{"id":4385,"date":"2022-01-17T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/17\/easy-wins-ditch-the-loyalty-tax-and-renegotiate-your-bills\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:46:55","slug":"easy-wins-ditch-the-loyalty-tax-and-renegotiate-your-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/17\/easy-wins-ditch-the-loyalty-tax-and-renegotiate-your-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy wins: ditch the loyalty tax and renegotiate your bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It needs doing just once in a while, but when you renegotiate a bill the cost savings keep on coming. Here\u2019s how to go about it in three steps<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/series\/easy-wins\">Easy wins: see others in the series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most regular bills we pay are negotiable, but many of us don\u2019t realise it and end up paying the \u201cloyalty tax\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> That tax refers to the higher prices paid by loyal customers. Often applied to banking products, this is also true for other regular bills we pay. Providers normally have enticing sign-up deals to poach new customers. Meanwhile, existing customers end up paying higher prices, hence termed the loyalty tax.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/jan\/18\/easy-wins-ditch-the-loyalty-tax-and-renegotiate-your-bills\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8421f76c913df85b59233eae7d2cf3f1643ecdd3\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.png?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a7cffd00dc55c329b51c41b13026d847\" title=\"Easy wins: ditch the loyalty tax and renegotiate your bills\" \/>It needs doing just once in a while, but when you renegotiate a bill the cost savings keep on coming. Here\u2019s how to go about it in three steps<br \/>\nEasy wins: see others in the series<br \/>\nMost regular bills we pay are negotiable, but many of us don\u2019t realise it and end up paying the \u201cloyalty tax\u201d.<br \/>\n That tax refers to the higher prices paid by loyal customers. Often applied to banking products, this is also true for other regular bills we pay. Providers normally have enticing sign-up deals to poach new customers. Meanwhile, existing customers end up paying higher prices, hence termed the loyalty tax. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It needs doing just once in a while, but when you renegotiate a bill the cost savings keep on coming. Here\u2019s how to go about it in three steps Easy wins: see others in the series Most regular bills we pay are negotiable, but many of us don\u2019t realise it and end up paying the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/17\/easy-wins-ditch-the-loyalty-tax-and-renegotiate-your-bills\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easy wins: ditch the loyalty tax and renegotiate your bills<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}