Re: Loan Problems



"Gav" <gavin.metcalfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Several things, huge mobile phone bill, student loan that needed paying
> back because he failed the course and hence was no longer entitled to it.
> Basically he was trying to pay off several debts and acruing interest on
> them all. I offered to pay them off as he was getting really depressed
> over them.

Sounds like a clasic case of "robbing peter to pay paul" to me!

You would have helped him more by assisting him in the task of negotiating
with his creditors for more time to pay if he was a genuine "can't pay"
situation, but it sounds like it may have been more a "won't pay" situation.


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