Mobile Roaming: Save up to 95% when phoning abroad. New Article
Take your mobile abroad and your network could charge you £1/min just to receive calls, even when your phone is switched off. Yet it's possible to massively cut the cost, either by using your networked little publicised free add-on packages that were introduced to stem EU criticism; or heavier roamers can get a Global Sim to receive calls free worldwide. New Article: Mobile Roaming. (mini-mutterings) Related Articles: Mobile Cost Cutting, Batter Down Your Annual Mobile Cost
All In-store Blockbuster DVD/Game Rentals 99p/night. Top Forum Spot! This week only
New Loophole! Free £40 of Tesco Clubcard Deals: Just open a savings account
Open a Tesco's savings account before 20 Sept, and have a balance of £1,000+ on 30 Sept and you'll get 1,000 clubcard points (worth £40 if redeemed on Clubcard Deals). Yet sadly it pays just 3.35% interest compared to ICICI's* 5.15%. So just open it with £1, deposit £1,000 in mid-September (I'll remind you) grab the bonus then close the account. Read Full How Tos (mini-mutterings) Related Articles: Top Savings Accounts, Where To Start With Savings, Credit Card Freebies
New 18 month 0% balance transfer card! Watch the sting in the tail
Capital One's new Platinum card is promising 0% on debts shifted to it, lasting 18 months. Sounds great, yet there's a J-Lo sized but! You'll pay a fee of 2% of the debt shifted, plus you need to spend at least £100 on the card, yet do that and the 'spending' is at a high interest rate, and can't be repaid until after all the other debt has. For those willing to play the system, there is a trick to get round this, making it a top deal, but it takes work. Full details in the Updated Article: Best Balance Transfers (mini-mutterings) Related Articles: The Credit Card Shuffle, Best Card For Purchases STOP YOUR FRIENDS WASTING CASH! PLS SUGGEST THEY GET THIS EMAIL Quick Tip. Cheapest Holiday Car Hire.
Quite simply there are a couple of car hire comparison services if you're tripping away, it's worth checking both Travel Supermarket* and AutoReservations*. Related Articles: Cut The Cost Of Flights & Hotels, Package Holiday Cost Cutting, Cheapest Way To Spend Overseas, Travel Insurance Free £10 credit for 6,000 UK wireless broadband hotspots. Now available with more magazines
UK's Cheapest Home Phone: package now £1 cheaper
After a rap on the knuckles by the Advertising Standards Authority for advertising 'free broadband' on a new product, TalkTalk's* added the free broadband to its existing Talk 3 package. This means it's now phone line, broadband and unlimited calls to UK landlines for £20/month. The £1/month extra for unlimited international calls to 28 countries has been split out and is now an additional option. Updated Article: The UKs Cheapest Home Phones Provider Related Articles: Completely Free Calls Via Your PC
Nectar Double Rewards Watch This week 50% off Alton Towers and other Madame Tussauds attractions
EDF Energy Price Hikes 8% Elec and 19% Gas: Time To Switch
EDF, which includes the old London Energy, Seeboard and SWEB, has hiked prices for the second time this year. Those who've never switched energy tariff before should do it now, you'll definitely save, others should still check out the savings. A special route to my usual top pick comparison service Energyhelpline* pays £12.50 if it can switch you, alternatively Uswitch/champagne* gives a bottle of champagne worth £20ish. Remember though as, there's no guarantee prices won't rise again, the article lists each company's last price rise dates, if your cheapest hasn't increased recently, consider another. Updated Article: Cheapest Gas and Electricity (mini-mutterings) Related Articles: Cheapest Home Phone, Cut Water Bills Watch and Listen to this e-mail: Now an instant video download too (sorry for this week's sweat!)
Each week we're tweaking the technology of the new video version of the mutterings (my weekly commentary to accompany this e-mail). This week as well as the video and audio podcasts available via iTunes and the PSPcast and this week you can also download a windows media video version. Hopefully next week we'll have seperate Itunes sites for the video and audio podcast too. Read an explanation plus feel free to discuss it |
Beaten the banks? Pls share your endowment & bank charges success stories
Regular MoneySavers will know I endlessly bang on about how to reclaim unfair bank charges and that it's incredibly important to act quick if you think your endowment was missold. I'm constantly contacted by people wanting to share their success stories, so I thought I would start an official place to brag and encourage others to act. Reclaim Unfair Bank Charges: Read article, Read/Report successes Act on Missold Endowments: Read Article, Read/Report Successes
Great What Shops Don't Want Us To Know Hunt Revisited
A while ago I started a hunt calling on MoneySavers to share their insider knowledge of what shops don't want their customers to know. It's been so popular with hundreds getting invloved I've decided to revisit it. So if you've got something to add or want the run down of the inside secrets Add your ideas/read others Past Great Hunts: Free online books, Pricebeaters Plus and Use Less Water
What To Buy In Duty Free Great Hunt Results
Last week I asked MoneySavers to pool their collective knowledge on good duty free buys. Top tips included £5 off World Duty Free, Dixons Tax Free, Money off at Bristol Airport |
Sky TV Users can now get free broadband....
Much trailed in the press, those with Sky TV contracts of at least 12 months (paying by Direct Debit), with a BT line connection can get its basic broadband package for free, though there's a £40 activation fee - and it isn't available in every area. This is a good deal for existing Sky TV users who aren't locked into existing broadband contracts, though I wouldn't bother to sign up to Sky just for it. Related Articles: Cheapest Broadband, Cut the cost of digital TV, The UKs Cheapest Home Phones
Another Wannabee becomes Debt Free.... Read the latest Debt Free Wannabee Success FLIGHTCHECKER SALES WATCH Faro, Alicante & Malaga c. £20 each way
Budget airline ThomsonFly currently has a range of destinations at £1.99 each way. When you add in its taxes and charges this becomes roughly £20 in total. For a full briefing read the How To Find a Cheap Flight article or go straight to the special free FlightChecker to find the seats in seconds |
Board of the week: Travel Trips and Holidays
Whether you're going away or staying put to make use of the sunny weather this board has a mine of information to take you through the summer holidays with MoneySavers sharing tips on anything and everything to do with travel and holidays. Discussions include Easyjet compensation tip, Car hire in Europe and Kids summer hols help. Don't forget to read all the travel articles as well. This week's Martin's Musings: Site Redesign: The Latest Incarnation.
'My first time at a hen party' and 'Defending the banks against cash machine charges' Read m'blogs (or RSS users access) IS BRANDED COKE/PEPSI WORTH IT? POLL: Vote and Discuss. Last week's vote result: It seems charity begins at home for most of us, with a majority 47% of you pocketing money quietly if you found it. Only 8% of you would have given all or some of it to charity. See poll results
That's it for this week. However if you've ever wondered how to declutter the house, just pick up everything you've got and turn them into dominoes... confused? Watch this.
I hope you save some money
Martin
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