Argos
For Christmas Argos are tying the poor into 222% interest deals.

The card has been described as being "wicked", but I can't help thinking there is a down side.

itn.co.uk/news/4b06f8349e967867c612fc10399b19c2.html
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 11:12, 6 replies)

I dunno
I just read the article and the interest is heinous compared to a credit card, but it's a fixed fee which will make it more manageable for some people than a traditional approach where missing payments would rack up more and more debt.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 11:26, closed)

Wicked
I have always said that Argos is the shop of the devil
(BearWithLittleBrain, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 12:17, closed)

But
As Bill Bailey said it is the home of the

"laminated book of dreams"
(Yellow Car is now red, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 12:35, closed)

That is shocking!
I notice that when you borrow the man comes to your house to collect! Are we back in the 60s?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 28 Oct 2008, 13:27, closed)

no,
in the 60s loansharks were called what they were.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 15:16, closed)

.
Barry. Or Mike.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 16:06, closed)