Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys?

Chas

The majority of companies ask for your bank details when you apply. I suppose they could ask for them when you do your first job but it would be extra admin for the company.

I don't have a problem with giving my bank details - after all, it's no different to writing a cheque & giving it to someone, all the same details are on a cheque.

Rachie_B

newmum1 wrote: »

Come on guys own up, whos on this forum and nicking all my mysery shopping before I can call up, I used to do about 4 - 5 per week now im lucky if I get 1 per month, own up come on.........

theres always loadsa pub ones on TNS in Brum lol

hathor

Just done my first shop for a new-to-me company and hit a technical problem: I need to upload a piccy of a document to complete my report, as I do not have a fax machine, but the JPEG is nearly 900KB & the company will only allow files of 300KB.
I tried zipping it, but a right click on Properties has the file at nearly the same size, so I'm stuck.
I have approached the company via the "enquiries" button and await their verdict by email, but I thought maybe you experienced shoppers would have the answer at your fingertips - Please!
I know the money's rubbish, but I'm at an "every penny counts" stage in my life, and don't want to get off on the wrong foot with these people; there are few enough opportunities in my neck of the woods as it is!
Please take pity on a poor learner & put me out of my misery.

chocaholic110

hathor wrote: »

Just done my first shop for a new-to-me company and hit a technical problem: I need to upload a piccy of a document to complete my report, as I do not have a fax machine, but the JPEG is nearly 900KB & the company will only allow files of 300KB.
I tried zipping it, but a right click on Properties has the file at nearly the same size, so I'm stuck.
I have approached the company via the "enquiries" button and await their verdict by email, but I thought maybe you experienced shoppers would have the answer at your fingertips - Please!
I know the money's rubbish, but I'm at an "every penny counts" stage in my life, and don't want to get off on the wrong foot with these people; there are few enough opportunities in my neck of the woods as it is!
Please take pity on a poor learner & put me out of my misery.

Don't know if this will help but I had a similar problem once on this very same board and was almost at the point of tears!
I got round it by opening an account at photobucket.co.uk (I think), uploading the picture to there, resizing it smaller and saving it back to my computer and sending from there. A bit of a faff, but haven't had any complaints. having said that, maybe someone will be along soon with some better technical advice.
Good luck!

Becles

Have you got Microsoft Picture Editor? I think it's part of Office.

If so, open the picture in that:
Click on "edit picture"
Click on "compress" and select the relevant option to get it under 300kb.

That's what I do and it works!

Genie75

I usually save scanned receipts as a .pdf file. Much smaller than a .jpeg
HTH

redcar_2

puddings wrote: »

Oh, forgot to say...
before saying "no" why not try haggling, it sometimes works.
I roughly work out in my head how many hours the job will take and how many miles the journey is.
I times the milage by 20p and the number of hours by £6, and tell them for example "Sorry £10 is not enough, I would want £20, that's £8 to cover the 40 mile journey plus £12 to cover my time" They do sometimes use discretion when they're desperate, but often won't offer it unless you ask first.

I did haggle once with one of the companies that used to phone me a lot to offer bank jobs. This one was much further away ~7 miles rather than in my town so I asked for extra milage - I think £3. They gave me the job but since then haven't called me with any more last minute ones... Probably another sign of companies relying on people not asking for these types of extras.

hathor

Thanks guys for your suggestions. Managed to compress it via the photo program on my PC which resamples to smaller size (whatever that means!) but anyhow it took it down to 300KB & you can still read the info when you click on the pic, so that'll do.
Sorry Genie, forgot to say: they will only accept .jpg, .jpeg or .gif files, so pdf no good.
Hope I'm still within the deadline (8hrs) but if not, too late to worry now!!
Thanks again.

blownalot

Does anyone have any experiences (good or bad) with International Service Check?

jobbingmusician

hathor wrote: »

Thanks guys for your suggestions. Managed to compress it via the photo program on my PC which resamples to smaller size (whatever that means!) but anyhow it took it down to 300KB & you can still read the info when you click on the pic, so that'll do.
Sorry Genie, forgot to say: they will only accept .jpg, .jpeg or .gif files, so pdf no good.
Hope I'm still within the deadline (8hrs) but if not, too late to worry now!!
Thanks again.

The other thing you can try is playing with the settings when you actually scan into the the machine - if you scan at lower resolution it will occupy less KB