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chetanahuja on July 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Even – Get your average pay, every payday

"$3/week is less than 1% of that"

That's 1% for one week !! In comparison, current CD yields are close to 0% per annum

chaostheory on July 28, 2015 [–]

I don't feel that most of the people this service is targeting even knows what a CD is, but I'm pretty sure a lot of them are familiar with payday loans. Unless I'm missing something this service definitely seems a lot less evil than a payday loan.

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