I think a major problem is the cost of transport. It'd cost more than someone's shareholding is worth (perhaps more than it'll ever be worth or even more than most people's earned cashback) to attend the meeting, which from a pure cost basis doesn't really make much economic sense. I suspect if you ...

That's great news! Thanks for this!

Thanks for the option to switch this off!

I'd prefer the process of awarding shares for posts to be stopped altogether (preferably with already awarded ones cancelled). There does seem to be a lot of low quality posts in the forum and knowing that they're diluting my shareholding makes me less inclined to use imutual as a cashback site.

Historically, we haven't sent many regular emails to our members and, while some may think this is a good thing, there is a danger that people just "forget" about imutual and aren't aware of recent developments, interesting forum posts and money-saving offers. To be honest, the majority of people I...

I expect you're right, Richard. I made no comment about the validity of their statement - but that's what they claim in their public response to discussion of the figures! I've read that HUKD is now separate from Q, or at least much more separate than they once were, however I don't know exactly wha...

richard@imutual wrote:Then tcb. From their accounts we see that the latter two are making millions of pounds from cashback users

They're keen to point out though, that the results cover all the ventures of the parent company, not just profits from cashback.

richard@imutual wrote:In general, the stats suggest that the 'shares for posting' is not a major reason for the increased forum activity.

I disagree!

richard@imutual wrote:Should we have restrictions on the length, content and/or font size of signatures?

There are some quite distracting signatures being used now (e.g. banners & one member has a large font link to Superpoints), so I'd vote yes!