From: John Boyle 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: zopa.com ? Anyone know of this?
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 12:11:03 +0100

In message , lon  
writes
>I saw on BBC News 24's Click about zopa.com, it is the marketplace for
>Social Lending. People lend and borrow money with each other, sidestepping
>the banks.
>
>Has anyone else come accros this sort of thing?
>
>Pros/Cons?

Yes. I am a lender there. Its been going a couple of years. I think it 
is still a bit of a novelty and I have not been lending long enough to 
express a view as to risk/reward. Judging from some of the contributions 
to its forum I am not sure all of its lenders actually understand what 
is happening!
-- 
John Boyle