“hi there hope you’re all okay i’m vicki
vicki cutler and i help people to save
money on their boring bills
welcome to this week’s vicky’s top tips
so christmas is coming it’s that time
when we have to start doing the shopping
if you haven’t already done it
i’m about to start doing my christmas
shopping and where i can
i’m going to support local businesses
i’m going to buy
locally made produce and handcrafted
goods
but there is always something that you
need to buy online
and usually the thing that we all do is
just go to amazon and buy on there
but often if you look around you can
find the same thing
at a cheaper price the problem is it’s
the searching
going through different websites looking
for prices
and it tends to be time consuming and
i’m not a very good online shopper so
i don’t do much of that however i found
a website called
idelo and all you do is you put in there
what it is that you want it does the
searching for you
and it will show you a list of websites
where you can get the goods
how much they’re going to be and it
gives you a link directly to the website
so it’s great saves you lots and lots of
time
another way of saving money is always
sign up for newsletters when you go onto
a website
when you’re creating your account sign
up for the newsletter they will
invariably send you an introductory
offer
i’ve been known to have two or three
different accounts with uh with
different online companies
so that i get the introductory offer and
it’s usually 10 or 15 percent off your
first order
yes you’re going to get lots of emails
afterwards but they’re often giving you
other special offers
and what you can do if you don’t don’t
want to get lots of emails
is set up one email account or two email
accounts that are just for your online
shopping
and then you can either read or delete
as you please
when you shop we often put things in our
cart and then
take them out put them back now if you
leave items in your
cart and as long as you’ve logged into
the account you will often get a
reminder afterwards i know sometimes i
get an email to say
um you’ve you’ve got items in your cart
and you haven’t checked out
now sometimes companies will send you a
personal um personal offer
to make you go back and buy whatever is
in your cart
so try leaving things in the cart and
see if you get a special offer from that
just make sure that you’re signed into
the account before you do it
following brands and stores on social
media
is the big thing now all of these
companies are advertising on social
media
and often they will put special offers
or special deals
on social media before they send send
you the information or before you see it
on a website
so follow whoever it is that you like
and
and watch out for special deals now one
thing to be aware of with this is
make sure that the company that you are
looking at
it is the genuine company because there
are lots of people who are setting up
copy sites and what they’re doing then
is capturing your information
and they may well use that for identity
theft so just make sure it’s the correct
one
apparently tuesday wednesday and
thursday are the best days to
shop for special deals so if you’ve got
some shopping to do
wait until one of those days and you’re
more likely to get a special offer
using ebay now often a lot of the big
stores will
put some of their end of lines on ebay
as well so you may well get a special
deal on there
they’re usually new or maybe you may
well even find a really good
second-hand thing a fraction of the of
the price
and if you’re looking on ebay go to www
www.fatfingers.com as well
because that’s where you’ll find items
that have been incorrectly listed on
ebay and you’ll get all sorts of
bargains on there
you can use a company called pouch which
is an extension that you put onto your
computer and then when you go onto a
website it’ll pop
up if there are any special deals on
there any vouchers or discounts
available on there and it’ll do that for
all different websites
always shop through a cashback site so
you’ve got quid co
and you’ve got top cash and what happens
is because you’ve shopped through them
that generates some cash back for you
also if you’re a
utility warehouse customer if you shop
through the clubhouse
and then use your cashback card my
cashback hero
to pay for your goods you will get
cashback which comes
off your utility bill so i needed to
order something from
argos i went through our clubhouse which
generated me one percent cashback
i then paid at the end with my cashback
card and got a further five percent
cashback
so that means that next month when i get
my utility bill
i am going to have a discount of six
pounds so basically argos is paying six
pounds of my utility bill so it’s
win-win
so i hope some of these hints and tips
have helped you this week
if you’d like to know any more
information about having a uw cashback
card
or if you’ve got any great hints and
tips
on getting cash back or getting
discounts on online shopping then i
would love to hear about them
so thanks very much for joining me um
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new videos coming and i will see you
back here this time next week for more
of vicky’s top tips
bye
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