Big Eye Lending Watchlist
Tribal ownership unverified (BBB lists Finley, CA — no tribal owner named) · lending since 2017
Nearly every page about Big Eye Lending calls it the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe’s second brand alongside Mobiloans. We cannot verify that, and the evidence cuts against it: BBB lists a Finley, California address — roughly six miles from Tremont Lending, in Big Valley Pomo country — and names no tribal owner. Mobiloans is in Marksville, Louisiana. The claim appears to have been invented by affiliate sites and copied ever since. The brand is also, as far as we can tell, defunct.
Big Eye Lending at a glance
Watchlist- Owning tribe
- Tribal ownership unverified (BBB lists Finley, CA — no tribal owner named)
- Lending since
- 2017
- Loan amounts
- $200–$2,000
- APR range
- 400–780%
- Product
- installment
- Website
- bigeyelending.com
What a Big Eye Lending loan really costs
We will not publish a cost story we cannot source. The APR range repeated across affiliate pages — commonly 215–430% — appears in no primary disclosure we could locate, and neither does an alternative figure.
What we can say: our registry records loans of roughly $200–$2,000, and every comparable tribal instalment lender in this data set prices between 400% and 830% APR. A 215% floor would make Big Eye an extreme outlier. Outlier claims with no primary source are usually marketing.
If you hold an old Big Eye agreement, the TILA disclosure inside it is the only number that means anything. It is also worth keeping: it is evidence of what you were actually charged, which matters if a collector surfaces.
- No longer originating new loans
- bigeyelending.com now redirects to a domain-for-sale page
- Ownership is unverified — the widely repeated Tunica-Biloxi attribution has no primary source
- Its commonly cited "215–430% APR" figure traces to no primary disclosure
- No public wind-down notice or borrower relief programme
- Affiliate directories still list it as an active, verified tribal lender
Where Big Eye Lending lends
No longer originating, so availability is moot. If an old balance is being collected, your state’s rate-cap law — not the lender’s claimed tribal affiliation — determines whether it is enforceable.
Does Big Eye Lending report to credit bureaus?
No evidence Big Eye ever reported to Equifax, Experian or TransUnion.
A balance sold to a third-party collector can be reported by that collector.
If ownership is unverified, so is any assignee’s chain of title — a validation request is the right first move.
Why we do not repeat the Tunica-Biloxi claim
The claim is everywhere: Big Eye Lending is the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana’s other lending brand, a sibling to Mobiloans. It appears on comparison sites, in listicles, and in directory entries that describe themselves as verified.
The evidence points elsewhere. BBB records a Finley, California address for Big Eye, with a business start date of 22 July 2017 and no tribal owner listed. Finley sits in Big Valley Pomo country — about six miles from Tremont Lending. Mobiloans’ BBB profile is registered in Marksville, Louisiana, roughly two thousand miles away.
No tribal resolution, regulatory filing, court document or company statement we could find connects Big Eye to the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe. What likely happened is ordinary: one affiliate page guessed, the next copied it, and repetition turned a guess into a fact.
It is a useful reminder that in this sector "tribal affiliation" is a marketing claim until a primary document says otherwise — and that the affiliation determines which sovereign immunity argument a lender can even make.
So we record the ownership as unverified. If a primary source emerges, we will publish it.
The brand appears to be gone
bigeyelending.com now redirects to hugedomains.com, a domain marketplace. The address is for sale.
That is close to conclusive. A lender’s primary domain is its storefront; brands that are still originating do not list theirs for auction. There is no wind-down notice, no refund programme and no announced successor.
Affiliate directories have not caught up, and several still present Big Eye as an active tribal lender accepting applications. If a site is sending you there today, that site is not checking whether the lenders it recommends exist — which is worth knowing before you trust its other recommendations.
What Big Eye Lending costs in dollars
Big Eye Lending's published ceiling is 780% APR. Below is what that rate does to the amounts it actually lends, repaid over 12 monthly payments.
| You borrow | Monthly | Total repaid | Interest |
|---|---|---|---|
| $200 | $130 | $1,564 | $1,364 |
| $1,100 | $717 | $8,601 | $7,501 |
| $2,000 | $1,303 | $15,638 | $13,638 |
At 780%, a $200 balance accrues about $130 in interest every month. Any payment below that figure leaves you owing more than you started with, however long you pay.
Standard amortisation at the published ceiling rate; fees are not included, and your actual rate and term may differ. Run your own numbers in the payoff calculator.
Frequently asked questions
Is Big Eye Lending owned by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe?
Unverified, and the available evidence points the other way. BBB lists a Finley, California address with no tribal owner named, while Mobiloans — the Tunica-Biloxi brand — is registered in Marksville, Louisiana. The sibling-of-Mobiloans claim traces only to affiliate sites, with no primary source. We record its ownership as unverified.
Is Big Eye Lending still operating?
It appears not. bigeyelending.com redirects to a domain-for-sale listing. Directory sites still describing it as an active tribal lender are out of date.
What was Big Eye Lending’s APR?
We could not verify it. The 215–430% range repeated online traces to no primary disclosure, and it would be an extreme outlier against every comparable tribal instalment lender, which price between roughly 400% and 830%. If you hold an old agreement, the TILA disclosure in it is the only reliable figure.
Is Big Eye Lending a tribal loan?
Yes. Big Eye Lending is a tribal lending brand owned by the Tribal ownership unverified in CA. That means it lends under tribal law and claims sovereign immunity from your state's interest-rate cap, rather than holding a state lending licence. It is also why its APR reaches 400–780% — far above the roughly 36% cap most states set for small loans. Whether the loan is enforceable where you live depends on your state.
What does a Big Eye Lending loan cost?
Big Eye Lending lends $200–$2,000 at 400–780% APR. At those rates the total repaid is typically several times the amount borrowed, because interest is front-loaded — check the total of payments, not the monthly figure.
Is a Big Eye Lending loan legal in my state?
It depends entirely on your state. High-cost tribal loans are effectively banned in nine states, where a loan above the rate cap can be void and not legally collectible, and restricted in many more. Big Eye Lending claims tribal sovereign immunity from those caps — an argument courts have accepted in some cases and rejected in others. Check your state before you borrow, and especially before you pay a collector.
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Entries are built from the lender's own published disclosures, tribal corporate and lending-authority records, federal and state court filings, and CFPB, FTC and state regulator actions. Of the 143 brands in the full list of tribal lenders, 41 are confirmed lending, 74 sit on a watchlist pending verification, and 28 have shut down. Where a figure cannot be sourced we leave it blank rather than estimate it — which is why some entries are deliberately incomplete.
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