The Mystery Shopping thread - VIII

cte1111

mysterious_girl wrote: »

I can beat CTE's bare flight. I have just won a whopping £8.00 on my bookies job. Weee heee.

Ooh well done. Will have to come to you for tips. None of my horses have won yet. I live in hope. Am going to the bingo later this week, have been sent free vouchers from the one I joined for GFK, so maybe my numbers will come up there. :cool: Then I can afford to stay in a 5 star hotel, rather than a motel.

Mes1214

I did a bank job for GfK this afternoon. I kept checking on GR this morning but nothing's there and while I was doing the bank job I missed a job on GR :mad: I have 7 jobs booked from tomorrow till next Monday but that's all for this month!

cte1111

angel13 wrote: »

is everyone busy this week???? I do not have ANY work at all. spent this morning checking and there was nothing and whilst I popped to town some jobs in my area appeared but went through GR so I missed out apart from that theres been nothing and im getting worried

I've got quite a bit on this week - all for GR and GFK, and grabbed at the end of last week or today: 3 phone shops, 5 banks and a meteoric electrical retailer (which I thought RE had, but maybe a competitor visit or a trial for them who knows).

Nothing down for any of the other companies though. Still hoping that the stamp shops will suddenly re-appear on gap :rolleyes:.

princess_leia_3

I have 2 booked for total so you are doing well

Are the reimbursement amounts (apart from food) really counted as taxable income I thought that as you needed to spend the money then it was classed as an expense......otherwise I would not spend this money at all???

Getting really confused now so please can you tell me what you do, thanks

mysterious_girl

angel13 wrote: »

is everyone busy this week???? I do not have ANY work at all. spent this morning checking and there was nothing and whilst I popped to town some jobs in my area appeared but went through GR so I missed out apart from that theres been nothing and im getting worried

I had two banks today, a travel agent and 2 bookies. Tomorrow nothing. Wednesday nothing again. Thursday a free pub lunch, another bank and a chemist and that is it until my free pizza lunch on Monday where I am once again going to use my 2 for 1 voucher!

princess_leia_3

MGirl it does now state in the notes that you shouldn't use vouchers to pay......do you still use them even thought it states not to?

cte1111

princess_leia wrote: »

I have 2 booked for total so you are doing well

Are the reimbursement amounts (apart from food) really counted as taxable income I thought that as you needed to spend the money then it was classed as an expense......otherwise I would not spend this money at all???

Getting really confused now so please can you tell me what you do, thanks

I treat it as a taxable expense, it's fine as long as you give the items to charity, which I'm sure we all do.

angel13

did anyone do a phone call re: phones for Bare last week? They had rated my report as a 9 but now sent me an email saying i dont qualify for payment. All that work for 6euros and now they arent going to pay me :mad: Anyone else having the same problem???

ukmonkey

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

Next time you see loads, maybe you could put them on the Alerts thread for us? You'll find it here: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=781519

Thanks, TG xx

Hre here, I've barely seen any new jobs today, but then again not everyone is generous enough to share information...:rolleyes:

mysterious_girl

princess_leia wrote: »

MGirl it does now state in the notes that you shouldn't use vouchers to pay......do you still use them even thought it states not to?

I will read the notes. It never said it before. If it says not to use them in the notes then of course I wont use them. Thanks for the tip - I will check later. But whenever I go there for lunch, everyone uses the voucher. I am going to look silly not having one.