Over the last couple of years we’ve all been bombarded with numerous emails, banners, and event TV and radio commercials offering to save our immediate cash shortage by offering so called payday loans. Obviously, the offers indeed sounds very interesting, if you have a phone and a checking account, the money will be transferred to your account by next business day.

However, the ads always fail to mention the astronomical cost that you’ll endure by taking out such a loan. Due to legal issues, the interest rate on such loans is usually similar to credit card rates. It is obvious thought, that these lending companies will not make sufficient profits by lending the money for 2 weeks at annual rate of 10%. Therefore, in addition to the regular interest rate, these companies charge so-called service fees. These range of the fee depends on the company you deal with, however, they often end up being much higher than your interest payment.

Furthermore, if you take a payday loan with the term of 2 weeks, until your next paycheck that is, the chance is that you won’t have enough money to make the payment and still have enough to live on. After all, if you had the money, you wouldn’t need the loan in the first place. In this case, the lending companies are more than happy to reissue the loan to you or extend its due date by another two weeks. Obviously, in order for them to cover their time of processing your loan again, they will once again charge you with the astronomical processing fee. After a while you realize that it’s been a few months and you still haven’t been able to repay the loan, yet your account is being charged every two weeks. After doing some simple calculations by combining the charges, you see that you’ve already paid more than you’ve borrowed, yet you still owe the principal ...

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