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Originally Posted by Anonymous
This site is great with a wealth of information, I just found it too late! I wish I had checked on this before I made my payday loans. I borrowed $500 from thinkcash/first bank of delaware and they have been taking payments from my checking account for a couple of months. I have paid about $160.00 over the principal amount to date with an ACH scheduled for next week. My assumption was that they were a legitimate lender being that they were call a "bank", should I send a letter to them and refuse to have them debit anymore payments from my account?
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Let me try and answer some of your questions and concerns, being that I had some relations with the Bank.
1. First Bank of Delaware is a DE chartered Bank with two branches in the sate of the Delaware, and offices in PA and DE. Let me clear something, The Bank is the issuer of the card with private investors that fund the balances, marketing agencies that market the loans and a host of other organizations outside the Bank performing functions such as credit decisioning, customer service, collections, Plastic/Card Issuer. Now after all of these people get paid off that 400%, the Bank sees what is left, in addition to app fees.
2. These loans that are being offered are really not for long term use. The 365% (for example) is basically broken down to 1% for every day you keep the money over a 12-month period, hence 365 days. So the earlier you pay your balance off, the less interest you pay and vice versa, the longer you take, the more your payments will go to interest than principal.
3. When you stop paying, basically you are defaulting on your loan. If you read your agreement, it discloses the # of payments and due dates, all of which, you agreed to upon submitting the application, accepting electronic communication, and having the funds deposited into your account.
4. There really is no need to obtain an attorney, as once you accept the terms of the agreement you have entered into a contract to re-pay the funds at the stated interest rate. The company gets so many people getting attorneys, but what they are telling you, just prolongs the inevitable, they will stop withdrawing funds from a closed account, but now your credit messed up and the Bank can possibly place a judgment against you or report on your credit as a defaulted account.
6. Just because you default on a loan does not mean you do not have to pay it, as it is sitting on some system as a write-off. Typically, delinquent accounts are written off at 180 days, but remain as write-offs on the system. I would contact the Bank issuing the card and see if they offer a settlement. A Settlement could be as little at 25% of the remaining balance or whatever they feel is reasonable. Remember some money is better than no money to these Banks.