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What do you think is sketchy about Kiva lately?

• willcipriano 5y ago
  Kiva has always seemed to have people who aren't fans of the model and has had problems in the past[0]. Lately it's been more of a feeling, the messaging has a corporate spin to it that makes it harder to give them the benefit of the doubt. A specific thing is they have done recently made the page where you withdraw funds harder to use, and it seems like they have stopped sending emails to me when I have funds available in my account. [0]https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/16/not-our-last-words-on-the-kiva-controversy/ https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/16/not-our-last-words-on-t...
  • unreal37 5y ago
    Kiva sends me emails weekly, asking me to relend my funds as they get paid back. So the email is not the problem. In fact, I get emails from them every few days. The thing that I wonder about Kiva is the "donate to Kiva" part. If you lend, and re-lend as money is paid back, and re-lend again, with the default "donate to Kiva" settings... eventually, after a couple of years, 100% of your money ends up in Kiva's hands and not a poor person. But that said, I never expected to withdraw my money back.