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3 Nov 2004: £600 off mobile contract, cheapest loan, freeview, TFT monitor, Free Smoke Alarm, PC games, more free flghts, home texting & much more MoneySaving

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The following is the text of Martins Money Tips Email sent on 3 November 2004

Hiya. There was so much MoneySaving this week, some had to ditched. Please forward this to friends and family as it's a great intro to the weekly email.

DROP MOBILE CONTRACT COSTS BY UP TO £600/YEAR (NEW ARTICLE) Mobile networks have special hidden tariffs, but with a little chutzpah you can access them. This is a detailed article version of my old Chat Tip. It's especially powerful for Orange contact customers. More texts, more minutes, upgraded phone, less cost

HOW TO GET A FREE SMOKE ALARM. Chat tip: It could save your life!

5.6% CHEAPEST EVER PERSONAL LOAN (NEW ARTICLE) I've fully rewritten the ‘cheapest personal loan' article. It now includes cheapest flexible loans and loans for those with poorer credit scores. New Article: Cheapest Personal Loans. Plus Cahoot has launched a 4 month 0% intro rate on its flexible loan. Frankly this is pants! For short term borrowing read ‘short term loans completely interest free'.

THE REAL GAMES GURUS. Two top new computer game Chat Tip spots. Brand new Football Manager 2005 at £17.99 including delivery (RRP £35), plus Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas under £30. Can you beat them?

Fully Updated: Credit Card Articles Balance Transfers, Purchases or Cashback

FREE ‘SELL YOUR HOME' WEBSITE LISTING. This website's MD is a MoneySavingExpert user and as a thank you has offered other users a free listing (normally £89) if done in the next two weeks. A listing gets you on Assertahomes and Fish4homes. And as it's free, if it doesn't work, it doesn't hurt. Chat tip: Free sales listing

THE GREAT ‘CHEAPEST FREEVIEW BOX HUNT'. Freeview allows digital TV for a one off fee just by buying the box. What's the cheapest you've spotted? £40 is the benchmark. Add your spots or read others' in The Great ‘Cheapest Freeview Box' Hunt. Sele cted Other Great Hunts: ‘Cheapest Laptop Hunt', 'Virtually Free Stocking Fillers Hunt', ‘Cheap Printer Cartridges Hunt'

Reminder: Save zillions (technical term) on cleaning products vinegar on that?

Reminder: Fixed vs Discount mortgage rate article How to choose?

Reminder: Make free cash from credit cards Revenge article

PANTS! POWERGEN PRICE RISE. It's increasing gas and electricity prices by roughly 9% at the end of November. This was unexpected. In my earlier ‘time to switch' evaluation note I discounted this happening as it'd upped prices twice this year already. Yet as noted then, this is only ever a best guess. There are no guarantees. Eve n with hindsight, the ‘time to switch' was and is right as it's the longest ‘no price rises' run for ages. Switch via the winning comparison service Energyhelpline/Cashback*, or better read ‘Cheapest Energy Provider plus cashback'.

LATEST QUICK CHAT TIPS (also see Chat Tips Gold)

17” TFT monitors under £200 Can you find one cheaper?
Free ringtone sites anyone found money, money, money?
1GB USB Flash Key under £60 Beat that!
More free flights Get away!
2 for 1 London attractions when you Travel by train
Nominate Post of the Month winner for November
Post of the month winner for October

“WHAT WAS THAT OLD CHAT TIP I WANTED?” If you remember seeing something in a prior e-mail you'll find it in the Chat TipsGold article just fully updated and indexed. There's now also a new FreebiesGOLD too. Both are always in the GUIDES section.

FREE TEXTS BETWEEN HOME PHONES. Using a new BT service any home phone can receive text messages and until Nov 30 all these texts are free. Worth a play. Home text

GET THE MACS CARD! Would you? For last week's BBC1 “Should I worry about…. Spending?” I designed a new dummy credit card. It looks good, but in reality it's hell. Would you have signed up? Card specs. Discuss it

MONEY DIET SPOTTED FOR £5.99 INCL DELIVERY. Now there's a stocking filler! An online retailer is selling m'book The Money Diet for £5.99 incl delivery, the cheapest so far – unless you know different. Chat Tip: Can you beat £5.99?. Read more: The Money Diet

Andrea's Freebies

Free book from Ottakars, Scholl cracked heel cream, Aerial photo CD-roms, Online graph paper, Letter from Santa Freebies GOLD

JOB OPP: MoneySavingExpert requires an Office Assistant/Junior Researcher

THE STAT MAN: There are now lots of new stats about the most popular articles, chat tips and chat boards. See the stat man in action.

WHERE DID YOU FIRST HEAR ABOUT MSE? New Poll: Vote or Discuss

YOU SHOULDN'T LAUGH! But watch this Chat Forum link to the end and it's tough not to.

Only 9,715 places to go!! Huge thanks to all site users. Staggeringly this week the site joined the world's top 10,000 websites. I'm blown away. I've updated the About Us section of the site and included a graph of the site's progress. Please do keep recommending the site and especially the e-mail to others. Every new MoneySaver makes the UK a little less ‘rip off Britain' (and NI).

I hope you save some money

Martin

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