Will you all be paying for Mumsnet Premium?

[WorraLiberty]

I'm not sure yet but I'll probably pay for a month and then see what other features they bring in.

Thread by Justine incase you haven't seen it

YABU = No

YANBU = Yes, I might give it a try

I am suspicious by nature, but consider Justine may have got a few influencers on here to say 'well I'm paying it' because human nature means others will read and be more likely to pay

That's what I meant in mentioning the door knockers who insist "all your neighbours have signed up" to get you to join whatever it is

What I'd love to know is what's persuaded some to pay when the constant questions about improved security have gone completely unanswered. Obviously it's no-one's place to tell others what to do with their money and I get all the comments about "wanting to support MN", but I'd genuinely be interested to know

If you want to support vulnerable people you would be better giving £5 a month to your local women's aid project or a similar local project.

Agree money isn’t going to vulnerable people here, you’d be better off donating to women’s aid.

I put this on the other thread but it’s full so will put here

The losing £50 wasn’t about banning, but if they don’t get the x amount they need to ‘keep the lights on’ who will be first in line for money? It may not be the people who paid the £50 and will be asking for a refund.

So pay monthly unless you’re ok with losing it.

Now the other thread is full they’ll probably just take what they have and let the idea die anyway due to the response.

Should have gone with the donation model with perhaps 50% of monies donated given to women's aid charities

The losing £50 wasn’t about banning, but if they don’t get the x amount they need to ‘keep the lights on’ who will be first in line for money? It may not be the people who paid the £50 and will be asking for a refund.

Im so glad you said it here, I'm sure people on the other thread were deliberately ignoring the fact that it won't just be those banned who lose money.

As I said on the Site stuff thread they payment option as far as I know doesn't have buyer protection like paypal does. Therefore if the site closed next month none of those who had paid would be likely to get any money back and they would be left with no way to make a claim.

Im sure that MNHQ will as you say probably let the idea die a death now and as much as I would like those who have paid to get what the features were promised I cannot see it happening anytime soon.

No way! The website could be written better by a 16 year old
To name a few frustrations:

Discussion clicked on gives wrong result
Can't back page to topics once you've clicked on an image within discussion without clicking back multiple times
Clicking back sometimes takes you to a page you looked at 3 days ago
Unable to edit posts
Unable to see date when a poster joined MN resulting in "proving" declarations of Sistine Chapel to try and dodge troll hunting

Forgiveable when it is for free.

Besides If I want to see people sniping and tearing each other apart, I can get it all free on FB.

As said on another thread this could well be MN and Justine's Sir Philip Green moment. Where has all the money gone over the past twenty years? Second homes? Private school fees? Pension pots?

Perhaps they should reframe as an investment opportunity with each £25/£50 as 10 shares? That would be a more transparent way to operate it.

Where has all the money gone over the past twenty years?

For a very very long time there was no money.

Will they get rid of the paid service once normal life resumes? No of course not! They are being opportunistic in my opinion.

There is no buyer protection from Stripe.
Someone asked about shareholders, according to info from companies house they do.
This is why I am so bloody sceptical. It’s coming up to that time of year for certain payouts.

They need cash, and have already mis-sold what the subscription gives. The edit button is a unicorn. If they had used PayPal after the email sent out, people would be rightly asking for money back.

Goes to show never trust anyone on the net.

Goes to show never trust anyone on the net.

Yep.

Really reminds me of IG cash drives which I could never fathom re why gullible people do it. At least on here a begging threads gets deleted (except current mn one).

I won’t pay. The site is too left leaning and I’m not paying to be abused for who I vote for. If they got that under control then I might.

Under control how? Like censor people about their political preferences?

@PleaseStopCrying they have already shelves the edit button. Any other site they would be ripped to shred for basically scamming people.

Why is providing an edit button so hard btw? It’s been standard elsewhere for about a decade.

ohcaptain

No, stop the abuse

I won’t pay. The site is too left leaning and I’m not paying to be abused for who I vote for. If they got that under control then I might

I’m sure you can find a Tory echo bubble to post in.

I could easily pay so I don't actually think those that can easily pay necessarily will pay and therefore skew the demographics of paid versus non paying posters.

The reason I will never pay for this site is that whilst some conversations and threads can be informative the majority are actually overrun by posters being nasty and opinionated to the extent which I wouldn't tolerate in RL and the coronavirus outbreak has bought them out just like when we have a general election.

I am here mostly to kill time but that is a habit that isn't actually beneficial so if it came to it I would prefer to be forced off the site rather than pay for it. In fact that may be a good thing.

I won’t pay. The site is too left leaning and I’m not paying to be abused for who I vote for. If they got that under control then I might

If you’re getting abuse, then report it.

If it’s generic anti-Tory rhetoric that’s perfectly valid. Just as it’s valid for you to choose who to vote for.

@Alsohuman Bit rich considering a majority of MN we're convinced beyond a doubt that Brexit wasn't going to happen and Labour was going to get elected. Because how could it not when everyone here was voting that way 😂

Oh how I laughed come results day. The absolute shock and devastation was a chuckle for weeks

I’m sure you can find a Tory echo bubble to post in

Pathetic. Are you condoning the abuse?

What abuse? Someone has abused you personally because you mentioned you vote Tory?

Where has all the money gone over the past twenty years? Second homes? Private school fees? Pension pots?

In fairness, what private business owners do with the cash is their own affair providing it's legal, but it's often (and rightly) said that they should use the good times to build up reserves and I wonder how well this was done

Anyway, now it's been seen that the vast majority won't pay it appears HQ have stopped engaging ... and without addressing the many questions about security even once. Shame really, as now it seems we'll never know

I agree that admitting you were planning to vote Tory on here was an awful experience. I got called a cunt (different name).

The Brexit stuff and Corbynistas were also really wearing. I started to lose interest in the site after that.