[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 

[OscarO2265688]

• What was the best bargain you've bagged this year? 
• Black friday 7.99 large pizzas brilliant!

[SparksNEmbers]

• What is your number one tip for getting a bargain?
  always keep an eye out for offers in companies newsletters  

[Hutch]

Best bargain ever found was a book called the invisible choir, fantastic read

Best bargain this year has to be a Chromecast I brought to make my mum's TV work better for her

No 1 tip for a bargain is shop around, once you have found what you want at the price you want HAGGLE you can always push the price down a little more 🧐

[Jonatha_2018778]

A £1 black rollneck jumper I bought in the samples store at the UK Levi's HQ when I went there on a student visit 25 years ago, I still wear it every winter ;-D

[Craigoneill11]

• What is your number one tip for getting a bargain?
  
  
• flirt… haha. 
  
  
• be polite and friendly. Smile and be kind. Xxx 

[Michael_T]

• What was the best bargain you've ever found?
  
  My SMARTY Black Friday deal, meaning can keep my mobile costs much lower than comparable competitors

[Craigoneill11]

• What is your number one tip for getting a bargain? Flirt haha!! Be friendly smile and polite. Being kind gets you everywhere. 🙂 xx

[PavelLj_2277327]

1. Probably a pair of cymbals that I bought a few years ago. 

2. Nothing so far.

3. Quality and obviously a price of that particular offer.

[Guillau_2193573]

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

Effectively getting a ‘free’ mobile phone back in the day when contracts would do cashback deals!

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

A pair of running shoes which were a knock down price on clearance - almost £80 saved!

• What is your number one tip for getting a bargain?

Definitely shop around on different sites, and leave things in your basket for a day or two if not urgent!

[EmilyCa_1993517]

Nothing better bargain than a bogof offer

[BarryCh_2181514]

Best bargain is 32gig for £8 on Smarty

Best bargin this year. 32 gig for £8 on Smarty

Number one tip. Always shop around for bargains 

[EmilyCa_1993517]

Best bargain is smarty mobile

[Samanth_1384738]

Smarty helped me alot. It was a fantastic deal with £20 deal unlimited data text and calls. Really helped when I needed it. 

[MarkWeatherill]

🤣🤣🤣

[DanielM_1901458]

The best bargain I ever got was a free bottle of champagne at the hotel in the Shard in London. Staff wiped it off the bill completely after I highlited they had missed it off the bill. They appreciated my honesty and said it was on them ! 

[Mohamme_2081854]

The best bargain I ever found was before covid when I bought my first car for £300 and everything was working

the best bargain I found this year was my smarty mobile sim plan as it came with a free upgrade that doubled the data.

my tips for finding bargains is to use student discounts if u are a student aswell as signing up to receive newsletters can help give u discounts 

[EmmaSpe_2286225]

Using the too good to go app managed to bag some excellent breakfasts and lunches both at home and in Europe.

[JahidulI_209985]

Best bargain has to be buying on gumtree especially cars if you look hard enough

[silviosav]

• What was the best bargain you've ever found? A garden sprayer worth £20 and paid only £7 on an Amazon lighting deal.
• What was the best bargain you've bagged this year? Re-activating my broadband with Virgin at £22 for 100MB speed after cancelling it two days earlier because they were going to raise my billing at the end of an 18 month contract and what they were offering was not good enough for my £25 a month broadband budget that I absolutely wanted to stick with.
• What is your number one tip for getting a bargain? Haggle kindly any service you pay and always on the lookout for limited time or quantity deals anywhere you can be notified from.

[JoelCar_1943054]

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

Most definitely my best bargain was during a black friday promotion with smarty where I got double data for no extra cost 🙂

[ChrisPad_360790]

It has to be Black Friday double date 

[Michael_2035814]

The best bargain I ever found was Smarty Mobile. I was paying a fortune on PAYG with another network.

This year, the best bargain I have bagged so far, is a set of tyres for my car in the January sales. 

And finally, the number one tip for getting a good bargain is to shop around.  There's usually a hidden gem just waiting for you to discover.

[GeraldV_2312263]

My top tip for bargains is to shop late night or close to closing times on a Sunday. 

[Kaurfy]

Amazon tablet that was to be chucked. Plugged it in n it works 

[ChrisPad_360790]

It Has to be double date. Blackfriday, Thank you 😊 

[DavidHo_2376961]

A holiday to Mexico that I booked with 1 weeks notice.

A pair of trainers in a sale and got 70% off them

Look in the sales and look at the start date and time of the sales

[DavidGr_1955766]

The best bargain that I have found was back in November when I joined Smarty 5G and got 60gb of data, phone calls and messages all for £10 a month. Easy to join and the best 5g cover that I have ever had.

[Cherylspr_52503]

Switching to smarty saved me £10 a month

Got 60% off on Davidoff Cool Water Aftershave

Research and look at different sites to see who is cheapest and use discount codes/sales

[MarioTi_1656135]

• What is your number one tip for getting a bargain?

If you want concert or event tickets and live near a venue, check resale websites a week before the event

[CarlHuds_387706]

Garmin Fenix 6 with £500 deducted!!

[Michael_1362945]

My best bargain in the last year was my Smarty SIM card, the bargain that keeps paying for itself!

[IainSto_1232464]

My biggest tip for getting a bargain is to search for discount codes online before buying

[EmRey_173609]

Second hand clothes from charity shops and Vinted = best bargains. 

[ImaOty48]

The best bargain have ever found was getting smarty sim with unlimited data.

The best bargain for this year was, data unlimited.

The number one tip for getting a bargain, is buying a smarty sim and getting registered to enjoy unlimited data.

[JeremyW_1878424]

The best bargain I had was in Wetherspoons Ilkley, one January. I walked up to the bar, there was a little blackboard which stated Wetherspoons are having a January sale. Ham, egg & chips £1.99. I told the barman that I would have that. He said that it includes a drink. I got a pint of Guinness and ham, egg and chips for £1.99.

The best bargain I found so far this year was in Bury near Manchester. Everywhere I had travelled petrol was over £1.49 a litre. I found a garage selling petrol at £1.37 in Bury. It is still an extortionate price because in Cuba a litre of petrol costs £0.16.

My advice to shopping bargains is to make an offer and if the shop keeper accepts it you are a winner. The Sale of Goods Act 1873 states any purchaser can make an offer for an item even if there is a price tag on the item. It has worked a few times for me. Give it a try! It will not work on a member of the staff, it has to be the shop owner.

[Miriana_2266548]

The best bargain I've ever found is a very good speaker that was on sale for 130 pounds less.

That was also the best bargain of this year for me!

I like to wait for sales or Black Friday unless is something I really need. 

[Samuel]

Best Bargain: Getting two custom mouthguards for £75

This Year: See Exhibit A ^

Finding Bargains: Research, Patience and Network 😉

[MansoorA_103005]

What was the best bargain you've ever found

the best bargain I have ever found has to definelty be my SMARTY plan I have as the price for what you pay is exceptional as I have never had an issue with my sim or anything, unlike other sim providers 100💯

[sandirareddy]

Got an amazing bargain on grounding sheets (for earthing) from https://rowlandearthing.co.uk/
The company was selling Gift vouchers for 50% off- so essentially got 2 sheets for the price of one, Pleased to report that we're sleeping much better!

[LaurenH_2374270]

Best bargain ever

Probably a mixture of student and gifts off parents based on jobs. So, the current, 60GB for £10 pc/m then my free travel bus pass from my dad. 

Best bargain this year would be tescos and savers deals on alcohol. £1 per frozen cocktail now ur talking xoxoxo

Tip for a bargain is if its something specific you want research the market. I.e I wanted a laptop with specific things which was around £1,000+ but by researching the market and TIMING (cyber-week/end of year) i managed to get it at £660. Not a nice amount to give out but certainly a good deal.