Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys?

Rachie_B

I was paid by cheque at first but then changed to bacs

re the pub job,is it with TNS ? if so i got the whole amount paid to me even though it was closed for refurb !!!

if it is tns then you dont have to submit receipts for pub ones

Chas

Turtle wrote:

Hi, wonder if anyone can help with this please? I've got a bar job for Friday, which is supposed to be food and drinks, but it says on the form if they dont do food then it becomes just a drinks assignment. I called them, and they dont do food. What I'm wondering is, the spend limit is £15, and I have to stay in the bar for an hour. This is difficult for just the drinks bit so can I buy more than one 'round' (of 2 drinks) from the £15 or do I have to pay for the second round from my own money? Obviously they will be on different receipts so is it ok to submit more than one receipt?

Difficult to answer your question Turtle - my advice would be to contact the company & ask them.

Turtle

My pub job is Retail Eyes. I will ring them. Thank you.

katchambers

Hi,

I would like to join your little MS group, if that's ok :rolleyes:

I used to do mystery shopping a bit last year but I didn't really need the money then so just did it a couple of times for fun, now I have a lot of debt to pay off so I am going to try and make some extra money by doing this. I have read most of the previous posts - which took me about a week of lunchtimes so now I am ready to start it again. I am already signed up with retail eyes and TNS but I have just joined grassroots (?) bai and a couple of others mentioned on this board.

I have 2 jobs set up now, a bank one for grassroots on monday and a pub one on saturday.

I already have a small business so I am familiar with the tax stuff and I have a business account that I can be paid into.

I will let ya know how my first 2 jobs go...been a while, hopefully will get back into the swing of things.

Kat x

little_pencil

Chas wrote:

For Gapburgers they quote a fee & reimbursement & you get the full amount of reimbursement regardless of how much you spend. If the meal costs 10p less than the reimbursement then you will still get the full amount.

Please remember that this extra bit (10p in the example above) then becomes part of your fee & is taxable.

There has been a lot of discussion on another forum about the quoted reimbursement not fully covering the required purchase, so the above example might not happen very often.

Do you know if they eventually start to up the fee (with a higher shopper rating)? I'll hardly make anything on the job I'm doing on Monday. :rotfl:

chocolategirl

katchambers wrote:

Hi,

I would like to join your little MS group, if that's ok :rolleyes:

I used to do mystery shopping a bit last year but I didn't really need the money then so just did it a couple of times for fun, now I have a lot of debt to pay off so I am going to try and make some extra money by doing this. I have read most of the previous posts - which took me about a week of lunchtimes so now I am ready to start it again. I am already signed up with retail eyes and TNS but I have just joined grassroots (?) bai and a couple of others mentioned on this board.

I have 2 jobs set up now, a bank one for grassroots on monday and a pub one on saturday.

I already have a small business so I am familiar with the tax stuff and I have a business account that I can be paid into.

I will let ya know how my first 2 jobs go...been a while, hopefully will get back into the swing of things.

Kat x

Hi

Good luck getting back into it. I've only been doing MS for a couple of weeks, but really enjoy it, and will love it when I start getting paid!

chocolategirl

little_pencil wrote:

Do you know if they eventually start to up the fee (with a higher shopper rating)? I'll hardly make anything on the job I'm doing on Monday. :rotfl:

I know what you mean about some jobs hardly making any money. I have already learnt to group jobs together to make it worthwhile. Eg try to get a few in the same area on the same day. I think this is the only way to earn good money by MS.

Rachie_B

the ones ive done with gapbuster are foodie ones ,so you are getting a free meal aswell as the albeit small fee ?

kat good luck ,im sure you will be fine

scootw1

if you are in an IVA will they want half the money you get from mystery shopping?

Rachie_B

scootw1 wrote:

if you are in an IVA will they want half the money you get from mystery shopping?

I have no idea sorry