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March 22, 2006
Academic Funding Frustration
I’ve been casually looking into alternate ways to pay back my student loans when I was approached by a loan consolidation company known as Academic Funding Foundation. They tried to push me to do everything over the phone so all I had to do was sign the contract and Fed-Ex it back to them, to which I kindly declined until I could find out more about the company.
It turns out that nobody knows much about the company, not even the Better Business Bureau. Huge warning signs, big and red flapping in gale-force winds. So I asked: How do I know you’re legit? Their answer: We’re working with graces from the Federal Government. My retort: Prove it.
I’m still getting phone calls, almost daily, asking if I have any questions. Today I said, “Yes, and you should know what they are by now.” I should just tell them to take me off their list, but it’s now a test. Can they prove they have the backing of the Federal Government to properly handle my student loans?
Posted by jenkins at 2:53 PM | Comments (6)
March 3, 2006
Word Baloons
I can like comic books. Honest! Check out what grabbed my attention on Thursday.
I have no idea what it's about, yet, but I figure it's got copious overprinting and smoking guys with suits (which never ends well). As long as it's not "Clerks meets Reservoir Dogs", I think it'll be fine, not that it'd be hard to combine the dialogue of the two.
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