Originally Posted by
LondonAussie
You need to be careful on this forum, if you express frustration with BA in your post, it's like a bat signal for people to focus only on debating that point, and your real question gets missed.
So to get back to the actual concern, I don't think you're more likely to be bumped or downgraded because you haven't paid to select a seat prior to check-in.
I've also seen people complaining that they paid for a seat and then got downgraded or moved etc. So I don't think paying for a seat helps protect you from that risk.
When someone states they were not advised about something when that's blatantly incorrect, it's worthy of being pointed out so that they know where to look next time. It's not a defence mechanism.
For the actual concern, I agree with you. There's no bad seat as such, seats will always be window or aisle in Club Europe with little (practically zero) chance of downgrade due to the movable divider according to Club demand on any given day. If there was a need to make sure I didn't suffer a middle seat, I could understand the need to pre-assign a seat for $ but as that's not even an option, I'd say there isn't a need for the OP to stump up additional cash on this occasion.