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http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Banking/BetterBanking/lending-to-a-neighbor-good-luck.aspx?page=1

Prosper.com, a sort of eBay for loans, is billed as an alternative to banks. But the Internet pioneer's default rates are sky-high, and lenders have been losing money.

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ok, looks like the slate article (gimein) .. date is newer .. n/m

[ToySoldier]

Yea .org is getting famous !

After the media weighed in with the stories about the great new idea in lending, however, hardly anybody except the increasingly unhappy community of Prosper lenders  -- "Welcome aboard our little train wreck," says one poster on Prospers.org, an independent discussion forum for Prosper participants -- bothered to keep track of just how well it worked out. The answer: not well at all.


*** bolding is mine ***

[bamalucky]

Great article.. Where's the rebuttal ?

[Urbi_et_Orbi]

What is there to rebut this time?

 

[The_Cat]

nominate lobby

[tekiegreg]

Yea .org is getting famous !

After the media weighed in with the stories about the great new idea in lending, however, hardly anybody except the increasingly unhappy community of Prosper lenders  -- "Welcome aboard our little train wreck," says one poster on Prospers.org, an independent discussion forum for Prosper participants -- bothered to keep track of just how well it worked out. The answer: not well at all.


*** bolding is mine ***

Funny I couldn't find "Welcome aboard our little train wreck" quoted by anyone short of this thread's posts...I was just curious who originally said that.

[God-Father]

Second for lobby

[112233]

Yea .org is getting famous !

After the media weighed in with the stories about the great new idea in lending, however, hardly anybody except the increasingly unhappy community of Prosper lenders  -- "Welcome aboard our little train wreck," says one poster on Prospers.org, an independent discussion forum for Prosper participants -- bothered to keep track of just how well it worked out. The answer: not well at all.


*** bolding is mine ***

Funny I couldn't find "Welcome aboard our little train wreck" quoted by anyone short of this thread's posts...I was just curious who originally said that.

http://www.prospers.org/forum/empty-t18207.0.html;msg320064#msg320064

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Second for lobby

ok, but it's the same as the last article

[Xenon481]

Second for lobby

ok, but it's the same as the last article

I think the point is that it is now published in MSN Money which is much more well known than The Big Money.

[112233]

Second for lobby

ok, but it's the same as the last article

I think the point is that it is now published in MSN Money which is much more well known than The Big Money.

ok. I agree.

[112233]

discussion at "f*cked company" regarding this article and prosper
http://retro.f2bbs.com/bbs/show_topic/190972

[Tokyo Joe]

Second for lobby

ok, but it's the same as the last article

I think the point is that it is now published in MSN Money which is much more well known than The Big Money.

ok. I agree.

Why couldn't MSN Money get a new quote?  There's only half a million posts here.

Journalism has become such a slovenly, lazy profession.  I remember when being a reporter meant something.

[112233]

Second for lobby

ok, but it's the same as the last article

I think the point is that it is now published in MSN Money which is much more well known than The Big Money.

ok. I agree.

Why couldn't MSN Money get a new quote?  There's only half a million posts here.

Journalism has become such a slovenly, lazy profession.  I remember when being a reporter meant something.

at least they didnt pass the article off as their own