MSE News: MoneySaving at its most extreme

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Slinky wrote: »

Conning a department store out of £50, MSE you should be ashamed of drawing attention to this idea.

I agree. I don't think adding a disclaimer gets you out of this. There's an element of nastiness there. Why don't you add 'mugging old ladies' to the list? Or shoplifting? That's also money saving if conning a company is.

Cardew

Slinky wrote: »

Conning a department store out of £50, MSE you should be ashamed of drawing attention to this idea.

That seems to me to be the ethos of many in the 'Bankrupt' forum.

halibut2209

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks MSE condoning fraud is acceptable.

katieclampet

To be truthful, what does bother me a bit about the article is that the discussion linked to it was posted in the Old Style forum rather than somewhere like The Arms. It seems as misplaced to me as it seems ill-advised to other people. I doubt my granny worried much about scoring herself cheap gym membership, and I've always thought of Old Style as more about common sense than about extremism.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I really agree with this, not sure why it was posted in OS. Conning a company out of £50 is not really OS, more matter of not having principles. It could actually be seen as a bit insulting to OSers!

katie

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you are on the wrong board OP. We, on the os board do our best to get by on what we actually have, we don`t cheat and we don`t steal. You, OP, are condoning stealing and in fact suggesting that people steal in order to get by. You just don`t get it

Edinburghlass_2

My goodness me, it does seems as if a lot of people have got their knickers in a twist. The article is entitled Extreme ways of saving money yet you don't pin point several ideas in the article such as picking fruit off the hedgerow, that is obviously acceptable to you all on this particular board?

Its a shame that users on this board think they are above glitches at the likes of Tesco, even Sainsburys have them too you know, Galaxy chocolate and Smirnoff Ice for instance, I'm certainly not one to turn up my nose at a bar of chocolate for 11p

Tesco and Asda and their price war was a god send to savvy shoppers, I'm stocked up with enough dishwasher tablets for the next 3 years and enough cat food for six months, unethical, no I don't think so.

Tesco is my nearest shop so I use it a lot, save the vouchers and recently tripled the vouchers to pay for a train ticket, I use Quidco or Topcashback for practically everything I buy online. £50 last week for applying for a PO credit card, unethical, nope. I check my insurances and utilities every year to switch for a cheaper option, bought a refurbished Kindle this week from the MSE email and today I downloaded my first free book, again unethical? I don't think so.

*insulting to OS'ers*, I just don't get that. I personally wouldn't raid bins for food but then neither would I stretch a chicken for five days so I guess we all have a limits or ethics as you would call them.

As regards for calling the OP, MSE Helen is one of Martin's staff and Martin would have asked her to write the article so no need to be unkind to her.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

But we are quite happy to be exploited by Companies conning out of money which is of course ok, with inferior non existent Customer Service, shoddy goods (applause please it' Big Business not man on street). Companies can overprice goods with impunity (again applause and weep at falling profit levels), they can pollute us with toxic chemical dumps if we are lucky.
I make an argument for LEGALLY screwing them back. Perhaps grasping this basic concept is the problem and we can get all high and mighty about what the put upon man on the street has to do to get by whilst condoning the numerous exploits by hallowed big business.

[Deleted User]

Charge your mobile at work.:o

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

One of my great discoveries: The Companies are NOT your friend. They don't give a flying swearword if you end up in oversize coffins because of your junk food addiction, if you are homeless because of soaring rents (give us the rents love you don't need a mortgage, or if you get shoddy service, take the money and run, Customer service COSTS for Christs sake!!! Good intellect = exploitation, humans are born selfish, we must not attribute unselfish motives and therefore those shoved onto margins are low contributing individuals mean we must not bear them with their associated costs burdens.
The State is not your friend, exploitation, data exploitation, chumming up to Big Business interests, democracy is thrawted. See Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, No Logo, Frances Fox Piven Regulation of the poor also book on how Neo Liberalism PUNISHES the poor with insecurity economic that is (wonderful stuff!!) and then tell me you should not LEGALLY screw the swearwords with impunity and do whatever one can do save money in legit way possible.
We must not tax poor diddums corporations, we must not screw Big Business who engage in and have used Corporate Tax evasion for years, we are at mercy of right wing investors who dislike social justice.
Legally screw the barstards that's what I say. For those not understanding concept read books ( a little reading goes a LONG way in life IMHO) get ANGRY about us paying for Bankers !!!!lessness, get WISE to Corporate and Governments propaganda (see Chomsky Manufacturing of Consent for performance at UK Election time and Profit over people(more blood boiling to come) and then work out what we do to LIVE instead of merciless Corporate and Government exploitation.

steveg99

Practise your poker face: Flickering Ember says: "I often sneak my own snacks and drinks into music venues; I get away with water every time by saying I'm pregnant, and if I want to take a cola or something, I say I'm diabetic."

I can not believe that MSE would publish a tip such as this!! I'm truly astonished and think that charities such as Diabetes UK will agree!

While appreciate that venue prices can be high and people would prefer to bring in their own food & drink. It is terrible to suggest that people "pretend" to be diabetic, Not only is it offensive to suffers, but it also forces business owners to question the veracity of those asking for these necessary considerations.

I am truely astomished by the tip in this article!