Martin I owe you a massive drink ! 14 May 2008 at 1:53PM in How much have you saved? 6 replies 2.4K views

Eric_Pisch

I have always been sceptical of so called comparison sites, always in the back of my mind is where is the con.

I caught Martin for the first time on C5 just over a month ago and since then I have gone for the savings big time, from 0% credit cards, to new mobile contracts, to slashing our weekly food bill, I have been making savings everywhere I can.

And the result of all this squirrelling a mind blowing £10,500 per year saving. I wish I had found you years ago.

I owe you big time for this Martin ! :kisses:

MothballsWallet

And I owe Martin at least 2 drinks! I'm still working out how much I've saved since reading MSE, but the latest one is 120 quid a year by switching gas & electric supplier again...

:beer: :beer: :beer: for our top man :money:

jmarko

another £150 per year for me to switch leccy and gas.... and that was switching to a fix until 2011! thanks! :T :T :T

Eric_Pisch

Those savings just keep on coming !

That magic phrase i learnt from martin "customer loyalty department"

Ring up sky, im getting freesat so id like to cancel, transfer to CLD half price sky HD for 3 months

Ring up Barclaycard, I want to cancel me platinum card as im getting a cash back card, transfer to CLD, 3% cash back now applied for 6 months at max spend of £5000 per month :snow_laug and I dont have to change my verified paypal account :beer:

At this rate my totals going to approaching 12k saving for this year, Martin will have to ship me out a Heard of them golden piggie banks to save all my money in :T

BargainFinder_2

Did anyone see his programme talking about downgrading your shopping items? He advised that instead of buying your normal brand of food like (Tescos Finest, Heinz, Walkers etc), you pick the next cheapest brand. I done this with last weeks shop and saved around £70...and the food tastes pretty much the same! Brilliant.

Eric_Pisch

BargainFinder wrote: »

Did anyone see his programme talking about downgrading your shopping items? He advised that instead of buying your normal brand of food like (Tescos Finest, Heinz, Walkers etc), you pick the next cheapest brand. I done this with last weeks shop and saved around £70...and the food tastes pretty much the same! Brilliant.

Yep it makes a huge difference, we reduced our last 2 shops by an avg of £85 per week, tried most of the lower brands, 90% taste the same a couple we went back to, cornflakes are identical This will save us potentially 5 grand a year, I put 4 grand into my calcs for savings.

tincat

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

Yep it makes a huge difference, we reduced our last 2 shops by an avg of £85 per week, tried most of the lower brands, 90% taste the same a couple we went back to, cornflakes are identical This will save us potentially 5 grand a year, I put 4 grand into my calcs for savings.

Can I ask how many in your household? That is a great saving.