Mystery Shopping Thread 20 **PLEASE DO NOT MENTION CLIENT NAMES OR FEES ON HERE**

Lil_Me_2

HappyMJ wrote: »

Is the £1,200 profit? I earn about the same as you but write the whole lot off against mileage expenses at 45p a mile so there is no profit and nothing to declare. 2,600 miles a year (50 miles a week) at 45p will reduce your profit to zero.

I only managed to reduce my profit down to £1600 for this years tax return

Need to do more rubbish paid jobs 100 miles away!

poor_student138

Lil_Me wrote: »

I only managed to reduce my profit down to £1600 for this years tax return

Need to do more rubbish paid jobs 100 miles away!

£1,600 profit? You must do a lot of shops to get that much!!

HappyMJ

Lil_Me wrote: »

I only managed to reduce my profit down to £1600 for this years tax return

Need to do more rubbish paid jobs 100 miles away!

Is that all from MS. That's a lot. My total profit is about £35 per week and I put in about 35 hours per week over a variety of different things. The MS profit is zero over the year but has to be done to get my hours up to get working tax credits and the mileage on the car paid for....and it's quite fun. If I didn't do it I'd be unemployed and the car would have to be declared off road. With no car on the road MOT'd, taxed and insured ready to take on a new job I'd find it hard if not impossible to find a decent well paid permanent full time job.

Just doing a MS job in town it's 7 miles to get to and from so that's £3.15 towards my car expenses. I did the same shop yesterday but in another town that was 28 miles to get to/from so I put £12.60 towards car expenses that job only paid about a third of that as a fee so I made a loss this week.

serendipity2706

HappyMJ wrote: »

I would accept a job if it paid £1 an hour as a minimum plus enough to cover all the expenses involved in getting to and from the clients site.[/QUOTE}
You would????????
I wont accept less than £25 an hour unless it will get me onto the rung of better paying jobs, or its a trip/day out somewhere.
If you are happy to accept less than 1/4 of the minimum wage, no wonder the companies are reducing their fees!

HappyMJ

serendipity2706 wrote: »

I would accept a job if it paid £1 an hour as a minimum plus enough to cover all the expenses involved in getting to and from the clients site.[/QUOTE}
You would????????
I wont accept less than £25 an hour unless it will get me onto the rung of better paying jobs, or its a trip/day out somewhere.
If you are happy to accept less than 1/4 of the minimum wage, no wonder the companies are reducing their fees!

I've not yet seen a MS job that actually pays minimum wage unless the client premises was actually next door to me. I leave home at Midday to go to the job takes about 20 minutes to get there spend 5 minutes finding the client 20 minutes on the clients premises then 15 minutes taking notes in town whilst it's all still fresh on my mind then get back home in about 20 minutes then spend another 20 minutes entering data onto MS website. All that time 100 minutes for effectively 85 pence profit or 51 pence per hour. I only take those jobs if I am doing something else in town or can do a burger and a bank together. Edit: I haven't counted the time spent in looking for the job in the morning, accepting then printing and reading the assignment.

I'd love £25 an hour. But there are no takers.

serendipity2706

HappyMJ wrote: »

I've not yet seen a MS job that actually pays minimum wage unless the client premises was actually next door to me. I leave home at Midday to go to the job takes about 20 minutes to get there spend 5 minutes finding the client 20 minutes on the clients premises then 15 minutes taking notes in town whilst it's all still fresh on my mind then get back home in about 20 minutes then spend another 20 minutes entering data onto MS website. All that time 100 minutes for effectively 85 pence profit or 51 pence per hour. I only take those jobs if I am doing something else in town or can do a burger and a bank together.

I'd love £25 an hour. But there are no takers.

Well, it wouldn't often be one job, but quite a few jobs pay £10 ish a job, also I'm not likely to go out for just one job, I always make a circuit, or a few in the same shopping centre.
If you don't know where the shop is, use google maps before you go to see the shop online, saves wandering about looking for it.

Boredupnorth

serendipity2706 wrote: »

HappyMJ wrote: »

I would accept a job if it paid £1 an hour as a minimum plus enough to cover all the expenses involved in getting to and from the clients site.[/QUOTE}
You would????????
I wont accept less than £25 an hour unless it will get me onto the rung of better paying jobs, or its a trip/day out somewhere.
If you are happy to accept less than 1/4 of the minimum wage, no wonder the companies are reducing their fees!

£25 an hour! You must be video shopping then as there are no jobs that I have ever seen paying that much for standard shopping.

Unless of course you are talking just about the physical shop paying around a tenner, I suppose you could do 3 in an hour or so. But then you have to take time to get there time back, time for the reports and of course the costs. Minimum wage is about all you end up with unless you get a hat full in 1 town of course.

yonk

Ok, I aim for about £10 an hour and never get near £25 but £1 is just not worth it.

Boredupnorth

yonk wrote: »

Ok, I aim for about £10 an hour and never get near £25 but £1 is just not worth it.

I agree jobs for a tenner are generally worth it but I would never do just one in a town unless I was going there already for something else.
Pretty much never do any that come with a reimbursement as part of the fee either. I cant see the point in doing them if there is no actual money to be made.

mysterious_girl

berbastrike wrote: »

Anyone else have trouble with GFK test for 'financial institution' visits?

No. PM me which financial institution and I may be able to help. I think I've done them all.