Discretionary Commission Arrangements - Compaints and refunds
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Discretionary Commission
In the UK car finance industry, several companies used the Discretionary Commission model before it was banned by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in January 2021. This model allowed car dealers or finance providers to decide the level of commission they earned from arranging car finance for customers, often tying the level of commission to the interest rate. This practice incentivized car dealers to charge consumers higher interest rates to receive a higher rate of commission.
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Illustration of Fees
The figures quoted are only calculated on actual money sent to you. If you get a balance reduction, we do not charge any fees on the balance reduction element, just on money sent to you by the lender.
|
Band |
Redress awarded for a claim (£) |
The maximum percentage rate of charge |
The maximum total charge (£) |
|
1 |
£1-£1,499 |
30% plus vat |
£420 |
|
2 |
£1,500 - £9,999 |
28% plus vat |
£2,500 |
|
3 |
£10,000-£24,999 |
25% plus vat |
£5,000 |
|
4 |
25,000-£49,999 |
20% plus vat |
£7,500 |
|
5 |
£50,000 or above |
15% plus vat |
£10,000 |
These are some examples:
Band 1
Compensation amount £1,000. Our Fee £300 + VAT (£360 inc VAT). You get £640
Compensation amount £1,499. Our Fee £350 + VAT (£420 inc VAT). You get £1,079
Band 2
Compensation amount £5,000. Our Fee £1,400 + VAT (£1,680 inc VAT). You get £3,320
Compensation amount £9,999. Our Fee £2,083.33 + VAT (£2,500 inc VAT). You get £7,499
Band 3
Compensation amount £15,000. Our Fee £3,750 + VAT (£4,500 inc VAT). You get £10,500
Compensation amount £24,999. Our Fee £4,166.67 + VAT (£5,000 inc VAT). You get £19,999
Band 4
Compensation amount £30,000. Our Fee £6,000 + VAT (£7,200 inc VAT). You get £22,800
Compensation amount £49,999. Our Fee £6,250 + VAT (£7,500 inc VAT). You get £42,499
Band 5
Compensation amount £50,000. Our Fee £7,500 + VAT (£9,000 inc VAT). You get £41,000
118 118 Money
Our average refund from 118 118 Money is £2,871.
118 118 Money offers loans of between £1,000 and £3,000 at an interest rate of 49.9% Representative. They also now offer credit cards to the same sub prime group at an interest rate of 34.0% pa. 118 118 Money upheld 43.46% of complaints made between July and December 2020.
UK Credit
Making UK Credit Refund Complaints is no different to most other lenders. The challenge with UK Credit is that they like sending information in the post which can become frustrating. When they do send information by email, they encrypt the data (which is good), but they like to embed files in Excel which can be difficult to open.
UK Credit Refunds are very similar to other Guarantor lenders, such as Amigo Loans. They seem to offer almost exactly the same amounts of money and they charge the same high interest rate. Our average refund for UK Credit claims is £4,177.15
MoneyBarn Car Finance
Moneybarn is a well established car, van and motorcycle finance company. In 2014 it was purchased by Provident Financial PLC. They have not always treated customers well or fairly having been fined almost £3m by the FCA. Read about it here.
Lending Stream
Lending Stream refund complaints tends to get fair payouts for the customer with our average refund for them being £1,524 since our first complaint back in 2017.
Loans2Go
Loans2Go (trading name of Loans2Go limited) is a loans provider offering unsecured loans of £250 to £3,000, from 18 months to 24 months.
Loans2Go provide their service of super-fast, easily approved loans at a representative APR of 770%, up to 937.8%. This means if you borrow £550 over 18 months at a flat rate of 180% per annum (fixed) you will be repaying £2,035.08 in total.
Mobile Money
Mobile Money have been in business for many years and focus on sub prime lending. The interest rates charged by Mobile Money are very high (in our opinion) and appear to vary between 49.9% to 499.9%. Considering they have your car to act as a guarantor of the loan, that seems a lot of interest to charge.
We are starting to get good results with this car finance lender. The average offer is £3,979.35.
Avant Credit
Our average refund from Avant Credit is £4,924.
Avant Credit have lent to more than 80,000 people and have lent a total of £250 million. That tells us that the average loan size is £3,125. They charge 42.5% interest representative, which does make them cheaper than some of their competitors, but still in the mid price range.
Avant Credit is not accepting any new loans. Avant Credit complaints had 1,545 complaints in 2020 and upheld 32.7% of those complaints.
GuarantorMyLoan
Guarantor My Loan are another guarantor lender, this time charging 48.9% APR. This makes them slightly better value than Amigo Loans, but still very expensive. With Guarantor My Loan you can borrow between £1,000 and £10,000 over 12 to 60 months.
When we make a Guarantor My Loan refund claim we have to be very careful as they will sometimes make a small offer to the customer and try and get the customer to accept without us knowing. The offer is always a lot less than we would hope to be able to get either as a result of the Guarantor My Loan Refund Complaint or when we take the case to the FOS.
Important Documents
George Banco
Sorry no new claims being accepted
Buddy Loans
Now In Administration - Sorry no new claims being accepted
Provident
Sorry no new claims being accepted
Amigo Loans
Sorry no new claims being accepted
More information can be found by following this link: https://www.amigoscheme.co.uk