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

Patr100

absolutereturn wrote: »

There's a couple of sites already which have been set up by MSE forumites, energy saving expert and all about forums. They are much smaller now but if people were to join they have the potential to grow.

What like this one , that you appear to have joined ...err..only today.

Now where's that irony meter...oh it's exploded again.

aliasojo

melbell wrote: »

and what personal remarks?

melbell wrote: »

Ive got a fannel for each of you to wipe the brown off your nose.

There's one to start with.

LemonJeff

Martin Lewis the Peoples Champion RIP

melbell

aliasojo wrote: »

There's one to start with.

That was personal to the sell out how?

Lotus-eater

aliasojo wrote: »

And after the backlash (and some pretty unfair and personal comments that have been thrown at him and his family), I wouldn't be surprised if he cared a little less and was less choosy about his buyer.

I wouldn't blame him.

Nor me, but there has always been an element of ML bashing, just this is a good opportunity to have a go.

You only have to look at the post count to see most people who are nasty, hardly post here at all, or have joined just to say something.

I don't think he's going to take most of it seriously. Not the nasty stuff anyway.

I suppose it's how he wants to be seen after a sale, if he doesn't need to work and doesn't want to, he need not care how people think about him. But when someone buys MSE, they are also buying ML, at least for a time. For three years this sale.

Zanderman

Well, I for one, don't begrudge Martin the freedom to do what he wants with this site. It couldn't stay the same forever, and if he wants to concentrate on other things then good luck to him, especially as those things are still championing us consumers.

But I'm saddened that it's happened in the way it has, announced so abruptly, and sold to moneysupermarket, a site I don't rate or trust (and probably never will).

I'll still be using the site - the main section and the forum - but I'll never think of it in the same way ever again. For me it's just instantly lost its unique selling point - a site set-up by a campaigning journalist to support the public's interests, and contributed to, significantly, by that public (whose input has been strangely ignored). It'll never seem the same again, whatever 'safeguards' have been built in, and my modest input will probably diminish rapidly.

A pity he felt he had to go down this blatantly commercial route really - something more community-based (don't know what, but there are many possibilities) would have seemed more appropriate both ethically and in charitable terms. But Martin's done the deed now, for better or worse, so I s'pose we'll learn to live with it.

Methusela

Just voted with my feet (or actually with my mouse), not to receive any more weekly e-mails.
Next thing you know Moneysupermarket. com will be taking over the NHS:(
Where would that leave our free hospital treatment then?

patchwork_cat

Well I too have just clicked unsubscribe to the email and read the statement, 'the email is free and completly independent '!! I hope he removes this statement.

Patr100

Methusela wrote: »

Just voted with my feet (or actually with my mouse), not to receive any more weekly e-mails.
Next thing you know Moneysupermarket. com will be taking over the NHS:(
Where would that leave our free hospital treatment then?

Yet Another drama Queen.

Sure you'll be greatly missed. Not.
Now how about leaving the forum as well. Obviously you won't be needing that anymore either.

Albert53

sablade wrote: »

A very sad day for your unbiased opinions - a sell out! We now need a new unbiased independent website.

It's like a death in the family, stunned, I had him down for canonization or a knighthood at least, he spake and it was "The Word", he appeared on tele and we knew it was Truth, wanted to stick me cash away_spend weeks searching_no just put it where he said, no bother, he had even criticised the advertiser led MoneySupermarket.com for pushing those who paid the best commission, and now_oh I sought them out he says, I wonder why? End of an era and yes we need a new white knight.