Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Consumer Advice

Finally (a year after I promised the wife) bought a new washing machine today.
Our old one leaks all over the floor and the water running down the inside has corroded the foot so it now stands at an angle which means it rattles all over the place when the spin cycle starts, yesterday it shook a jug of the side and it smashed leading the wife to say "where's my new washing machine" :)
It's done well considering it's about 15 years old and the electrics have been held together with cable ties (wonderful invention) for the last 5 years.

Been looking at a couple of models for a while, but even during the "January sales" the price didn't really come down much, but after some internet searching found one at a good price today, 50 quid lower than their "Sale" price of last month.
When ordering I noticed a "promo code" box, I had saved nearly a £100 when buying a new fridge last year by using these codes, so did some searching and found a few sites offering deal codes and managed to save an extra £50 with a free delivery code and a £25 off if you spend £250 one.

So some useful consumer advice for anyone buying on-line electricals.
There are a multitude of sites out there offering discount codes for nearly all the major electrical retailers, so it's worth a Google
Just enter "discount code" "promo" or "voucher" with the name of the retailer and sites like discountcodes, voucherstar, couponsurfer, everydaysales etc will probably have a promo code for saving some pennies.
Look around as some offers are better than others and some retailers might only accept one of the codes.

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