New ways to earn points for your Nectar Card and fun ways to spend them!

You can now earn Nectar points for shopping at Ebay! Don't forget you always need to enter the retailer via the Nectar website at www.nectar.com. I am honestly amazed that I will earn points for my ebay purchases!

With the new Harry Potter film out and lots of bored kids around during the summer holidays, you can use your points at any Vue Cinema along with 23 other fun days out, just click on the spend points tab on the website to see the full range of places to go or things to buy to use up your points.

Make more for selling books at Green Metropolis

I must admit I was very dissapointed a while back when I sold my copy of Russell Brands "My Booky Wook" on Ebay. I had previously bought it on Ebay for £3.99 but when I sold it I only got £1.50! Gutted! That was before I found out about Green Metropolis where you earn at least £3.00 for every book sold.

Now imagine if you could earn money and help the environment at the same time… well you can! Join a growing community of buyers and sellers, where the more unwanted books you buy and sell, the more trees can be saved and planted - we donate 5p from every sale to the Woodland Trust.

Buying books couldn’t be easier, all our books are just £3.75 including free delivery on most items.

Turn the books you’ve read into cash! Earn at least £3.00 for every book sold.

A quicker way to get your Ebay money out of Paypal

For any ebay sellers out there, paypal have now introduced a top up card, which means instead of waiting the usual 3-5 days for clearance into your chosen bank account, you can now transfer money on to your top up card, with a maximum clearance of one day! So basically you can shop online, withdraw money at ATM’s (£2 fee) and use anywhere displaying the VISA sign, even abroad (£3 fee). You can also pre load cash onto the card at any post office or outlet displaying the paypoint sign (for this there is a £1 charge). The clearance times are:- 1. Post office - next day 2. Paypoint - instant and 3. Paypal - next day.
The card purchase fee is £4.95, but to me it seems worth it, my card actually arrived on Saturday. The good thing with one of these cards (obviously other companies offer them as well) is that not only do you benefit from getting your hands on your ebay earnings quicker, but in these times of recession, they allow you to keep complete control of your finances. If you use it just for paypal fund withdrawal and then making purchases, you won’t incur any individual transaction fees and this is the way I will use mine, otherwise all those transaction fees for withdrawing cash will soon add up (one ATM withdrawal a week for one year = £104!), but used properly, it will be worth the £4.95 investment. Go to topupcard.