MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD 18 - please don't mention client names or fees on here!!

nehpets81

blindman wrote: »

Funny you should mention that :cool:

Ha! Very cryptic! Care to say more?!:p

mysterious_girl

dazza.mk wrote: »

I think Mysterious Girl might need an Opticians mystery shop, as I think she clicked the wrong 'Quote' button

You're right Dazza. On my phone and its all very tiny! Sorry everyone for the mix up. Whoops. No offence intended to anyone.

So much for my great day!

nickc1989

forestroxydog wrote: »

I have just brought myself an Iphone and a Macbook Pro can I claim part of these as an expense as I will use them both 50/50 for personal and MS'ing. If I do put them down though I will be very minus on my books.

On a very technical note, the MacBook (and probably the iPhone) cannot be put as an expense; it counts as capital expenditure because it's intended to last a while, rather than expenses which are meant to be... well.. expendable!

In practice however you get the same tax allowance, but on the tax return, you have to put it under "Annual Investment Allowance" rather than as an allowable expense. And if it's half personal/half business, you can only count half. Feel free to PM me if any of that is badly explained

yonk

nehpets81 wrote: »

Ha! Very cryptic! Care to say more?!:p

People who do flights never reveal who or what they do...they just like to tease...:D

forestroxydog

nickc1989 wrote: »

On a very technical note, the MacBook (and probably the iPhone) cannot be put as an expense; it counts as capital expenditure because it's intended to last a while, rather than expenses which are meant to be... well.. expendable!

In practice however you get the same tax allowance, but on the tax return, you have to put it under "Annual Investment Allowance" rather than as an allowable expense. And if it's half personal/half business, you can only count half. Feel free to PM me if any of that is badly explained

Thank you so much. I am going to do my first online self assessment very soon I am just getting confused with the goods taken for personal use as well. will pm you some questions a bit later.
Thanks again:)

Skiergirl

mysterious_girl wrote: »

They never give me coffee of any sort. I only get jewellery audits and attractions. At least I get something so shouldn't complain.

You must live 0.1 miles nearer the jewellery as I never get any, but I did get a coffee last month

I had a call to do an urgent bank today, serves me right for not checking but it doesn't open weds :mad: = 1 wasted journey

mysterious_girl

Skiergirl wrote: »

You must live 0.1 miles nearer the jewellery as I never get any, but I did get a coffee last month

I had a call to do an urgent bank today, serves me right for not checking but it doesn't open weds :mad: = 1 wasted journey

It was in our run down local department store near the station. You'll know the one. Maybe I am .01 miles closer! But I parked up the top so they had to reimburse me £1.00. Didn't want to park at Tesco and walk in the rain.

I hardly get anything from GfK anymore. Do you have anything other than RED and LOC on your visits available page? I use to do loads for them but am trying to figure out if other people are getting the jobs or if there is just a lack of jobs. Where was your bank?

Was it a mortgage enquiry? Did the town start with "W"?

weeg

AAAAAAaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh

So, the spreadsheet I put together last july for all my MSing for my tax credits form is either a)been deleted (unlikely) b) saved. But saved on a laptop I reurned to the ship in a fit of pique after 6 weeks as it didn't work properly or c) saved on my old desk top - for which the monitor no longer works.

Anyway I can connect desk top to laptop and look at files?

Sorry, not a strictly MS query - but I needed to scream somewhere!

mysterious_girl

weeg wrote: »

AAAAAAaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh

So, the spreadsheet I put together last july for all my MSing for my tax credits form is either a)been deleted (unlikely) b) saved. But saved on a laptop I reurned to the ship in a fit of pique after 6 weeks as it didn't work properly or c) saved on my old desk top - for which the monitor no longer works.

Anyway I can connect desk top to laptop and look at files?

Sorry, not a strictly MS query - but I needed to scream somewhere!

ship? Do you work on a ship?

weeg

mysterious_girl wrote: »

ship? Do you work on a ship?

Comedy typo! I do, in fact, mean shOp. Which in itself was an MS. I did my whole laptop enquiry, then left saying I wanted to check with my partner. And 3 weeks later, by coincidence, was in the same shop with bloke and took him to look at laptops. Cue embarrassing conversation "oh , you're back! we thought you were our mystery shopper!"