Sentences with phrase «paid pennies»

The debt collector bought your debt from the original company you owed and probably paid pennies on the dollar to buy it.

What they don't want you to know is that their company likely paid pennies on the dollar for the debt.

Remember, they paid pennies for this debt, so almost any amount they can get from you will be a profit.

Now that you know they paid pennies on the dollar, if you are thinking of debt settlement, start your offer low, no more than.25 cents on the dollar.

I didn't agree with everything he said either, but did it ever hit home when he said that writers were paid pennies per word in the 20s and still are today.

And the fact that I got it at Marshall's is an even bigger win because I literally paid pennies for it.

They will be paid pennies on the dollar of what they are owed.

While they were paid an initial advance to sign that contract, studio costs, marketing expenses, touring expenses, etc. also went into the expense column along with that advance... and since many artists signed royalty agreements that paid them pennies per album sold, some never managed to earn out their advance — even if they sold millions of albums.

I told the broker that I wouldn't pay a penny more than $ 4.75.

If you have a major purchase and you don't want to drain your cash reserves, the Freedom Unlimited offers a way to pay for the purchase over time without paying a penny of interest.

Before the insurance company pays a penny toward drugs, she and her husband have to spend $ 7,000 each year.

By renting and investing, you can end up with enough money to buy a home in cash by the end of your life — and you will never pay a penny of interest, or property taxes, or buy a new sump pump along the way.

He and Satchu hadn't paid themselves a penny in salary.

«Counting coins and paying pennies didn't work for Scrooge, and it won't work for you,» said Aubrey Bach, senior manager of editorial marketing at PayScale, at the webinar.

Homeowners don't really pay a penny of rent to themselves.

Most railway companies never paid a penny to shareholders, and many went bust, largely because over-investment created excess capacity.

Technology and years of brokerage price wars have changed all that, to the point where, for less than fifty bucks, you can buy a fully diversified portfolio of thousands of stocks and pay pennies in expenses.

We will have to pay every penny of the medical fee, the huge bill of education and any expenses on raising a child.

Of course there are what the economists call free riders ¯ people who use the F IRST T HINGS website and search engine without paying a penny.

At least they work, Do you know a stay - at home KEPT women that never paid a penny into Social Security gets to collect half the amount of what her husband collects and the husband did not pay a penny more than the single man that made the same amoount of money.

GE didn't pay a penny in taxes and actually got a substantial refund.

The people still paid the penny, but the meetings quickly became more pastoral than financial.

But it was customary to pay a penny a word, half a cent a word, and so science fiction writers, in order to make a living, had to go extremely fast.

But there's NO reason to pay a penny for it, especially during the Summer when the sun's out until 8 pm anyway.

Signing a player of the Argentine's quality without paying a penny would be shrewd business by the Premier League leaders.

Please make Mullen pay every penny of his buyout clause.

Club officials then contacted their legal department, before insisting that they would not pay a penny.

Reading boss Brian McDermott knew he needed to improve his attack and has managed to do so without paying a penny, as proven with his first goal of the campaign at Stamford Bridge.

we probably only wanted to pay pennies for him.

For someone we bought for # 10m I think he has paid every penny of his transfer fee.

(And no, Eric Idle, I will not pay you a penny in Royalties!)

So the «creativity» part isn't entirely clear, but it does show that the Diamondbacks aren't just sitting back and letting the Red Sox pay pennies on the dollar for Martinez and get him without some competition.

I think Giroud has done well especially as he only cost us # 9.6 m. I feel he has paid every penny of his transfer fee.

And going to court, even in the case you get a lawyer, is a complete waste of money, because they will not pay a penny.

Unlike Thatcher's privatisations of the 1980s, people would not have to pay a penny to receive their allocation of shares.»

Khan's manifesto promised that «Londoners won't pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than they do today.»

«Sadiq Khan's manifesto specifically said that Londoners won't pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than they do today,» Liberal democrat Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon said today.

People won't pay a penny of income tax on the first # 10,000 they earn.

We are about to hit the target that was on the front page of our manifesto: raising the personal allowance so that no one pays a penny of income tax on the first # 10,000 they earn, saving over 20 million people # 700.

Cuomo presented a budget in his State of the State address Wednesday that called for the de Blasio administration to take on massive CUNY and Medicaid bills now paid by the state — but by the end of Thursday, he was pledging the city would not have to pay a penny.

I'm no doubt going to be entitled to a host more deductions, and I don't want to pay a penny more in income tax than I have to.

We were told «Europe can whistle for their money» and we would not pay a penny in exit costs.

If AG Cuomo finds Paterson criminally negligent, then he must be immediately removed from office, imprisoned and made to pay every penny of fine he so justly would have earned.

Spitzer, who has already defended the investments, complained that his opponent «maligned my dad's foundation» and said the trust «is pristine, it is perfect, it does everything, it pays every penny in taxes that it should.»

«Students don't pay a penny,» he said.

Lady Brinton, a Lib Dem peer, said: «The Government's higher education policy means that for the first time since fees were introduced, they won't pay a penny up front.

The Labour party did not pay a penny for it, and it had not been stored on a Labour party drive.

Yes, you will pay pennies for the white pasta, but in the long run you are paying to clog up your intestines and spike your blood sugar on a regular basis.

Should you buy something, you will not pay a penny more, but we will receive a small commission.

You don't pay a penny more; I just earn a small percentage to continue funding this blog and my remodeling addiction.