24-hour rule you must stick to before you spend a single penny in the January sales Shopping in the January sales can save you a lot of money – if you actually need the item.
While you might not always get cashback on sale items, always check cashback sites for their Ts and Cs – and unique codes, too.
Under retail laws in the UK, an item must be sold at a higher price for at least 28 days before it is offered at a sale price.
This means that some retailers – particularly online – will falsely inflate a product’s price the month prior to a sale, so they can reduce it for the sale.
Many will have exclusive discount codes to add onto existing sale prices as well as giving you cashback.