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elysia2003

Rufus- I have the tocco (samsung f480), and yes they will let you on msn and facebook. I loved mine so much, I just upgraded to the ultra - brilliant!

Hiya lovetomake - welcome to the thread. I take it your vouchers are from points received while shopping? Have you joined any survey sites yet? Good ones are Onepoll, toluna, new vista and valued opinions. The surveys get a bit boring sometimes but you should see your savings mount up quite quickly.

Also join dooyoo. They pay you 50p for a written review and 1.5p every time someone rates it. We have a challenge at the moment to raise £20 there, in June and you are very welcome to join in - that'll put extra money in the Christmas fund.

HlCarroll - I'd have been gutted for you if they hadn't have paid. I know how that feels. My customers and I lost £5,000 when farepak (christmas hamper company) went bust a couple of years ago. Now that was bad - I don't know how I coped with the guilt, and it wasn't my fault.

lovetomake

Thanks Elysia. Only the Tesco ones are from shopping. The Sainsburys ones are from lightspeed and the others from cokezone. I've already joined OnePoll and have about £15 on there at the minute but obviously the pay out is £40 so have to wait a little while yet. I also signed up for toluna but had no surveys I was eligible for for about 2 months now. It's getting annoying so I don't tend to really bother with them all that much. My details and everything are all correct, I'm just not eligible. As for the other two, it said I was too young to join or I don't match criteria or something like that.

And with Dooyoo, I have £40 and a few pence on there but every time I submit a review they lock it for no apparent reason and won't tell me why so I sort of gave up on there as well as they said they'll delete my account if I do anything wrong again, yet they wont tell me what I did in the first place.

scuzz

Evening All

Well I started again with dooyoo about a week ago and up to around 3000 points, so I'm pretty pleased with that.

Had two pureprofile surveys earlier - screened out but earned 10p for that. Had a valued opinion one for £30 but it seems to have a bug and asks me for my post code over and over, saying it's invalid - anyone else having this trouble? I have emailed them over it.

Sold some bits at a table top sale earlier - took £8 but the table cost £5:rotfl:

NickyBo_2

lovetomake wrote: »

And with Dooyoo, I have £40 and a few pence on there but every time I submit a review they lock it for no apparent reason and won't tell me why so I sort of gave up on there as well as they said they'll delete my account if I do anything wrong again, yet they wont tell me what I did in the first place.

Hi and welcome Lovetomake
With regards to Dooyoo, if you have £40 worth of points could you not request £40 Amazon vouchers and then close that account? It's definitely worth a try. If you wanted to try Dooyoo again, you could open a brand new Dooyoo account and have a fresh start.

mum2one

jamtart6 wrote: »

well done guys that is brilliant!!!

if any of you have an iphone, onepoll have an app for it and makes doing surveys so much easier! they have had some good paying ones recently too.

Any tips for car boot sales any one? We have soooooo much stuff to sell!

For car boots, local schools are usually worth looking at, as a lot of parents go to them, know our local school, gd day they've had 100 cars....

Get there early, ours says 8am start, we get there 6.30am, not the 1st

I always preprice, I found that easier, thou theres always barter with you

Plenty of change

If u can, take someone with you, as once you open the boot its madness, people have been known to try to climb into boots, and they rummage through boxes before you've even got them out.

Anything valueable, keep near to you, as some people can be light fingered,

Have fun!! xx

sarahf191979

scuzz wrote: »

Evening All

Well I started again with dooyoo about a week ago and up to around 3000 points, so I'm pretty pleased with that.

Had two pureprofile surveys earlier - screened out but earned 10p for that. Had a valued opinion one for £30 but it seems to have a bug and asks me for my post code over and over, saying it's invalid - anyone else having this trouble? I have emailed them over it.

Sold some bits at a table top sale earlier - took £8 but the table cost £5:rotfl:

I got that VO £30 one and got screened out:mad:, well it said they had enough people already, but it asked for post code twice, the second time it only wanted the first part of pc not all of it.

Hope you get on it.

cyclingyorkie

lovetomake wrote: »

Hello everyone. I hope you don't mind me joining in.

So far this year, I've got £34.50 in vouchers but that's all I've managed so far. I've got £9.50 back from Tesco, a £5 Boots voucher, £5 HMV voucher and £15 in Sainsburys vouchers. I do hope to earn more than that, though, of course. It's just a start really.

you're doing well - as my mum would say 'look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves!'

rufusdog52

Great idea Jammy. I will do it for the day before as I dont really come on here of an evening.

Yesterday
1. Written two reviews on Dooyoo worth £1
2. Did Daily Clicks on all sites worth £2.68 (approx)
3. Did two Its Your View surveys worth £1.40
3. No spend day (mind you most days are this as I dont go out much)

rufusdog52

elysia2003 wrote: »

Rufus- I have the tocco (samsung f480), and yes they will let you on msn and facebook. I loved mine so much, I just upgraded to the ultra - brilliant!

Thanks elysia, thats what I wanted to know xx

elysia2003

Brilliant idea JT.

Yesterday:
1. Wrote a dooyoo review but saved it in Word as waiting for the suggestion to be added. (have two saved now)
2. Managed one survey on VO for 50p.
3. On Toluna I did all the polls that were available (about 2,000 points)
4. 5p off One poll.