Mighty Martin's advice for the masses! (moneysavingexpert.com)

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Product:	moneysavingexpert.com
Date:	19/10/09 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: Great forums for money saving discussion

Disadvantages: None

This website was founded by the original money saving and consumer advice guru Martin Lewis. He created this site for the cost of a measly £100 in February 2003 (and which now has over 7,000,000 users a month) and still runs the site day-to-day. It is a full and very comprehensive guide to help you get the most out of your money, understanding your rights, reclaiming charges, bank account and credit card advice, loans, saving money in restaurants, cheaper cinema tickets, it's biting back against the huge corporation and putting a little extra back into your pockets.

The layout of this site is very easy to follow consisting of mainly tabs. The homepage contains key information and also a box where you can sign up for Martins weekly email and that facility now sounds out 3 million emails a week, so there are a lot of Moneysavers out there!!

Cards and loans-
This has popular how to guides, information on existing borrowing, new borrowing, cashback and possible rewards and problem debts. It really is the how-to of keeping your products and services in check.

Reclaim thousands-
all the best advice on reclaiming invalid charges by banks and missold loans, government and councils information on such things as what grants are available, council tax rebanding, and a benefits check to make sure you know what you may be entitled to.

Shopping and spending-
information on consumer rights, shopping vouchers, restaurant deals, supermarket comparison site information, rewards and vouchers, high street sales diary, and generally supermarket hints for getting the most out of your budget.

Utilities and phones-
advice on different energy deals going on right now, broadband comparison, boiler central heating cover etc, basically covering all your needs in the bewildering world of gas phones and electric!

Travel and transport-
this is an excellent part of the site, no matter when or where or how you are choosing to travel it will point you in the right direction of the best deals, even offering MOT and breakdown advice, getting cheaper railway fares, flightcheckers etc.

Insurance-
you guessed it, comprehensively covering every single type of insurance you can think of and making sure you are only getting what yo really need and of course paying the right price for it too.

Mortgages and houses-
detailing on the current mortgage market, what grants householders may be entitled to, house selling tips and tricks, saving VS mortgage overpayments, in this current minefield Martins advice here really is gold.

Protect your pocket-
details on how to make a little extra money here and there, recommending survey and review sites, avoiding being phished and scammed online or elsewhere, this is quite a long section which is worth picking through to maximise thhe use you will get out of it.

Then there is the almight MSE forum which is so useful you will find yourself reading through then thinking 'Ive got to sign up to this'! it is huge with many many subsections and the help and guidance of thousands of other members, everything from the cheapest recipesm to savvy shopping hints, the best real life deals out there, words of advice for most anything money saving can be found here.

So in summary this site is one that should be on everybody's favourites list as it is fantastic, completely ad free and the best free money saving advice you will find on the internet, full stop.

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