How to Get the Best Deal
The Savvy Consumer's Guide to Spending
Less & Getting
More
By Sue Hayward
December 2009
Pearson Education
ISBN: 9780273725534
153 pages
$27.50 Paper Original
We all like getting a good deal when we shop for goods and services. We all like the feeling of getting the best products at the best prices and receiving a first-class service to boot.
But most of us, more often that we’d probably care to admit are paying far more than we need to and are rarely receiving the level of service we expect. We believe the price on the tag is what we have to pay and we rarely understand our rights or how to complain effectively when things don’t go to plan.
How to Get the Best Deal is the book that will change the way you shop forever. Whatever you’re buying or whatever service you’re thinking of employing, this book is crammed with tips, advice and cunning tactics to help you get better at getting more.
From high street shops to builders, plumbers and utility companies, you’ll discover how to effectively handle all kinds of companies, services and situations to your best advantage.
Find out how to haggle, negotiate and bargain, even on the high street, to save pounds and always pay the lowest price. Discover your consumer rights and how to make them work for you; understand all the benefits and how to bag a bargain on the internet; and uncover the secrets of confident complaining so you don’t ever feel unsure or embarrassed again.
How to Get the Best Deal will show you how you can develop the right mindset to become a clued-up, savvy consumer. You’ll save your self time, money and stress, and will always know exactly how to get the best deal – every time!
Author
Sue Hayward is a TV and radio presenter specialising in money, property and consumer issues.
She started her career as a reporter on BBC Financial World Tonight. Since then, Suehas presented consumer programmes across several BBC radio stations. She has also given expert advice to listeners of BBC Radio Two’s Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Five Live and BBC London.
On TV Sue is a regular money expert on BBC Breakfast and BBC News. She also presents Women In The Property Market and is a panellist on Ask The Property Experts both onSky.
She has also written on money issues for many of the leading women’s magazines including: She, Glamour, Essentials and Woman & Home and currently writes for both Prima and Woman’s Weekly.
She has also contributed to many national papers including: The Sunday Times, The Daily and Sunday Express and more recently The Independent on Sunday. Her articles have also appeared in numerous specialist property, money and parenting titles, along with finding time to write her first book Women Leading.
On the corporate side, Sue has worked with clients including Moneysupermarket, Abbey, Tesco, Direct Line, Friends Provident, Barclays and eBay as an expert commentator on financial topics on radio, online and in the press.
Reviews
"..packed with valuable tips, tricks and advice to help you get the best deals. No matter what you're shopping for, this book is full of handy hints to turn you into a savvy saver."
Full House, 20 August 2009
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