Discounts on Christmas shopping

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This is Money is all about helping you make more money and spend less. So what better than codes for all the latest online shopping discounts in the run-up to Christmas...

http://www.selfridges.com/index.cfm?page=1222 - 20% off at Selfridges up until 3 December

http://www.dorothyperkins.co.uk - use code DPMN29 for free delivery and 15% off anything

http://www.oasis-stores.com - use code GLAMOUR06 for 20% off anything

http://www.usc.co.uk - use code SDM20 for 20% off anything till Sunday

http://www.missselfridge.co.uk - use code MSGL15 for 15% off anything

http://www.faith.co.uk - use code 150906 for 15% off till 2nd December

http://www.urbanoutfitters.co.uk - use code URBAN1 to get £10 off if you spend £50

http://www.asos.co.uk - use code HSBC182116 to get 15% off

http://www.warehouse.co.uk - use code MCY291006 to get 20% off till 30th December

http://www.next.co.uk - free p&p if you use code K8004

http://www.powderrooms.com - use code 4E5KT for 20% off

http://www.hannahzakari.com - use code hzhb10 for 10% off

http://www.hqhair.com - use code BEAUTYBIBLE for 10% off

Also, bear in mind Boots' triple points offer from 1st December until Wednesday 5th December. It's equivalent to 12% off - Boots.co.uk

- Andrew Oxlade, Editor, This is Money

Some more offers - for wine lovers, by Richard Browning This is Money

Virgin Wine has a half-price offer that gets you 12 bottles of decent plonk delivered to your door for around £4 a bottle plus £6 p+p.

http://www.virginwines.com/main/rules.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198674431025&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723697399723&aff=virgin&bmUID=1163146284349

Or if you join the wine club you get it even cheaper:

http://www.virginwines.com/main/rules.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198674431088&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723697675297&aff=virgin&bmUID=1163146284246

I should add that the one time I used Virgin Wine just about everything they could have messed up, they did. But they apologised and offered a money-off voucher for next time. So may be worth a try.

At least the Virgin sale kicks Thresher's hateful 3 for 2 offer - that forces customers to buy three bottles at a time because a single bottle is so exhorbitant - several miles into touch.

And Thresher's much-publicised 40% discount offer is also of dubious value because the wines at Thresher's are massively overpriced in the first place - unless of course you're duped into buying three bottles. (The 40% offer requires you to pay the full price). 40% off £6.99 for a bottle of wine is still £4.20.

Read more about Thresher's offer here:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=415253&in_page_id=3&ito=1453

The Co-op is always a good bet for tracking down good wine, and their special offers often have reasonable enough bottles for £2.99.

They've also won awards for their own-brand wines:

http://www.co-op.co.uk/foodretail/news_article.php?news_ID=363

But sorry folks, the best prices are still across the Channel.

If you're going to Calais, print off the vouchers for 10% of at supermarket Auchan:

http://www.auchancalais.com/listevouchers.asp

And check out the wine prices (you need to scroll along to find the Alcools, vin page):

http://www.auchandirect.fr/

Sainsbury's Calais has some 50%-off offers

http://sainsburyscalais.co.uk/

Convenient but pricey is Carrefour at Cite de L'Europe. There's some offer coupons on their site:

http://cite-europe.carrefour.fr/

Intermarche is usually great value for wine and open Sunday mornings throughout the year but they don't show prices yet on the website.

http://www.intermarche-calais.com/

ED is stupidly good value in my experience - though the stores can get overcrowded - and has put its catalogue online:

http://www.paruvendu.fr/html/adserver/campagnes/ed.htm

Majestic pays your ferry fare if you spend £300

http://www.majestic.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1

The Eastenders booze warehouse never shuts

http://www.eastenders-calais.com/

Finally, check out Day Tripper for a round-up of offers and vouchers

http://www.day-tripper.net/x-xmasshopping.html

Or stop drinking:

http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/

And don't forget the websites that aggregate the vouchers

Says Nick of Sendmediscounts.co.uk: 'Shops sometimes give out coupon codes which if the user enters them, usually in a promotional code box at the checkout stage of the buying process, will reduce the sale by the amount the coupon is valid for. For example "10% off a spend of £100 or more".

'Many shops, such as John Lewis, Currys and Comet offer these, which are basically the digital version of the supermarket coupons.

'I operate a site that lists the latest codes given to us by the merchants themselves, called Sendmediscounts.co.uk. In the interests of partiality there are other similar sites around as well, such as hotukdeals, and UKFrenzy.'

Try them here:

http://www.sendmediscounts.co.uk/

http://www.hotukdeals.com/vouchers-static

http://www.ukfrenzy.co.uk/

Comments

[Sarah Marlow - ethical spender]

Why not save money this Christmas whilst contributing to a worthy cause. Using the ethical spending site www.charitycheckout.com allows you to donate a percentage of your spend to a charity of your choice.
As youre still shopping directly with the retailers, the online codes are redeemable.
By using social responsibility site such as this everybody wins!

[Sammy Hope]

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[ukbargainer]

These are great, especially the sites that aggregate the discount codes and bargains. Do you have any more codes for us? I would specifically like one for a discount on a Dell laptop?

Thanks