The message from snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com contains these words:
In the last 5 years we have approved over 1,000,000 people who were
> unable to get car finance elsewhere.
And ripped them off mercilessly, flogging 'em duff cars at vastly inflated prices and pushing credit so far down their throats that their arses bleed.
Uno Hoo! ( snipped-for-privacy@dropthisbigfoot.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Nobody's *forcing* anybody to hock themselves to the eyeballs on shark- rates for an overpriced tatty used Ford Scrote.
Interesting how their website (No, I didn't use his affiliate link) doesn't say *anything* about the cars they sell. It's *just* about the credit.
If people are too stupid not to avoid slugs like these, what can you do?
The message from "Uno Hoo!" contains these words:
What better time to get them over a barrel and give 'em a good shafting?
The message from Adrian contains these words:
Shout and kick and scream as often as you can to draw attention to them. Nasties like this hate publicity.
Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
That'll be why they have so many adverts on pikeyTV and in the pikeyPapers, then?
The message from Adrian contains these words:
Ah - that's /their/ publicity!
Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
"There's no such thing as bad publicity"
(c) G. Ratner 1991
The message from Adrian contains these words:
Oh, I don't know. Did you see that telly programme the other day?
Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Erm, which one...? There's a few to choose from.
The scummy fat bastard in the programme about them admitted as much in his coaching of the sales staff.
In message , Adrian writes
Not even their recent appearance on Watchdog?
Steve Walker ( snipped-for-privacy@otolith.demon.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Is Watchdog still on?
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etc.
In message , Adrian writes
Steve Walker ( snipped-for-privacy@otolith.demon.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Last April. Hardly "Recent", then.
"Yes Car Credit say they will offer credit to buy a quality assured car, even if the applicant has been refused elsewhere. They claim that they will arrange the finance and promise a quality used car. But Watchdog have received 638 emails from viewers saying otherwise.
Watchdog have heard from viewers who have paid over the odds for their second hand car, expecting it to be a reliable vehicle, only for it to break down within weeks of purchase."
So the whinging seems more aimed at the cars not being very good rather than their repulsive loan-shark usury rate? Could that be because the muppets were so blinded by the fact that some slimy sales droid was waving hocked-to-the-hilt keys at them ("Ooooh! Shiny! Want!") that they could even be arsed to go through basic used-car-buying checks?
Sorry - but I stand by my view point.
Yes Car Credit and their ilk will thrive for as long as there are people stupid enough to get ripped off by them. If Yes get moved off the scene somehow, others will take over. Those others would likely be less blatant, and as a result may well end up screwing slightly less stupid people rotten, instead of just those who shouldn't be allowed to breath.
This would be good, would it?
Check out the whistleblower programme which was aired on BBC1 a few weeks ago. Charging higher APR on finance deals for those people who have a poor credit rating is one thing, but then to sell dodgy cars is another. There was one car which was shown on the programme which had done 90k miles, and had a FSH but was on its original cam belt (which should have been changed at 50k). How can you have a car with a FSH and be on the original cam belt? One of the so-called mechanics called the service they give to the cars "The Stevie Wonder service".
ABC ( snipped-for-privacy@nonmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Quite easily. Garages don't always do what they should. Well known fact. Not unique to Yes.
How's it Yes's fault that a service **40k miles** previously was bodged?
In message , Adrian writes
I'm pretty sure they had them on again in the last month or so.
Stupid or naive or desperate. You can say that about the whole sub-prime lending market.
To be honest, I think there are sharper practices about when it comes to luring people into borrowing money at ludicrous rates. 6 months interest free (followed by 5 years at 30% when you find you can't pay it off) for example. I think those deals are fantastic, not least for the "Up yours, you usurious bastard" satisfaction of sending a cheque for the full amount when the debt becomes due, but the whole point of them is to encourage people to make bad bets on how much spare cash they will have around in 6 months time.
In message , ABC writes
Ah, maybe that's what I saw. SWMBO was watching it, whatever it was.
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