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SPAM Monday 31st October
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SPAM Saturday 29th October
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SPAM Friday 28th October
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Not getting emails from subscribed threads
Was working fine up until about a month ago, tried unsubscribing and resubscribing and checking junk mail but no joy.
My IP Banned
Hi My IP at work has been banned for no reason that I can see. I have messaged the support team 3 times about this over a week ago and had no reply. It is very annoying as I now find myself actually working instead of spending all day on MSE !! If a support person reads this, can they please assist ?! The problem started…
MSE Deals Alerts Chrome Extension Preview
Update August 2018 The Chrome Deals Extension has been removed from the store. Back to the original post... ---- Hi Everyone, We're launching our new 'Deals Alerts' Google Chrome Extension and we're giving our forumites an exclusive chance to try the Extension out and in return give us some feedback, before we push it out…
Travel Credit Card
Following an article on the MSE website, I recently applied for the Barclaycard Travel Credit Card. The article says that:- There's no fees for spending or withdrawing cash abroad until 31 August 2018. You don't get charged interest on spending or cash withdrawals abroad, provided you pay them off in full by the date shown…
SPAM Sunday 23rd October
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Car Finance weird questions
On car finance page: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/car-finance/ If I answer yes to all questions: - yes want to own - yes change frequently - yes have a cash deposit - yes happy with mileage restrictions - yes to fixed monthly repayments Then I get results:Most suitable: Personal contract purchase It's flexible, and…
Would you like to be a Board Guide and help MSE?
Hi everyone, We’re looking for new, volunteer Board Guides to join our current, fabulous team of across several Forum boards. If you’re interested please first read the info below fully to be clear on what we ask our Board Guides to do. Then, if you feel you'd like to help us out, please click reply to let us know which…
Ability for OP's to hide comments from trolls.
There are ALOT of trolls on this site and when I am opening a thread I seem to attract them in droves, so would be nice as the thread owner to be able to hide comments or block certain users from posting to my threads. I am only interested in advice from serious, sincere, intelligent and helpful individuals not bored…
Suggestion email newsletter
Change direct link top of the email newsletter to the MoneySavingExpert's Money Tips Email webpage rather than the Money Tip webpage Thank-you! :beer:
Never ever get email notifications
I've been on these forums years and have NEVER received a single email notification to my threads despite always selecting to do so. I do not get them in my spam folder, they just don't arrive at all. I'm with gmail. Is this a known problem or is it specific to me for some reason?
Close the auto enrolment sub forum
The auto-enrolment sub forum under pensions has very low activity. It is getting to the point where new threads are getting either no answers or they are told to post again in the main pension forum. There is only around 1 new thread a week on average in this sub-forum. For example. Post made by iggerpud on 11th October…
Links not opening in new windows
In the past, when I've clicked on a link that is in a forum post, the link has opened in a separate window. It's handy if you want to keep the link open to read later, or to refer back to. However, over the last couple of weeks, the links have opened in the same window. This means that to return to the thread that I am…
SPAM Tuesday 18th October
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Lowell debt collection
Lots of 404 messages/ Session Timeouts
Been having random problems with MSE pages loading for a few days. Keep getting session timeouts. I know it is not our connection as we are on fibre broadband. No where else that I visit is being so slow to load that the session timeout messages appear.
Being spammed by MSE forums!
I made ONE post today and in return I received NINE PMs (and corresponding email notifications: 14-10-2016 Congratulations, you've been awarded the "3 year anniversary" badge! 10:35 AM MSE Badger 14-10-2016 Congratulations, you've been awarded the "4 year anniversary" badge! 10:35 AM MSE Badger 14-10-2016 Congratulations,…
SPAM Friday 14th October
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Winter Fuel Payments to be reinstated for millions – Martin Lewis explains how it'll work, what it means and if it's an improvement
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