We don’t hate banks — busting this and other myths about MoneySavingExpert.com
No one has ever quite said to me, "you run that one man, bank-hating website charity, to help those in debt stop spending". But in combination, that’s some of the assumptions people make about the site. So I thought it time for a bit of myth busting. MoneySavingExpert.com hates banks. Not true. We hate bad bank behaviour,...
“Gambling Introductory Offer Loopholes board” – consultation results
A few weeks ago, I launched a user consultation into the future of the forum’s Gambling Introductory Offer Loopholes board. The board was originally set up to discuss taking advantage of risk-free intro loopholes, but over recent years their growing complexity has made it difficult for the forum team to manage. You can read the full explanation...
Champagne Beats Bank Charges: Biggest Ever Day of the Site Part III
I seem to be writing this all the time recently (see over 1m visits in a day and over 900k visits in a day), but the site’s beaten its record traffic for the third time. So to keep stats nuts happy here’s the latest stats and a shock ‘most popular page’ The Overall Stats: 1.13m visits We...
We’ve hit the big 2,000,000 on the e-mail address… unbelievable!
It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was writing a 1,000,000 on the e-mail list blog and now, less than 14 months later, we’ve doubled.
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Recent Blogs
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Is it time to ban Christmas presents?
14 September 2020
Update September 2017: It’s eight years since I first braved this subject, expecting a snowstorm of protest. Instead, year after year more join in, like Julia who recently tweeted me, “@MartinSLewis, finally took your advice and told my family I can’t afford Christmas presents. What a weight off my mind. Thank you.” One year even the Archbishop of... -
Martin Lewis: I confess, I did a 'decoy effect' experiment on my Twitter and Facebook followers… and it may be why they're buying more Jaffa Cakes
7 September 2020
Behavioural economics is a powerful science. Some retailers are undoubtedly using it to make us pay more to get less. One element is the 'decoy effect' – where a higher-priced item is sold, to make items next to it look like bargains. So I wanted to do a little experiment to test it -
Martin Lewis: Payment holidays extended – but should you take one? Mortgages, credit cards, loans, payday loans, car finance and more
11 August 2020
Within the last week, we've seen the extension of coronavirus credit card, personal loan and overdraft help to 31 October 2020, with mortgage payment holidays already extended. The regulator's other help schemes are also likely to be extended too, including car finance and payday loans, yet should you do it?
