Quidco and shopping around save big bucks (277-88)

I am extremely over-excited right now, as I have just managed to save big bucks on our dog insurance by shopping around online. Our renewal with MoreThan would have been £300 for the year, which is a big jump on last year’s premium, but after searching various sites including moneysupermarket, confused and other well known insurance companies direct, I’ve found better cover for just £141 with Sainsbury’s A major saving of £159 over the year (and cheaper than last year’s premium too!); well worth the time taken re-entering my data on different websites.

I’ve also become a huge Quidco fan.  Quidco is a cashback website - there are quite a few around but I decided to concentrate on using just one and Quidco had the best coverage for the stores I use. Essentially you sign into their website, and then visit online stores (such as Sainsbury’s finance) through their links. You then get money credited to your account just for doing the shopping you would have done anyway (because Quidco get paid for directing online traffic to the companies)! The amount of cashback varies according to the store, so it could be a straight £5 or it could be a percentage of your spend; for our Sainsbury’s pet insurance purchase, which we would have been buying anyway, we should hopefully get £40 cashback!! Fantastic.

~ by diaryofadebtor on October 4, 2009.