Anyone Noticed an Increase in Activity Lately?

Large number of posts, here in this forum? Or on the website in general?

Mabey caus its tax time!!! and they think people will pay up!

Ehhhhhhh heh! Refund time! Let's git 'em!

suebeehoney70 each day more people are looking for
help in this forum and the numbers of members is
really get bigger every day.
one day i was desesperate with illegal harassment
against my husband blind and mental ill and i look
for help and i found debt consolidation care forum.
i dont think another forum about debit is more complete and more important than debt consolidation care forum.i dont think any forum about debt cares
more for good human beings or help so many people
like this forum.
i have learned a lot with members of this forum.
every day they explain new things to me.
people here are so nice that they dont discriminate
me because my english is bad and i cannot believe i'm a member of this forum now.

I knew traffic would pick up this time of year. I can only imagine people took alot of these loans during the holidays. Now they are finding themselves in this horrible situation. I am so THANKFUL for this forum and all of my friends on here and the support we give each other. Tania I am glad your a memeber also. KYSIDE38

texas - I'm noticing more posts in the collection area than anywhere else. Most of the posts are asking for help with various collection companies or PDL's, especially, and how to deal with the aggressive collection tactics they use.

kyside, you're probably right - I didn't think about the PDLs in relation to the holidays. I guess because since I found this website, I don't even consider PDL's an option myself, regardless of what time of year it is!

Suebee; been coming by here regularly myself. Finally decided to get involved and help when & where I can. These operations have grown far worse than the past and I don't see it ending any time soon. The fed's & states seem pretty much unwilling to shut 'em dow, way I see it.

Texas, Not my state LOL They are on the warpath. We have made 18 of these companies already give back thousands in refunds. 14 more on the way. Court date Feb 5. I cant wait to see them all go down. KUDOS to WV!!!!! KYSIDE38

This forum is becoming more popular even as we speak. I think that the "good guys" are getting the word out that many PDLs are illegal and their collection tactics are illegal. People get desperate start searching for help and come along this site. Enough people read the advice and tell others and so on. I don't know if the site is completely responsible, but it is on its way to becoming very influential in the industry/field.

Why are they not locking the owners up? I'd bet WV has a bunch of two & four lane highways that need to be policed for trash everyday

*chuckle*

Texas, WV and NC are two of the leading states in this fight. I know alot of people look down on WV but I am very proud of my state. It just shows we are not the dumb people everybody thinks we are. KYSIDE38

I'm a veteran I never down on any state ;)

Honestly, NO, there has not been an increase of activity on here, if ANY thing it has decreased SIGNIFICANTLY. And I doubt 20/20 had anything to do with the numbers on this site. If you pay attention closely, it comes in spurts. But still significantly decreased posts.

Hm. Guess I was wrong then. I just thought there was an increase in posts about payday loans and collections.

i collected for pdls, and can tell you all the practices they use if your interested

We are interested in hearing about the practices pdls use!!

hrsmediation; your user nic indicates to me that you intermediate disputes on behalf of others.

THe website is beginning to spread. We are like the heroes of payday loans. We are out there searching for help for a place to belong. So they come here to have someone to talk to. Someone to share insight and information. THe best thing that could have ever happened to me was coming here.

Texas:
Love your style and love your ending quote! So true, so true...

no theres no more posts not like there used to be. you made my friends go away, now they cant post anymore. they didn't want to register because they didn't want you to opress them and tell them what to say. :cough:cough:[freedomofspeech]:cough.

why do you think the 20/20 special had anything to do with more people coming here? 212 million people watched the special, and the first thing they could think was to come here and ask stupid questions about payday loans. are you that high on your horse that you actually think anyone gave a frizzy patizzle. you caught me, i almost said the "f" word. but i caught myself, otherwise you would have started a rant about the quality of this site and i should be banned.

on another note you will be so glad to see the paydays shut down. but they will never be gone. as long as people have such bad credit that they cant go anywhere else the payday stores will always have a market for high-rate loans.

what will happen if you succeed in stopping them? where will people go when they need a quick $400 to turn their electric back on. without the payday stores your power will stay disconnected. what next, a law that says banks cant descriminate on the grounds that youve never paid anyone back before?

You know what truth_hurts, I think I will have to agree with your first post here. It seems one of my threads was deleted by a delete happy moderator, for what reason I have no clue, perhaps it did not go with a certain majority here. Needless to say, I am not happy, I post my opinion regardless of what others think, I have NEVER ONCE started a thread that was deragatory and constituted getting DELETED!

And I would very much appreciate it if my posts were NOT deleted! You are taking away my number of posts and points. For what reason? Because you DO NOT feel I am going along with certain members train of thought? I for one do not and have NEVER followed the crowd.

Steelers - I'm not the one who deleted your posts. I just want to make that clear. I'm not a moderator in the Pub forum, so I couldn't have deleted them.
I think you have a lot to contribute to the forum, and you do, on a daily basis. You have been very helpful to me, and I respect you too much to delete a thread started by you.

This thread was not started in an effort to start a flame war. I was stating an opinion, nothing more. I said "maybe" the debt collectors had watched the 20/20 special and decided to join the "rogue debt collectors club". It was a flip comment, made in jest. If it offended someone, I apologize.

And I am not the one who made truth_hurts' friends go away. I don't own the site. I didn't make the decision to stop guests from posting. I am here to help others, just like everyone else.

Steelers, Wasnt me either. I dont even know how to delete a post. LOL Sometimes I think my computer ignorance keeps me safe. KYSIDE38

I think there is more activity lately in the collection agency forum. I would agree with you there :)

I think the thread was deleted because of the Doug Danger posting. I don't think it had anything to do with you, Steelers. I don't moderate the forum but I know that a big clean up was done there after all heck broke loose. I wouldn't take it personally.

Maybe there has been more posting in the collection forum because the collection agencies are getting scared that PDLs will shut down, everyone will pay their bills and they won't have jobs anymore? :lol: (okay, I know its kinda farfetched...)

Lorri,

It would be great if it happened :-) One step at a time and we are getting closer. We have definately spread the word over the last year.

Hey, I am so glad that I came here. No matter what truth_hurts is saying. He/She said that PDLs will be around forever as long as people have bad credit. Maybe the government in all of its power will come up with an alternative. Maybe they will offer more money for debt consolidation programs that are federally funded. I wish they would shut these places down. But then again, I wished I would have asked for help before I ever stepped foot into those places.