Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: WES on October 28, 2011, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: WES on October 28, 2011, 11:00:00 PM
Peter,
Would we able to get a Lending Club rep on this forum, to take suggestions for improvement? Glenn's participation on behalf of Prosper has made their site much more user-friendly. I've got a couple of suggestions for Lending Club, and I'm sure others do, too.
Would we able to get a Lending Club rep on this forum, to take suggestions for improvement? Glenn's participation on behalf of Prosper has made their site much more user-friendly. I've got a couple of suggestions for Lending Club, and I'm sure others do, too.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: Peter on October 30, 2011, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: Peter on October 30, 2011, 11:00:00 PM
I am actually flying to San Francisco this week for meetings with Lending Club and Prosper. I will be mentioning to Lending Club that I would like some participation from them. Rob Garcia often participated but he left LC several months ago and no one has really stepped in to take his place as far as participation goes.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: investorjunkie on February 02, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: investorjunkie on February 02, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
My two beefs with Lending Club:
- The secondary market
- Collections process by Lending Club seems weak at best.
- The secondary market
- Collections process by Lending Club seems weak at best.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on February 11, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on February 11, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
WES, Unfortunately, we won't be seeing much participation from LC on this forum. Their legal department would prefer they not make comments on a public forum such as this, so any questions you have can go through me or you can contact them yourself directly. But please share your knowledge here - others investors appreciate it.
Investorjunkie, The secondary market is still very challenging for investors, but there is some enterprising work being done by Michael at Nickel Steamroller. When he gets done you should be able to invest in the Secondary market much more easily. Check out the LC secondary market portal for more: http://nickelsteamroller.com/lendingclub_market
Investorjunkie, The secondary market is still very challenging for investors, but there is some enterprising work being done by Michael at Nickel Steamroller. When he gets done you should be able to invest in the Secondary market much more easily. Check out the LC secondary market portal for more: http://nickelsteamroller.com/lendingclub_market
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: Newlyfrugal on February 26, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: Newlyfrugal on February 26, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
It would be nice if LC gave us the option to "hide" a listing that we reviewed and are not interested in. After I set my filters, I look at some listings for loans. I can weed out the ones I don't like, but can't "hide" them from the list of filtered loans. I don't want to keep reading the same listing again and again.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on February 29, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on February 29, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
You are not the first person to request this. Lending Club has done very little in the way of enhancements to their retail site as far as the user interface goes but I have been told it is coming.
I am going to have a blog post dealing with this issue coming up shortly.
I am going to have a blog post dealing with this issue coming up shortly.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 12, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 12, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Why does it take four days to transfer funds from my bank account to my LC account?
It takes only a day or two for money to get to my brokerage accounts and to my online savings accounts.
It would be great if LC could make my cash available in less than four days.
It takes only a day or two for money to get to my brokerage accounts and to my online savings accounts.
It would be great if LC could make my cash available in less than four days.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 12, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 12, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
I have no idea why Lending Club takes so long to fund your account, there should be no reason it should take longer than a brokerage account. Their arch rival Prosper has taken advantage of this and allow instant transfer of funds up to $50K.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: DiligentiaLLC on March 12, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: DiligentiaLLC on March 12, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
I count the "Instant Transfer" feature as one of the main advantages their platform has over LC. I don't know why LC hasn't caught up yet...
Notice I said "one of the main advantages" and not "the biggest advantage". Anybody want to take a guess on the biggest advantage Prosper has over LC? (as if we don't harp about it enough already)
from: Peter on March 13, 2012, 07:52:35 PM
Notice I said "one of the main advantages" and not "the biggest advantage". Anybody want to take a guess on the biggest advantage Prosper has over LC? (as if we don't harp about it enough already)
from: Peter on March 13, 2012, 07:52:35 PM
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 17, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 17, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
I agree that the instant transfer is a nice advantage at Prosper. In case casual observers are wondering what DiligentiaLLC is referring to I am guessing he is talking about ROI. Right now, Prosper has a considerable edge as far as the average return investors are received. You just need to look at Lendstats.com to confirm this. Am I right, Chris?
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 18, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 18, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Good guess Peter, but I was speaking of the ever popular "When will LC ever offer past payment data on repeat borrowers wishing to obtain a new loan?"
Understanding that this is a very small market for Lending Club doesn't reduce the fact it is valuable data for future investments.
Understanding that this is a very small market for Lending Club doesn't reduce the fact it is valuable data for future investments.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 18, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 18, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Thanks for clearing that up. I will keep mentioning it to them when I speak with them. It is such an easy thing for them to implement that I can't see much argument against putting in a flag for repeat borrowers. We see them all the time in the title and description fields but there is no way to easily filter for these loans. Yet.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 19, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 19, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
I try not to become a conspiracy theorist on the matter but I am beginning to wonder if LC is not doing it on purpose. Perhaps to keep this niche market for their Prime funds or equivalent? 
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 21, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: TravelingPennies on March 21, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
I very much doubt they are "keeping" these loans for themselves. From my conversations it seems that Lending Club doesn't feel there is enough repeat borrowers to warrant any special consideration. But I will keep hammering away at them on this issue. If there is a deeper reason that they are not saying I think they may want to maintain a sense of differentiation from Prosper which might explain them dragging their feet on this issue.
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: rajuabju on October 18, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: rajuabju on October 18, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Peter...
any chance you can talk /w the people @ LC and tell them they need to make a deal /w Intuit to allow for automatic updating of data into Quicken?
any chance you can talk /w the people @ LC and tell them they need to make a deal /w Intuit to allow for automatic updating of data into Quicken?
Title: How can Lending Club improve?
Post by: Peter on October 18, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Post by: Peter on October 18, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
I can certainly talk with them about it, but have you requested this as well? This is one of those instances where the more people who ask the more likely they are to do something.