Author: Madison Sloane

I am a blogger first and a mummy second. Only joking!

Carphone Warehouse woes

I recently bought a new phone from Carphone Warehose, so as a result traded in my Samsung S9 (very old now I know!) as they offered £140 + £100 bonus. Today I got an email that they offer only £35 as it has screen burn. The phone was in excellent condition as it was well taken care of. I was wondering if anything else had the same issue with them, but somehow managed to convince them to still pay the original trade in value for it.

Can you tell me in the comments?

To be honest, I know most of these trade-in websites aren’t accurate. Places like this website compare recycler quotes but I am not sure how accurate they are in reality.

Some of the prices seem a bit suspect. What I really need to do is go for a SIM only type deal, I could get an iPhone 11 for about £300 from Music Magpie.  Why would anyone pay the £1000+ price for a new one (when they were new, of course…).

I can’t be bothered to even research what the iPhone 13 is about. I don’t want to spend £1400 on a phone, it’s a con. Plus places like Phones4U are no longer with us, sadly, since they went bankrupt.

 

 

Why are coupon websites so rubbish?!

I just wanted to rant, really. I have tried Honey before anyone asks, but that never works for me either. I can’t seem to find any decent discount codes, because they are always expired or not ever active. It’s hard to know what the truth of the matter is.

I was looking for discounts for my new Emma mattress just now. I tried Honey but it seemed to think I was in Germany, and didn’t work properly. I tried turning to Google, with the usual culprits like Daily Mail Discount Codes with literally just junk offers. It isn’t even run by the Daily Mail, it’s just a third-party service using their name.

And then I tried another website called Mattresscodes. They claim to only show coupons for websites about mattresses. Did it work? Yes. But this involved going down to the second page of Google and nobody ever goes there. In fact studies show that less than 5% of users go to the 2nd page in Google results now. It is supposedly the best place online to bury a dead body.