SAGA Magazine lifetime subscription - compulsory shift to digital format

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82036855#Comment_82036855

Yes, the reference to £19K on legal fees doesn't specify whose legal fees, although I think most are struggling to understand how anyone could incur such costs solely on legal advice and support in a small claims case, so the possibility that some of this may have been the other side's costs remains!

This latest publicity could be seen in different ways - on one hand it does shine a light on Saga's decision to provide digital copies instead of paper, but conversely the fact that the court sided with them will be more positive. The 7+% increase in the share price over the last five days would suggest no significant negative impact by that measure, which will generally be more important to commercial businesses than perceived customer sentiment (in the context of decisions taken years ago in the full knowledge they'd be unpopular).

Aylesbury_Duck

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82036729#Comment_82036729

You've changed your tune. Your responses to Mandir33 telling us in his various announcements that he was a 75/76 year old on pension credit, living in social housing, with no assets and taking a "monumental financial gamble" began with…

"Well done!" and "I wish you the very best of luck".

Doc_N

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82036881#Comment_82036881

It’s easy, isn’t it, to take words completely out of timeline and context, and to omit key phrases such as: “hopefully your costs were pretty small”.

I happen to take the view that MSE forums exist to support members - not to have a go at them. Wishing someone good luck with a course of action already pretty much completed is better than the constant sniping that’s been displayed. No change of tune, by the way - incurring costs beyond basic court fees has never been something I’ve advocated.

Aylesbury_Duck

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82036927#Comment_82036927

I knew you'd counter with that, but unfortunately Mandir had already explained, before your encouragement, that he had no money or assets at all, and that he was undertaking a "monumental financial gamble". That's clear confirmation he wasn't entering into something like small claims action for as little as £35 and no more than £50. In that context, any costs he was going to incur would be significant. And inappropriate, as was your encouragement in those known circumstances. Hardly grounds for "Well done!".

I happen to take the view that MSE forums exist to support members, specifically with moneysaving and financial wellbeing - not to encourage people in a self-declared challenging financial position to take risks on behalf of others unwilling to do so.

eskbanker

Could I respectfully suggest that we leave it there? This thread has had swathes of posts deleted previously after similar digressions about who said what and why, and surely the less thread administration that's needed the better, in terms of the risk of it being wiped or closed altogether…