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End dates on Competitions Time
Think you've made a massive mistake, without proper consultation. I know it's your site and I know it's probably done to attract Loquax people. But the system worked. You've p'd off more people than you've pleased. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/59027815#Comment_59027815 You should consider your…
Part wall agreement at a reasonable cost??
I hope someone can help. We have planning permission for a single storey rear extension on our semi detached house. Our neighbours (the house connected to us) objected to our plans (although many on our street have done exactly the same thing). We dont really get on with them, although its nothing specific and we are…
Employment Tribunal Awards
A major problem is occuring,whereby people are being awarded and winning employment tribunal cases and are not getting their money. In my case my ex employer can close a company down and then set up another one,without paying staff.i have been fighting for 2 years,and was awarded alot of money. I just taken my ex employer…
50 word Moneyfesto - Small changes for a big difference 2013
Improve Money Rules In 50 Words What easy changes should our politicians make? Politicians like big 'legacy' issues, but miss those little easily-implemented changes that help us all. So we want yours... See the full 50-Word Moneyfesto guide to see what this is about. How to make your 50 word suggestions To make a…
Featuring a business
Hello, How can a business get featured. for example if they have a certain promotion running across outlets. an it be featured ?
Signature OK For TWO YEARS - Then Removed When I Add Details Of MSE Savers Club?
Absolutely MAD because the MSE Forum Team removed my signature and all the details of how much I had saved in the 20p Savers Club IN A SEALED POT :mad::mad: My signature read "20p Savers Club #103 £xxx" then underneath had a list of my favourite authors which was just a list of names. Before I joined the Club I had had the…
Spam button a bit sensitive
Hi whilst scrolling through the forums I am forever pressing the spam buttons on posts by mistake:mad: I'm sure it's my fault but a confirm report spam dialogue box may help as I'm sure I'm not alone Using an iPad btw
Euro to Pound exchange
New! Forum Introduction Guide
Hi everyone We’re launching a new forum introduction guide today to help newbies learn how the forum works. If you’ve not yet joined the forum because it looks a bit daunting or you don’t know where to start you could be missing out on some valuable help (and you’re definitely missing out on some great forum challenges!),…
Word Replacement
Could an Admin. please go into the control panel and into word replace section and make it so that whenever someone writes the word "yoof" it is automatically replaced with "youth". I don't get it... is it meant to be clever for some reason? It just makes the poster look like a bit of a !!!! really. See, I write a swear…
Bank a B*****d?
I'm not sure if I'm turning into some moral-preaching harpie but I really don't like seeing that in the side bar. Quite attention grabbing but apart from anything else it's always been quite clear what fee-paying accounts actually charge for and how they are run - where does the mis-selling come into it? Is 'reclaiming'…
Forum Introduction Guide official discussion
MSE Official Update: In April 2015 we launched a new Forum design. If you'd joined the Forum before then you have the choice of using either the old green or new blue versions. If you joined after you are using the new blue version. This Forum Introduction Guide is a guide to the old green Forum. A new guide is in the…
Notification, digest and password reminder emails
Hi everyone, Just to let you know. Due to a server crash notification, digest and password reminder emails are presently not being sent. We are working on it and normal service will be resumed as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience. Ian
Equifax trouble. Please help
Hi all. I'm new here. I'm having trouble with equifax, I can't seem to ever get hold of them by phone. They have asked me to send in 2 proofs of I D but I have no email address to send them to. Can anyone help please? Many thanks Sarah
Today's most popular link seems to no longer function(Competition board)
Hi,after the introduction of the new sort by end date function we seem to have lost the Todays Most Popular sort function that had been created many months back. Any ideas on how to get it back please?
WOW Factor
Good Evening, I am signed up to all the wow factors for all possible threads. However, on the boards like restaurants when a single person thanks the post it allocates a too higher wow factors meaning that I get notifications telling me the offer or post has a wow factor of over 800. An example is this post.…
remove my account
how do i delete my account
Can anyone give me information about charging orders on jointly owned property?
My ex has managed to get a CCJ against him and, because he no longer lives in England and has not corresponded with the debt collection company, the local district court has agreed a final charging order on our jointly owned house. I have been in contact with the company Incasso and have been making regular payments off of…
Instant PM email notification not being... well, instant
First off apologies if it's just me, I'm kinda hoping anyone else here has the same issue. I POP my email account thru Thunderbird, up until a couple of weeks ago everything was fine. Since then though, my email notifications have been coming thru late, sometimes only by 5 minutes but it can go up to more than 3 hours…
Bank charges
I have been charged from £140 to £170 for non payment referral charges by my Business account Bank. Is there any recourse I have to appeal these extorionate fines. My manager just states this is RBS policy so tough! Thankyou in anticipation TWRLREX

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