Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys?

chocaholic110

Got two PO MSs tomorrow where you have to spend over £5. Is it ok just to buy stamps that value over £5? The list says stamp books - are loose stamps ok?? Wouldn't really want any of the other things on the list -what have other people bought?

Chas

Chocaholic - it's fine to buy loose stamps, just make sure you do actually spend at least £5.

redballoon - I've always used an HSBC switch card & have never had any problems, but there was talk on another forum a few weeks ago about HSBC being deleted from the list. It's probably best to email the company direct via their website & ask them.

The brief said they could tell which card you had used from the last four digits & that always surprised me because I thought it was the first 4 digits that determined the bank/card provider. The last 4 digits on my card are the last 4 digits of my bank account number.

izoomzoom

Chocaholic - I wasn't sure about the basic account info either and I have a MS to do on Thurs, so I have just mailed them. It definitely no longer says HSBC on the list though. Last time, I ended up using my husbands card.

I have tonnes of stamps from pre Christmas so was delighted to realise on my last shop that I could purchase mobile top up as I have a pay as you go phone.

Hope you get a reply before you have to go in the morning.

System

That makes sense about HSBC. I thought I had seen them on the list too (though they are not there now). I checked and double checked before I accepted the assignment. When I printed out the questionnaire HSBC wasn't on the list! Rather than look like an idiot I told them I was sick and couldn't do it. Didn't want to say I hadn't checked the list or risk not getting paid.

Becles

chocaholic110 wrote:

Got two PO MSs tomorrow where you have to spend over £5. Is it ok just to buy stamps that value over £5? The list says stamp books - are loose stamps ok?? Wouldn't really want any of the other things on the list -what have other people bought?

You can buy the postage labels they stick on parcels too. Handy if you've got things like birthday presents to send, or ebay sales

The best one I did was sending purcashes back to another MS company. I got reimbursed the postage from them for sending the goods back, then reimbursed from the PO MS company for my postage purchase

redcar_2

rachelja wrote:

That makes sense about HSBC. I thought I had seen them on the list too (though they are not there now). I checked and double checked before I accepted the assignment. When I printed out the questionnaire HSBC wasn't on the list! Rather than look like an idiot I told them I was sick and couldn't do it. Didn't want to say I hadn't checked the list or risk not getting paid.

I think I must have been caught by the same thing. I was sure when I saw the list originally HSBC was there as thats my normal debit card and so I am sure I wouldn't have agreed unless I could use that one. Like you I didn't want to look an idiot when I rechecked the list and saw to my horror it wasn't there and thought I must have imagined it. Luckily I have a debit card I don't normally use with one of the other accounts they do accept and have been able to get a pin number for that card sent out so hopefully will be OK.

Doh! I'm so glad you have said this as what with missing a pre-shop call window today and that mix-up I was beginning to think I'm not cut out for MS.

blownalot

PONDSAVER wrote:

BAI just emailed me saying delayed due to bank holiday and should be with me by tomorrow. ???

Redballoon they add it monthly but on different days I think the main block of jobs is due around 19/01 but other jobs like garages etc get added about a week before hand - someone else might be more exact for you.

Can you let us know if you get paid please? I have several jobs (Building Societies) done in November which should have been paid in December and when I spoke to them this morning they asked me to wait until the end of the week and let them know again if I still hadn't been paid.

These were the first jobs I did for them and I wonder if they are normally this bad at paying? I think blaming the bank holiday is a poor excuse - it's not like they didn't know there was going to be one is it !!

PONDSAVER_2

No Still no gone in this morning - when we were meant to be paid 15/12 I think this is poor - especially when some people have been paid. This is my first payment from them but still a biggy as I did the showroom one where you had to do so many for them. I had them check my bank details before christmas and tehy say they have all the information they need there. I will email them again and see what their response is. I am no applying for anymore jobs with them until I get payment.

Rachie_B

sorry some of you still havent got paid

blownalot yes they are IMO always a bit crap with payments lol ,i am not going to do anymore for this company ,unless jobs from other companies dry up that is lol

Had 2 assignments on New Years day,have 1 today ,1 tomorrow and 2 @ the weekend

but only 1 other for the rest of jan so far

mjdh1957

Well, I enjoyed doing my first assignment yesterday. It felt a bit weird pretending to want to open an account with Barclays and chatting to the cashier, but it went OK. I felt a bit sorry for her as she seemed new and wasn't that good at explaining what everything was, and I marked her down on the report I gave. Still, that's what they're paying for and I hope she doesn't get into 'trouble'.

I've got another one next week too, with a different branch.

Now it's just a matter of waiting for the payment to arrive!

Wish I'd done this years ago...