Prosper.com restricts activity for "months" for so-called privacy period?

[manlymatt83]

Prosper Filing Registration Statement; Enters Quiet Period

Prosper has started a process to register, with the appropriate securities authorities, promissory notes that may be offered and sold to lenders through our site in the future.

The registration filing is a necessary step toward making the secondary lending market available to the community. This is something many of you have been asking for, and we believe the liquidity of a secondary market will make Prosper even more vibrant.

Until we complete the registration process, we will not accept new lender registrations or allow new commitments from existing lenders. If you're an existing lender, your current lender agreements will be unaffected; your existing loans will continue to be serviced; you'll be able to track and monitor your loans; and you'll be able to withdraw funds from your Prosper account.

If you're a borrower with an existing loan, you will continue with your current borrower agreement and be unaffected by the registration process. If you're a borrower seeking a loan, you will still be able to create a new loan listing, which we will endeavor to fulfill through alternative sources.

A successful registration can take several months, but we assure you we will do our best to move forward as quickly as possible. Until this process is complete, we're required to be in a quiet period and will be unable to respond to press, blogger or other inquiries about Prosper or the registration filing until it becomes effective.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and want to thank you in advance for your understanding and support.

Way to do this at a time when people need your services the most.

 

[finite automaton]

lulz

 

[Eli]

lol..

When people need the services the most, eh?

Christ, we're going to debt ourselves into oblivion.

 

[nanette1985]

I always wondered how they could get around the regulations.

 

[ultimatebob]

Does anyone have any idea when Prosper is going to be allowed to start offering bids on loans again? It's been two months now without even a status update from Prosper, and I'm starting to get worried.

Worse yet, some of my borrowers are starting to take advantage of the situation and aren't bothering to pay on their loans anymore. I guess that I can't blame them... if the company goes belly up, all I'll have is some pretty much worthless promissory notes stating that these folks owe me a small amount of money. Am I really going to bother going after each one of them for the $40 bucks that they still owe me?