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£40 free with Barclaycard
I was ordering from Amazon today and when I clicked on my basket an ad came up for Barclaycard. If you take out a card, when you make your first transaction they will email a £20 Amazon voucher and then if you spend £1000 within 3 months of account opening they will credit the account with £20 cashback as well. :j
7'' Alfine silver netbook just £34.99 plus postage @ KGBdeals , stock nearly gone!
Only 296 left , 454 sold - Slim and light weight black mini laptop Microsoft Windows CE - Flash 10.1 - WIFI and external 3G - 7” digital panel - 800*480 pixels powered by via 8650 800 MHZ Battery1800 MAH - Two built-in stero speakers - Two jacks mic in and headphone out - Three USB 2.0 Ports - SD card reader slot - 256 MB…
HalfPrice Perfumes.co.uk
I've just been on the half price perfumes website and they have a few decent buy one get one free offers on including: £1.99 - Greenland body lotion or wash - rosehip avocado or blueberry flavours £4.99 - set of three "From nature" body butters 200 ml each £2.99 - Sally Hansen lip glosses (must get two of the same shade)…
Banned from ordering @boots.com?
Basically this is a rant:mad: Over the past few years i have spent £1000's on online orders at boots. Of course i have taken advantage of any offers and voucher codes given out. Just tried to place an order this morning and got an 'error' message telling me to ring customer services. Basically they have said they're not…
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Hardened ed £44.95 pre-order instore @ Blockbuster
If you can get down to your local blockbuster pretty quick sharpish they have mis priced their Black Ops 2 hardened edition, should be £69.99 but they are charging £44.95, just cycled down to my local in Kings Lynn and paid in full for 2 copies, the code they need to pre order is 169345 only the Xbox version I am afraid...…
buy-stationery.co.uk
Has anybody used buy-stationery.co.uk? Prices look good.
Get 3 months free Xbox live when you buy remote and 800 points at Argos
If you buy the offer at the bottom of this page you can get Xbox media remote, 800 points and 3 months live. It knocks £15 off when you buy all 3 together which covers the cost of the live subscription. Not a glitch but good if you want all the items. http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9023095.htm Price for…
10ft trampoline £99.99 was £300. tjhughes
Been trampoline shopping and came across this one. Comes with enclosure, shoebag, ladder and cover. It's 100kg maximum weight, most of the other cheap trampolines I've seen say 75kg weight limit (which is pushing it a bit for my husband to jump on it!)…
Amazon Phantom Eau De Parfum Spray 75ml £5.49
i am not a perfum wearer, says rrp is £27.49 tho - is this a decent perfum and gift for someone? can't post links look for this description Phantom Eau De Parfum Spray for Women 75ml
New Look delivery
Hi, Does anyone know if New Look use Royal Mail or a courier? I'm sick of using companies that use Yodel because I'm never in for the delivery and it's always a nightmare! But if a company uses RM that's always good because I live really close to the Post Office.
zoopdirect - reliable shop? Lots of cheap toys
I am looking for cheap moshis and have found a site called zoopdirect. has anyone heard of them please? They have mosh and chat moshies for £7-£9 but i have not heard of this site before and wanted to check. looked in the toys section and they dont have a super amount but the ones they do have are cheap.
'Free' cordless Morphy Richards filter kettle at Tesco
I always hesitate to use the word 'free' when something is required to acquire an item, but this really is pretty darned close! The Morphy Richards 43541 cordless electric kettle, which incorporates a Brita Maxtra filter inside the kettle, is on sale for the ridiculously good price of £20 at Tesco (it's upwards of £40 from…
Habitat
Habitat stuff at Argos can be cheaper than Habitat's own website eg the ceramic hen is £3 cheaper at Argos. However if you sign up for email blurbs at Habitat www.habitat.co.uk you get 10% off your first online order. Don't know whether you can use the offers together but there's 15% off everything today with code see…
HARRODS Santa's Grotto 2012
Anyone planning on booking for this year? I loved it in 2010 Need to then find a cheapie hotel for overnight ha ha!
Streetwear sales
Been making a list of sites to spend money on when it comes to pay day. I like streetwear brands like Superdry, Bench, adidas originals, The Hundreds, Diamond Supply co. Can't seem to post links. Anyone else got any good links?
Homebase/Argos Marrakech coffee table
If you have been contemplating buying the Marrakech coffee table from either Argos or Homebase, please don't waste your money.The Marrakech is solid wood with mango veneer and costs 149.99. For £70 you can buy an almost identical table in the Jaipur range at Wilkinson, which is solid sheesham (Indian rosewood) without…
GHD straighteners for £76.95 delivered
Not sure if this has been mentioned but this is the cheapest I could find online after searching over an hour in every possible place. Got them at active beauty (sorry can't post links) and there is a £10 off a over £80 spend on the home page. I even sold my old straighteners to a friend to put towards them :) Bargain
Quidco, TCB, Sky and the "other referrer" issue.
i want to start this thread as the main place to gather information and updates about this issue because it's not fair to hog the main Quidco Q&A thread with it. Basically, myself and a number of other people have upgraded our Sky accounts through Quidco for the cashback. Sky have subsequently declined these claims due to…
Nintendo Wii uDraw Game Tablet with Disney Princess and uDraw Studio
Reduced from £70 to £19. Sure this was never £70 but still a good deal at £19. http://www.very.co.uk/nintendo-wii-udraw-game-tablet-with-disney-princess-and-udraw-studio/1007304363.prd?browseToken=%2fq%2fprincess%2fr%2f100
FCUK 100ml fragrances £9.89 at savers
not sure if Savers is nationwide, this seems a really good price, RRP supposedly £33ish, its £22 in boots. There were at least 4 different types including a mens one.

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