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We removed SonicCash.com from our popular State Licensed Payday Lenders page. Until at least January 10, 2011, their website claimed that they were licensed in Alabama, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Rhode Island and Utah. All mention of state licensing has since been removed from their site. We could not verify their licensing on various [...] Continue reading →

Today Compete.com finally released their traffic data for the month of January, 2012. We’ve updated our popular Traffic Comparison page to reflect the new data. This page compares payday loan sites by people, visits, visits/person and Google PageRank (PR). The only major change is that CashCentral.com shot to the top of the list in terms [...] Continue reading →

We’ve just received word from our readers that GetYourCashToday.com, a payday loan site that had the lowest price on our Compare Lenders page, died. From their website: “Notice: We regret that we are no longer offering Pay Day Loan financing through www.getyourcashtoday.com.” As we saw in our article Six Payday Loan Laws that Hurt Consumers, [...] Continue reading →

We’ve updated our popular Full Contact Info page to reflect new information received from our readers. It seems that six loan sites listed in our Requested Lenders / Problem Lenders section may be controlled by one company. Information collected leads us to believe that hard-to-reach lenders Action Payday Loan (Action PDL), Bottom Dollar Pay Day, [...] Continue reading →

We temporarily removed the Google+ button from our site. The button was breaking our W3C Validation. We value web standards and strive to create interoperable Web pages so we removed the button for now. It will be reinstated when we find valid markup/code for it. Thank you for your kind understanding. Recent Posts: 02/06/2012: Removed [...] Continue reading →

We updated our Traffic Comparison page. It lets you compare payday loan sites by traffic stats (people, visits and visits/person) as well as Google PageRank (PR). Since our last update, the traffic for CashCentral.com increased substantially and the traffic for CheckCity.com doubled. PayDayOne.com‘s traffic dropped slightly and NationalPayday.com‘s traffic plummeted substantially. PayAdvance.com‘s PR rose from [...] Continue reading →

Today we updated our popular BBB Ratings of Online Payday Lenders page. In addition to updating the ratings, we added a “BBB Accredited” column to the table. It tells you which payday lenders have earned BBB Accreditation. So far, only CheckCity.com (CCO Financial, LLC) is BBB Accredited. According to the BBB website, it’s been a [...] Continue reading →

Today we added the Google+ button to our site. If you found any of our info useful to you, please share it by clicking the Google plus button in the top right corner of the page. Note: The button does not appear on on the front page, category index pages or search results. It only [...] Continue reading →

We monitor our site for ratings abuse and have a zero tolerance policy towards abusers. Why? Visitor-submitted lender ratings help borrowers make informed loan purchase decisions. Ratings also help us identify lenders with poor customer service so we can remove them from our comparison pages. Once again we discovered ratings abuse. As always, the votes [...] Continue reading →

Ever since putting up our Full Contact Info page, we’ve been flooded with requests for info about hard-to-reach lenders. We’re usually pretty good with getting info up within a day or two of the request. Unfortunately, over the past month we’ve been busy tweaking the back-end of our site to handle the increase in traffic [...] Continue reading →