How To Save Money – The Simple Way

Everton worte a post complaining about the Virgin Media’s internet broadband capping policy and its expensive monthly fee, so I thought it’s time to share my experience with certain internet broadband provider and how I saved money.

Before I start to tell you my glorious story, I’d like to thank the BBC programme called “Don’t get done, Get Dom“. It’s that programme which taught me how to haggle the price down.

It was about 15 days ago, after watching the programme, I decided to make a few phone calls. One was to my broadband service provider, BulldogBroadband. Before I called, I did a bit of research on the price of one of bulldog broadband’s competitor, Tiscali. After comparison, I realised that tiscali was offering a better deal on the same services pricewise.

So I dialed the number to BulldogBroadband…

Now here is what impressed me, someone from BulldogBroadband answered the phone within 15 seconds…you know what that means: that means good customer services. If you live in the UK, and have had some experience of dealing with companies, you’ll know what I’m talking about, sometimes, they left you listening to the blipping boring music for more than 5 minutes, even longer…

so far so good…

I told the gentleman about my comparison, and asked BulldogBroadband to match Tiscali’s quote. He said he counldn’t do that, and he explained to me why of which I was fully aware: Set-up fee, transfer between landlines which costs money again and the waiting time…However, he gave me £5 discount each month(only £2 short of my initial target), and that’s £60 saved in a year.

Success…

Sometimes, saving money is only a phone call away with a little bit of research, and simple as that.

a few points:

1. Always take advantage of the comparison sites

2. Watch good television and learn and apply it in real life

3. Always threaten to leave, they will sit up and take notice and you will ultimately get a cheaper deal.

Back to Everton’s post, I think Everton needs to switch broadband service providers, maybe to BulldogBroadband Unlimited Plus where the capping is set on 16mb which would cost £24.99(£19.99 for the first 2 months) plus £10.50 for landline which adds up to £35 a month, compared to Virgin Media, it’s still a very good deal. What Everton should do is to call BulldogBroad, and tell them that he’s undecided which company he’d take up, and I’m sure he’d get some discount from BulldogBroadband.

As some may have noticed, I didn’t mention BT above, well, you see, my girlfriend who currently lives in London has got a problem with BT which involves a disfunctional BT router. BT promised to send her a new one which hasn’t arrived after her being unable to use the internet for over a month. She called BT a couple of times, but was told that the postman counldn’t find her address. I wonder how they managed to deliver the first router in the first place.

I’m going to London on Sunday to help her out. Hopefully, she’ll some discount plus a bit of compensation too. Wish me luuuuuuuck!!!

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