CamelCamelCamel - How To Check If You're Getting a Good Deal on Amazon

What Is It?

I've just seen this item on Amazon for an amazing price - what a bargain, or is it?!

A former work colleague of mine introduced me to the Camel Camel Camel website that is specifically for searching the history of Amazon prices so you can instantly see if something you have your eye on really is at a genuinely low price or not.

CamelCamelCamel periodically checks Amazons website and records the price of each items it sells, thus creating a price history.  You can even set up alerts where you can get the website to email you when an item you are interested in goes below a certain price.

How Does It Work?

Simply search Amazon for an item you're interested in, copy and paste the website link/address/URL in to the CamelCamelCamel website and take a look at the results.

Worked Example

Say you were interested in buying an Amazon Fire Stick...

Simply highlight the website address/page/URL/link in the address bar of your chosen internet browse and Copy/Paste it in to the www.camelcamelcamel.com website:

Hit Enter or click on the magnifying glass and wait for the results...

As you can see, the current price is £39.99 and on at least 4 occasions in the last 3 months it has gone below £30 with £24.99 being its lowest price.  You can now make an informed decision.

CamelCamelCamel is a great tool to use around special events like Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day(s) or even Amazon Spring Day Deals (this was when is was at the low, low price of £24.99).

In conclusion you can now decide if £39.99 is a price worth paying or if you want to see if it goes down to £29.99 in the next month or so or whether you want to wait until the next major even (like Prime Day) to see if it goes to the lowest price of £24.99 again.

www.camelcamelcamel.com

trolley.co.uk - Compare Supermarket Prices To Get The Best Prices

You're off your trolley if you don't use this website to potentially save money on your supermarket shop!

Seriously though, give it a try - it lists products from all the major supermarkets; Aldi, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, Iceland, Waitrose and even Amazon!

If you've seen some of the meal ideas on this website, you wont be surprised to learn that I love Pepsi Max so when I'm getting close to running out all I do is perform a quick search on www.trolley.co.uk

It then shows you how cheap it has been (along with what it's peak price has been) and which supermarkets are selling it.  The only negative thing, is it doesn't show offers such as Iceland do a lot of 4 for £34 (which works out at £8.50 each) but it would still show the full price of £11.25 so you still need to do a little bit of shopping around.

Having said that, most items don't tend to have such offers so in my next example we'll look at Clover Light:

At the moment ASDA is the cheapest so I know where I'll be going when I've finished writing this blog entry!

You can even set up alerts for price changes - Walkers box of 20 crisps can go down as low as £3.85 but normally sell at around £4.85 so you can set an email alert up so that you get a notification when the price goes down.

I use my mobile phone to browse to the trolley.co.uk website whilst in a supermarket to check the price of something to see if it's a good price or not.

www.trolley.co.uk

How To Get 5% Off Your Iceland or Food Warehouse Shop Each and Every Week

Sounds too good to be true doesn't it - well it's not!  If you shop and Iceland or the Food Warehouse (by Iceland) then you can get an additional 5% off of your shop when pre-loading your Iceland Bonus Card.  For every £20 deposited they give you a £1 bonus which equates to 5% which is how you can get 5% off your shop!

So how does it work?

You can use the physical card in-store and the virtual card online that will be associated with your online Iceland account.

If you shop in-store then you can hand your physical card to the cashier and put as little or as much cash on the card as you like and for every £20 you save, a £1 bonus gets added to your Bonus Card.

For example if you want to use it to save up for a special event like a Birthday Party or Christmas then you can save £5 a month so after 4 months you would have £20 on your Bonus Card and at that point a £1 bonus would get applied so what I'm saying is, you dont have to load on £20 at a time to get the bonus, it's each time you hit the £20 milestone.

Personally I order from Iceland online (free delivery when spending over £40) as they have quite a few exclusive deals that are online only.  I add all my shopping to the basket and see what it comes to and I then load up my Bonus Card with that amount (I actually round it up to the nearest £1 else it looks messy to me)!

For example my last Iceland shop online came to £69 (got a few 24 packs of fizzy drinks cans that were on offer) so I uploaded £70 to my Bonus Card and within a few minutes a £3 bonus had been added to my account!

How Do I Get One?

You should be able to get a physical card in-store at the cash desk and for the online one you will need to create an Iceland account (unless you already have one) and go to the link below and click on Join Bonus Card.

https://www.iceland.co.uk/bonus-card

Word of warning: I don't think the in-store Bonus Card and online ones are linked (at least I don't think mine are) so if you load money on the card online you may not be able to spend it instore (just online) and vice-versa if you load your physical card in-store you may not be able to spend it online.

Enjoy getting a £1 Bonus payment everytime you save/spend with Iceland!

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Disclaimer: Information provided was (to the best of my knowledge) correct at the time of writing, deals and discounts change all the time so please check the website for up-to-date information.

Blue Light Card - What Is It and Who Can Get One?

What is it?

It's a discount card where you can get discount off of anything from a Laptop to Car Insurance and pretty much everything inbetween!

Some companies offer a discount in their stores, some online and some offer it in both - if you get a BLC then always ask when at the till as the worst thing they can do is say no they don't accept it, but if they do then you'll get some money off.

I have personally used it to get money off of restaurant bills and more recently, a large genuine discount off of my prescription glasses!  Even some fast food restaurants offer a discount on production of it, some require you to order through a specific app or website link (KFC and McDonalds have offered discounts before but you had to order through the app).

At the moment I even get a (tiny) Blue Light Card discount at ASDA but you have to have the ASDA Rewards App and add it to the app and then you get extra cash back on your reward card.

Who can get one?

Originally it was just for Blue Light Workers i.e. people who work for the Emergency Services - a way of saying thank you for what they all do.

It has recently been opened up to people who work in Schools (Support Staff as well as Teachers) so if you work in a School and want to apply, simply choose Teacher from the drop down list regardless of your role/job title.

Here is a list of who can currently apply for a Blue Light discount Card:

How much does it cost?

£4.99 for two years.  You will get a physical card sent to you in the post and virtual card you can use in the Blue Light Card on you Smart Phone.

How do I apply?

On their website: www.bluelightcard.co.uk

Information provided was correct at the time of writing, deals and discounts change all the time so please check the Blue Light Card website for up-to-date information.