MSE News: Been affected by the floods? See if your bank can help

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"Flood victims struggling with emergency costs and keeping up with mortgage payments may be able to get help..."

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Been affected by the floods? See if your bank can help



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SimonSays

This site is two faced. One says the evil banks who do nothing for customers but charge charge charge and screw them over, and this one. Lets get the banks to help us and change agreements.

innovate

There is nothing really two-faced about reporting facts, is there?

Herbalus

I think you'll find that this site puts the consumer first. Firstly, you can get compensation from mis-selling, and secondly, you can go to your banks for temporary financial relief caused by the flooding. I hardly see how that's hypocritical, considering both are aimed at helping the consumer.

PeacefulWaters

Herbalus wrote: »

I think you'll find that this site puts [STRIKE]the consumer [/STRIKE]MoneySupermarket first.

Fixed that for you.

Firstly, you can get compensation from mis-selling, and secondly, you can go to your banks for temporary financial relief caused by the flooding. I hardly see how that's hypocritical, considering both are aimed at helping the consumer.

But I don't see anything wrong in the thread itself, so we agree.

Herbalus

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

Fixed that for you.

Well, that wasn't quite what I meant It was more about what MSE want for people which is in their tagline: Cutting your costs, fighting your corner (I think that's it anyway: their 'Go Team GB' flag hides it at the moment).

But since you brought it up, there was quite a comprehensive legal document as part of the takeover that meant MoneySupermarket aren't allowed to tinker with MSE. As far as I know, MSG's only involvement is taking the profits, because they frankly wouldn't dare tinker with the editorial content and risk the wrath of millions of £s of fines. Hence why I would say that MSE's focus hasn't changed from before the takeover, and they still put the customer first.

And by that I mean they would do something important for the general public even if it it wasn't going to generate any profit. I don't mean they don't feature certain aspects more highly than others because they are more profitable for their owners. Notice the regularity of affiliated credit cards against the non-affiliated savings accounts in the weekly email anyone?

innovate

Herbalus wrote: »

Notice the regularity of affiliated credit cards against the non-affiliated savings accounts in the weekly email anyone?

Other such examples include interest paying current accounts. Nothing fundamentally wrong with a website making tens of millions from affiliate links.