Jul
03
2009
Is Deveron Gibbons in the predatory lending business?
Posted by: in Payday Loan, tags: Amscot Financial, Cashing A Check, Consumer Advocates, Convenient Service, Deveron, Excerpt, Gibbons, Liquor Store, Predatory Lending, Preys, Random, Sandra Hall, St Petersburg, Tootsie RollsRandom Feed wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
To hear the customers filtering in and out of the Amscot office on 34th Street S, Gibbons’ Amscot Financial is a welcome and convenient service. “It’s clean, they’re always friendly and it’s easy,” said Sandra Hall, a St. Petersburg office clerk, after cashing a check and getting the free Tootsie Rolls that come with every transaction. “If they weren’t here, I’d probably go to a liquor store to do this.” But consumer advocates say Gibbons is part of an industry that preys on cash-strapped A
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