The Top Easy Access Savings Discussion Area

ColdIron

Where the first post states

This thread is specifically to discuss the
Easy Access Savings article

eskbanker

murphydavid said:

eskbanker said:

Soniboy12 said:

I just wanted to tell everyone about my experience with Metro Bank as I signed up for a fixed rate account but have spent weeks trying to sort out just getting registered so I have given up and decided not to open an account with them, very disappointed as I only went with them as they were recommended through Money Saving Expert.

That's off-topic for a thread specifically about easy-access accounts rather than fixed-term ones, but MSE doesn't recommend institutions as such, it simply lists those with the best interest rates....

If you go to MSE https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/savings-accounts-best-interest/

Which is entitled top savings accounts and includes fixed rate accounts and near the end of the article click on “Join the MSE Forum Discussion” it brings you here. Which indicates this discussion should be called “top savings accounts" and include fixed-term ones.

If not then I'm missing out. If you know of another thread for fixed rate and other savings accounts please tell me where it is.?

It's a fair point about the linkage from the generic MSE savings article, but perhaps that article was only about easy access products when the thread was created way back in 2007.

It's up to MSE Towers to decide on the structure of 'official' threads I suppose but personally my preference is that threads like this are more valuable as a mechanism to share info about reasonably specific subjects such as easy-access accounts, rather than savings accounts in general.  There is usually fairly active discussion about regular saver accounts on the dedicated threads about those but I don't recall seeing an equivalent about fixed rate products, although the above post was more about an institution than a product anyway....

murphydavid

ColdIron said:

Where the first post states

This thread is specifically to discuss the
Easy Access Savings article

I think you will find that there is no longer an article called "Easy Access Savings article" so you can't discuss something that does not exist apart from discussing its history that is.
In 2007 when the first post in this thread was written there may have been one but if so the article was updated to "top savings accounts" and retained its link to this thread. If you want to run through all 400 posts you may find one that says this and is more up-to-date than the first one. (13 years more up to date - I never quote stuff that old as if it were current information - I could find you a quote from a leading scientist (at the time he said it) telling you the earth is flat)

If you want to provide a link to the article  "Easy Access Savings" I will be interested to read it and then you will have proved me wrong.

Mr._H_2

murphydavid said:

I think you will find that there is no longer an article called "Easy Access Savings article" so you can't discuss something that does not exist apart from discussing its history that is. 

That's true. But the title of the thread is "The Top Easy Access Savings Discussion Area", so I've always taken this thread be a discussion of just that - easy access savings. However, I accept that since the up-to-date savings article now mixes easy access and fixed-term, and links directly to this thread, it's understandable that people will post in here about non-easy-access accounts.

PhylPho

How many easy-access-articles-and-non-easy-access-articles can be fitted on the head of a pin is what I'd like to know.

d63

PhylPho said:

How many easy-access-articles-and-non-easy-access-articles can be fitted on the head of a pin is what I'd like to know.

should each angel have its own copy, or are they allowed to share?
either way i strongly suspect if they stick to current social distancing guidelines they are going to need a bigger pin.

polymaff

"Fearing not that I’d become my enemy In the instant that I preach."

Eco_Miser

murphydavid said:

 I could find you a quote from a leading scientist (at the time he said it) telling you the earth is flat)

Since it's always been obvious, at least for sea-faring nations, that the earth is not flat, and the ancient Greeks even calculated its radius, I'd be interested to know what scientist that would be.

eskbanker

Eco_Miser said:

murphydavid said:

 I could find you a quote from a leading scientist (at the time he said it) telling you the earth is flat)

Since it's always been obvious, at least for sea-faring nations, that the earth is not flat, and the ancient Greeks even calculated its radius, I'd be interested to know what scientist that would be.

One engaged by the Trump administration perhaps?

murphydavid

eskbanker said:

Eco_Miser said:

murphydavid said:

 I could find you a quote from a leading scientist (at the time he said it) telling you the earth is flat)

Since it's always been obvious, at least for sea-faring nations, that the earth is not flat, and the ancient Greeks even calculated its radius, I'd be interested to know what scientist that would be.

One engaged by the Trump administration perhaps?

That's off-topic for a thread specifically about easy-access accounts rather than scientific discussions,