I need to make £1,100 pounds in my spare time by September...

gizmoleeds

Okay, I am on a gap year and I will be going to university in London in September. I am working full-time (35 hours a week) and I am trying my best to save as much as I can before I go but I have just analysed my current savings and my expected income and (necessary) expenses over the next 5 months and I am £1,100 short of my original savings target :eek:.

I therefore need to make £1,100 in the next five months - which shouldn't be too hard...

I don't really have any credit rating at all so I don't think I can do any stoozing - I am going to look at some gambling introductory offers and free bets with cashback kind of thing but I need more... all suggestions welcome.

Oh, and I can't get overtime where I work BTW.

elona

Selling books on Amazon?

Paid to clicks?

Pigsback vouchers?

Serenity

Any chance of finding a second job?

elona

There is a thread started by apprentice tycoon on selling books on Amazon and the type of books that have proved popular. It is in the ebay section here. I have sold several books from a charity shop for over £4 each that I bought for about 40 or 50 pence each.

Pigsback is under the "freebies" section on here and there is a thread on paid to clicks but I cannot find it or do links.

Someone should be along soon who can do this better than me!

Best of luck!

Goldilox

Start selling all your unwanted items on eBay - clothes, shoes, dvds, cds...etc pretty much anything you don't want. eBay is a great way to bring in extra income. :-)

My advice is to start low on the asking price as you get loads more interest and usually end up selling the product for more.

Tim_L

Matched betting (see the newbies guide on the gambling board here) will make you £1100 easily in the time you have available. It's a risk free way of using bookmaker bonuses to generate lots of free money. A hell of a lot quicker and easier than working for it or selling stuff.

(Usually when I mention this I get attacked for persuading people into a life of vice, so can I be quite clear that this is not gambling, it is not the inevitable road to ruin, and it does work).

sarah_2-2

You could always try doing surveys on the internet- often pay pretty well considering how much time they take. Global Test Market always sends me tons- it works on a point system, then you redeem the points. Ciao often has good ones too. You could try mystery shopping too- often takes 20mins total to go into a shop, ask a few questions, then fill in a form, and you get paid at least a fiver for it. Try Gapbuster and Frontline Focus for things like Pizza hut and KFC (meals paid for plus an extra £5).

There's a longer list on I Love Freebies with tons of ideas of little ways to get extra cash. Hope this helps!

Goldilox

Yeah Surveys are good - but I don't think he will earn enough in the time space he needs - they are great for earning a bit of moola in the long term though. Survey Savvy is really good and they pay out quite high on surveys (not too regular though unless you are a computer geek)...take a look at https://www.surveyspark.com - they have loads listed there - no claims you will earn millions either so I quite like it!

ladysurrey

Hi

another survey site is

http://www.yougov.com

or

http://www.yougov.com/users/registrationIntro.asp?jID=3&sID=2&UID=%7BFE3D5051%2D48CA%2D4BA4%2D910D%2D54388585DF85%7D

they pay between 50p and £1 a survey and you have to get £50 to recieve a payout so it takes a while but I got there in the end.

Miss_Cinnabon

Best bet would be mystery shopping, i do this as a part time job and depending on the jobs they pay regular if you can get it.

I believe gfknop are recruiting just now, they pay every 2 weeks and are my main source of work.

Go to http://cybershoppers.nop.co.uk/ and click on application form

skyrocket

You say your credit rating is zero? Have you incurred charges from the bank/credit cards in the past? If so you could claim them back. Through Martins link I found the consumeractiongroup and that's what I'm doing. It could be a good way for you to claw some of that £1100 back.
HTH
Sky