboard 18 hours a day playing FFF and reCaptcha, or having to write your own bot to even get a look in.
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Post by Neil_P2PBlog on Dec 2, 2016 13:07:58 GMT
Such accuracy also makes life more tricky for AC when they try to do some excel based reconciliation/ investigation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_precision_in_Microsoft_ExcelOther option would be to roll SM sales < £1 into an admin account which then redistributes when it gets to a minimum £10 or something
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