Free solar power system. Is it a scam?

XRayDave

Update

I for one have sent an email to [Removed by Forum Team] asking for the ban on Sarah to be reconsidered (copy below).

If you feel the same and it appears that most of you do, a similar email couldn't do any harm. I for one have valued Sarah's input.

XRayDave

nearlynew

savemoney wrote: »

It wasnt me I did point the rules though maybe someone saw my post and then complained or abuse saw the thread. I mealy informed Sarah of the rule so she get checked out and hopefully remain

It might not have been you, but why did you even have to mention it?

Are you one of those slimy little busybodies that has to interfere and point out every little thing even when it's none of your business?

This thread (and the forum) has lost a valuable member.

savemoney

Because if I didnt some would, I dont make the rules, Sarah could of quite easily emailed abuse given I told her of the relevant rule

The rules are here for everyone

She was breaking the rules, I dont have to justify myself to you or anyone else for that matter.

I didnt email abuse but dare say someone did

I see you have little regard for rules anyway unless it suits you and also you signature got removed or dear

nearlynew wrote: »

It might not have been you, but why did you even have to mention it?

Are you one of those slimy little busybodies that has to interfere and point out every little thing even when it's none of your business?

This thread (and the forum) has lost a valuable member.

nearlynew

So you are one of those then.


Thanks for clearing it up.

savemoney

If you like.........

nearlynew wrote: »

So you are one of those then.


Thanks for clearing it up.

CharlieBilly

She only joined on 17-11-2009

DaviesL wrote: »

Sarah's been posting on here since October 2009 and nobody has complained, until now.

XRayDave

savemoney wrote: »

Because if I didnt some would, I dont make the rules, Sarah could of quite easily emailed abuse given I told her of the relevant rule

FYI, Sarah did contact them!

savemoney wrote: »

The rules are here for everyone

She was breaking the rules

Specifically which rule? The only one that I can find that seems to come anywhere close is:
9.2.2 post or transmit advertisements for or solicitations of business; where Sarahs posts could (I guess) be seen as "solicitations of business"?? I would find this hard to justify as she has only been correcting erroneous posts and providing other valuable information.

Your earlier post (on page 20) says:

MSE TEAM PERMISSION: TV COMPANIES/ NEWSPAPERS/ RESEARCHERS

Any TV company, newspaper or researcher that wants to use the boards to ask for case studies needs to specifically have permission. We need to know in order to legitimise it. If approved there will be a note from the MSE team. If you see one without a note please email [Removed by Forum Team] with a link to the post. Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert.

As Sarah is not working for a TV company or newspaper and is not a researcher, I can see why she did not apply for permission to post. In her position I would assume also that the above would not apply.

Anyway, I don't wish to enter into any more argument/discussion on this. I hope MSE lift Sarah's ban because, as has already been stated by another member, "This thread (and the forum) has lost a valuable member".

XRD

savemoney

Sorry its this rule


She only contacted a board guide on another issue she didnt email abuse

MSE encourage posters to report posts/users who break the rules like I said I didnt report it but dare say someone did after I posted the rule.

"I reported some of the very early posts for being on the verge of defamation"

then went on to say

"the moderators read my own posts and emailed me to say that they thought I was doing a good enough job on my own and did I want them to remove the posts or did I think it better that I continued as I was doing "

Its not up to moderators but abuse they need to legitimise who they are, for all we know it could be fag ash Lil who works at Asda (I am joking) I also think her posts were helpful too, I never disputed that



http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=3477020&postcount=19

MSE TEAM PERMISSION: CUSTOMER SERVICE DEPARTMENTS

Company representatives are actively encouraged to post on the forum to provide good customer service to MoneySavers. They should not be using the opportunity to tout for business. We need to know in order to legitimise it. Where permission has been given for a company/person to specifically post there will be a note from the MSE Team. If someone has posted claiming to have been given permission but this has not been followed by a MSE team note please report it to [Removed by Forum Team].

beemacdee

I have just found this thread while showing a neighbour the ASG site.
I had the full 18 solar panels by 'ASHADEGREENER' fitted to my roof a
month ago and can truly say that they "do what it says on the Tin".
I have read my meter daily since installation and can inform you that my lekky consumption is 43.8% of the average daily figure for June and July 2009. I have always read my meters on a monthly basis out of habit and hence have the figures to hand.

Last year our June/July usage averaged 11.4 kWh per day
The last 29 days it has been 5 kWh daily.

Sarah Dyson has spoken to me on several occasions during my deciding to proceed with the installation of the panels and I have always found her to be unfailingly helpful, honest and straightforward.

My next door neighbour had the panels fitted 3 weeks before me and he is over the moon about their performance. There are 3 other installations pending in the homes opposite me, one to be carried out on Monday - the scaffolding is erected waiting.

To me the scheme is a no-brainer. No cost to self; roughly 50% reduction in electricity bills every year for the duration of the contract and then the panels revert to my ownership. There are certainly imponderables in the contract; ASG repair and maintenance abilities have yet to be tested; the parameters of the payments might be altered unilaterally by either Government or Supply Companies, for example.

These panels wont save large families with several nighthawk teenagers so much money as a retired pair of OAP's like us; they make it necessary to rethink one's usage of household appliances, for example. No more doing the load of washing or running the dishwasher as one goes to bed. But that is a good thing. We have just obtained a Smartmeter from nPower to help with this.

Judging by what my family tells me about their children leaving TV's, lights and other equipment switched on "forever" there is just as much savings to be made with commonsense economy measures.

Hope this helps - Sarah Dyson - thank you and ASG for your enterprise - and don't believe the knockers - beemacdee

John_Pierpoint

.........roughly 50% reduction in electricity bills every year.

Don't get over excited; we don't have summer time all the time, unless you move to the tropics.
(American pensioners are said to pick Cuenca
http://watsontravels.blogspot.com/
http://internationalliving.com/2010/02/2009-retirement-index/
I suppose Europeans will have to make do with the Canary Islands?)

Actually Ecuador is amazingly technically backward, having PV or even Solar Thermal on your roof would be something of a novelty.


Meanwhile..........J R Ewing switches to PV by installing 670 panels on his hilside ranch netting a $310,000 subsidy grant. (yes that is not fat finger syndrome; it is a 94Kw installation). Pretty good bit of promotion by the German manufacturers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/business/media/14adco.html?src=busln