The Great 'Student Discounts' hunt

niksho

I have been a subscriber to the email for ages but have never had the courage to post snything!! I just got a good mobile phone deal from studentphones. I haven't actually started my course yet but they didn't seem to check whether you are really a student. It's 11 month free line rental on a 12 month Orange contract which is very cheap compared with high street. Its a motorola SLVR which is a cool phone and it's "factory reconditioned" which I was a bit worried about but they give a 12 month guarantee. I got it delivered yesterday in the post and there is a small scratch on the corner of the handset and it came in a plain cardboard box but it seems to work fine. The documents have the carphone warehouse logo at the bottom so i guess they must own studentphones. The link is:
http://studentphones.2u.co.uk good luck!!!

Raspberry_Swirl

MKOne offer 10% with a NUS card.
i've found that if i just ask in every shop i buy something then it's surprising how many shops offer at least 10%, they just don't like to advertise this.

bllipp

skiddy2k wrote:

Staples office suppliers offer 10% discount

Went into my local Staples yesterday and they've cancelled student discount. I asked why and he said, "just wasn't popular". Sureley they're making themselves more unpopular by not having it??

Back to Office World...

silverelephant

The OU are now doing an NUS Associate card, costs £10 a year but seems to give the same benefits that a normal NUS card does. See here or here for further info.

pavlovs_dog

nus are actually trying to move towards charging ALL students £10 per year for the card :eek:

so far, i believe a lot of unions have voted against it

toontastic

HSBC now provide there own student card which is free which gets you discounts at the likes of the Pier, BSM and a few others. It's alot like the graduate card you can get but they allow students to get the discounts.

josey1964

bllipp wrote:

Went into my local Staples yesterday and they've cancelled student discount. I asked why and he said, "just wasn't popular". Sureley they're making themselves more unpopular by not having it??

Back to Office World...

Since Staples bought out Office World last year, I doubt you will have any joy.

bllipp

josey1964 wrote:

Since Staples bought out Office World last year, I doubt you will have any joy.

:mad:

There seems to be less unity than ever when it comes to student discounts/cards/schemes etc.

Oh, by the way, I've often blagged a bit of a discount when buying things off eBay/Gumtree.com by emailing them saying I'm a student before buying. I managed to squeeze an extra £20 off a new phone. It's worth a go anyway.

olgadapolga

josey1964 wrote:

Since Staples bought out Office World last year, I doubt you will have any joy.

I got a 10% discount just yesterday - didn't even need my NUS card. On previous occasions I've shown my uni library card and got the discount.

dandyhighwayman

Colemans (the stationery people, not the mustard people) offer student discount (I think it's 10%) and right now there's a special double student discount promotion happening.

I'm a bit annoyed with the NUS making us pay for discounts this year... does anyone know of a reliable website dealing with non-NUS student discounts?