There are some genius ways to use social media to find the best bargains around — and thanks to my extensive online shopping history, I know all the hacks.
- WHATSAPP – More and more brands are using the messaging service to reach customers directly with deals and exclusive products.
Celebrity fave PrettyLittleThing loves giving shoppers a heads-up on sales via Whatsapp, offering serious savings of up to 66 per cent off, with one dress down from £35 to £12.
MY SAVING: £23 - TWITTER – You don’t have to clog up your feed by following dozens of brands, hoping to spot a sale.
Brands often send out exclusive Twitter-only deals but you can find them easily by typing #discount under the ‘latest’ tab.
I found 30 per cent off at Dominos and a Debenhams deal, L’Occitane En Provence “Beauty Classics” Gift Set usually £53 for £26.50.
MY SAVING: £26.50 - EMAIL – There are loads of wonderful deals out there when you sign up for a shop’s mailing list. Sign up to the Mothercare reward club today and you’ll get £100 worth of vouchers and 20 per cent off maternity clothing. While the Zalando.com newsletter, will get £10 off your first shop.
MY SAVING: £10 - INSTAGRAM – Following up-and-coming retailers for generous sales deals which they only advertise on the ’Gram is the key to success.
The trick is to search popular hashtags, #discountcode or #promocode, which will lead you to individual Influencer codes and big savings. I have been after a Daniel Wellington Petite Melrose watch that’s a pricey £109, but found 15 per cent off on Instagram, making it £92.65.
MY SAVING: £16.3 - FACEBOOK – A cursory look at Facebook’s Marketplace reveals that if it exists you can buy it.
Selling everything from wigs to cars, with many items FREE, the possibilities for what you can find are endless.
I found a dining table and chairs for £25, slashed from £50.
MY SAVING: £25
Deal of the day
PICK up a new winter coat from thecoatcorner.com, with 10 per cent off when you use code: THESUN10. This Luxury Padded coat was £85, now £76.50.
SAVE: £8.50
Cheap treat
TUCK into The Saucy Fish Co’s Smoked Haddock Fishcakes on offer at Sainsbury’s. Was £2.25, now £2.
SAVE: 25p
Top swap
My Sun Savers fiver
MIKE LANGMAN, from Devon, says: “I’ve opened a Post Office savings account and my fivers are transferred directly into it – and the money is saving up for a future rainy day.”
- Upload your fiver news at sunsavers.co.uk/fivers and you will get 28 codes worth £5 if your story is used. Please include your name and town.
Shop & save
HAVE a cheeky tipple with Perlezza Prosecco Brut Spumante on offer in-store at SPAR. Was £8.50, now £7.50.
SAVE: £1
Reader's saving tip
PATRICIA GRIFFITHS, from Oswestry, Shrops, says: “Use your local market for locally grown veg and fruit. It’s cheaper than the high street supermarkets . . . and they rarely use any plastic packaging.”
- Share your ideas at sunsavers.co.uk/tips and you will get 28 codes worth £5 if your story is used. Please include your name and town.
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NEW members to TopCashback can get £15 cashback when they shop at Superdrug.
Get two free tickets to Madame Tussauds London with Sun Superdays
LAUNCH yourself on a trip to the Star Wars galaxy with our Sun Superdays offer of two free tickets, worth £70, to Madame Tussauds London.
See how you measure up against sinister Stormtroopers, witness Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader and step aboard the Millennium Falcon to travel with your co-pilot Chewbacca.
To get your tickets, go to “Offers” in the Sun Savers app or sunsavers.co.uk and opt in to the Superdays promotion.
Collect NINE of the 18 codes, printed daily until Nov 13. Enter them on Sun Savers and click “Redeem”. You will get an email with a unique code and steps on booking a date and time.
Not a Sun Savers member? You can still collect ten of the 18 tokens and book online, but only Sun Savers get early booking.
- Subject to availability. Code Collect. 18+ T&Cs apply, see thesun.co.uk/superdays.
Play now to win £15,000 on the Sun Savers Raffle
JOIN thousands of readers taking part in the new Sun Savers Raffle.
Every Sun Savers code you enter will earn you a ticket for our £15k monthly Raffle. And for every ten tickets you collect in a calendar month, you get a GOLDEN TICKET for our £80k Raffle, which takes place every three months, with the first one at the end of June.
There is no limit to how many tickets you can collect. So the more you enter, the better your chances.
To take part go to sunsavers.co.uk or open the Sun Savers app. Then opt in to each month’s Raffle by clicking “Yes!” when prompted and start collecting the Sun Savers codes printed daily in the paper.
Every time you scan or enter a code into Sun Savers, you get a Raffle ticket in the £15k Raffle.
Not yet a Sun Savers member? Just go to sunsavers.co.uk or find “Sun Savers” in the app store to get started.
- T&Cs apply. Full T&Cs at sunsavers.co.uk/faqs.
Fancy a free fiver?
YOU can get FREE cash with super Sun Savers just for buying your favourite paper.
Our brilliant new rewards club will pay back our most loyal readers.
Just pick up the paper each day to collect your Sun Savers codes and we will GIVE YOU £5 when you have collected 28.
This isn’t a one-off and there is no limit to how much cash you can save.
For every 28 codes you enter, we will give you a fiver. So over the course of a year, that could add up to £65.
We are keeping it super-simple. You don’t have to enter codes from consecutive days, so don’t worry if you forget a day or two.
Download our easy Sun Savers app and quickly scan your code using your smartphone. Or go online and enter your code at sunsavers.co.uk.
To get you on your way, join today and we will put a bonus £1 in your Sun Savers wallet tomorrow. And the good news doesn’t stop with free cash.
With Sun Savers, we give you the best hacks, deals and tips to save money every single day.
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