MN have used my quote to promote a product I’ve never bought 🤔

Best Tablet for Kids in 2025? As “highly recommended by Mumsnet families”?

MN Swears By says the Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Tablet is the best for toddlers. It’s apparently recommended by RestingPandaFace, who’s quoted as saying “Kids’ fire is really easy to set up and pretty indestructible”.

What in fact she said (in October 2021) was “Kids’ kindle fire is really easy to set up and pretty indestructible”. Her words appear to have been edited to delete the reference to “Kindle” which would have betrayed the fact that she was talking about a now-obsolete product.

Well I was standing here minding my own business like everyone else when you turned up with your “Calm down overheated girl-ladies. It’s not that deep, focus on the mcguffin” bollox.

The supposedly professional response to this issue is genuinely blowing my mind! I can't believe they think it's just all a huge misunderstanding. Comprehension skills certainly need to be worked on but anyone with a braincell can see it's not ours that are the problem here.

Well then have you considered my comment wasn't about you then?

I have considered your point and I'm sorry if you feel that way!

Maybe my last comment was the most inflammatory but now possibly its this one.

Jesus i cant believe this thread, its a fucking gazebo for gods sake. Maybe everyone should buy one to prevent getting too much sun and losing the plot to this extent. The quote describes every pop up gazebo ever made and if it was a big conspiracy to fool you all would it be linked directly to the the post the quote came from showing exactly what was said and when. OK complain, don't buy the gazebo but surely you have something better to do on a sunny Friday into a bank holiday weekend than keep repeating the same thing and manufacture outrage over something so pathetic.

yes i get the point, ok post it, add links to legal information, and add anything new that is relevant but hundreds of people saying pretty much word for word as each other like they're trying to win the outrage Olympics, please. Think the point is made but ok carry on winding each other up about this atrocity. Don't like MN don't go on it. Don't trust their recommendations don't buy them. Want to report an offence, do that. The repetition makes any new information labour intensive to find as is swept up in hundreds of comments saying nothing different to the hundreds before them. Maybe MN should recommend the best pearls for clutching next week.

I’m not winding anyone up. I’ve barely been here.

But have you considered your “Calm down - it’s just a gazebo” professional point-missing BS, is just as derailing and inflammatory as the worst hype post on the thread?

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Hi

I'm the Mumsnet editor who produces the recommendation emails you receive, including last night's Discounts newsletter, so I'd like to explain my process.

I appreciate that the quote used to describe a pop-up gazebo last night was not directly applicable to the specific gazebo which was promoted, so firstly let me apologise if this has caused confusion or concern.

When products are selected for recommendation, our goal is always to share information which is useful to Mumsnetters and to help them find great products or bargains. We always try to use quotes that are as recent as possible and, where those are not available, ensure that a quote is still relevant. Where a quote may be used to recommend a product it is carefully selected to make sure that it is honestly describing either a specific item, or the general benefits of owning a similar item. We feel these quotes are still helpful because they describe generic merits of the product which apply to all versions. However I can see that we should be clearer when using these quotes - and should have added some explanation to the quote along the lines of "our users love the ease of using pop-up gazebos" to put it in its correct context.

To clarify, there was not, and never is, any intention of misleading readers. We also always make sure to link to the user's quote on the thread, so you can go to that conversation and make up your own mind based on what other users have said, with full transparency.

I hope this goes some way towards explaining our processes. That said, it is only ever our intention to provide honest recommendations, so going forward we will tighten up the process to clearly flag when a quote is being used to describe a similar, but not identical, product. We will also be emailing everyone who received last night's Discounts email to clarify the situation so nobody feels they have been misled.

Hi

I'm the Mumsnet editor who produces the recommendation emails you receive, including last night's Discounts newsletter, so I'd like to explain my process.

I appreciate that the quote used to describe a pop-up gazebo last night was not directly applicable to the specific gazebo which was promoted, so firstly let me apologise if this has caused confusion or concern.

When products are selected for recommendation, our goal is always to share information which is useful to Mumsnetters and to help them find great products or bargains. We always try to use quotes that are as recent as possible and, where those are not available, ensure that a quote is still relevant. Where a quote may be used to recommend a product it is carefully selected to make sure that it is honestly describing either a specific item, or the general benefits of owning a similar item. We feel these quotes are still helpful because they describe generic merits of the product which apply to all versions. However I can see that we should be clearer when using these quotes - and should have added some explanation to the quote along the lines of "our users love the ease of using pop-up gazebos" to put it in its correct context.

To clarify, there was not, and never is, any intention of misleading readers. We also always make sure to link to the user's quote on the thread, so you can go to that conversation and make up your own mind based on what other users have said, with full transparency.

I hope this goes some way towards explaining our processes. That said, it is only ever our intention to provide honest recommendations, so going forward we will tighten up the process to clearly flag when a quote is being used to describe a similar, but not identical, product. We will also be emailing everyone who received last night's Discounts email to clarify the situation so nobody feels they have been misled.

Well I have just promoted myself.

It does make a mockery if anyone can claim to be working for MN.

But I like my new role. I shall be strict.

I’m not winding anyone up. I’ve barely been here.

But have you considered your “Calm down - it’s just a gazebo” professional point-missing BS, is just as derailing and inflammatory as the worst hype post on the thread?

yes i get the point, ok post it, add links to legal information, and add anything new that is relevant but hundreds of people saying pretty much word for word as each other like they're trying to win the outrage Olympics, please. Think the point is made but ok carry on winding each other up about this atrocity. Don't like MN don't go on it. Don't trust their recommendations don't buy them. Want to report an offence, do that. The repetition makes any new information labour intensive to find as is swept up in hundreds of comments saying nothing different to the hundreds before them. Maybe MN should recommend the best pearls for clutching next week.

yes i get the point, ok post it, add links to legal information, and add anything new that is relevant but hundreds of people saying pretty much word for word as each other like they're trying to win the outrage Olympics, please. Think the point is made but ok carry on winding each other up about this atrocity. Don't like MN don't go on it. Don't trust their recommendations don't buy them. Want to report an offence, do that. The repetition makes any new information labour intensive to find as is swept up in hundreds of comments saying nothing different to the hundreds before them. Maybe MN should recommend the best pearls for clutching next week.

Jesus i cant believe this thread, its a fucking gazebo for gods sake. Maybe everyone should buy one to prevent getting too much sun and losing the plot to this extent. The quote describes every pop up gazebo ever made and if it was a big conspiracy to fool you all would it be linked directly to the the post the quote came from showing exactly what was said and when. OK complain, don't buy the gazebo but surely you have something better to do on a sunny Friday into a bank holiday weekend than keep repeating the same thing and manufacture outrage over something so pathetic.

Ah right, yes. Ladeezzz are overexcited about a gazebo. Thats what you’ve understood from this?

Probably not the thread for you.

@JoMumsnet @MNheadoffice @MNEditor

are you going to send out an apology email for every time you’ve done this? Cos it’s starting to look like my inbox is going to be absolutely flooded

Jesus i cant believe this thread, its a fucking gazebo for gods sake. Maybe everyone should buy one to prevent getting too much sun and losing the plot to this extent. The quote describes every pop up gazebo ever made and if it was a big conspiracy to fool you all would it be linked directly to the the post the quote came from showing exactly what was said and when. OK complain, don't buy the gazebo but surely you have something better to do on a sunny Friday into a bank holiday weekend than keep repeating the same thing and manufacture outrage over something so pathetic.