£2012 in 2012

nomi01

Hi, just another update. I think this is developing into an obsession.
Added £2.38 to coin jar.
Contacted energy supplier and they are going to repay me £123.43.
Going to add these to my total. Still working on my Zapper list, so wont add this to my total until its done.
I noticed that quite a lot of people are signed up to cashback sites. I have had a look at the info here, but I wondered what other peoples experiences were of using these sites.
I am going to have a proper sort out with my finances and work out what I owe. I would love to start 2013 with a bit less debt. Thanks for the great advice so far

£2012 in 2012 £295.60/2012

hitatotatus

I have just spent the last couple of hours painstaking listing books, cds and dvds on a couple of sites (Zapper had the best prices, so sold most of the stuff to them, along with a few to musicmagpie), I would definitely recommend to anyone thinking of doing this to sit and list all the barcodes on a spreadsheet or word document first, that way you can just cut and paste to compare prices on different websites - think I might have gone a bit loopy with all those numbers :eek: I got very excited when a textbook came up as £5.74 (think I paid 30p for it!), and started running around the house looking for anything with a barcode. It was like barcode bingo

Hilarious - this was me last week. BINGO!! LOL :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Thanks for the tip on listing the numbers out first, will save me lots of time on the next batch.

sherbie

LOL! yeah, ive gone a bit mental over the whole barcode thing too! :eek: im not as organised as to have a spreadsheet. i just have all the sites on tabs, and copy paste the barcode into each one. i agree, zapper gave the best prices, but im still lookin into other ways first, as the best offer i got on there was £1 somat, and they were only offering 30p for many double albums. yeah, its more than ive got for em at the mo, but im sure i can do better! if folks dont ave the time, its fair enuff, but if you do, make sure you cant do better than 30p before you send em! the ones i was offered over 80p for ive listed on amazon. they offered me 81p for one i sold for £12.00 as it was new.

ive been listing things on amazon like a crazy woman tonight, and now have 48 items for sale (plus 2 sold). fees seem steep, but you dont need to keep paying to relist like on ebay if things dont sell, so i'll see how it goes. the only annoying thing is the whole fixed fee for postage.

calumthomas

im game. I can do this!

LotsaLuck

I agree you can possibly get more for some stuff - I did hold a few things back, but from past experience of listing things for 99p on ebay, waiting a week for them to sell for 99p, then paying the paypal fee, the ebay fee and the postage to end up with a few pence left.. I thought I'd rather just get rid now and get started on my mission Most of my cd's were from my bad taste collection, so it's probably best I get rid before anyone sees them anyway Agree that patience can pay off though!

CompletelyLost

I agree with sherbie... tried some of my dvds in those sites and they offered 30p. Even selling on ebay at 99p plus p&p it works out that I end up with about 70-80p per DVD.

Fair enough if people don't have the time, but I do, and I'd rather have 70p than 30p just because I'm like that

Just noticed on TCB I have £6.16 payable, so have claimed that and added to my total

Redouble

Very late to the party here, so please excuse my tardiness!

I was going to save coppers to put into my children's savings funds, but now I have decided to put all the child benefit away (if I can!) and see if I can get their accounts level pegging and then I can move onto other things!
Very excited!

Redouble xx

cally6008

Is anyone on Facebook and wants to chat and bounce ideas off each other ?

Group name - £2012 in 2012 (MSE)
Link - http://www.facebook.com/groups/289960674384441/

stardance

I'm FINALLY on the board with a nice £200 overtime to add from over christmas; I've just added what I've transferred over to savings but yay! Need to try the barcode bingo too I think, sounds like some of you are doing well out of it!

chelmsfordgirl1

Just split the lottery from 6 of us which gave me £30 so I'm finally off the mark.