FinancialBliss: My mortgage free journey…

evab_2

Hi FB,

I do quite a few survey sites these are:

Yougov - take ages to build up but worth persisting with them
ToLuna - build up points to exchange for vouchers
Valued Opinions build up cash to exchange for vouchers
Globaltest market build up points to exchange for cash
Your view build up points to exchange for cash

Between them all I get a good flow of surveys, some take a while to build up but eventually they get to a good amount.

Let me know if you want any referrals

Ev

taka

Lightspeed are good too - I get several a week of these usually. I also do the GfK TV and Radio survey which is for a chance of winning a prize (I think its a 1:7 chance) It only takes a 2 minutes to do unless you watch a LOT of TV and every so often you get a definite £5 amazon voucher for completing a weeks work of slighly more intensive questioning. I've tended to win a £5 voucher every few months too.

Little_Mama

financialbliss wrote: »

I'd appreciate any further tips with regard to survey sites!

FB.

Hi FB,

Been doing Yougov for about 10 months now and only made it to £19.00!:o

Better results with Lightspeed, have been with them a couple of months and already have enough for a £10 amazon e-voucher (apparently that's one of the best vouchers to get...well according to the thread on here).

I'd give Lightspeed a go if I were you.

All the best
LM

evab_2

Home of Research are another good site.

Ev

financialbliss

Thanks for the survey pointers everyone. :T

I signed up for its your view last night. Just waiting for them to confirm my account is active.

@evab - I've just checked home of research and it looks like their site is down for maintenance. I'll check again later.

Just about to put up a bike rack in the garage (second rack - purchased today) to try and get the bikes tidied up and out of the way. I'll update later on the survey front.

FB.

EssexHebridean

Re your old mobile - try going through Quidco to Cashinmyfone - they pay £4.50 per transaction so for a phone that is worth pennies (I recently sent them a Nokia 5210 worth 94p!) you can get a reasonable payout. Mine tracked fine, too.

financialbliss

Little_Mama wrote: »

Been doing Yougov for about 10 months now and only made it to £19.00!:o

Yikes :eek:

Quick estimated calculation. For this calculation, put 30 days in a month. 10m x 30 days = 300 days.

Say you only spend 1 minute a day on YouGov - 300 days x 1 day is 300 minute. Convert that to hours and that's 5 hours.

National minimum wage is currently (with my "older" persons hat on) 5.52 an hour. Therefore, you'd hope to expect more than 27.60 income for the time spent.

Then there's the issue of tax. Is everyone declaring their additional income to hmrc? Tax and Ni to pay. Now starting to make your 19.00 earned look quite poor.

Personally, I'm still not sure if surveys are worth the effort financially, but there again, I've just signed up to Global Test Market.:rotfl:

FB.

financialbliss

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Re your old mobile - try going through Quidco to Cashinmyfone - they pay £4.50 per transaction so for a phone that is worth pennies (I recently sent them a Nokia 5210 worth 94p!) you can get a reasonable payout. Mine tracked fine, too.

Excellent tip EssexHebridean. Unfortunately, no one appears to want to offer me anything for my old phone. A penny would have been ok - would have got the 4.50 quidco tracked for that!

FB.

financialbliss

Bradford and Bingley to be nationalised:

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7640143.stm

Have (is this now "had" ?) 570 shares in B&B.

FB.

EssexHebridean

financialbliss wrote: »

Excellent tip EssexHebridean. Unfortunately, no one appears to want to offer me anything for my old phone. A penny would have been ok - would have got the 4.50 quidco tracked for that!

FB.

If you have a tesco clubcard then grab a recycling envelope in store and you can send it off to get credited with 300 clubcard points if that helps. The company that do it is Greener Solutions IIRC - you can also contact them to request an envelope. Better than nothing?