Cost of living increases

[kaymac]

Yep, sure would, and to think during the problems (scare-mongering) last November the prices at that time were 20p / litre lower than now. Crazy times...

 

[JAL]

British Gas owner Centrica’s profits soar as UK households face winter energy bill pain – business live

Centrica reports operating profits of $1.34bn for first half of year despite facing ‘most challenging energy crisis in living memory’

www.theguardian.com

Every single energy company smashing record profits, there's no coincidence here, we suffer, they profit, unreal how this is allowed to carry on.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Folks, check your phone/tv/broadband supplier contracts. I have gone back to virgin and got £35 per month reduction.
It took 6 phones calls and about 2 hours!

 

[Supershrimper]

Your must have been paying a fair whack to begin with. I'd imagine a fair proportion of that is / was tv. My broadband and phone (unlimited calls all day every day) costs £20.99 a month (Fab Fibre with download speeds of around 36Mbps) but I don't have TV costs.

Mind you £35 a month isn't to be sniffed at

 

[mattytheshrimper]

Passed through Derby last week. Normally the East Midlands is cheaper for everything but ended up paying £1.85 for unleaded at Sainsbury’s by Pride Park.
Pleased to be home!!

I've just come back from Derbyshire and managed to get £1.79. I got way too happy about that!!

 

[* ORM *]

Costa have added 30p to the cost of a medium white Americano. That’s me done, flipping waste of money as it was. Even if you do buy 8, get one free.

I see where you are going wrong. You’re having a white coffee, not an Americano

 

[Kat_r]

General weekly shop. Just notice it’s crazy expensive for a few items. Do it online so I have more time to think about offers etc.

 

[Kat_r]

Oh and my mobile bill. Paying 16 a month for 5 gb of data. Day light robbery Will get round to moving to another network or sim only, I want an iPhone as they heat up less than android but my budget is going to be set at 15 quid a month so no chance

 

[Holy Joe]

Oh and my mobile bill. Paying 16 a month for 5 gb of data. Day light robbery Will get round to moving to another network or sim only, I want an iPhone as they heat up less than android but my budget is going to be set at 15 quid a month so no chance

£6 per month* 4GB sim only, unlimited txts, calls, 5G, EU roaming included with Smarty (uses 3 network) - let me know if you'd like a referral code - think we both get a month free or a tenner credit or something!

*Can get a 10% discount if have more than one person on it with a family plan

 

[Holy Joe]

Be prepared for another interest rate rise on Thursday - market speculating on a 0.5% increase this time. Likely to be a couple more before year end as well.

 

[Kat_r]

£6 per month* 4GB sim only, unlimited txts, calls, 5G, EU roaming included with Smarty (uses 3 network) - let me know if you'd like a referral code - think we both get a month free or a tenner credit or something!

*Can get a 10% discount if have more than one person on it with a family plan

Cheers.
Is that on talkmobile?

My phone atm is vodafone network and model so first need a code or something to ‘unlock’ it for a new network. Will let you know when I do. Phone is a budget smartphone so it’s cack so may end up getting a new phone tbh. Has to be something out there for 15 a month with at least 20 gb.

 

[JAL]

Cheers.
Is that on talkmobile?

My phone atm is vodafone network and model so first need a code or something to ‘unlock’ it for a new network. Will let you know when I do. Phone is a budget smartphone so it’s cack so may end up getting a new phone tbh. Has to be something out there for 15 a month with at least 20 gb.

What I will be doing for my upgrade is paying finance through Apple themselves, it's 0% interest which is nice, and the I'll be getting a sim only of around about the same GB I get a month now, it worked out to around £10-£15 cheaper a month than my contract now.

 

[Holy Joe]

Cheers.
Is that on talkmobile?

My phone atm is vodafone network and model so first need a code or something to ‘unlock’ it for a new network. Will let you know when I do. Phone is a budget smartphone so it’s cack so may end up getting a new phone tbh. Has to be something out there for 15 a month with at least 20 gb.

No the company is called Smarty

Do companies still lock phones to networks? Thought that was banned?


Smarty also do contracts with a phone but I have no idea if they are good value as I've been sim only for a number of years now.

My kids have phones by Honor, used to be Huawei's budget brand - they seem pretty good value android phones.

 

[southendkid]

Oh and my mobile bill. Paying 16 a month for 5 gb of data. Day light robbery Will get round to moving to another network or sim only, I want an iPhone as they heat up less than android but my budget is going to be set at 15 quid a month so no chance

You can get 30GB a month on Tesco for 15 a month, Vodafone are fleecing you on that contract.

 

[Supershrimper]

Be prepared for another interest rate rise on Thursday - market speculating on a 0.5% increase this time. Likely to be a couple more before year end as well.

All estimates in the industry are expecting a 0.5% rise on Thursday and ending at around 3.5% by the end of he year. It's currently 1.25%

 

[Kat_r]

You can get 30GB a month on Tesco for 15 a month, Vodafone are fleecing you on that contract.

Yeah. I am def being shafted. All their sim only deals are just as bad too.

 

[Kat_r]

No the company is called Smarty

Do companies still lock phones to networks? Thought that was banned?


Smarty also do contracts with a phone but I have no idea if they are good value as I've been sim only for a number of years now.

My kids have phones by Honor, used to be Huawei's budget brand - they seem pretty good value android phones.

Yeah I think I need a release code from Vodafone and it may be tricky as the phone is their budget smart phone so will have to see if it even transfers. Thanks for the suggestions. I’m terrible with all this haha.

 

[Holy Joe]

Yeah I think I need a release code from Vodafone and it may be tricky as the phone is their budget smart phone so will have to see if it even transfers. Thanks for the suggestions. I’m terrible with all this haha.

You will defo need a PAC code if you want to keep your phone number, but that's not the same as the phone being locked to their network

 

[RHB]

My sim only contract deal with o2 expired 18 months ago. They are quite happily still providing me with a mobile service with all the stuff the contract specified but without the contract! I'm paying £10.09p a month for 1GB of data, 1000 minutes of any time, any network calls, and unlimited texts. The best new o2 sim only deal now available to me is £12 per month. Think I'll stay as I am.

 

[Holy Joe]

My sim only contract deal with o2 expired 18 months ago. They are quite happily still providing me with a mobile service with all the stuff the contract specified but without the contract! I'm paying £10.09p a month for 1GB of data, 1000 minutes of any time, any network calls, and unlimited texts. The best new o2 sim only deal now available to me is £12 per month. Think I'll stay as I am.

Might be a good deal with o2, but you could probably trim that to a fiver per month with more data and unlimited calls/txts or if you don't actually make many calls/txts go pay as you go and probably pays pennies per month