Rpoints Forum Disappeared

mariegriffiths

The Rpoints Forum has disappeared. I rarely go there but found it had a group of good experts there that knew the inside track especially on the politics of Building Societies. Do you know where these people have gone? Do they frequent these forums or somewhere less afraid of libel laws?

bristolleedsfan

11 years ago a number of "good experts" contributed to 11 pages related to subject of the thread 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1694099/looks-like-west-brom-building-society-is-going-under/p1

https://www.westbrom.co.uk/

happybagger

I did email the company that runs it, VAC media asking if it was temporary or not.
I got no reply
I concluded that if I was someone who has money built up in any of their cashback sites, I'd probably remove it (I don't, so I didn't)

Anyways, there are a number of us here from old cb.com days, obviously I'm HB, I know planteria is here, Lino hadn't been on rpoints for ages, as for 1User, I don't know, and others

EarthBoy

I used to contribute to the rpoints forum occasionally, but I certainly wasn't one of the "good experts".

colsten

Almost a decade ago now, Rpoints were going bust: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2010/11/cashback-websites-set-to-go-bust/

happybagger

Yes, VAC Media bought it, but the forums continued uninterrupted. Until last month
A shame, as some of the discussion on there relating to the likes of Manchester and the late Holmesdale BSs was quite good.

happybagger

bristolleedsfan said:

11 years ago a number of "good experts" contributed to 11 pages related to subject of the thread 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1694099/looks-like-west-brom-building-society-is-going-under/p1

I wouldn't be surprised to see a resurrection of that topic in their near future
Preliminary results show a £17.5m impairment loss, taking their profits down to 1.5m, blaming the impact of Coronavirus
(which only affected one week of the period covered by these accounts)

happybagger

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