Mobile Phone Valuer - Disadvantaging MSE Customers?

AddieB

First visit this site without a Mobile Valuer cookie and see the price offered is £310.00

http://www.mobilecashmate.co.uk/sell/apple/iphone-4s-16gb/

And then look at the below:

Best price for an iPhone 16GB 4s is £297 using the too:
http://mobilevaluer.com/mobile/working/apple/iphone-4s-16gb/

This is from Mobile Cash Mate:
http://www.mobilecashmate.co.uk/sell/apple/iphone-4s-16gb/?source=mse

But remove the ?source=mse and you get yourself another £13 for the same handset.

Given that Quidco is offering £6 on a transaction with MCM it stands to reason that MSE can get the same through standard affiliate channels. However they look to have organised a deal which takes an additional £13 commission off the price offered to consumers.

Is this not against MSE principals?

prog324

Nope, I don't see any difference. They all say £297?

vuvuzela

pr!!!24 wrote: »

Nope, I don't see any difference. They all say £297?

Do what the poster says and take off the end bit of ?source=mse then you will see that they are correct and the price is lower with the affiliate link.

Former_MSE_Dan

Hi AddieB,

Thanks for your post alerting us to this - you are quite correct.

We only use affiliate links that give you an identical (or better) deal than going direct. However as these are technologically-generated, issues can always happen - such as small price differences - so we always encourage people to let us know if they spot this.

MobileCashMate have confirmed this was unintentional, and are working to fix it. In the mean time, we have removed them from the Mobilevaluer tool, as they aren't giving you guys the best prices possible

Thanks again,

Dan

vuvuzela

pr!!!24 wrote: »

Nope, I don't see any difference. They all say £297?

Just wondering why part of your username has been edited by the forum software ? Weird.
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