I was chatting to a friend of mine yesterday about mobile phones. OK, I admit it, I was blowing smoke up my iPhones behind, but we ended up chatting about contracts and call rates. He started complaining about Orange and how much they charged him for an 0845 number, which he generally used for calling the bank. He quoted up to £3 a min to call them, I’m not sure if he was exaggerating or not, but that seemed to me to be pretty high.

I asked him if he had his bank card with him, which he didn’t, but what I wanted to do was make him aware of this..

If you look on the back of your bank card, you will usually find the customer services number, often 0845 blahdiblahdiblah. What you want to do here is have a look at the number they want you to call if you are calling from abroad, more often than not, you will find that is a normal national phone number, just with the +44 prefix. So, if you use this number when calling in the UK when on your mobile you will only be charged at a national rate call.. Or the call with be included in your contract’s free minutes….. Simple.

Enjoy

As I promised I am posting another way to save some money. Tbh, I am in fear of turning this blog into a money saving website, and that is not what I am about. The way I see it though is that if you can save a bit here and there you will have more for investing!! I am adamant I am not going to cut back on things, just maybe re-arrange stuff so that it is cheaper, which this site should hopefully do for you.

I have not tried the services on this site as I am in the middle of contracts with other suppliers, but from the looks it looks like it could be good. If any of you give it a go, you could bear to leave a comment on the post to let us know how it goes? Nice one.

Utilities Warehouse

You may get a warning come up from your browser about logging in to the site, I believe this may be because it is an affiliate site, not mine I add, and what is happening is that you are logging in to the site just so that if you do use any services the appropriate salesman gets his commission.