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The following is the text of Martins Money Tips Email sent on 1 June 2005
Hiya, the site's success means over £40k's been donated to charity in the last year. See 'charity or children' below about this cash and its future. And pls forward this free e-mail to everyone you know, and suggest they join the distribution list too, so the donations can be kept up.
FREE SAFER SYSTEM FOR ONLINE SPENDING. New Article. Whether you're paying for shopping, info or even legal pornography online, there's a techological solution that helps protect you from fraudsters by rotating your debit/credit number each time you spend. New Article. Cahoot Webcard. Related Article. Free ID fraud protection.
CHEAPEST WAY TO BUY, SELL OR HOLD SHARES. New Article. Dot-com fever may be long gone, but millions still have and hold shares. Sadly I can't tell you how to make millions, yet I can pare dealing charges down to the bone. New Article. Cheap as blue chips.
DO THE 5 RING SLAM! Stop companies' £1/2 billion a year voicemail profit. Free voicemail means engaged tones and wrong numbers are history, we're always 'connected'. Thus the provider gets an extra 5p minimum call revenue. If every UK adult unnecessarily hit one voicemail a day, it's an annual half a billion pounds! Of course if you want to leave a message do so. If not the average voicemail answers after roughly six rings, so slam down after five. Discuss it/ More Info.
NEW CHEAPEST (5.7%) CLEANER PERSONAL LOANS. Yesterday (Tue) the ban on the hideous 'Rule of 78' came into play, meaning all new loans can't charge this penalty for early repayment. The new cheapest uninsured loan is 5.7% for amounts from £1,000 up (Apply/View*). For more options and details read the updated Cheapest Personal Loan and Cut The Cost Of Existing Loans articles.
FREE PLUMBING HELP! Plumbers make a fortune, primarily because they charge one. Sadly giving all MoneySavers free plumbing is beyond me, but I had a wee idea. 'Media' plumber Ian Puddick will answer questions for free on the site (this week only). Never done this type of thing before so let's see if it works. Plumbing Masterclass.
Windows media player streamed: Broadband /Dial-Up Download:Broadband / Dial-Up (Discuss what's said ). |
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: CHOOSE, CHARITY OR CHILDREN? Over the last year, this site's donated £40,000+ to charities selected by users (see how site is funded and charity fund details). I'm considering using the cash for 'MoneySaving Kids: a children's money education fund' as, scarily most financial education is funded by the banks. Please vote on which you'd prefer and Discuss it/ more details.
Reminder. Top instant access clean savings. Alliance & Leicester* or read Article
Reminder. Home Insurance Cost-Cutting System
Reminder. HSBC 8% account is pants. Read Best Regular Savings Accounts
IMPROVED FREE INTERNATIONAL CALLCHECKER! (Finds cheapest price to any country). The updated & redesigned CallChecker now includes colour coding for provider type and searches more companies. It takes about 10 secs. Try it. CallChecker.
FLIGHTCHECKER SALES WATCH Ryanair has flights from 49p + taxes (usually c. £20) incl to Palermo, Seville and Genoa. Use the free FlightChecker to find them.
(Also see Daily Bargains Updates and Chat Tips GOLD)
- Visit Kew Gardens for Free
- PS2 and Xbox Games Under £5
- Trolley jack and two axle stands £14.99 in-store
- Seinnheiser MX300 in-ear headphones £5.48 delivered
- Netgear wireless router plus card £95
- Old Style (Frugal) Board Thread of the Week: One-liner Tips
- See who won Post of the Month for May
- Nominate Post of the Month for June
GREAT DOUBLE USE HUNT RESULT: Last week's challenge was to Find Double Uses. Amongst the ideas were salad spinner, dishwasher as a cooker and a coaster.
Reminder. 5% interest 0% overdraft, free travel insurance (Apply/View*). Best Current Account article
Reminder. Revenge! Free cash from credit cards using m'How To Stooze article
Reminder. Free calls abroad via your computer Article
MARTIN'S MUSINGS. This week's blog entries are 'Never bought a CD in my life', 'My Laud' and 'When did Home Ownership become a right?' Blog.
Toyota t-shirt, Festival of Speed tickets, Filmfour for a month,
THAT Frog video, 3 x Radio Times
BOARD OF THE WEEK. MONEYSAVERS' ARMS. Yes, it's a pub, a gossip shop, full of MoneySavers letting their hair down. The regulars love new blood so feel free to join in. Current discussions include Word Association, Jackanory and Big Brother 6.
HELP FOR HOMELESS GUY? I found this discussion on the Debt-free wannabe chat board moving, and wanted to share it.
TOP OF THE MONEYSAVING POPS POLL RESULTS. Last week I asked you to vote on site members' suggestions for a theme song. See the Results.
TWO WAYS TO SLOGAN HELP? More site-top slogans needed to add to the current 'two ways to cut your mobile bill i. Leave it at home ii. Use this site. Any suggestions?
Before I go, a quick note. I'm now a web-icon! Don't worry it's not pretentiousness, just that the site's techies have made a little icon which will appear if you have the site in your favourites.
Speaking of techies, you do have to be careful these days. Check this out and see if the person on your left really is a computer programmer?
That's it for this week,
I hope you save some money
Martin
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