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Post by kallis3 » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:45 pm
Watching this at the moment on BBC1 - very, very interesting!
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Post by Skippy » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:49 pm
I've missed most of it now. Hopefully they'll repeat it.
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Post by geoffr » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:53 pm
hi,

think you could probably watch it again through BBC i player
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Post by TheMatrix » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:54 pm
Missed it just catching the end of it now
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Post by Skippy » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:55 pm
I'm watching the end - I can't believe that the electrician was surprised that the IP took fees from his payments. Did he seriously expect that the work would be done for nothing?
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Post by kallis3 » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:55 pm
It's worth watching - particularly the bloke who did an IVA and is whinging about the fees payable? Talk about biased!

I would love to know the companies they are talking about!
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Post by kallis3 » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:57 pm
My thoughts exactly! Doesn't put the IP companies in a good light if people think along his lines though does it?
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Post by Skippy » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:59 pm
I presume that he does his electrical work for free!

It doesn't give a good impression of IVAs unfortunately.
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Post by nepensioner » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:00 pm
Its interesting that he failed to mention the amount of his debt that was written off at the end of 5 years
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Post by TheMatrix » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:03 pm
Unless he was paying back the full 100p in the pound and interest and fees I really cannot understand why he was complaining.
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Post by freelili » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:29 pm
This is really bad for anyone in debt watching also, I feel that if I had seen this programme when I was desperate and scared I think I may have topped myself. Not that I was far from that at times if I am honest. How can the people watching that have debt now and really need a solution? I am sure there would have been some people in the same mess as us watching.
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Post by Skippy » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:34 pm
I totally agree Lily - it would be enough to scare anyone to death if they didn't know where to get advice. I didn't see all of it - did they put up any contact numbers or website details?
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Post by kallis3 » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:37 pm
No details at all. We know about these sort of companies, it's a pity we can't get this out to more people.
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Post by andrea1968 » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:40 pm
baines and ernst were on the paperwork of the lady who went on debt management.
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Post by TheMatrix » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:42 pm
No doubt now we will get bombarded with letters in the post telling us we have all possibly been missold ivas again. arrrrggghhh!!!
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