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One the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me a brand new Dell Computer!  Sounds pretty nice eh!  We are a big fan of dell as they provide very good quality machines at reasonable prices!  They are bound to have some great deals going on around the festive period!

Want to read review before you buy?  Check out the Dell Machine Reviews on the Brandstar Website!

Our retailer for the Second Day of Christmas is 123-reg.co.uk.  123-Reg sell domain names and hosting for websites.  So if you have to buy a present for a computer addict this would be a great present to get them blogging on the Internet in 2009!

Need some help with setting up a website?  Check out our Quick Tip Series on Basic Website Setup!

Over the next 12 days we are going to have a retailer of the day.  For each retailer we’ll give you a quick idea of what they sell and why we think that they are worth checking out for Christmas ideas!  Our first retailer is Apple.

Apple are probably best known for their iPods, iPhones and Macs.  iPods are more than likely to be a very popular product to have this Christmas.  A bonus from buying from Apple is that you can personalise your products (e.g. have your name engraved into the iPod).

They manufacture great products for everyone!

For me, buying online is like second nature, in fact I probably spend more online these days that I do in the high-street. It is just more convenient as well as the fact that online prices are usually cheaper. But what about squeezing out a little bit more?

Many people will be familiar with store reward schemes, Tesco Clubcard for example, but the one I want to recommend today is Nectar. Nectar is often thought of as the Sainsburys “clubcard”. But you can collect points at so many more stores, BP for example. But the best bit is that you can collect points online from hundreds if not thousands of retailers including Amazon.co.uk, Play.com, ebookers.com and Dell.co.uk. Which makes collecting points even easier! Nectar.com is the place to start for a full list of those retailers taking part!

If you shop online then this is certainly something to consider, I saved a lot of money in Argos the other day spending nectar points. I bought a plane ticket the other day from ebookers and for every pound the plane ticket cost I got 2 nectar points! That is a common thing 2 points per pound, but there are often offers on. For example, earlier this week I got an offer from Dell of triple points, so that is 6 points per pound, not bad when I just spent over £1000 with Dell!

Some people think it is a bit sad collecting points like this, but for very little effort you can collect something that is going to save you money on something in the future! I saved around £70 in Argos, admittedly I had around 16000 points but as I have just shown you, if you take advantage of the offers then you can save those points pretty quick!

Give it a go, nectar.com also lists the places you can spend your points, both online and on the high-street.