Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

braveheart60uk

Went out and used all my free cokes from my 1st AP, bought seperately one at a time through SS, six at a time. Got 29 now

All worked ok.

Already worring that MS expire April LOL.

Also got 3 de icers from Halfjords
Stll need to get free cans o' pop from WHSmyths

Now festive period over looking forward to more freebies, O3 promise the free coughees are coming back Tuesday And WonTwo say in "coming soon" that dominoes.

I spent a total of 60p on haribos and got £10 meal and £3 Greggsies.

I am planning and going out for a breakfast for two when visiting relatives in a few weeks at a Harvester using my £10 voucher. 2 all in breakfasts without the drinks (water will do) £13.98 less AA discount (20%) = £11.18, less £10 voucher = cost to me £1.18

Honeybee1978

biscuits not working, none of the Waitrose ones as they al went out of stock on the same day .

Wheres_My_Cashback

emerald21 wrote: »

I tried my phone with ap on a Santander atm and it didn’t work . I even asked inside and the girl decided that it must only work with Santander cards . So I don’t know

Works with any card

Honeybee1978

Can someone , anyone please tell me the deal with batteries at Waitrose? I really need x

braveheart60uk

michaels wrote: »

Car insurance. Last year 291 less 26 cashback = 265. This year renewal quote is 297 but search engines are coming back with £525 cheapest. Current provider won't even provide a quote. What is going on?

Have you:
played with the excess?
Manipulated your job title.
Taken off the junk, such as legal cover, courtesy car, recovery etc
Fully comp can sometimes be cheaper than 3rd party.
Added a driver with better excess.
Maybe miscalculated your annual mileage estimate.

I always check through the cashback sites, note the best 4 or 5 for each, then go and try to do it without going through their link that they get commision on.
Also note the possible CB.

Go back to your renewal company with the best of the quotes and let them try to beat the quote (they have never managed it for me, always a new company each year).

braveheart60uk

OMG you reminded me, my home and car insurance are renewing in April, will set aside my monthly council tax, as I apy monthly through 10 instalments, so I get a couple of months "free"

elainemn

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Funnily enough I nearly called in as earlier I’d seen loads of smoked salmon. No room in the inn......I mean freezer:o

Masses & masses of smoked salmon - 2 types - maple & extra smoked. Went to £1 pack.

Serendipitious

michaels wrote: »

Car insurance. Last year 291 less 26 cashback = 265. This year renewal quote is 297 but search engines are coming back with £525 cheapest. Current provider won't even provide a quote. What is going on?

This time it worked out much cheaper for me to auto-renew than to go elsewhere, despite the 10% price hike they inflicted, which sent me searching. Prices elsewhere were well over £150 more, figures I haven't seen in a long long time.

But I don't know why yours won't quote, sorry, hope you find something reasonable soon.

michaels

braveheart60uk wrote: »

Have you:
played with the excess?
Manipulated your job title.
Taken off the junk, such as legal cover, courtesy car, recovery etc
Fully comp can sometimes be cheaper than 3rd party.
Added a driver with better excess.
Maybe miscalculated your annual mileage estimate.

I always check through the cashback sites, note the best 4 or 5 for each, then go and try to do it without going through their link that they get commission on.
Also note the possible CB.

Go back to your renewal company with the best of the quotes and let them try to beat the quote (they have never managed it for me, always a new company each year).

Snap

I am wondering if it is because I put not quite me details into the search engines so as not to muck up any future quidco.tcb if I go direct and they are doing some sort of generic id check against the CRAs?

It is our second car, we only do less than 2k miles a year in it, it is worth less than 1500, we have 10 years ncd, one non-fault accident each in the last 5 years and live in a safe area and we are being quoted 30p mile for insurance :eek:

Enterprise_1701C

michaels wrote: »

Car insurance. Last year 291 less 26 cashback = 265. This year renewal quote is 297 but search engines are coming back with £525 cheapest. Current provider won't even provide a quote. What is going on?

Strange. Have you checked with the insurance companies that are not on the comparison websites?


We were trying to replace some floodlights today, forecast was good, we had to give up once we had finished one, the wind was gusting horrifically :eek: Gotta go back and try again sometime now.