[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 

[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]

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[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! 

[EdwardL_1377039]

Good research is best for a good bargain 

[OliverA_1227980]

Some bargains i can recall is my data plan unlike my old giffgaff plan i am able to go the month with lots of data leftover for this year it has served me proudly i had also found a budget gaming keyboard earlier this year for a budget price. the best bargain i have found was my ps4 slim it was an absolute steal for only £130 it has undoubtedly proved to be a good value purchase for me and my family. my best tip to find bargains is look as much as you can on different websites, apps and in person the more you compare prices and value another good thing is to keep checking often for new listings or new companies. 

- Thank You

[KoreyHa_1334025]

Best network hands down, got all my friends and family to sign up!

[Abdulla_1310834]

I am currently on the 4gb plan, I recommend this plan to anyone that does not need a lot of data this is because it is a good amount of data at a bargain of a price 

[Christi_2090180]

What was the best bargain you've ever found?

- i found a beautiful sideboard in a shop with a surprising low price. Bought it right away. Turns out it was labeled incorrectly but I still got it for the price!

What was the best bargain you've bagged this year?

- I switched from a quite expensive phone plan to smarty and did not only get an Amazon voucher because I got invited by a friend I also got quite a good deal with 100g / month

What is your number one tip for getting a bargain?

- second hand shops! 

[IanSter_2034031]

The best bargain, without a doubt, was the Black Friday deal SMARTY offered my wife and I.   We have a great deal anyway at £8 a month each, made all the sweeter by going on a River Danube River Cruise and not having to worry about nasty roaming charges or exceeding data allowances as everywhere we went was on SMARTY's plan.   The offer, which came out of the blue and was a no-brainer, was to to quadruple our data allowance - all we had to do was make a few mouse clicks.   On our way to the USA and Jamaica next week so put a £10 add on on to the plan in case I need to make any calls.

[SimonSp_1506679]

The best bargain was finding a nice, new (but a couple of years sitting on the shop floor) carbon fibre bike that I snapped up for less than 50% of the original price!

[D1vr0n]

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

A pair of Mountain equipment winter gloves down from £100 down to £0.99. My wife has small hands and there was only one pair left in XS so I grabbed a bargain and they are still be used when we are out in the hills now, over 15 years later!

[JoeFento_339973]

Google pixel 7a for under £380 from Amazon this year. Absolute bargain.

[Abdulla_1310834]

I’m currently on the 4gb plan, I personally believe it is an amazing plan for someone who does not use much data due the bargain of a price 

[67-2]

I once bought a freddo for 10p.