[Prize Draw] Let us know about your favourite bargain

[YulianK]

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PRIZE DRAW UPDATE - WINNERS 

We are delighted to announce the winners of SMARTY Community Anniversary Prize Draw🎉🥁🏆

• LizSlyfi_756500 
• IBRAHIM_1329146 
• ShauneC_1454547 
• AlphaCh_1188069 
• YvonneMc_959576 
• JoshEll_2277220 
• adilayu_2347091 
• OCH 
• yuvrajd_1732908 
• LedleyH 
• tonyada_1073593 
• DB1 
• NegativeZero 
• Timothy_1677946 
• JoeWasse_592205 

Congratulations to our lucky winners! Please check your Community Private Messages inbox for further info.

Thanks to everyone who participated, we have received some wonderful entries! Better luck next time🍀

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UPDATE - COMPETITION CLOSED

The competition is now closed and we will draw the winner from all the eligible entries in the next 24 hours. So, keep your fingers crossed and an eye on your Private Message inbox.

Thanks to everyone who contributed some brilliant entries. We had over two thousand posts ! Keep up the great work everyone; the SMARTY Community belongs to us all and succeeds because of your great contributions.

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Cut yourself a slice of cake and stick on a party hat, because we're celebrating one whole year of the SMARTY Community 🎉

If this is news for you - where have you been? The Community is the fount of SMARTY knowledge, where anyone can ask, and answer, any question that pops up.

To celebrate an amazing first year, we are giving you the chance to win one of 15 £100 Amazon vouchers.

How can I enter?

Simply log in to the SMARTY Community platform and answer one or more of the questions in the "Let us know about your favourite bargain" article, before the draw closes on the 21st of January 2024.

• What was the best bargain you've ever found?
• What was the best bargain you've bagged this year?
• What is your number one tip for getting a bargain?

The Draw

There are 15 £100 Amazon vouchers up for grabs, that we'll draw using a Random Number Generator, so get your entry in now.

If you are not already part of the Community, fear not - signing up takes seconds once you are there.

 Competition terms can be found here.

Best of Luck.

Team SMARTY

[YulianK · Accepted solution]

@LizSlyfi_756500 , @IBRAHIM_1329146 ,@ShauneC_1454547 , @AlphaCh_1188069 , @YvonneMc_959576 , @JoshEll_2277220 , @adilayu_2347091 , @OCH, @yuvrajd_1732908 , @LedleyH 

[PhilipC_1880612]

Best bargain? Bought a wine decanter/preserver for 20p (from a charity shop). Full price on the Fortnum & Mason website for £130!

[LunaGre_2383553]

• Q:What was the best bargain you've ever found?
• A: I collect and resell plushies and i found two for €70 that are worth €150 each 
• What was the best bargain you've bagged this year?
• Local shop was doing a 4 pack of my favourite energy drinks for €3 thatre usually over €5/€6 in every other shop 
• What is your number one tip for getting a bargain?
• charity shopping! Im always finding crazy bargains on vintage clothes and objects, you could get a designer shirt for less than a tenner  

[JamesEd_1072028]

Unlimited data for £20 a month....a bargain 😁

[Gwenifer]

What was the best bargain you've ever found?

Seems basic but getting a deluxe version of a board game in a charity shop for £10 when it was worth around £45! Maybe not the best saving but it was a great find!

[BenMoose]

The best bargain i’ve bagged this year is the american products my local nisa sells 

[Zackkind1122]

Best bargain I ever found was for my laptop case, it was 65% off

2. Best bargain this year was for my laptop

3. Be patient, don't rush. Also if shopping online user extensions like Vetted and Honey

[GarryPlum_29041]

The best bargain is definitely the 40gb for £10.00 a amazing deal and service is 100% great from Smarty team.

[TIMCHEE_1246749]

The best bargain was a pine wardrobe from a charity shop for £50.00, which I fitted out with shelves and turned into a kitchen larder.

[PeterW_2391241]

Leaving BT for Smarty

[ABC1234]

Best bargain: A Churchill tank manual.

Usually hundreds of pounds: £3 in a charity shop.

Scanned and shared with other nerds. 😶

[KerryWr_1367405]

Best bargain of 2023 has to be the Pick My Postcode website.  Free to enter and I won £600!  Haven’t won again since though!!!

[JaniceD_1911178]

Bargain of 2023 getting my mum onto smarty more data lot cheaper than was paying.

[GedHowa_1210868]

Best advice to get a bargain is to always check sites for cashback 

[Freshta_1337692]

The best bargain I ever found was my smarty deal in which I pay £5 a month for 4GB, unlimited calls and unlimited texts. Best choice ever!!🙏🙏

[joestupidstupid]

• I've still got 3 months of double data (60gb for the price of 30gb) - never had to worry about downloading anything in the wild!
• Got a huge puffa jacket in the sales just as it's got cold, it's super cosy
• Research (as a lot of people have said) but don't necessarily get the cheapest, as that can be a false economy in the long run.

[Tribey]

I bought an old original Dansette record player whilst at school in our jumble sale, was told not to bother as broken so was charged 10p. Took it home played around with it and used a rubber band to fix it, almost the same cost as machine itself. 30 years later still works and looks wonderfully retro as well. 

[DamienM_2278821]

My best bargain of 2023 was a new clutch for my garden tractor. It was listed on an online auction site for £150 but the seller extended a special offer and I got it for less than £100 - a bargain!

[Tiger_2092998]

Buying an Accur8 7-in-1 weather station which is cheaper than the Bresser equivalent and a fraction of the price of a Davis Instruments one and does the same thing and is connected to Wunderground.com 

[AndyH]

Has to be a lof of bread for 15p off the cheap counter when the shop gets near closing time 😊

[Stephen_2020107]

• What was the best bargain you've ever found?

2 Bottles of Kraken Rum in Mexico for £12! Almost as good as my Smarty deal 😀

[Stephen_1985644]

My best bargain was changing to smarty. We have started travelling into Europe in our caravan. I was with sky mobile who wanted to charge over £2 per day for roaming charges. Smarty  is free and can use up to 12 meg per month. Fantastic saving

[HKchris]

Great bargain in referral friends to get  Amazon or John Lewis coupon

[THOMASM_1683555]

Enter 

[MartinA_1986691]

I found a newish Samsung smart TV in our local charity shop for £50 which was a fantastic treat for Christmas

[TeeJay27]

The best bargain I’ve found? Smarty who haven’t increased my prices since I switched to them!!! If that isn’t a bargain in this day and age, I don’t know what is! 

[Klinston_233756]

i got a champagne in France for 16€ ❤️

[SyedT]

has to be that last year I was on the double 30 for £10 so 60GB for £10 and then for the new year I moved to £8 for 50GB which is very good

[DaisyWi_2045596]

Best bargain was bulk buying a box of flakes making them 5p a flake!

[AndyWorpole]

We sold our kitchen table for a really good price and got the new one half price, so had money to spare on Christmas gifts!

[JeffCook_330748]

Many years ago I bought my grandson a new bike on ebay.  It arrived damaged but fixible.  When I gave the seller feed back they refunded my money and said to keep the bike.

Got a 4.5kg turkey crown for £4.99 because it the barcode was priced wrongly.

Tip.  Always shop around for something you want and don't discount refurbished kit.  Have saved lots by buying refurbished. 

[AlanWil_2019324]

I am on £8 for 50 GB its the best bargain I have had this year.

[KeithDe_1389094]

What was the best bargain you've ever found?

My Mobile phone provider was ID charging me £26 per month for 1 GB of data.  I changed to SMARTY and now get 16GB Data/Unlimited MINS/Unlimited TEXT for £7.20 per month. What a bargain.

[JamesHa_2153318]

My current bargain of a phone deal! Adding an extra 7gb of date for £0! Thank you very much!

[JA]

The best bargain I've ever found is 100% Smarty. I wanted to cut some costs down so I could put more in my savings, and my previous phone plan was definitely costing me too much. I stumbled upon Smarty, and before it was 30GB for £10 - until they had a promotion of 60GB for £10. I thought it was only going to be a short promotion, but they're letting it continue until next year! Thanks so much Smarty 👋

[DaisyWi_2045596]

Best time for getting a bargain is research! Looking at all the different options usually find something better than the first find

[DmytroL_2250905]

16£ per month and unlimited data, SMS, mobile 

[EmmaDou_1591827]

I once picked up a whole room full of Ikea furniture that someone was giving away on Freecycle - I just had to hire a van for a couple of hours to collect it all.

[Klinston_233756]

60gb for 10£ . I believe it the best price ❤️

[JohnWalkden]

Best bargain ever was picking up a relatively rare used car when they were cheaper a couple of years ago, it’s now worth around a few thousand more.

Best bargain this year - I bought a Roberts radio very cheaply that was described as not working. I found it was just the power supply that had failed.

Best tip is if you are looking for something that is made in another country then google the name in that native language where it originated from, it’s surprising to find some items very cheap from Europe still, despite having to pay the postage and tax now.

[AilsaFog_507413]

Same mega offer. No extra cost
£10 for 60gb - priceless!