Please see below various posts from different cherry forums about cherry and cherryfind. It seems that many of you are talking about 'getting behind cherry' and 'cherry fighting your corner' but we can't do this without your help!
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Post - ''The first thing brokers should do is commit £23.50 per month. cherry is the only organisation promoting the value of impartial advice to the public with reference to mortgages. The stronger cherry gets..the stronger we all get.''
Post - ''It's extremely important that we support cherry. Who else is trying to fight our corner? We are the only distribution channel I can think of where the product provider calls the shots. Do it guys - lets get together. Fight back and support cherry.''
Post - ''So do your bit and do it NOW. Get every adviser you know to register on the cherryfind site NOW today immediately. For the price of a poor proc fee a year they are in NOW and one referral that pays covers it... I have had FOUR so don't say it doesn't happen, it does.''
Post - ''I agree cherry could do this - maybe a cost, but there's AMI wants a scandalous amount of money for naff all.''
Post - ''I have said this before, apart from cherry there is nobody fighting our corner. Maybe its time cherry charged a membership fee which would give it a budget to effectively fight our corner.''
Post - ''I have said this time and time again. There is a desperate need for a unified voice. I guess in 5-10 years time there will be no small independent advisers. We will be regulated out of the market. Apart from cherry I just wish they would see the writing on the wall.''
Post - ''AMI, Estate agents Ombudsman etc etc. However apart from cherry I'm beginning to believe it's every man for themselves.''
Post - ''For this and other reasons therefore I think it is important we 'punch our weight' and get behind the initiative of cherryFind. Who else do you see who is promoting the 'value of advice'?''
Post - ''I do think that this is an ideal opportunity for cherry to take the lead. They took the lead in respect of the Natwest advertisement.''
Post - ''Better still invest in cherryFind - it's far cheaper and does at least promote the value of advice and what we do.''
Post - ''we need to speak up for ourselves via cherry.''
Post - ''Everyone should get behind cherry and put everything into lobbying from here.''
Post - ''I would also like to state that out of all of the support organisations out there, such as the AMI, cherry is the most supportive by far, and we should all throw as much weight behind the cherry campaigns as possible.''
Post - ''We must (maybe through cherry) band together, as the Networks don't really look after our interests.''
Post - ''I joined cherry yesterday as I was hoping this might be the place to find brokers motivated and organised well enough to make appropriate protests without cutting off our noses. It needs someone a lot brighter than me to formulate the ideas of how best to achieve this but sitting round waiting for the networks to sort isn't going to produce the desired results.''
Post - ''It is true that cherry has probably tried harder than anyone to promote brokers, Swanny. I can't really think of anyone else (including the AMI) who has fought our corner.''
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