Defend Your Dollars is the website of the Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign, where we support reforms to the financial marketplace to curb bad practices by banks and lenders.
Cash Call is the worst. I borrowed $5000 and now I'm having problems making the payments. They won't take partial payments and I can't pay the full amount. They call and e-mail all day of all hours. Once I got behind, I found out all my payments are as if I haven’t paid anything. The others, I keep extending and this isn’t good either. I thought I didn’t have the money, but with all these fees, I did have it, just not at one time. The fees are "too" high and I can't afford to pay. One company garnisheed my pay check which put me further behind.