for their bb use. I love lurking there as well as here but now they are going to charge 29.95 for a year or 4.95 a month. I won't pay because I am a lurker there, I rarely post and because last year I paid for photopoint's premier membership and they folded without warning us and we lost our money and all our photo albums with it
So they're going the way of the dismal scientist! I lurk there myself. I'm gonna miss it, but I have my backup: creditnet, stretcher.com, the Dollar Diva @ bankrate.com. I hope creditnet stays free!
Who the heck will stick around? I guess they don't care. It's like all the free e-card places now charging, (American greetings, Egreetings, Bluemountain). Like I'm going to pay $20 a year for that???? I hope they go under. (well, not really, but I hope they suffer at least!!) newstdt
I lurk there also but have never really found it all that helpful. I hate the way that board is set up and would never pay for it. I love this board! The format, content, and functionality are awesome!
This board beats TMF all to pieces. I used to post there, left a long time ago. Who knows, maybe some folks will pay it. I bet another website shows up to pick up their users. Always happens.
There is already a Living Below Your Means board set up in MSN Communities. Hopefully someone from the CC board will set one up as well. I am definatley not paying 30.00 a year to cruise boards!
I love the Motley Fool discussion boards (particularly "consumer credit/credit cards" and "living below your means"). I don't agree with all posted there- but those people's hearts are in the right place. Ultimately - there is nothing wrong in putting yourself in a position to create true wealth and not debt. I understand that server costs are expensive and that the economy has not been nice to dot coms. The MF has been having a really hard time for months prior to this decision and I'm not up in arms about it, as I not deluded to think anything I get online *has* to be free. I just wish that MF had decided to either charge a lot less (i.e. $10-$15 per year) OR had decided to leave some boards for free access. The investment board posters can well afford an annual fee for the tips they get there. But the consumer credit board should have remained a free access board, as the majority of new posters there aren't really in a position to add on more "recreational debt" -and certainly not on a daggone credit card, as MF requires for membership. Anyway - to clarify - if you subscribe before Feb. 13th, you'll get *two* years for $29.95 and be a charter member. And if you don't want that - people have set up both a LBYM board and a consumer credit board on MSN. And then there's always Creditnet...
Here's the MSN website: http://communities.msn.com/ConsumerCreditCreditCardDebt And, the MF-UK board is still free: http://boards.fool.co.uk/
