• MrZee
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    2 months ago

    I did the math for the interest rate since they didn’t bother to in the article. The article says she had paid $1400/mo for 3 years and had only paid 10,000 toward principal. Assuming that’s 36 months of payments, the interest rate would be around 15.5%. The payment term would have been 10 years and total payments would end up being $168k.

    Predatory lenders and financial illiteracy; a perfect match made in hell.

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      2 months ago

      While whoever did that to her really ought to be in jail, she does need to take some responsibility

      • most people dont need such a big vehicle - clearly it will be expensive
      • most people shouldn’t get the top end trim of whatever vehicle

      Unless she willingly went into this because she used to have higher income, I do t see how she could claim complete ignorance

      That kind of interest rate indicates she was a bad credit risk, either because she made the same mistake before, or she couldn’t afford it. If she’d already made the same mistake, will she ever learn? If she just plain couldn’t afford it, yeah, a lot of that is on the scummy salesman