Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

arico

Money_Grabber13579 said:

arico said:

Saetana said:

arico said:

beanielou said:

arico said:

beanielou said:

arico said:

I did not receive any stamps at all. I signed up at the end of March and started posting items for Spectos on 2nd May. However, I have not received any stamps. Could you please tell me how many stamps are typically provided when posting items for Spectos?

12 1st & 4 large 1st. Per month.

with kantar I was getting double as was posting everyday, and it was only letters

Spectos are very different!

I see and cant believe, was 4 years with Kantar but with spectos will finish in couple month, they dont know nothing about inflation, Im not charity, they post me 2 packages separate letters, separate parcels and count it as 1 package
for 25 points

Given we never got paid at all by Kantar for receiving posting packs, or for posting or receiving items to/from other panellists, I would suggest that Spectos pays better overall.  The only minor bugbear is not getting any extra for posting parcels, it’s just the same as posting a letter bundle.  Fortunately my post office is 50 yards down the road from the postbox I use most often.  Plus we still get the usual monthly stamps.  I have cashed out £50 worth of vouchers since I started with Spectos and am close to another £25 voucher.  It’s far better paid, parcels excepted, but nobody should be getting more than two a month of those.

Please let me know when you started, I started on 2nd may posting (only receiving bundles to post) and so far I got only 1500 points approx £15 which is nothing, don’t understand why you collect points so quickly

I’ve been going since last September/October I think and have just passed 10,000 points.

It’s still 1000-1500 (£10-£15)points a month it’s not a lot considering time spent on surveys or entering data in app

Money_Grabber13579

arico said:

Money_Grabber13579 said:

arico said:

Saetana said:

arico said:

beanielou said:

arico said:

beanielou said:

arico said:

I did not receive any stamps at all. I signed up at the end of March and started posting items for Spectos on 2nd May. However, I have not received any stamps. Could you please tell me how many stamps are typically provided when posting items for Spectos?

12 1st & 4 large 1st. Per month.

with kantar I was getting double as was posting everyday, and it was only letters

Spectos are very different!

I see and cant believe, was 4 years with Kantar but with spectos will finish in couple month, they dont know nothing about inflation, Im not charity, they post me 2 packages separate letters, separate parcels and count it as 1 package
for 25 points

Given we never got paid at all by Kantar for receiving posting packs, or for posting or receiving items to/from other panellists, I would suggest that Spectos pays better overall.  The only minor bugbear is not getting any extra for posting parcels, it’s just the same as posting a letter bundle.  Fortunately my post office is 50 yards down the road from the postbox I use most often.  Plus we still get the usual monthly stamps.  I have cashed out £50 worth of vouchers since I started with Spectos and am close to another £25 voucher.  It’s far better paid, parcels excepted, but nobody should be getting more than two a month of those.

Please let me know when you started, I started on 2nd may posting (only receiving bundles to post) and so far I got only 1500 points approx £15 which is nothing, don’t understand why you collect points so quickly

I’ve been going since last September/October I think and have just passed 10,000 points.

It’s still 1000-1500 (£10-£15)points a month it’s not a lot considering time spent on surveys or entering data in app

Yes, but then there are the stamps too, which must be another c£15 a month.

piker57

arico said:

Money_Grabber13579 said:

arico said:

Saetana said:

arico said:

beanielou said:

arico said:

beanielou said:

arico said:

I did not receive any stamps at all. I signed up at the end of March and started posting items for Spectos on 2nd May. However, I have not received any stamps. Could you please tell me how many stamps are typically provided when posting items for Spectos?

12 1st & 4 large 1st. Per month.

with kantar I was getting double as was posting everyday, and it was only letters

Spectos are very different!

I see and cant believe, was 4 years with Kantar but with spectos will finish in couple month, they dont know nothing about inflation, Im not charity, they post me 2 packages separate letters, separate parcels and count it as 1 package
for 25 points

Given we never got paid at all by Kantar for receiving posting packs, or for posting or receiving items to/from other panellists, I would suggest that Spectos pays better overall.  The only minor bugbear is not getting any extra for posting parcels, it’s just the same as posting a letter bundle.  Fortunately my post office is 50 yards down the road from the postbox I use most often.  Plus we still get the usual monthly stamps.  I have cashed out £50 worth of vouchers since I started with Spectos and am close to another £25 voucher.  It’s far better paid, parcels excepted, but nobody should be getting more than two a month of those.

Please let me know when you started, I started on 2nd may posting (only receiving bundles to post) and so far I got only 1500 points approx £15 which is nothing, don’t understand why you collect points so quickly

I’ve been going since last September/October I think and have just passed 10,000 points.

It’s still 1000-1500 (£10-£15)points a month it’s not a lot considering time spent on surveys or entering data in app

Are you honestly serious? The time spent doing the surveys (in my experience having done  both UA & CDM) is a few seconds a day. Likewise recording in the App takes a few seconds for each item received.

As others have said the earnings opportunity depends upon where you live & the issues RM have that they need to track. I live in a small village in the south & have been a panel member since February. So far I've only received test letters containing transponders to return & as mentioned above I've done both surveys, as a consequence I've so far accrued 1,800 points. That means I've not yet had a cash out, but given I doubt the activities performed have in total taken less than an hour (I post the transponders on my regular dog walks), the 4 months worth of stamps so far received IMO equates to a more than reasonable return for a tiny side hustle.

Saetana

Bubsychicken said:

Wow that’s a lot I’m clearly not getting much at all! Could be because I’m in a village in the north. Do you all have daily postings? 

I receive 1-2 bundles/parcels per week to post and usually receive at least half a dozen items from other panellists.  So I would say I am in the middle - not as busy as some but not as quiet as others.  I do live in a city though so doubtless there is no shortage of panellists in the area.

Saetana

Money_Grabber13579 said:

arico said:

Money_Grabber13579 said:

arico said:

Saetana said:

arico said:

beanielou said:

arico said:

beanielou said:

arico said:

I did not receive any stamps at all. I signed up at the end of March and started posting items for Spectos on 2nd May. However, I have not received any stamps. Could you please tell me how many stamps are typically provided when posting items for Spectos?

12 1st & 4 large 1st. Per month.

with kantar I was getting double as was posting everyday, and it was only letters

Spectos are very different!

I see and cant believe, was 4 years with Kantar but with spectos will finish in couple month, they dont know nothing about inflation, Im not charity, they post me 2 packages separate letters, separate parcels and count it as 1 package
for 25 points

Given we never got paid at all by Kantar for receiving posting packs, or for posting or receiving items to/from other panellists, I would suggest that Spectos pays better overall.  The only minor bugbear is not getting any extra for posting parcels, it’s just the same as posting a letter bundle.  Fortunately my post office is 50 yards down the road from the postbox I use most often.  Plus we still get the usual monthly stamps.  I have cashed out £50 worth of vouchers since I started with Spectos and am close to another £25 voucher.  It’s far better paid, parcels excepted, but nobody should be getting more than two a month of those.

Please let me know when you started, I started on 2nd may posting (only receiving bundles to post) and so far I got only 1500 points approx £15 which is nothing, don’t understand why you collect points so quickly

I’ve been going since last September/October I think and have just passed 10,000 points.

It’s still 1000-1500 (£10-£15)points a month it’s not a lot considering time spent on surveys or entering data in app

Yes, but then there are the stamps too, which must be another c£15 a month.

More than that - our stamps are worth almost £20 with the most recent price rises.

Graceglow

Saetana said:

Bubsychicken said:

Wow that’s a lot I’m clearly not getting much at all! Could be because I’m in a village in the north. Do you all have daily postings? 

I receive 1-2 bundles/parcels per week to post and usually receive at least half a dozen items from other panellists.  So I would say I am in the middle - not as busy as some but not as quiet as others.  I do live in a city though so doubtless there is no shortage of panellists in the area.

I live in a northern town. Have been receiving 1- 2 items a week from other panellists. Just started to get bundles to post, 1 per week at the moment. I joined Spectos in December have nearly enough points for my 1st £25. 

Guess I’m in a quiet area!

NBLondon

silvercar said:

Could someone please check their points history on the app and see if the 300 points for the addressed/ unaddressed mail should show there? Missing mine, but unsure if they should show up.

NBLondon said:

fluffig said:

rpstdavids said:

julest105 said:

Finished the correctly delivered survey on Saturday, not been awarded any points so far, unlike previous ones? 

I finished on Saturday as well and the 300 points were credited as soon as I entered the last days info.

Have you tried refreshing the app?

I also finished Saturday, have closed and restarted app a couple of times, but no points - yet. I’ll contact Spectos if they don’t credit within a week.

Same here.  Points ae coming in for everything else.  I'll give them 72 hours or so...

I got an answer by e-mail today.  They said I was missing the last entry for the Saturday and the points are credited automatically if they are all there  (like rpstdavids says).   I looked at the app again and it was showing as answered.  Best guess is that the upload failed so it hasn't registered at their end.  I told them this and asked them to manually override.  How are yours doing fluffig, julest105 ?

Bubsychicken

To be honest I’m quite happy with the whole thing even if i just get the stamps and the odd voucher as Piker57 says it really isn’t much on the app at all once you've done it a few times it takes seconds. Im not working at the moment as have 3 young children so that £25 voucher was most welcome, in my working days I wouldn’t have batted an eyelid at it but now it’s positively exciting for a little side hustle.

fluffig

NBLondon said:

silvercar said:

Could someone please check their points history on the app and see if the 300 points for the addressed/ unaddressed mail should show there? Missing mine, but unsure if they should show up.

NBLondon said:

fluffig said:

rpstdavids said:

julest105 said:

Finished the correctly delivered survey on Saturday, not been awarded any points so far, unlike previous ones? 

I finished on Saturday as well and the 300 points were credited as soon as I entered the last days info.

Have you tried refreshing the app?

I also finished Saturday, have closed and restarted app a couple of times, but no points - yet. I’ll contact Spectos if they don’t credit within a week.

Same here.  Points ae coming in for everything else.  I'll give them 72 hours or so...

I got an answer by e-mail today.  They said I was missing the last entry for the Saturday and the points are credited automatically if they are all there  (like rpstdavids says).   I looked at the app again and it was showing as answered.  Best guess is that the upload failed so it hasn't registered at their end.  I told them this and asked them to manually override.  How are yours doing fluffig, julest105 ?

They replied in a similar manner to me today🙄
Told me my days would all have changed to answered if I’d input them all. 

Well I did input them all and they did all change to answered!
Similar to you I replied asking them to review it again and credit my 300 points.
Not overly impressed!
Their software seems dodgy …

HonestJohn

The UA survey is definitely dodgy from first accepting the survey all the way through to getting paid. The CD survey has always paid out when I have completed it but with the UA you have to wait. Keep querying things until you get paid.