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The following is the text of Martin's Money Tip E-mailed on 2 March 2004

Hi. Travelodge is back & speed is of the essence, so without further ado..... 

Beat Travelodge's new £10 room promo: Remember Travelodge's £5 hotel room promotion? Its relaunched at £10.  It want you to trawl through to find available rooms though - however MoneySaver Adam has solved this with web software that finds availability by location or date. Chat tip Travelodge for a tenner

New Cheapest Directory Enquiry Provider & BT Raises Price:  The cheapest way is online, or you can make free calls via a loophole with One-Tel, if not the new cheapest standard dial number is 118848. Article: Directory Enquiries

Come Party with me!  For those who don't know, I'm having a party on 25 March in London to celebrate the site's first birthday and my book launch.  I'd love you to come, either alone or with friends.  It's all free. E-mail ed.obrien@intelligent-pr.com with your name & how many tickets. Further Details

New Cheapest PAYG phone:  As promised last time, I've done a full review of the new PAYG tariff from 3 – by far the cheapest if you're spending £25/month or more.  Article: Cheapest PAYG

WARNING REMINDER: Cancel unused credit cards If you've unused credit cards, cancel them & ensure the account is closed.  This both improves your credit score and means in roughly 18 months you may qualify for introductory new customer offers on the same card.  More details or ask a question.  More Credit Card Articles

Lloyds TSB Current Account now 4.75% - but what about its 0% overdraft? Lloyds new March 1 rates may be corkers (Article: Bank Accounts) but it promised me ‘we'll match people's existing overdrafts at 0%' if people switch - yet I've heard feedback its not always matching the limit.  For further details & to report problems

Radio 5 Live Articles note: I promised on the radio links to everything I mentioned.  Everything else is elsewhere in the e-mail except these Free Cash from Credit cards, Mini-Cash ISAs, Cheapest home phone, Special Egg Cardholder Note  

Quick Chat Tips

Another Cheap BMI-sale £19.99 ish each way with taxes: click here

£10 of when you spend £10 at Boden: clothing men/women/kids: click here

MoneySaving for Carers: discussion and tips click here

O2 free Sims (going quick though) click here

If you can't afford Nicotine patches: they're available cheaper by prescription: click here

Want to be a Moderator on the MSE chat board: Click here

Freebies/Samples: Day Gym Pass, Starsky&Hutch tickets (not guaranteed), Bodyform Ultra, Seeds, Syence Skin Care

More Gas & Elec Price Rises: London Energy, SEEBOARD or SWEB Energy have all increased elec prices by 6.7% and gas by 4.6%.  Plus Virgin Home Energy customers will see their Dual Fuel accounts increased by 5.1%.  To find the cheapest supplier to switch to Article: click here

Did you know? If you have a UK debit card – you can withdraw cash at virtually any bank ATM machine for free, but you will be charged roughly £1.50 at every convenience store ATM.

Get 105% of stockmarket growth at no risk:  Grrrr.  There I was in my last tip saying, ‘there's a 101% of growth deal that ends soon' then the next day they launch a new better one.  Effectively you get more than the stockmarket growth if you lock your money in for six years and if the market drops you get all your cash back!  Article: Click here

Reminders of Popular Chat Tips

Free Sky Channels for some existing Sky Users click here

Save on MOT bills, using council centres click here
Broadband for a tenner: click here

Multi-Region DVD player £26: click here

List of the most popular chat tips of all time: click here

Februarys £50 Best Chat Post Winner: T-mobile loophole by Smartass.  Not only did MoneySaver Smartass think of the loophole, he babysat people through it.  To read the T-mobile loophole click here, to read the nominees for Feb's award click here. To nominate someone who's helped you during March click here.
 

How many MoneySavers does it take to change a lightbulb?  A bottle of champagne for the person who comes up with the funniest answer.  Click here to enter.  (to see the answers given for the earlier – why did the MoneySaver cross the road contest click here)

That's it for this one.   Hope you continue to enjoy the e-mails.  If you want to say thank you (and I do appreciate the e-mails) then what I would love quite simply is you to e-mail your friends and colleagues, tell them about the site and suggest they join up to the e-mail.

I hope you save some money

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