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12% FIXED on investment..?

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  • simon3x3
    simon3x3 Posts: 26 Forumite
    innovate wrote: »
    That is just plain and utter nonsense since there are hundreds, if not thousands, of positive remarks about reputable (and regulated) companies for which the posters have not been banned, nor have their posts been marked as spam. Making up stories doesn't enhance your reputation and credibility

    Also, how does having received the MSE newsletter since before 2008 make you a person whose opinion about investments any MSE forum reader should value? As you will know as an avid MSE newsletter reader, the newsletter has, since before 2008, contained next to nothing about investments. Even if it had, how does you having read something prove you are credible? And are you seriously suggesting that in over six years you have found nothing, absolutely nothing, to comment on / to suggest / to ask about investments, or anything else MSE covers? I am sorry, but no MSE forum user apart perhaps from yourself will trust anything you say.

    simple way for you to get proof is to ask them yourself or other posters to this thread as they got me banned FACT, if you can not be bothered to ask mse then i can not help you with that can i
  • simon3x3
    simon3x3 Posts: 26 Forumite
    jimjames wrote: »
    It doesn't really matter whether it was google or search on the site. The fact is you still came to the site to search for a company name associated with dodgy investment returns.

    It still doesn't make sense why anyone would randomly decide to google a company name purely on the basis of receiving emails from a site for years and then create an account to post on the forum UNLESS they were linked to that company.

    If you are real why have you never posted on any other subject? Your behaviour since you reopened this thread has only confirmed any thoughts - the only posts you have ever made have been on this company. That isn't the normal behaviour of someone unconnected who is passing on reviews or comments on a money saving forum.

    if you read my earlier post I said i only posted to this site to reply to a question, the only reason i kept posting was because i could not believe all the negative feedback i got and then to top it off i got banned for my comments

    again you can check that with mse if you can be bothered to, my main point is that if people want to make that kind of investment i can only talk about the type backed by property, i did not go for the other investment types listed on the site as I found the property backed more reliable

    the rest is just advice and up to the individual but not allowing me to comment and getting me banned is pathetic, it also shows how positive comments about a company are hidden while negative ones are allowed to remain

    I have been through the process and proved my point, don't believe me? ask mse yourself and post the reply here when you get it
  • dunstonh
    dunstonh Posts: 117,906 Forumite
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    it also shows how positive comments about a company are hidden while negative ones are allowed to remain

    Negative posts have been removed by the board as well.
    I am an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA). The comments I make are just my opinion and are for discussion purposes only. They are not financial advice and you should not treat them as such. If you feel an area discussed may be relevant to you, then please seek advice from an Independent Financial Adviser local to you.
  • simon3x3
    simon3x3 Posts: 26 Forumite
    dunstonh wrote: »
    Negative posts have been removed by the board as well.

    yes but did the posters get banned? or warned about the posts? no

    i received no warning but got banned and had to then argue my case, thankfully mse probably have more common sense then most people and opened my account after looking into it
  • innovate
    innovate Posts: 16,217 Forumite
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    simon3x3 wrote: »
    simple way for you to get proof is to ask them yourself or other posters to this thread as they got me banned

    This so so funny. You are just trying to avoid the questions. Can you answer any of them, convincingly?
    Also, how does having received the MSE newsletter since before 2008 make you a person whose opinion about investments any MSE forum reader should value? As you will know as an avid MSE newsletter reader, the newsletter has, since before 2008, contained next to nothing about investments. Even if it had, how does you having read something prove you are credible? And are you seriously suggesting that in over six years you have found nothing, absolutely nothing, to comment on / to suggest / to ask about investments, or anything else MSE covers? I am sorry, but no MSE forum user apart perhaps from yourself will trust anything you say.
  • simon3x3
    simon3x3 Posts: 26 Forumite
    edited 8 May 2014 at 11:36AM
    innovate wrote: »
    This so so funny. You are just trying to avoid the questions. Can you answer any of them, convincingly?

    I am not trying to prove anything all I am doing is giving my opinion as it is up to an investor to make up their own minds in the end.

    If someone asks a question that I have the answer to then I will answer it as in this case when a member asked about anyone having any dealings with the company.

    I hope that answers your question and also the fact that I have replied to most members posts here proves I am not avoiding questions and as for answering them convincingly, that is all dependent on what you want to hear as no matter what I say you have already written me off and from the start said that I work for them and I am a spammer?

    I have said you can check with mse as they saw fit to re open my account after some people with closed minds had me banned without any proof or warnings and with that you will probably say their opinion does not matter or something along those lines

    The truth is you have to make up your own minds regarding investments, I was just giving my opinion and for some reason that is not accepted.

    need to open your minds for differing opinions people that is what a forum is all about, if you call someone a liar and say they are working with a company even after they say you can asks mse then you are just a little bit beyond help
  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,829 Forumite
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    simon3x3 wrote: »
    even after they say you can asks mse

    How could the people that run this forum vouch for you in any meaningful way?

    It's the fact that you have no history here and have never posted on any other subject that undermines you as a source of fair and unbiased information.

    You can protest as much as you like - it won't change that fact, nor make you any more credible.
  • ColdIron
    ColdIron Posts: 9,531 Forumite
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    simon3x3 wrote: »
    the fact that I have replied to most members posts here proves I am not avoiding questions
    Piffle, it proves nothing, that is a non sequitur
  • le_loup
    le_loup Posts: 4,047 Forumite
    Well done simon, you are managing to keep this important thread alive. Presumably that's you intention - though why, beats me - or does it?
    To anyone else reading this thread, avoid unregulated punts.
  • innovate
    innovate Posts: 16,217 Forumite
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    simon3x3 wrote: »

    I hope that answers your question

    Afraid, it doesn't since you haven't answered any of my (several) questions. I must say, I am not really surprised.

    Readers will form their own opinions, but mine is that your investment suggestions are highly questionable and best completely avoided. The more you are pushing unregulated products and meaningless so-called guarantees, the more your credibility will suffer.
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