Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌖🌕🌘 Monday, 13 January, 2025
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Holidays are officially over - just got my first debt collection call of the year.
Optus sold my debt to them, I never paid my last bill due to the Optus data leaks. Sorry not sorry.
I’m never gonna buy a house or anything, or take out a loan, so why should I care? Besides that, my only debts are HECS/HELP and my TAFE fee (which I pay in installments by DD every month).
YOLO 🤷🏼♀️
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’ve got something outstanding (student union stuff) from latrobe uni from about 10 yrs ago. $111. they sent it to me 5 years after finishing the course lol. No letter, no email. Just sold it off to billchaser. 5 years! Get spammed every few days over sms. I should block the # but they make me feel loved. I ain’t payin’.
Baku@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Lol, is it even worth their time for a bit over a hundred bucks?
Though they’ve probably sacked most of their staff and automated it all, if you’re just getting SMSs
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Defs automated. Latrobe has had its financial struggles over the years so no surprise they’re selling debt.
Baku@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I don’t really like the vibe of Latrobe (admittedly as an outsider that’s never been in one). Their campuses just seem unnecessarily large. Not necessarily by student numbers, just size. And half of it is empty space