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Can I make £1,024 in 11 weeks from nothing?

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  • Thank you so much FF. I'm having trouble keeping track of my own total and you are managing to keep track of everyone's. You are wonderful. I feel really inspired now I can see how well we are doing.:T
    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times and I'll smash your face in. :D
  • That's terrible news. If it was me I'd try contacting them, but I don't think it would help.
    Are they a points/survey site?
  • rebl43
    rebl43 Posts: 670 Forumite
    No, they are a hamper/ voucher company. You pay money each month, and usually in November you get your vouchers (eg debenhams, m &s, or whichever ones you have chosen) or food hamper. I saw it as a great way to save for christmas throughout the year, but now I am just gutted. The vouchers were going to pay for all the christmas food (for 12 of us) as well as for the presents so we will have to cut back a lot this year.
    :smileyhea
    Rachel xx
  • ehallett
    ehallett Posts: 1,960 Forumite
    rebl43 wrote:
    No, they are a hamper/ voucher company. You pay money each month, and usually in November you get your vouchers (eg debenhams, m &s, or whichever ones you have chosen) or food hamper. I saw it as a great way to save for christmas throughout the year, but now I am just gutted. The vouchers were going to pay for all the christmas food (for 12 of us) as well as for the presents so we will have to cut back a lot this year.

    That's awful. I save for vouchers each year too but not with Farepak (can't remember the name right now) but I don't think I'm going to do this next year if this can happen.

    Take care :o

    Emily x
  • rebl43 wrote:
    omg I have just found out that FAREPACK have gone bust so all the money (£600) I have been saving with them to get vouchers for christmas with is gone!
    I won't get anything!!!:eek: :cry: :mad:
    omg yr jokin!!!!! panic panic now off to check this out as run account with them with my customers
    Olympic bronze challenge-started 7/1/06-total so far is £194.30
  • freebird65
    freebird65 Posts: 1,751 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    OMG rebl43 & sandhabibi - that's awful! I really hope you can salvage something. If not you'll have to get your whole family & customers in on this challenge!

    FF - thanks for your efforts on the weekly roundups - much appreciated and it's fun to see how people are doing at a glance.

    Waveydave - excellent result on the bionic man - I checked last night how he'd done!

    Have a good week all x
  • Oh no - thats awful. I hope you get something back from them - wouldn't you be a creditor? Although it could go on a while, thats disgusting that you've lost that amount of money. Sorry to hear that.
    Well done on the bionic man - what a hunk!!!!!!!!!!
  • KittyKate
    KittyKate Posts: 1,606 Forumite
    I had a great week! To add to my £55 I sold 2 items of software given to me for free by uni a few years back - one sold for £32 and one for £22! After postage another £50 for the pot!

    I have 2300 piggy points and I've heard in the pisback thread there is a new way of making piggy points into money (using dublinbet) so could be another £20 ish there.

    I bought an old computer game for £3 and sold it for £10 on ebay so after postage a nice £6 profit - I have a few free sim cards to go on there and my dad is donating his old mobile to sell too :)

    So far I have made £105 in just over 2 weeks which isn't bad!
  • hannah2082 wrote:
    It's okay - just free money, (there just seems to be a few dodgy sellers on there - but isn't there everywhere?)

    You should try it!!:j

    How do I go about joining it and getting started? Thanks
  • Hi all,

    So far have made £17.94 - the current e-bay auctions have not even finished yet so I may make more... I have spent £10.93 on items so far inc ebay fees, so I'm up by £7.02 and the good news is I still have plenty more to sell this coming week so no need to spend more hard cash. Some are money saving books so I am sure they will be useful to some people.

    In Chesterfield there were some very good books so I picked up loads.

    I am still way behind others, but confused about how much I should have in my signature?
    MFW #185
    Mortgage slowly being offset! £86,987 /58,742 virtual balance
    Original mortgage free date 2037/ Now Nov 2034 and counting :T
    YNAB lover :D
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