{"id":566,"date":"2010-01-24T23:04:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=566"},"modified":"2010-01-24T23:06:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:06:06","slug":"advertising-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"advertising standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it more than a little surprising that with the UK in an economic crisis neither the advertising standards authority nor the financial regulator seems to have a problem with extremely &#8220;short term&#8221; credit solutions being advertised with effective APR&#8217;s of over 2500%. This may be a perfectly legitimate service but not one without significant risks to the borrower. I think it&#8217;s immoral to charge such an interest rate under any circumstances and I doubt I&#8217;m the only person who finds it offensive!?<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re going to &#8220;convert your gold into cash&#8221; then check that the gold watch you&#8217;re getting melted down isn&#8217;t worth significantly more in an auction. Solid gold vintage Jaeger LeCoultre&#8217;s and Rolexes <em>(displayed in 2 advertisements)<\/em> are worth more than the market value of their precious minerals if they&#8217;re in reasonable condition. It&#8217;s really up to regulators to ensure that customers are adequately informed before availing of new financial services <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it more than a little surprising that with the UK in an economic crisis neither the advertising standards authority nor the financial regulator seems to have a problem with extremely &#8220;short term&#8221; credit solutions being advertised with effective APR&#8217;s of over 2500%. This may be a perfectly legitimate service but not one without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}