MSE News: 'Ask Ma how to waste £50 million - it must completely change strategy'

Pincher · 21 March 2015 at 7:35PM

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I have a simple philosophy that if a government department says it is here to help then I take it to mean the exact opposite

I heard that every time the French government said they are doing something to help a region, the peasants bury their gold rightaway.

Money-Saving-King · 22 March 2015 at 11:25AM

robin58 wrote: »

Martin if you said "If the product wasn't crap....:money:" directly to to the Treasury Select Committee, I wished I had been there to see their faces.:D

But who's actually looked at it? All the information is the same as on here so what's wrong with it?

Funny this is MAS was started in 2010 (you can check the who is to see when the domain was registered). It was going to be the only direct competition this site has had, no wonder Martin Lewis has always hated it. Why did he sell MSE in 2012? Probably because he knew was MAS was a threat so he sold it while it still had a good price.

Come on people it's obvious, MSE was never going like or report fondly of MAS.

tomtontom · 22 March 2015 at 7:47PM

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

But who's actually looked at it? All the information is the same as on here so what's wrong with it?

Funny this is MAS was started in 2010 (you can check the who is to see when the domain was registered). It was going to be the only direct competition this site has had, no wonder Martin Lewis has always hated it. Why did he sell MSE in 2012? Probably because he knew was MAS was a threat so he sold it while it still had a good price.

Come on people it's obvious, MSE was never going like or report fondly of MAS.

Indeed, criticism from a site covered in affiliate links seems ironic at best.

michaels · 22 March 2015 at 10:13PM

Have to agree with Martin on this one, the product is poor and limitied. They would be better using their resource to 'kite-mark' private suppliers and stamping on sharp practice (such as the energy switching websites comparing prices against going onto a standard tariff at the end of a current deal and only listing companies that paid them a switching fee) than on duplicating in a over-priced and pedestrian manner what is already provided elsewhere better and much more responsively.