Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys? (Part Two)

jobbingmusician

Woodyrocks wrote: »

RE are okay but they never seem to allow enough expenses for what they want you to carry out. For example order 2 main meals and 2 drinks for £15 :rolleyes:

Have you checked? Because I quite often find with RE there is a special offer on at the pub and you can get 2 main meals for well under a tenner....;)

Cheeky77_2

catwoman150 wrote: »

When you have updated all you details and submitted them, then you should be allowed to access the assignments. They have added some extra details as well, but you will have to check reguarly, as they do not always send an email out. I have picked up 2 jobs, but missed 5 so far.

Thanks for this post, I went back to the site and found a question I'd missed, now it's filled in I can see the assignments page. Will remember to keep checking for assignments.

Timmne

catwoman150 wrote: »

Whenever I log onto RE there is some jobs that have to be done tomorrow or ASAP. On my screen they do not seem to have jobs that you can book a week or later in advance. Or am I missing them. I have only been signed up with them for a month now and I keep missing jobs becasue I am either working or busy when they say that they have to be done.

Two reasons for this:

One could be that the jobs you are seeing are a pub chain that have posted a load of jobs in the last couple of days for the next day - not seen this much before but it was very noticeable yesterday at least.

The second reason is that you're only seeing the jobs that other people have released at the eleventh hour and RE really need them doing ASAP.

Hope this helps!

Sarahsaver

What's the address for f4 people please?

pondie1

ive just done first job and cant get my way round the questionaire,do u fill it in online or post to them(its came as adobe attachment)thanks

Woodyrocks

Sarahsaver wrote: »

What's the address for f4 people please?

focus4people.com

jobbingmusician

pondie1 wrote: »

ive just done first job and cant get my way round the questionaire,do u fill it in online or post to them(its came as adobe attachment)thanks

Go to your email account and find the questionnaire they sent you with the instructions (I usually do this by searching on a word in the location name - e.g. 'London' for a Pret at London Wall.)

Log in with the shopper number (which will stay the same) and the password (which changes every time) in the email. (Presumably you did all this to get the instructions for the visit.) Now keep clicking until you are past the instructions and into the questionnaire, to fill it in online.

Sarahsaver

??? tried that before and nothing came up I will try again thanks;)

wax

I have just entered my results for the first time on TNS website but I am unsure how I work out how much mileage expense to claim? It says upto £3.50
also I have printed my reciept at the end of the questionaire but I wasn't required to make a purchase so does that mean I don't have to send it?

jobbingmusician

wax wrote: »

I have just entered my results for the first time on TNS website but I am unsure how I work out how much mileage expense to claim? It says upto £3.50
also I have printed my reciept at the end of the questionaire but I wasn't required to make a purchase so does that mean I don't have to send it?

1. Expenses. You can either claim £3.50 (I have never had a query from them, and believe that they see it as part of the 'fee') and sort it out with your overall travel when you do your tax, OR

You can claim car mileage at 22p a mile, OR

Do what I do, which is a sort of mix of the two... claim the most expensive way you can think of to get to the venue, up to a max of £3.50!

I normally claim the whole amount, confident that sometimes £3.50 (or whatever the allowance for the job is - and £3.50 is the most they normally give) isn't enough, so it all comes out in the wash!

2. Receipt - there is no way they will want the receipt if you weren't asked to buy anything - and sometimes they don't want it anyway. Keep it safe though, as you never know when it could come in useful. I normally throw mine away after 6 months (but keep my written records well backed up).

HTH - JM