Suggestions for further Mumsnet Premium offers

Hi op. Sorry you are having such a tough time.
You have posted this in the wrong place.
I've asked for it to be moved to the 'pregnancy choices' section. It won't moved until the morning though.
In the meantime you could try posting again there yourself.
Go to Talk, Pregnancy, Pregnancy choices (I think!)
Hope that you get some help and support soon.

Discounts and offers for sustainable/ethical/organic clothing/toy brands and independent shops. I.e Maxomorra, Duns Sweden, Toby Tiger, Frugi, Holtztiger, Lanka Kade, Grimm's.

An android app that works properly

@Veronicat, I've subscribed in the spirit of giving something back. I am by no means well-off with plenty left at the end of the month.

I find it sad that so many posters are casually throwing around the idea of redundancies, while complaining about a wealth divide.

I come to mumsnet for the content, which should be free as it's generally created by us, the user.

I find this really bizarrely entitled. I write in a notebook, but I don’t expect not to have to pay for the notebook itself, even though I am generating the content?

Advertising doesn’t usually cover costs. It’s a myth. And we are losing newspapers and magazines and media outlets all the time because of confusion about this.

MN want to move from being less ITV and more Netflix. Good.

I pay for premium because I want to support the site and because MN has been here for me when I needed it so, y’know, quid pro quo. I love MN.

Those offers sound like quite bland un-enticing cross-selling tbh. Really unlikely to tempt me.

I would happily include affiliate links for MN in my own posts when linking to a dress or make up or whatever. No idea how to do that.

Please improve the search function. I often can’t find things. But I have been here a long time.

I've installed ad block on my phone so I can't see any adverts on the app anyway.

Premium seems like one massive scam at the moment. People who have paid for a whole year may get no changes or updates at all yet they've still given MN £50.

How convenient

Also I would only pay when the premium offering has been established. Coming soon/in the next few months is too vague to be meaningful.

None of the current offers are appealing to me, either because I'm not shopping for those items, or because the % discount isn't very exciting.

I would sign up if I could get something I couldn't get elsewhere, but I'm not sure what that would be. I come to mumsnet for the content, which should be free as it's generally created by us, the user. I would look on mse or quidco if I wanted a financial good offer.

I don’t live in UK so none of this would appeal to me.

Most of the things that are being suggested on premium are standard on pretty much all other dicscussion forums- editing, starting at point last viewed, quoting, polls, liking posts, coloured and italic text, following a poster, ignoring a poster or a thread etc etc etc
MSE is fantastic for best offers too, so it would need to be a pretty big incentive on the offer side for me to want premium here.

I’m on a browser called DuckDuckGo that was recommended by a MNer last week. They block google and amazon etc from following you around websites and I also don’t seem to have any ads! Win win. And I don’t have to pay them a penny.

That's interesting seenbeensbean, I have none of that and I am not signed up for premium.

There are ads with the app, i got this one just now

I would quote Michael's post but I can't because he already quoted someone in the post I want to reply to. But hey ho.

Michael says Hi @SciFiScream Using the app with Premium means you won’t see any ads

I would like to point out that there are no ads on the app without premium either. So while what Michael says here is true, it's not exactly a premium feature.

Those discounts are all available elsewhere on the Internet.

I just purchased Disney Plus for almost the same price and the value for money vs Mumsnet is incomparable.

If you need money to keep running then I would just say that. Many long term members are willing to donate. But dressing up a 'Premium' service as value for money when it's clearly not is insulting.

Mumsnet Premium would need some seriously good features to be considered value for money, given that the members provide the content.

This sounds great in theory and offers some protections but if you are a sock puppet I'm not sure how it would go..

It would mean trolls couldn't post as multiple users within the same thread if the initial username used was then locked for/to that particular thread.

......if I use a name change on a thread then for whatever reason then for that thread to "remember" which username I posted with and to default to that username on that thread to prevent any name change fails (would stop people sockpuppetting too).

This sounds great in theory and offers some protections but if you are a sock puppet I'm not sure how it would go..

and members only boards.

That would be a way to make me leave. The whole point of the site is that "we're all in this together". One meets and converses with such a wide variety of people - and everyone's voice is (or should be) equal. How on earth would it work - either the premium board members would abandon the commoners' board, or they'd be casually dropping into main board conversation titbits from the elite room and making everyone else feel unwashed. Please don't do this.

I would suggest standing up alongside JKR and others like her and saying “we stand for women, we won’t be silenced, the emperor has no clothes” and be central to the discussions happening all over the place at the moment. The worst of it has passed - it’s a good time to be vocal, as you’ll no longer be a lone voice. That would show absolute faith and solidarity with your CORE users, and show that the whole “it doesn’t cost anything to just be kind” bollocks has gone too far. Women don’t need to be quiet and be kind, we need to shout and be honest.

This.

I wouldn’t be persuaded by discounts and offers - I’m the type of person who sees a voucher code, thinks “ooh I’ll have a look at that” then spends £50 on the site and forgets to add the voucher code at checkout

I would say that your best bet for making money is to streamline your staff, scale the whole thing back to what it used to be and offer a decent competent site with a working search function, filter by OP, partial quoting etc and leave all the ads in place.

That way it will be a pleasure to use instead of frustrating, and it will benefit ALL users, not just the ones with spare cash. I’m not poor, but I am on a low income, receiving tax credits. I pay for Netflix and Amazon as they benefit the whole family. I could easily afford £50 a year or whatever it is, but I wouldn’t pay it.

One of the main reasons is that I spend a lot of my time on the feminism board. We have been gagged and banned in droves on there for not kowtowing to mouthy activists.

If MN wants to be successful I would suggest standing up alongside JKR and others like her and saying “we stand for women, we won’t be silenced, the emperor has no clothes” and be central to the discussions happening all over the place at the moment. The worst of it has passed - it’s a good time to be vocal, as you’ll no longer be a lone voice. That would show absolute faith and solidarity with your CORE users, and show that the whole “it doesn’t cost anything to just be kind” bollocks has gone too far. Women don’t need to be quiet and be kind, we need to shout and be honest.

I notice that bugaboo has 10 per cent off all first orders.

Your offers are easy to find and beat.

For example, 20% off bugaboo
www.naturalbabyshower.co.uk/collections/bugaboo-special-editions

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