No credit rating? No mobile phone contract
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on 05-11-2014 12:57
The Daily Mail is currently running a story which is telling how Kirsty Allsopp (of TV fame) has been outraged because her mother in law has been refused a mobile phone contract as she has NO credit rating.
This 81 year old lady...who runs her own antiques business...has never paid for anything via direct debit.
Apparently she pays cash for everything and has never been in debt.
However the application for a contract was refused because the company could not find ANY credit rating on her
So beware..... It isn't only those who have a BAD credit rating
Apparently you can be debt free...pay everything on time....run your own business.....BUT...if you have no credit rating on file....you can be refused a contract for £30 a month...
A sign of the times...but farcical nonetheless?
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on 05-11-2014 13:11
Years ago even when I was 18 I was encouraged by my Father to take a credit card and use it just to pay for fuel in my car and repay it in full every month, just to get a foot on the credit ladder...
Touch wood, I've never had an issue with credit checks for phones or mortgages and the odd car loan....

Anyway, thanks for sharing as it should spark up some good healthy debate......
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on 05-11-2014 13:18
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on 05-11-2014 13:18
It obviously isnt common knowledge Rich because this article also sparked a phone in on TV where other people were refused mortgages...due to the fact they had NO credit rating
They had followed parental 'mores' of always paying for stuff on time and never being in 'debt'
My own parents frowned on anything on Hire Purchase. In those days it was felt if you couldnt afford it...you shouldn't have it....:smileywink:
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on 05-11-2014 13:32
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on 05-11-2014 13:32
@Cleoriff wrote:In those days it was felt if you couldnt afford it...you shouldn't have it....:smileywink:
I still live by that but unfortunately I'd still be living with my parents if I couldn't get a mortgage
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on 05-11-2014 13:35
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on 05-11-2014 13:35
They wouldn't do it for him as he had no credit rating.
He left it 2 weeks and went back and they opened one this time if he paid a returnable after 3 months bills deposit.
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on 05-11-2014 13:58
Everything done in cash so HMRC, can't see what takings are!
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on 05-11-2014 14:05
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on 05-11-2014 14:05
I really just wanted to point out that I did know about the credit rating requirement......
I was hoping to show that sometimes it is also progress gone mad....
From one extreme to the other. Help can be given to those with an appalling credit rating. No such help for those who have always paid their way.....
I personally pay everything via direct debit....but it is damn annoying when my electricity and gas company write and tell me 'Congratulations....you owed us xxxxx and you are £400 in credit...
I often think why the heck do I do this??...Overpaying every month and allowing money to sit in SSE coffers?
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on 05-11-2014 14:06
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on 05-11-2014 14:06
@Anonymous wrote:
Looks a bit funny to me?
Everything done in cash so HMRC, can't see what takings are!
Well...that is another point of view I expect.... Never thought of that one...
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on 05-11-2014 14:45
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on 05-11-2014 14:49
Dunno what or how, but a woman that age, supposedly owning a business, on the electoral roll, has never had so much as a BT landline?
Something off.

