When will people learn this is an ad free site? Blog Discussion

Former_MSE_Andrea · 25 January 2006 at 3:31PM

This is a Chat Forum discussion on Martin's 'When will people learn this is an ad free site? Time for a nasty reply' blog that you can read here

Ticklemouse · 25 January 2006 at 4:08PM

But you used words of more than one sylable, Martin. It my be difficult for them to un-der-stand

However, "Free to use and Free of ads"

are all words one one sylable. Anyone know of words using fewer than one ?

Good on yer though! That's the type of email I would have sent :rotfl:

wirm · 25 January 2006 at 4:09PM

Woo Hoo! Go Martin! :d

**pramaholic** · 26 January 2006 at 8:49AM

I can't thank MSE enough for the money saving tips it provides. It is made all the better by the notion that it is thoroughly honest and provides quality advice to the unsuspecting public-without adverts.
I have also had great fun exploiting loop holes such as collecting extra Nectar points and introductory money from Barclays bank recently.
Long live MSE.
Long live Martin Lewis. What a decent chap.

mini · 26 January 2006 at 2:50PM

I have only come across 2 ad free websites on my worldwideweb travels, I love the link provided, how very kind of you!

phil999_2 · 29 January 2006 at 6:32PM

funniest reply i have read in a while. WELL DONE for keeping this ad free

kenshaz · 29 January 2006 at 7:58PM

pramaholic are you certain that you will get your £100 from Barclays

scheming_gypsy · 29 January 2006 at 8:58PM

Ticklemouse wrote:

But you used words of more than one sylable, Martin. It my be difficult for them to un-der-stand

However, "Free to use and Free of ads"

are all words one one sylable. Anyone know of words using fewer than one ?

i think what would probably have made more sense to them would be..

3 2 use n 3 ov ads

LukeSkywalker_2 · 30 January 2006 at 1:25PM

I’m not sure which bit of the sentence above my agents contacts

I don't get this

it doesn't seem to make sense

black-saturn · 30 January 2006 at 3:37PM

How can giving links to places like play.com and cdwow be counted as an ad free site?

MSE_Martin · 1 February 2006 at 4:21PM

Very simple Black Saturn. An advert is when someone comes and says 'if you put this on your site, I will pay you X, Y or Z'. That never happens here. We have affiliated links which are chosen by editorial merit. So articles and links are chosen for editorial reasons, at that point we see if we can get paid links. Whether a link pays or not, and how much it pays, doesn't make any difference to the site in any way - it would be the same whether it pays or not.

E.g Look at best balance transfers, you'll see all of the 0% cards don't pay anything currently (they dont have stars by them) but some of the stable relationship cards do. Whether they pay or not is irrelevant to whether they're included. If Barclaycard came and said "here's £1 million" can you include us in an article or put a banner ad - the answer is no.

If Barclaycard suddenly launched a 18 month no fee 0% best buy, it would be included in the article automatically and then at that point we'd go to one of the commercial sites like Moneysupermarket and say "can you provide a paid link to Barclaycrd" if they can i say hoorah, if they can't i say boo - but the article doesn't change either way. These are paid affiliate links rather than ads.

The only possible exception is my book, which you could argue I advertise, but i hope you'll forgive me that....

Martin

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