Martin's six bottles of prosecco £2.60ish-each trick
New prepay energy tariffs, £2.60 prosecco trick, 37% off Laura Ashley and beware viral Facebook post.These are our Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis’ Quick Deals.
Remember, deals can change quickly, even while I’m on the programme. So always double-check the terms and conditions before spending. Plus, while I hope these deals will save you cash, don’t spend if you can’t afford it, don’t need it, or won’t use it.
Prepay for energy? There are now two cheaper tariffs
Disgracefully, those on key, card or online prepayment meters, who include some of society’s most vulnerable, pay massively more for energy compared with those on a billed meter. If you’re on a standard prepay tariff with one of the big six (E.on, EDF, Brit Gas, SSE, Scot Power, Npower) you’ll typically pay £1,140/year. Yet switch to iSupply’s new one-year fixed tariff (the price can’t rise, but cost depends on your usage) and it’ll be on average £1,020/year – a saving of £120. Or if you want to guarantee no price rises for longer, EDF’s new tariff’sfixed until October 2017 and on average would cost £1,040. With both you need to top up gas via card and electric via key.Neither of these tariffs has exit fees (so you can switch mid-year if there’s something cheaper).
The best thing to do is use a comparison site, so you see exactly how much you’re saving. To do this use Martin’s Cheap Energy Club comparison,where you also get £30 cashback on top if you switch through it, or anyOfgem-approved comparison site.
Switching tariff is easy and straightforward, but here are the key need-to-knows:1) There’s no downtime when you switch. Your electricity and gas stay on.2) It’s the same gas, same electricity, same safety. Only customer service and price change. 3) You can switch if you’ve debt, as long as it’s under £500 per fuel (many are switched to prepay due to debts).
However, if you can switch to a billed meter there’s far more competition, so prices come down to as little as £735/yr for the same usage (again, these are switchers’ tariffs, so do a comparison). If you’re with a big-six provider you can switch meter at no cost, as long as you’re not in debt and pass its credit check.
Six bottles of prosecco £2.60ish-each trick
You’ll need to go quick with this one as I suspect it will sell out fast. There’s a corking trick to get six bottles of prosecco for £2.60ish, each through a code-stacking trick with Sainsbury’s – though to get the full discount you’ll need to be a newbie to online shopping with Sainsbury’s.
Here’s what you need to do (note due to alcohol promo laws this doesn’t work in Scotland).
1) Find reduced prosecco or champagne. Go online toSainsbury’s where its Taste the Difference Conegliano Prosecco is now £7.50 a bottle (was £10). If not, there are other variants that this works with.
2) Buy any six bottles to get 25% off. Order and get delivered or collect six bottles by Sunday 5 June and you automatically get a further 25% discount (this works in store too, but the rest doesn’t). So six Conegliano Prosecco cost £33.75, that’s £5.63 a bottle.
3) Code for newbies. If you’ve never shopped online at Sainsbury’s before, at the checkout enter the code SCSEXTTMM and you’ll get £18 off when you spend over £60.
But the T&Cs say the £18-off discount can’t be on booze, so you’ll need to buy at least £26.25 worth of normal groceries to make it work (to get you over the £60 in total). Then you’re effectively getting six bottles for £2.63.
Stock is meant to be decent, but there’s heavy demand. In past incarnations of this deal Sainsbury’s has substituted it for a more costly version if it runs out. So select ‘no substitutions’ in your preferences to stop that happening (if you don’t, you can always reject delivery). Delivery is £1 to £6 or you can collect in store for free. And of course, please be Drinkaware.
Flash 37% off Laura Ashley: Since last Wednesday Laura Ashley has had a 30% off sale, but go online today (Friday) and you’ll get an extra 10% off almost everything that’s already reduced (it excludes the Laura Ashley outlets, Guardsman Protector, design service fee, licensed products, gift cards and delivery charges). Thisworks out as 37% off the original price. You’ll need to enter the codeSUMMER at the checkout until 11.59pm tonight. Delivery’s £4.50, but you can order online and collect from most stores for free. For instance, thepleated floral dress was £52.50 reduced from £75 and with the code should be reduced to £47.25. From tomorrow the discount will revert back to 30% off until 11.59pm on Sunday 5 June.
Warning. A viral Facebook post isn’t how I suggest you fight unfair parking tickets
On Monday I was on This Morning showing you how to fight unfair parking tickets. On the back of it a lady called Tracey Storey did a Facebook post that’s somehow gone viral, with over 178,000 shares as you can see here…
She’s right about the fact that parking fines are just invoices. Yet she’s got confused about the solution. I wasn’t saying ignore them, that’s a very militant approach and risks a judge ignoring you if you get taken to court. So please be careful, best is to watch and read the full information I gave on Monday.