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Thanks Martin
Hi Dude Just wanna say a huge thanks to you, your a genius and this site is absolute A+. * I got my 2nd year car insurance down from £789 renewal to £495 = £294 saving :beer: * I reclaimed 2 lots of bank charges back totalling to £315 :j * I build computers and sell them via ebay (extra money if you will), before I came…
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How much has this board saved us?
Well, a humungous amount!!!!! Our first move was to check out our pension mortgage as we have had the letters from the pension providers over the years, saying that our pensions would not cover our mortgage, so please would we pay loads more in so that we would be able to retire in style. My OH (bless him) is a bit of an…
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Council tax rebate
Just a quick thankyou to Martin.We have just challenged our council tax banding and have had it reduced to band c from d netting us an eight hundred pound rebate:rotfl:
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My savings in 2007
I know we still have two months of the year left but I wanted to thank Martin and others on this site for all the advice, and let people knoe my savings in the year. To date i have saved: £300app - On changing Gas & Elec provider, including cashback from energyhelpline. Plus now get tesco culbcard vouchers for money spent…
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re mortgage exit fees and tescos
Thank-you MSE. After using your remortgage exit fee recliam template to my previous two mortgage companies I received two cheques worth a total of £200 in August. This week I registered at Tesco's for the prescription collection and look forward to receiving 250 points. My unexpected re mortgage cheque went towards paying…
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Nominate Post Of The Month for November '07
UPDATE: The winner has now been chosen; well done Batgirl. Please send me (MSE Natasha) a PM with your name and address. Nominations are now open for December's Post Of The Month. Please nominate your most useful/helpful Post of the Month £50 Award by replying in this thread. Remember, you're nominating, NOT voting - there…
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Bank Charges Reclaim Success and Savings...!!!
Hi everyone I successfully reclaimed in excess of £2000 in bank charges in the spring of this year :T and have saved loads on top by following Martin's advice on: balance transferring credit cards to 0% balance Transfer Card for 15 months switching energy supplier switching broadband supplier using tesco codes to boost…
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Barclaycard
:beer: Thanks Martin Just received over £600 from late payments from Barclaycard. :T Thank you
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Beat the hackers/HiJackers of our finances
Sign up to the weekly email so everyone is informed. even if site goes down, through financial/political means, we are all still in here receiving much needed info that we need to fight injustice.
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various savings; thanks to all
:j 1) claimed over £1000 bank charges thanks to this site, paid off my overdraft and got me on track! :j 2) Tesco vouchers; had loads of codes, tips and info. Had hundreds of pounds worth of vouchers so far this year. :j 3)changed my credit card to one with 0%; would never have got around to it if not for this site :j 4)…
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Council Tax refund - and a bit more from the Valuation Office!
Thanks, Martin, for providing me with the guidance to reclaim overpaid Council Tax to the tune of almost £2,600. AND IT DOESN'T STOP THERE..... As I'd been overpaying for more than 13 years, I asked my Local Authority for an additional amount to reflect the interest they'd earned on my money! They referred me to the…
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Have saved enough to pay for my wedding!!
Martins Money tips has totally turned my life around. This time last year I was living from wage to wage, I was always overdrawn and could never afford to do anything fun. I had awful trouble getting a mortgage due to my terrible finances. I have since claimed back £3000 in bank charges which started me off and it's got…
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Grateful
Thank you Martin for showing us how to reclaim bank charges as I eventually got them refunded to the sum of £2000. I used your templates but the bank initially refused so I contacted FOS who took the bank to task. Iam now in the process of looking out loans which had PPI and will contact the firms involved (fingers…
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Council Tax Rebanding
Following the amount of publicity given to this subject particularly on Money Saving Expert Some four months ago I took the bull by the horn and carefully went through all the steps recommended and found that my property which was banded E should have been a Band D. I rang the District Valuers office to confirm the adress…
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This site helped turn my finances (&life!!) around
The main impact this site has had is to make me much more aware of my whole financial situation and to take control of it so that I can plan for a comfortable future. It has focussed my attention on how to save, invest for the future and make my money go further. I feel on top of my finances for the first time in many…
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Over £30000 saved possibly over £40000 in 5 years time
Hi, really glad to see that the site is back up and running. When I joined this site I had no clue about mortgages, I just thought that they where all the same. After reading about overpayments, I went from 23 years down to a 15 year fixed rate and initally saved over £32000ish and took 8 years off the balance just by…
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PPI charges - Thanks Martin!!
I'd never even heard of being able to claim back money on PPI - until the site went down and the annoucement was on the page about it, so i'd just like to say thanks to the hackers, cos now they're going to save me LOADS of money :j I've looked into it and my current loan has a PPI that i was told i had to take out…
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Today we received £963
Thanks Martin Today we received £963 from Lloyds TSB for mis-sold loan insurance (my husband had just been made redundant when we took out the loan). We followed your advice and they have sent us the money as a "good will gesture". We only wrote to them less than 2 weeks ago. They soon got back to us. Thanks a million for…
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Today we received £963
Thanks Martin - after following you instructions to reclaim loan insurance, we have received a cheque from Lloyds TSB for £963. We took out the loan just after my husband was made redundant, he had another job to start 3 weeks later but hadn't started it. We followed your advice and came up trumps. Apparently the cheque…
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Credit Card Charges
