Testing your consumer rights and haggling skills

The Martin Lewis Podcast

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4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Martin Lewis records the podcast from Lords to share his money saving tips while watching the cricket.

An explanation of your statutory return rights with a focus on what the law explicitly outlines as the timeframe you have to return online purchases.

We also run through the top 10 companies to haggle with in the UK, with haggling tips and how to make big savings from service firms in mature markets, such as mobiles, where everyone already has the product so companies need to retain existing customers.

He gives an update on the potential payouts for mis-sold car finance.

Martin makes a suggestion on how to get young people investing WITHOUT cutting the £20,000 tax-free cash ISA limit, as reports suggest Chancellor Rachel Reeves may be about to do.

Tell Us is about your longest financial innings and includes advice on the best bank current accounts that are currently available.

And Mastermind is swapped for Test Martin Special, or TMS for short, Eleanor Oldroyd and former England player Steven Finn help Adrian answer a cricket-themed question about what counts as legal tender.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast.
0:09.1	I do wonder what that's going to be about.
0:10.9	Now, usually, much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Chiles.
0:15.1	But don't worry, there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners.
0:20.2	And today's pod is a special one.
0:22.9	I'm very lucky to be doing it from Lords on the first day of the England-India test match.
0:27.5	So do forgive the odd mention of a wicket or two as we go through, and the fact that the pod-only bits
0:32.5	are recorded here in a corridor at the back next to Phil Tuffnell.
0:37.0	Hello, Martin. Thank you. And in this corridor, as we're in a corridor at the back next to Phil Tuffnell. Hello, Martin.
0:38.0	Thank you.
0:39.0	And in this corridor, as we're in a sweet spot right now for banking deals,
0:43.4	with five different banks willing to pay you serious cash for switching,
0:47.7	on top of all the main stuff you'll hear about in a minute,
0:50.7	I'll be running through that pod only two.
0:53.1	Time to play the theme tune. I'll be running through that pod only two. Time to play the theme tune. Martin Lewis, are you having a splendid day at the home of cricket?
1:18.2	I've got the most incredible view in front of me.
1:20.1	I'm sat in the box next to Ali, go onto my social media.
1:22.7	There's a picture I've just put on there.
1:24.0	Zach Crawley's just hit a couple of boundaries.
1:26.0	The game is starting to boost up for England. They're 28 for non. Crawley's on 13, Duckett's on 13. And that was my little bit
1:31.9	of commentary. Now I should probably do the financial stuff. Okay. So what have you got in store for
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