Viewing the conclusion of Deal or No Deal prior to the night news, Paul Gardener saw an ad he thought would solve all their problems.
Gardener, 27, had quit their task as a supermarket manager three years previously whenever his mother developed breast cancer tumors. He began looking after her full-time, switching from their $1000 weekly earnings to a carer’s pension of approximately $400 per week.
The fall in earnings left him struggling to pay for their $850 a month lease for a share apartment into the Melbourne suburb of Footscray. Then, early this past year, he saw an advertisement that promised cash that is fast easy.
“I saw the advertisement on television – they constantly have fun with the Cash Converter ads down here – and I also thought, вЂThere’s a shop simply in the future, there’s no harm in looking to get [a loan],’” he told the Paper saturday. (more…)