Budget buys and freebies
Choose DVD rental
www.choosedvdrental.co.uk
Comparison site to help movie buffs and gaming geeks find the best deals on DVD and game rentals as well as a directory of sites that offer free DVD rental trials.
Freebiers' Club
www.freebiersclub.co.uk
Free stuff and discounts (not exclusively for students).
Native.tv
www.native.tv
Native.tv is a free music and travel website including travel features and destination guides from countries and cities all around the world, live music reviews, gig and club guides, retro games, competitions, financial advice for young adults and more.
Sell Student Stuff
www.sellstudentstuff.com
Search for accommodation, laptops (new and used) and books. There's a vast collection of 900,000+ books, searchable by name, author or subject. If you still can't find what you're looking for, they'll even send you text alerts when that vital book turns up. And when you're done with it, flog it on to someone eLSE. Sweet.
Skint
www.s-k-i-n-t.co.uk
Discounts, competitions, etc.
Student Free Stuff
www.studentfreestuff.com
The clue's in the name. Special offers, competitions and so on aimed at students. You may get useful freebies, but you'll almost certainly get a lot of spam.
Student Find
www.studentfind.co.uk
Basically a load of advertising – some of it useful – for student services, most of it catalogued by university.
Swap and Play
www.swapandplay.co.uk
What Napster would have been to your gran's generation. Save money on music, movies and more by swapping what you've got for, er, stuff you haven't got.
TextbookAce.com
http://www.textbookace.com
Bare but functional US site selling new and used college textbooks as well as novels, study guides and teachers' notes.
Last updated on: 16 July 2008