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  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,024 Forumite
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    Thank you 😀!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • ruby_eskimo
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    Re: Nectar points being slow to pay out, I think they're having a few issues.  I won quite a few points on their spin to win at the beginning of December and they were supposed to pay out at the end of January.  Have had to chase them every few days because they still haven't appeared in the account and I keep getting told by CS that it will take 24 hours...🙄
    Emergency Fund - £8572.39 / £10,000 :: Mortgage OP 2025 - £
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  • South_coast
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    Gah! Sorry to hear that 🙁 I'm having a similar issue with i-Say, they set me going on a 5-day survey only to stop sending me invites after a couple of days. I queried why and they told me they had had to close it early as they had enough respondents. I have no issue with that, but I would like to be credited for the surveys that I did do for them in good faith! They initially told me they'd get back to me the week before last, but when I chased them last week they said they didn't have the answer yet. Actually, will chase them again now - thanks for making me think of it! Fingers crossed for us both 🤞!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
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    It turns out I've not heard from them since 26/01 - that's nearly two weeks now, after they told me they'd let me know the week before 🙁 It's worth nearly £3, so I'm not happy about missing out!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
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    I've just been on a Nectar Canvass frenzy....

    13 surveys attempted, 3 completed, total earnings 60p 🤦‍♀️
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
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    Make that 14 attempted, 3 completed, total earnings 61p 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • Have you thought about matched betting? Team profit do a great guide and with Cheltenham coming up there will be loads of offers coming up.
    Mortgage start date Nov 2014  - £90,545 over 25 years
    Re-mortgage Oct 2017 - 78,295 over 23 years
    Re-mortgage Jan 2020 - 55,000 over 26 years @ 1.94%
    Current Mortgage Outstanding Middle December 2020 - £
    47893.35 - a reduction of £42,652 in just over 6 years!  


  • Money isn’t flying my way either this month. I’m up to £30 something I think. 
    DFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
    MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)
  • South_coast
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     Hi Bargainhunter, I have thought about it but I'm so bad at maths I'm just worried I'll b*gger it up. I know people say you get talked through it and you literally can't get it wrong, but I am so truly awful with numbers and my brain always gets them backwards that I'm still not brave enough 🙁

    You're miles ahead of me DFOD - I'm on £13.63 😮!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
  • South_coast
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    edited 9 February 2021 at 11:22PM
    Gah! Here is a real-life example of my dreadfulness with numbers....

    Just started a survey and the first question was a screening one with a list of simple calculations (probably about 5 or 6 of them in total).

    Question: "Select one of the correct calculations"

    Me: Glances over the first two, sees that the second one (13 + 2 = 15) is correct, doesn't look at calculations 3 and onwards, selects the first on the list: 1 + 1 = 1

    Screened out.... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ 

    Now of course I could try to pass it off as being tired, but if I'm incapable of reading the questions properly and actually concentrating on the answers then you can understand why I have been reluctant to give matched betting a go 😳!
    Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
    Cleared 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
    Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed

    Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!
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