Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert, urged Brits with a bank account to do an immediate check – after a producer on his ITV show managed to get back £110
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Martin Lewis urged anyone with a direct debit to do an immediate check. The MoneySavingExpert founder revealed how a viewer from his ITV show made £110 instantly.
He declared: “I want today to be DD Day, Direct Debit day. While many of these are payments we need to make for essentials, others are for stuff we don’t want.
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“It’s stuff we don’t need, and stuff that is absolutely pointless.” He then turned to assistant producer Josh on his Money Show Live, reports BirminghamLive.
Josh revealed to the audience: “I’ve been paying for Amazon Prime twice a month for two and a half years and didn’t realise.
“It’s cost me about £280 more than I needed to spend”. Josh mentioned he had contacted Amazon and received a refund for one year of the overspend, which was around £110.
Another viewer shared: “Moved two years ago, but was still paying a direct debit to my old gym (£330 a year) and to what was my local wildlife centre (£43 a year) both of which are now too far to visit (and I never went to the gym anyway).
“Also cancelled a phone insurance plan for £10 a month, as the phone is now so old it isn’t worth the insurance. Total saving for this year: over £500!”
Meanwhile a third shared: “For the last four years I’d been paying £11.99 a month for extended laptop warranty on a laptop I no longer had. Got a backdated refund of £600.”
And a fourth admitted: “I noticed I was paying £9.99 a month in insurance for a mobile phone that I’d already got rid of. Cancelled the direct debit and did an ‘indemnity claim’ via my bank for the money ended up getting £200 back.”
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