Mystery Shopping Thread 22 *PLEASE READ THE OP FIRST**PLEASE NO CLIENT NAMES OR FEES*

HeavensDevil

Holy !!!!, we've finally been stickied! Only halfway through the thread! Wonder how many others will get lost before they realise :rotfl:

sparklysaver

jmds wrote: »

RE is a doddle compared to RA. I had to write 200 characters on a seating area that didn't exist the other day! :huh:

Aye, I've had that one. I wrote "This unit has no seating" then kept my finger on the full stop until I got to 200 characters. :rotfl:

I got no comment back and, quite frankly, wouldn't have minded if they'd taken offence because that was the first job I'd done for them and I'm not in any hurry to take a second one.

Every month I say I'm never doing Gap chicken again, and every month they phone me up with a lovely premium and I end up agreeing. Tell you what, the burger floor show and the mop mop mop mop mopping might be blooming annoying, but the toilet I was in today hadn't seen a mop this year. Probably not last year either. I am DEFINITELY never doing one of them again. :rotfl:

jen_br

HeavensDevil wrote: »

Holy !!!!, we've finally been stickied! Only halfway through the thread! Wonder how many others will get lost before they realise :rotfl:

LOL Sorry I messaged the board guide today and she sends her apologies!

wizurd

Hi All, Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask. I've been reading through the mystery shopper faq's etc but just wanted to check something out with regards to registering for tax for doing MS's.

I'm already in full time employment so would be doing this on weekends and in spare time (assuming thats possible). Just wondering how do i organise the tax for any payments i receive? Would i still register the MSing pay as a self employed person but as a secondary job?

Sorry if this is in the wrong place

misssarahleigh

wizurd wrote: »

Hi All, Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask. I've been reading through the mystery shopper faq's etc but just wanted to check something out with regards to registering for tax for doing MS's.

I'm already in full time employment so would be doing this on weekends and in spare time (assuming thats possible). Just wondering how do i organise the tax for any payments i receive? Would i still register the MSing pay as a self employed person but as a secondary job?

Sorry if this is in the wrong place

You can. I do this part time around full time work

You register as self employed and keep a record of all your earnings/expenses

e.g. You may be paid £20 for a job, but minus your allowable expenses (milage, printing, parking etc) you profit may be £15.

You will pay tax on the £15

As your full time you can register to be exempt from paying class 2 national insurance contributions (as you already pay this through full time employment).

You do the tax once a year and doesn't take long (less than an hour) if you keep your records neat throughout the year.

Big_Graeme

jmds wrote: »

RE is a doddle compared to RA. I had to write 200 characters on a seating area that didn't exist the other day! :huh:

I pretended I was in school

There is no seating area.
There is no seating area.
There is no seating area.
There is no seating area.

RA really need to have a think about their reports if they are gonna pay peanuts.

wizurd

misssarahleigh wrote: »

You can. I do this part time around full time work

You register as self employed and keep a record of all your earnings/expenses

e.g. You may be paid £20 for a job, but minus your allowable expenses (milage, printing, parking etc) you profit may be £15.

You will pay tax on the £15

As your full time you can register to be exempt from paying class 2 national insurance contributions (as you already pay this through full time employment).

You do the tax once a year and doesn't take long (less than an hour) if you keep your records neat throughout the year.

Thats great - thanks for the info. Seems straight forward enough then.

Trevor64_2

mimi1234 wrote: »

Wow. Thumbs up to TNS. I am loving doing the reports on Sassie. It's so much easier to do and it's better than the Word documents where you had to look at each bit and then make sure you had to answer question 4b if 1c was marked no blah blah blah; and then have a nervous breakdown by the end of it.

It totally agree. They are a real breeze aren't they.
Virtually no narrative.
'You have 253 errors' becomes 'ready to submit' in about 10 minutes. Brilliant.

HeavensDevil

Trevor64 wrote: »

It totally agree. They are a real breeze aren't they.
Virtually no narrative.
'You have 253 errors' becomes 'ready to submit' in about 10 minutes. Brilliant.

All of mine took less than ten minutes each, just fantastic! Think we deserve it for all the faffing around and having to scan and save 22 pages of one questionnaire! Then converting each individual scan to PDF, then merging the PDFs... It's definitely a project that you need to have a few jobs on to make it worthwhile - if I'd only got one or two I'd have long told them where to stick it! :rotfl:

Trevor64_2

HeavensDevil wrote: »

All of mine took less than ten minutes each, just fantastic! Think we deserve it for all the faffing around and having to scan and save 22 pages of one questionnaire! Then converting each individual scan to PDF, then merging the PDFs... It's definitely a project that you need to have a few jobs on to make it worthwhile - if I'd only got one or two I'd have long told them where to stick it! :rotfl:

Yep.
I ended up with my full quota after some got dropped so not a bad 3 days work since I have a few other jobs laced into the gaps. Happy days :T
I have my first job for Mystery shoppers tomorrow too. It's a gym. I have no clue how they will pay me though because the email they have for me is different to my paypal one and I've not found anywhere to upload my bank details for BACS.
Any of you folk know? I guess I'll just email them.