buy now pay later schemes in Podcasts
conceptA type of credit arrangement where consumers can purchase items and pay over time, sometimes leading to debt if misused.
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But if you borrow over a certain amount, so let's say you do buy that coat, and it happens to be a particularly expensive coat of in excess of 500 euros, and then you default on that payment of 500 euros, and then three years or four years down the road, you look to borrow money or you look to get a mortgage, that will be a black stain on your credit rating with the central credit registry, and it'll be game over when it comes to getting that money.
And as you say, you might buy one, two, three, four, five, six or seven things and then a month passes and you find yourself having to make multiple repayments when you're already financially stretched.
That's exactly right and one of the things that the CCPC highlighted in the Oireachtas hearing yesterday was these schemes tend to target either consciously or unconsciously the most vulnerable people in our society when it comes to personal finances because somebody who has plenty of money is not going to need to use a buy now pay later scheme
And sometimes we do need those roadblocks in our way to stop us buying products that we can't afford and arguably don't need.
you can buy that on the never-never.
So if you see a coat in a shop that you quite fancy, but you don't have the cash today, you can buy that coat and then pay it off over three installments.
And I think one of the difficulties with the buy now, pay later schemes is they're open to virtually everything.
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