Saga Zone

Welcome, Elijay. We're always up to offering asylum to Saga refugees.

From what I have read they are in a billion bit of financial bother and desperately shedding any part if the company that isn't making any or enough profit. And devil take the hindmost.

I'm a refugee from Saga. I think there is more to the 'closing down' decision than they've let on.

Acromas Group, owners of Saga & AA, are in financial 'bother' so they made the decision to get rid of it and found it easy to blame it on the members.

And luggie!

Welcome Cynth and jonjon. There is a suggestion of a Midlands meet up farily soon which you both might like to come to. The BristolBrigade came by train last time

Welcome Cynth and jonjon. I hope you settle happily with us here.

Has Suzy any Britas strain in her? She reminds me of a bitch we had in the 70s!

Do you think spring will ever come?

Hi Galen, would be nice to meet new freinds, maybe in the spring though ! XXX

How awful for you, Cynth! It all sounds very sad. GN means a lot to us, so I can empathise with you. I hope you will be happy here.

Jonjon there are several of us near you. In Barrow, Backwell, Bristol and Portishead.
Perhaps we could all meet socially some time if you're interested.
Suzie looks lovely

Greatnan, we are trying hard. We've written to every paper going. We've had a few good write ups in the Mail and the Telegraph online but by the time they got to their printed papers the next day, their editors had slashed it to pieces and we just got a couple of lines at the end of the article.
The reporter who had interviewed me even aplologised to me.

I have been on BBC Radio WM, Birmingham's local BBC station. They kindly gave me a ten minute slot so they got the whole story.

We are at present trying to get TV interested but unfortunately, as the story starts to die down, people are losing interest.

I think you might be in that one Cynth.

The Telegraph has published the forum members' views here

Does sound like lazy moderating. Sounds like they knew for some time that multiple identies were coming from the same computer.

Hi jo8 my freind, reading this makes my blood boil ! How they are manipulating the press is nothing short of criminal !

Thanks for the welcome folks and thank you so much to Annodomini for your kind words.

j08 we are conjecturing that the reason was financial although we obviously can't guarantee that. There used to be plenty of advertising on there which slowly but surely dried up, until there was none.
Saga are owned by the Aromas group, who are preparing to sell the company.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/23/private-equity-aa-saga-acromas)

They would not want to show that Sagazone was possibly a loss making arm of the company, and would therefore possibly need a reason to close down without it appearing financial. (I'm chosing my words carefully here for obvious reasons.!)

The members were badly betrayed.

Suz says thank you very much, but a sideboard can"t get you up in the early hours to roam round muddy fields , hear the owls hooting and watch the sun rise ! XXX

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It's already in the press.

That is a really terrible story - have anyone thought of contacting the national press and shaming Saga?

HI jonjon (and Suzie) and Cynth welcome to Gransnet.
Why not find the new members thread and tell us a bit about yourself?

jonjon, Suzie's a cutie, but as I'm more in tune with furniture than dogs may I see what a nice looking sideboard you have there!

I know GN is a business as well. But there is no brand as such.

Saga is a business. They felt there was a threat to their brand.

Surely they must have had some reason though. They wouldn't want to piss off potential customers without a good reason.

What a sorry tale, Cynth. I am sure you will find that you will find our GNHQ administrators more in tune with the members than the Saga ones seem to have been of late. I felt your very heartfelt grief in your post - they really rode roughshod over your feelings. ((((hugs))))