Argos Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-6231921 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Thu May 07deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Treatment in financial difficulty

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr E complains that Home Retail Group Card Services Limited trading as Argos Financial Services (Argos) lent to him irresponsiblyIrresponsible lending

didn’t properly support him while he was in persistent debtTreatment in financial difficulty

Rules cited

Consumer Credit Act 1974, FCA CONC (Consumer Credit sourcebook)

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-6231921.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.