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Money at 9UK - UK Stuff By The Nine - Top 9 Money Resources Earn it, spend it, invest it, enjoy it! We can't get away from money so let's try to make as much of it as possible and spend it wisely! We take a look at our favourite nine money-related resources - ka-ching! Sub-Categories - Free Money Online Vanquis We wouldn't normally list a boring old credit card as a 'top nine' rated site here at 9UK.com but Vanquis is a bloody good credit card so they're definitely worth their placement. Vanquis offer credit cards with sensible credit limits to people who wouldn't normally be able to get one. Rather than handing out whopping credit limits that can be hard to repay, Vanquis will start you off with an easy to manage credit limit of between £150 to £1,000. Every four months or so, Vanquis will look at increasing your credit limit and they seem to be very responsible lenders. They've given cards to more than 800,000 people and pride themselves on helping people who have been turned down for credit cards elsewhere. If you could use a credit card and don't need a huge starting credit limit then give Vanquis a try - we've found them to be very helpful. Click Here To Visit Vanquis My Supermarket Here at 9UK we love shopping online for just about anything but food shopping has got to be the best. It's so much more fun than fighting your way around your local supermarket. Forget the dodgy trolleys, moody checkout girls, screaming children and then getting it all home - buy it all online and get it delivered! My Supermarket is a brilliant price comparison site, specifically for supermarket shopping. The site will compare Your regular Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury's and Ocado (Waitrose) shopping and show you where you can get the best deal. You will save up to 20% if you do things right. My Supermarket shows you if your trolley of goodies is cheaper in an alternative supermarket and allow you to compare and switch with one easy click. If you'd rather go down to the supermarket and buy things in person then you can use Use My Supermarket to create the cheapest shopping list. You can then print off the list and take it with you! Prices are updated every day so it's always up-to-date. Save some wonga - use My Supermarket! Click Here To Visit My Supermarket XE - Free Currency Converter This is a brilliant tool that lets you convert currency amounts instantly. For example, you can work out how many euros you get for a quid. Or US dollars. Or just about any currency you can think of. XE can be really useful if you're going on holiday and want to calculate how much currency you can get for your money. It's completely free to use and always completely up-to-date with the latest exchange rates. We've used the site for years and it's never let us down. Click Here To Visit XE Houseweb Most of us head straight for an estate agent when we want to sell our home but there are better - and cheaper - ways to do it. Houseweb are the UK's largest direct sales company who on average save customers £5,500 in fees. They've been doing this since 1996 and describe themselves as a unique marketplace that brings together homebuyers and sellers. Houseweb enables you to advertise your property in way that looks professional. Your advert will include colour photos and even a virtual tour. Your advert appears on more than 350 UK home buying/selling sites - in fact, more than three million house hunters will be able to see your advert and get directly in touch with you. Houseweb take the place of a traditional estate agent so you can deal directly with real buyers, not pushy agents. Costs here just don't compare to an estate agent - prices at Houseweb start from just £47! There's no commission to worry about and no hidden charges. Click Here To Visit Houseweb SpeedSell If you're looking to get rid of some unwanted stuff and don't fancy the hassle of eBay then SpeedSell is a great way to sell. You can sell your laptop, Mac, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, games and more. We're going to be honest - here at 9UK.com, we do NOT like eBay. We've found them over many years to be expensive and horribly incompetent and SpeedSell is a much nicer way to sell if you need cash fast. At SpeedSell, you first use their 'Value It' facility to find out how much they will pay to buy your Mac, console or games from you. If you agree with the offer then they will collect it from you - tomorrow! SpeedSell will send a courier to your home to collect your goods and the collection is totally free! If you prefer, you can post it to them. SpeedSell will pay you within just four days. You can be paid by cheque or PayPal - whichever you prefer. The prices being offered are not amazing, to be honest. They valued our Nintendo Wii with controllers and nunchucks at just £45.39 so you'd definitely get a bit more via eBay but still, SpeedSell are worth a look. Their free home collection and fast payouts make them an option worth considering. Click Here To Visit SpeedSell Money Saving Expert Money Saving Expert is a brilliant website dedicated to saving you money on anything and everything by finding the best deals and by beating the system wherever possible. The site is owned run by GMTV's Martin Lewis who bases all the content on detailed journalistic research, cutting edge tools. Money Saving Expert is a VERY popular money site and has one of the UK's largest online communities. Money Saving Expert started life back in February 2003 and cost just £100 to set up. The site's owner is well known for starting the campaign to reclaim bank charges. As a result of information and template letters from Money Saving Expert, more than six million people got involved and reclaimed more than a billion pounds! Money Saving Expert is proudly ethical and we cannot stress enough how popular this site is - it gets more than eight million unique visitors every month. Martin Lewis reckons that the average person in the UK can give themselves the equivalent of a 25% payrise by following the advice on Money Saving Expert. Martyn appears/appeared on various TV and radio shows/channels including GMTV, ITV1's Tonight, Five TV's It Pays To Watch, a weekly column in News of the World and a monthly column in The Telegraph. Click Here To Visit Money Saving Expert Fatcheese Cashback Fatcheese is a UK shopping portal that gives you cashback on your online shopping. The site is free to use and you can buy from more than 1,200 online retailers and get sizeable amounts of money back. Cashsite sites are becoming massively popular but for some stupid reason, here at 9UK.com we hadn't tried using them until recently. We should have joined one years ago! You can do your normal online shopping at the same retailers and still pay the same prices - the only difference is that you get money back! Some merchants listed at Fatcheese are actually free and you'll still get cashback! For example, some are surveys or free membership sites. So why is it free to use? Well, all of the online retailers will give Fatcheese a commission payment when you make your purchase. We assumed that Fatcheese would share this commission with their customers but they actually give you ALL of the commission - that's the 'cashback' you get paid. Fatcheese make their money by keeping the first £5 you earn each year as an annual subscription fee. We think that's a brilliant deal. Fatcheese also offer a handy live chat facility which allows users to speak directly to a member of their customer service. Click Here To Visit Fatcheese Cashback Thames Financial - Same Day Payout Loan Thames Financial are a leading online loan specialist who can help put up to £750 into your bank account today. You can complete a simple application form online at their website to see instantly if you qualify for a same day payout loan and there's no obligation at all so there's nothing to lose by seeing if you can get a same day loan. Thousands of customers have already received same day payouts of up to £750 each from Thames Financial. They state that they are approachable even if you have a dodgy credit record history so even if you've got a few black marks against your name, it's worth giving them a try. You could end up with hundreds of pounds in your bank account on the same day that you apply for the loan online. Click Here To Visit Win Thames Financial Post Gold For Cash We've all seen the TV ads, encouraging us to sell our unwanted gold (is there such a thing?) for cash. Quite a few of these gold buying companies have been getting poor press for offering lousy prices but we're happy to recommend Post Gold For Cash. They generally pay considerably more than their competitors, including some big name buyers (ie. Tesco). Simply complete the online form at Post Gold For Cash's website and they'll send a free 'gold selling pack' to you in the post. You'll have your cash within just 48 hours. As mentioned above, some gold buying companies have acted a bit unfairly in the past so we're keen to stress that we're recommending Post Gold For Cash because we genuinely believe them to be a different breed to the cowboys - and we're not alone with this opinion. Post Gold For Cash work with WH Smith and Royal Mail. Even more reassuring is that they came top in a BBC survey on The One Show. 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