MSE Discussion: MoneySavingExpert.com to join the MoneySupermarket.com group

DevilInDisguise_2

deeplyblue wrote: »

I entirely agree that legally Martin has not sold anything he was not entitled to sell.

I also noticed when I signed up that anything I posted immediately became the property of MSE, and that I was not, therefore, entitled to post the same bit of text anywhere else without the written permission of MSE. Occasionally I wondered if it would be worth re-posting some of the stuff I posted on one topic on another web, just to test that rule.

You're wrong.

You own the copyright to anything that you post on this forum. Upon posting it, you give MSE the right to use it as they wish.

geordie_joe

Plushchris wrote: »

How is this trust going to be measured exactly?

That's easy, MS post that XYZ is the cheapest for insurance, then see how many trust what they read, click the affiliate link and buy insurance from XYZ.

lilgreenmomo

meher wrote: »

sorry, he is not going anywhere simply because he's thinking for himself and no letting you think for him

He doesn't suffer from any sense of entitlement. You're just reading what is said, not thinking about what he has kept subtle which is that this site has gone corporate - like fb, groupon, google etc. The only point ceiphus misses out is that fb, groupon, bloomsberg, google etcs are masters on their own right, whereas mse would soon be no longer one such entity. Moneysavermarket has taken over.

You're missing the point, Money Saving Expert was always a corporate site. It didn't always turn a profit in the beginning but it has done for some time now and now Money Supermarket has put a commercial value of 87 million on to the site and made an offer to its owner and it has been accepted. In the same way all those other sites you listed were also always corporate entities, they simply chose others route for investment and revenue generation, by selling advertising space and eventually floating their companies on the stock market meaning, dependent the rights assigned to the shares, they are now beholden to their shareholders. They are not necessarily masters in their own right and from what I've read it seems the MSE site will remain as it is, allbeit with a new owner, for the foreseeable future. As someone else stated, why on earth would you pay the best part of One Hundred Million pounds for something only to tear it apart?

Patr100

meher wrote: »

there's no such rule that people cannot make many posts, meaninful or empty ones but I suspect there's a rule somewhere to not be abusive to another poster; so I'm afraid it is not her who is breaking any rules or conventions

Wrong. Actually there are rules against spamming and nonsense or pointless posts come under that description. So is posting links to unsubstantiated anonymous possibly libellous allegations about shills etc but you seem to have missed that.

joeypesci

I trust Martin and still don't. I don't think he's a sell out. In this time of money problems, none of us would turn down £60mil.

Although he trusts the company and person who owns the most shares and says the editorial won't be affected extra, I wouldn't trust the new owner with the details. Surely they are going to use user details for marketing, so everyone should just create throw away gmail/hotmail accounts and link their forum ID's to those e-mail accounts. You'll still be able to use the site, but the user info will be pretty useless to the new company.

Plushchris

geordie_joe wrote: »

That's easy, MS post that XYZ is the cheapest for insurance, then see how many trust what they read, click the affiliate link and buy insurance from XYZ.

And measure it against what?

MS havent posted anything like that before so dont have a benchmark to set it against.

jamespir

congrats to martin a millioanire and to become a father in one day

joeypesci

lilgreenmomo wrote: »

You're missing the point, Money Saving Expert was always a corporate site. It didn't always turn a profit in the beginning but it has done for some time now and now Money Supermarket has put a commercial value of 87 million on to the site and made an offer to its owner and it has been accepted. In the same way all those other sites you listed were also always corporate entities, they simply chose others route for investment and revenue generation, by selling advertising space and eventually floating their companies on the stock market meaning, dependent the rights assigned to the shares, they are now beholden to their shareholders. They are not necessarily masters in their own right and from what I've read it seems the MSE site will remain as it is, allbeit with a new owner, for the foreseeable future. As someone else stated, why on earth would you pay the best part of One Hundred Million pounds for something only to tear it apart?

I'm not saying they will with this site, it's a totally different thing, but some companies do buy other companies just to break them apart, because they can make more money breaking them apart. Something I learnt from Wall Street

But yeah, I don't think they'd do that here unless they were stupid. If they did, it would be a stupid move. Just hope Martin has made sure everyone's job that works on his site is still secure because I'm sure some of them will be worried about being made redundant by the new company which Martin won't be able to stop.

Nine_Lives

I'd create a new thread, but then people would complain as the majority of what i've read here is just about the selling of the site & congrats/complaints.

So my question is .... what of the forum? The site may not be impartial any more, but what about the forum? Is that likely to go?

chriswatts

The forum stays, that was in the Q & A, but impartiality will be interesting, what happens if MSE users complain about MS?