challenge Make £11,000 in 2011 The Dribblers Advance

skint-student-nurse

hello!

DD and OH have gone out so i thought i would pop in before i tackle the housework :eek: i picked up my cheapo orders from town and listed the items on ebay so hopefully they will sell! Ive got loads more to ebay so i will do that tomorrow and DD wants to help me take the photos so that will keep her entertained for a while...

Nothing else to report really,its all slowed down this end! Off to scour the flat for change to stick in the sealed pot....finders,keepers and all that!

Fruittea

Care to share how you made it MrsG?

And welcome - just catching up with everyone. Nothing new for me today - but I think I'll put some more books up on the Amazing site.

If case anyones thinking about it. It is really easy - you only need to type in the ISBN code and everything pops into place. One tip though. Amazing have a standard postage rate for all books (£2.80) so be careful what you publish on the site. A large/heavy book can cost a fortune (for you) and and you could lose out. Skinny paperbacks go well and I've found any of my technical books (dog training etc) get snapped up quickly. Sorry about the pun.

Bye the way it's the RSPB birdwatch weekend this week. If you have a spare hour to sit and watch the garden - you could help out. There's a website about with down loadable birdie sheets. Not that anyone of us would have time to sit and gaze out the window. :cool:

Happy weekend every

MrsGSR wrote: »

Could join this please? so far I have made £48.15, not much but it's a start!

Fruittea

Hi there I've been scanning for about 6 months. Still haven't got many points - I think you have to consider a long game with Neilson.

They do send some paper surveys which they give generous point values for. I don't mind doing but a tip would be to pack your shopping in groups - so you have all the veg in one bag. Bread in another. I'm in a routine with it now but when anyone else does the shopping it drives me made. You have to scan every week or tell them your'e not shopping - via one the buttons on the scanner.

If you don't or forget to put the scanner in its craddle a really freaky mechanical voice telephones you and tells you off. :eek:

Saturday night is the time the data transactions take place. So the naughy call rings on Sunday. I usually run round the house picking up everyone mobile (that's what the scanner looks like) until I find it.

Still eventually there's a free gift and you get the benefit of knowing you're contributing to big brother!

jmds wrote: »

I got an invitation through Indiefield, a focus group company I'm signed up with.

minnie2

thanks Jess and Deq!! how do you keep swapping between free games? i may give it ago!!

deq123

minnie2 wrote: »

thanks Jess and Deq!! how do you keep swapping between free games? i may give it ago!!

just buy tickets for one of the games then go back to the lobby, click on the next game and so on!

Long_tall_sally

Fruittea wrote: »

Hi there I've been scanning for about 6 months. Still haven't got many points - I think you have to consider a long game with Neilson.

They do send some paper surveys which they give generous point values for. I don't mind doing but a tip would be to pack your shopping in groups - so you have all the veg in one bag. Bread in another. I'm in a routine with it now but when anyone else does the shopping it drives me made. You have to scan every week or tell them your'e not shopping - via one the buttons on the scanner.

If you don't or forget to put the scanner in its craddle a really freaky mechanical voice telephones you and tells you off. :eek:

Saturday night is the time the data transactions take place. So the naughy call rings on Sunday. I usually run round the house picking up everyone mobile (that's what the scanner looks like) until I find it.

Still eventually there's a free gift and you get the benefit of knowing you're contributing to big brother!

This made me laugh! It sounds a bit scary!

Well OH has been paid - £180 after tax & NI. I had a M &S £5 off £25 voucher I used but only including £2 as I didn't like the lemon mousses or the chocolate muffins that I bought from there so a bit of a waste there. Oh yes, just remembered I bought £63 worth of clothes in Dorothy Perkins yesterday (bit naughty but will soon have some birthday money) & saved 20% so £12.60 by opening an account which I will pay straight off. So £282.21 so far for me. I havent included the bit of money that I have made on e-bay as I have no idea at the moment how much I will have to pay in e-bay & paypal fees yet. Do they both send an e-mail to you with the amount you owe them?

Still can't access any pdf files with this silly computer so not managing to get any mystery shops yet but am getting close to payout on a couple of survey sites. I am intending to join some bingo sites in the next couple of days so that I can spend Wednesday playing on them when I am not at work. Keep up the hard work everyone, you are all really inspirational!

victoriaplum1

I have made a start on this challenge, fell off wagon last year - just going to update my signature to show a £72.91 total as hav got off backside and sold some things on ebay and Amazon - total is an underestimate though as I don't include anything made on P&P, I don't want to faff around with that as most of it taken up with fees or goes on buying the packaging and sellotape anyway. BUT can anyone who uses Amazon tell me how the fees work - as when I try to work it out looks as though I only get a few pence towards P&P so rest is cutting into the final sale price - that can't be right can it?

System

jmds wrote: »

Hi everyone

I've not been dipping into this thread as much this week so have just been catching up. Got to say I'm impressed at how well everyone has done.

This week's total is £89.95 which is mainly made up on mystery shop money. The other amounts are a £19 win on bingo and cashing out £5 from MySurvey. My grand total is £816.46 which I'm delighted with as you might imagine!

I'm expecting a delivery of a handheld scanner from Nielsen next week so I'll let you know how using that goes! Is anyone else signed up with them?

I used to scan my shopping too. I did it for over a year and got some nice freebies at the end of it with all my points. They also signed me up for a TV thing that monitored the channels you watched. This got me extra points on top of the usual. I moved house and stopped doing it though, I don't think they needed anyone in my new area.

Your total is fab by the way, well done!

System

babie_gurl wrote: »

did you make all the cakes in the photos ? they are amazing im inspired!

They look like the ones on Cupcake wars don't they. I love that show and wish I could make them lol

nikki2804

Well my eBay items have ended, the eyeshadow went for £8 and the foundation went for £14. Not too bad.

Only made £2.00 in tips last night :mad: but that went straight into the piggy.

Working tonight so hopefully a few more tips to be had, then got a nice little extra shift on Sunday night.

I'll put somemore stuff on eBay I think, too lazy to have lots of items on at the one time :rotfl:.