The 2008 Olympic Challenge thread

cilla18

I've got £18.34 cashback from a purchase of a Dell Laptop .. rather a large purchase. I'm hoping to ofset the price of it by earnings on my save-money website that I have set up. The laptop should help to keep it updated more often.

Anyway... that, and my 4p earned today from writing a Ciao review means that I now have £18.38 as earnings!!
I'm now have 1.8% towards my target of £1008 :j

Floxxie

I agree with Pandapaws, Auctiva is the way to go with eBay - you can put multiple photos of an item on and not get charged the privilege of doing so..unlike Turbolister.

Pandapaws I'm impressed with your Quidco/TCB amounts - have you spent ££££s to get it?

Floxxie

doodledo_2

Auctiva is good I have finally got my head round using it over Christmas after many years on Ebay

Found it slowed me down loads though compared to normal but hoping as I use it more I will pick up pace.

babs

Has this challenge started?
thought it didn't start till the 8th?

finallydebtfree!!

babs wrote: »

Has this challenge started?
thought it didn't start till the 8th?

As far as Im aware it kicks off on the 8th!

Spendaholic_Chick

I was wonder that too, Babs. I wasn't counting anyhting yet but I see others have - not sure what to do?

finallydebtfree!!

I was thinking the same, TBH I have put whatever little bits and pieces I have made into my change jar (only around £3 and will count it at the end of the challenge, dont want to add it yet as I doesnt feel right putting it in my total before the 8th

Natlou_2

I would like to join please, I'll aim for Bronze to begin with. I plan to do this with Ebay, Amazon and any sewing jobs I pick up.

Natlou x

pandapaws

Floxxie wrote: »

I agree with Pandapaws, Auctiva is the way to go with eBay - you can put multiple photos of an item on and not get charged the privilege of doing so..unlike Turbolister.

Pandapaws I'm impressed with your Quidco/TCB amounts - have you spent ££££s to get it?

Floxxie

I spent about a month playing bingo, casinos, signing up for bookies (good as I started matched betting same time) and clicking and signing up for loads of spam. I've got a 2 accounts each with Q & TCB (for e & OH), which effectively doubles the amounts for most as they don't limit to one per household.

A lot of it was big purchases that I'd have been making anyway like car & home insurance (split buildings & contents into 2 and you get twice the cashback for virtually the same premium!), a few credit card sign-ups, mobiles, gas/elec switching, gas boiler cover, AA/RAC membership, website hosting etc. Some proper spending with % amounts back, but that's really a very small part of it - less than £50.

I just go through each category and select the 'sort by highest amount' tab, and see if there's anything I can make a profit on!

stephi103

I would like to join. Only bronze for me.

I started this last year and did quiet well but I then got caught up with wedding plans and didn't get time to do things! Well I am back and WILL be clearing our debts as quickly as possible!