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

waterhouse_melons

One less fan of MSE now, totally disappointed after hearing this on the news. To HUKD it is!

jdsaint

I know moneysupermarket is huge but almost 60% of MSE's affiliate revenue comes from that one site? How come?

I'm guessing here, but it may well be that some financial products were only available affiliate wise through MS. Most certainly the number of financial products for affiliate promotion dropped dramatically at credit crunch time - either the products weren't available or they restricted who they worked with (FSA regs another factor on that one).

If financials offered good affiliate deals to MS and their partners then it makes sense that MSE would use them over other affiliate networks (DGM for example went under) or perhaps spend time doing their own deals.

But as above - only a guess - but based on what I think as a siteowner.

Jason

scarman

First post on here, just joined to say - Martin - you are a cheat, charlatan, sell-out, trickster. Like all of the others that your site supposedly sets out to advise against. You have paid people next to nothing to work on your site whilst earning massive income for those to whom you've now sold your soul. Do yourself and everyone else a favour and close the site and retire. This payday is clearly what you were working towards, now you can drop the act of trying to saving the poor consumer a penny and clear off to your own personal caribbean island. And the sooner you do so, the happier we'll all be. Tara. Don't let the door hit your a**e on the way out.

Pincher

Crikey, I was a bit busy for one day, and the MSE is gone (as good as).

To my mind, a Costco member is by definition a Money Saver.

I think if Costco started a website, we will have a ready made likeminded worldwide audience, and sky's the limit for what can happen.

I propose that we form our own virtual country, and trade goods and services amongst Costco members. Anyone who does not provide good services at a decent price will be expelled from Costco country. We should probably have our own currency, too.

LauraW10

I'm guessing here - but anyone who thinks this site is worth is £87million is a complete Knob :rotfl:

terra_ferma

scarman wrote: »

First post on here, just joined to say - Martin - you are a cheat, charlatan, sell-out, trickster. Like all of the others that your site supposedly sets out to advise against. You have paid people next to nothing to work on your site whilst earning massive income for those to whom you've now sold your soul. Do yourself and everyone else a favour and close the site and retire. This payday is clearly what you were working towards, now you can drop the act of trying to saving the poor consumer a penny and clear off to your own personal caribbean island. And the sooner you do so, the happier we'll all be. Tara. Don't let the door hit your a**e on the way out.

As you never posted on the forum I take you must have been using Martin's advice on the main website. So what would he have cheated you out of? If you have used his advice you've probably benefited from.
If you haven't, you have not lost nothing anyway.

I like many other people am not happy (and have been censored on this forum as well - no not a happy bunny), but I have gained a lot using this website. I would have preferred more transparency about the fact that it was making so much money, and who from.
But Martin has offered a useful service, he's not the worst fraudster on the planet, just been a bit economical with facts and figures...

jonquigley

"Just seems to me in bad taste to gain such great financial rewards, when those who have helped have not even a mention."

So what? When TripAdvisor gets bought out, will you expect a handout/payoff/shares because you wrote a review of the [EMAIL="sh@thole"]sh@thole[/EMAIL] you stay at in Benidorm in 1998? Get real...

The blatant jealousy & envy on here is nausiating. Yes, we are a community, yes we will continue to contribute, yes we will move on if things deteriorate...as we would and many have found reason to do during MSE's time already.

This is not your site, it is not your property, it is not your livelyhood...you choose to contribute for the greater good. That may change, but to vilify the originator for looking after No:1 (and 2 and soon to be 3) is pathetic...particularly from all the posters with the litany of how once they were up sh*t creek with debts upto their a*ses but this site has pulled them back from the brink in their sig or tag lines.

scarman

terra_ferma wrote: »

As you never posted on the forum I take you must have been using Martin's advice on the main website. So what would he have cheated you out of? If you have used his advice you've probably benefited from.
If you haven't, you have not lost nothing anyway.

I like many other people am not happy (and have been censored on this forum as well - no not a happy bunny), but I have gained a lot using this website. I would have preferred more transparency about the fact that it was making so much money, and who from.
But Martin has offered a useful service, he's not the worst fraudster on the planet, just been a bit economical with facts and figures...

I'm not suggesting he's the worst fraudster on the planet. I did wonder from time to time what he got out of it. ON one level one can say - good luck to him; there was clearly a long term strategy for him personally; and according to the chip wrappers, moneysupermarket has been paying £16M in revenue per year anyway. So - nice work.

But to have that amount of money sloshing around and not be upfront about it - apart from identifying that there are paid and unpaid links - I find dishonest; or perhaps I should say misleading.

At the end of the day it's only my opinion. No-one died; one man made his fortune. Fine. But the site is now really just a branch of moneysupermarket. So shut it down and open it up as something else.

Of course that won't happen as they've paid for the brand. I just find it sad that there are never pure motives. But to be disappointed in such a way is perhaps to be naive about the world.

Never mind then. Off to bed.

scarman

jonquigley wrote: »

"Just seems to me in bad taste to gain such great financial rewards, when those who have helped have not even a mention."

So what? When TripAdvisor gets bought out, will you expect a handout/payoff/shares because you wrote a review of the sh@thole you stay at in Benidorm in 1998? Get real...

The blatant jealousy & envy on here is nausiating. Yes, we are a community, yes we will continue to contribute, yes we will move on if things deteriorate...as we would and many have found reason to do during MSE's time already.

This is not your site, it is not your property, it is not your livelyhood...you choose to contribute for the greater good. That may change, but to vilify the originator for looking after No:1 (and 2 and soon to be 3) is pathetic...particularly from all the posters with the litany of how once they were up sh*t creek with debts upto their a*ses but this site has pulled them back from the brink in their sig or tag lines.

Why must it be jealousy for you? Because it can't be possibel to dislike someone's motives when they are shown to be users? What does that say about you? What would you care about it? Apart from being a sycophant

jonquigley

scarman wrote: »

Why must it be jealousy for you? Because it can't be possibel to dislike someone's motives when they are shown to be users? What does that say about you? What would you care about it? Apart from being a sycophant

Have you read your own posts?? How would you describe it other than jealousy or envy? Where is your evidence of either his motives or the fact he is a "user"??

Funny how all these "New Member" have decided to express their views today.

As for being a sycophant, i dont know the man, never met or spoke to him. He has saved me money, his advice has shown me how to stand up for my rights...I am thus in his debt. Other than that, I have no affiliation with him...and your reasons for being on this site are what, exactly?? BTW, I take it you didnt buy a lottery ticket tonight did you? just incase you became insanely rich overnight and thus were unable to justify your misplaced indignation at people aspiring to success? Thought so....