cronewitch
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Post by cronewitch on Aug 15, 2013 18:02:44 GMT -5
MyMoney was discontinued on July 13, 2012 We are extremely grateful for everyone who used our MyMoney service. All data associated with your MyMoney account was permanently deleted. You can now use Bundle to... Discover the Best Places for Your Budget Get recommendations on restaurants, bars, hotels, and other businesses near you. Choose the type of place you're interested in and we'll help you find the best place for your budget. near Enter city or zip money.bundle.com/mymoney/ |
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Abby Normal
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Post by Abby Normal on Aug 15, 2013 18:07:00 GMT -5
Good riddance.
A year and we never noticed. Says a lot.
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 15, 2013 18:21:16 GMT -5
LOL - I can't believe they closed down our boards and sent us to a Yelp wanna-be. I hope that place crumbles.
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cronewitch
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I identify as a post-menopausal childless cat lady and I vote.
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Post by cronewitch on Aug 15, 2013 19:03:15 GMT -5
LOL - I can't believe they closed down our boards and sent us to a Yelp wanna-be. I hope that place crumbles. Really stupid place, I looked up my area and they have things like the water and sewer with great ratings. They compile credit card data so see repeat customers and rate it great not as the only option. At least Yelp has people answering how they like a place so you have some clue this is worthless. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 13:48:27 GMT -5
Yeah, I went back to Bundle a couple of times out of curiosity and it was pretty useless.
Review sites such as yelp and tripadvisor must be pretty darn lucrative- if you look up a restaurant or a hotel, half the time you need to page through dozens of review sites before you can actually find the link to the business itself. And most of the "review" sites are pretty lame- I saw one where the same wording was posted for several different businesses, just to give the illusion that there were legitimate reviews. I guess that's a lucrative place to sell banner ads since you have an audience making buying decisions.
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Malarky
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Post by Malarky on Aug 16, 2013 14:14:44 GMT -5
I only went to the bundle site maybe twice after our old msn shut down. There was nothing of substance there.
Regarding yelp...I know a couple of people in RL who write scathing reviews of any establishment that doesn't completely suck up to them. I won't eat in public with them because they (the customers, the people I know) are so horrible. Knowing them, I tend not to believe the reviews on yelp.
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Nazgul Girl
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Aug 16, 2013 19:39:47 GMT -5
I detested Bundle after we got thrown off the MSN Money boards, so this is pretty good news. Talk about dumbing it down. I think they were looking for a fresh, hip crowd, but if the crowd was fresh and hip, they knew enough to stay away.
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swamp
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THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS!!!!!!!
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Post by swamp on Aug 17, 2013 10:28:52 GMT -5
I went to the link. About 20% of the restaurants listed are closed. They have the wrong addresses for some. The best restaurant in town is not listed. The price estimates a re wrong. They have McDonald's listed under the local franchisees corporation name.
Useless
ETA: under salons and spas, they have an attorney listed. They also have a charter bus service. WTF? You have to try hard to be that wrong.
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tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Aug 17, 2013 12:16:33 GMT -5
What are we talking about here, huh?
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milee
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Post by milee on Aug 17, 2013 12:23:37 GMT -5
Not sure if I'm misremembering, but if it's the site I'm thinking of, I remember at the time wondering if I was so old I was missing something or if the Bundle people were as simplistic as they appeared to be. Anyone else remember when the new editor (Kevin or something like that - knew absolutely zero about money) came onto YM to tell people how great Bundle was? The conversations went something like this:
Editor: Check out Bundle! You guys are all going to love it! It does super cool things and it's awesome!!!
YM: The super cool things appear to be incredibly simplistic. There are no tools that would be interesting or useful to anyone with more than a 4th grade education and the forum format will make it tough for people to post. You're going to drive away an existing community of fairly sophisticated users with this drivel.
Editor: But it's so shiny! Look, shiny!!!
YM: Yes, it's shiny. But we're more the nerdy, analytical, detail types who want a little more than a 5 second fix. Can you at least fix the forum and message boards?
Editor: We're so very cool and shiny. Really. You're just not seeing how very um, sparkly, our site is. Look, shiny!!!
YM: [Silence.]
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midjd
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Post by midjd on Aug 17, 2013 14:53:05 GMT -5
Haha, I remember that.
And when we saw the writing on the wall and started getting REALLY snarky about their plans for the site, he still kept responding with the "Thank you so much for the feedback! We are here to serve you!" BS.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2013 19:27:46 GMT -5
What are we talking about here, huh? Loony, before there was notmsnmoney, there was a discussion board on msn.com in the Money section. At some point they announced that the discussion board was going away but that we could all go to a cool new site they developed called bundle.com. It was a big zero, and some good people found proboards and started notmsnmoney. We all migrated here. |
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tallguy
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Post by tallguy on Aug 17, 2013 19:42:37 GMT -5
Not sure if I'm misremembering, but if it's the site I'm thinking of, I remember at the time wondering if I was so old I was missing something or if the Bundle people were as simplistic as they appeared to be. Anyone else remember when the new editor (Kevin or something like that - knew absolutely zero about money) came onto YM to tell people how great Bundle was? The conversations went something like this: Editor: Check out Bundle! You guys are all going to love it! It does super cool things and it's awesome!!! YM: The super cool things appear to be incredibly simplistic. There are no tools that would be interesting or useful to anyone with more than a 4th grade education and the forum format will make it tough for people to post. You're going to drive away an existing community of fairly sophisticated users with this drivel. Editor: But it's so shiny! Look, shiny!!! YM: Yes, it's shiny. But we're more the nerdy, analytical, detail types who want a little more than a 5 second fix. Can you at least fix the forum and message boards? Editor: We're so very cool and shiny. Really. You're just not seeing how very um, sparkly, our site is. Look, shiny!!! YM: [Silence.] Yes, his name was Mike (Michael Dang.) I remember you in particular (along with myself and maybe a couple others) giving him some very good advice on what would attract people who actually knew something about money and would want to add to their discussion board feature. Sadly, they had absolutely no clue. I also recall him becoming somewhat upset and defensive when I questioned his age and level of financial sophistication. (And yes, that was a pretty good summary of the exchange.)  |
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tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Aug 19, 2013 12:26:45 GMT -5
What are we talking about here, huh? Loony, before there was notmsnmoney, there was a discussion board on msn.com in the Money section. At some point they announced that the discussion board was going away but that we could all go to a cool new site they developed called bundle.com. It was a big zero, and some good people found proboards and started notmsnmoney. We all migrated here. I had been YM member for about 15 years and I migrated from YM to here...on a first day. Where have you found bundle and who went there? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 12:34:22 GMT -5
Loony, before there was notmsnmoney, there was a discussion board on msn.com in the Money section. At some point they announced that the discussion board was going away but that we could all go to a cool new site they developed called bundle.com. It was a big zero, and some good people found proboards and started notmsnmoney. We all migrated here. I had been YM member for about 15 years and I migrated from YM to here...on a first day. Where have you found bundle and who went there? No one went to bundle. It was not a message board. It was a comment section at the bottom of articles. It was terrible. |
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tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Aug 19, 2013 12:47:04 GMT -5
I had been YM member for about 15 years and I migrated from YM to here...on a first day. Where have you found bundle and who went there? No one went to bundle. It was not a message board. It was a comment section at the bottom of articles. It was terrible. Nobody tells me nothing! Archie, remind me pls, why are we talking about this? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 12:49:13 GMT -5
Because you haven't started your radio broadcast yet!!
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Jaguar
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Post by Jaguar on Aug 19, 2013 12:51:44 GMT -5
Nostalgia maybe. 
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garion2003
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Post by garion2003 on Aug 19, 2013 13:26:04 GMT -5
Bundle was awful. What was MSN thinking?!
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tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Aug 20, 2013 13:53:48 GMT -5
Because you haven't started your radio broadcast yet!! Maybe we can do it together? I am kinda having call feed... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2013 13:55:47 GMT -5
You're just trying to get me to do all the legwork, aren't you??!?  |
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tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Aug 20, 2013 14:24:40 GMT -5
I can not post after the quote box!!!  so there... Yeah...I am trying to see what kind of work you can do with your legs... That would be more in place in gay cousin thread, right? You're just trying to get me to do all the legwork, aren't you??!? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2013 14:26:43 GMT -5
Or the tipping thread if you like what you see...??  |
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Taxman10
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Post by Taxman10 on Aug 20, 2013 15:09:31 GMT -5
Bundle was awful. What was MSN thinking?! I remember reading some of the articles on Bundle and thinking "this is the dumbest shit I ever read" LOL. I really loved the ones that said "if you're a freelance writer, you better watch out b/c you'll have to pay TAXES on your income!" - no shit. |
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Peace Of Mind
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Aug 20, 2013 16:23:41 GMT -5
MyMoney was discontinued on July 13, 2012We are extremely grateful for everyone who used our MyMoney service. All data associated with your MyMoney account was permanently deleted. You can now use Bundle to... Discover the Best Places for Your Budget Get recommendations on restaurants, bars, hotels, and other businesses near you. Choose the type of place you're interested in and we'll help you find the best place for your budget. near Enter city or zip money.bundle.com/mymoney/ LOL!! They died way before that. It just took them that long to figure it out. |
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