Great ‘Bit On The Side’ Hunt

red_devil

www.ukvoices.co.uk saw it in a magazine today.

red_devil

just remembered another one i used to do cinecheck, pay you for going to the cinema and checking the adverts off, not brill pay but you get to see a free film. You can register with them and see if they need checkers in your area.

wilf55

i have introduced someone to this site helped them reclaim bank charges show them how to do the utilities bill switch over and introduced them to quidco showed them how to find discount codes etc and also claim back mortgage fees and ppi loads of things cos i showed her and encouraged her she gave me £50 didnt want to take it and was not my intention to gain anything but cos she had gained so much even though i told her that i wouldnt have known it but from this site she still gave it to me


thanks and its worth helping others just for the satisfaction of pulling one over for once on these big money grabbing companies

shes now converted and the pc i got her off freecycle has mse set as its home page:money::money::money::money::money::money::money:

noorani

I was just wondering about this working on ebay thing. If you want to buy stuff in to sell on, or even lets say it was your own ebooks you sold, how does this work if you are on benefits? How do you go about from being on benefits to being in an ebay business, even if it might be a relatively small venture that makes pocket money as opposed to huge amounts and that you are not doing for a set amount of hours each day. Any input or experience of this would be appreciated.
Apologies up front if I've got this on the wrong thread.

sondheimsoc

x-spendthrift wrote: »

Hi
I know you posted the thread a while ago now asking if anyone living in Nottingham would be interested in Market Research Projects. I live in Nottingham and would love to do this. Are you still looking for people? If so can you let me have some more details please. Many thanks and hope to hear from you soon.

Sorry, only just seen this. Let me know if you are still interested.
Lynne
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Nottingham

mimi1234

Does anyone if they do Focus Groups in Leeds? I have registered with a few companies, but so far no response. If anyone knows of any companies or anything, do let me know.Thanks in advance.

sondheimsoc

Yes, they do. If you PM me I can pass your details on to a colleague in Leeds.
Lynne

sondheimsoc

Sorry, just got a message that my inbox was full. as I didn't know I had one (I thought messages came straight through to me via e-mail!) I didn't know. I am now in the process of emptying it and replying to (some very old) messages.
Lynne
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girliepink

noorani wrote: »

I was just wondering about this working on ebay thing. If you want to buy stuff in to sell on, or even lets say it was your own ebooks you sold, how does this work if you are on benefits? How do you go about from being on benefits to being in an ebay business, even if it might be a relatively small venture that makes pocket money as opposed to huge amounts and that you are not doing for a set amount of hours each day. Any input or experience of this would be appreciated.
Apologies up front if I've got this on the wrong thread.

If you are only selling your own unwanted stuff then you dont have to declare it. However, if you buy stuff with the intention of selling it on to make a profit on a regular basis, then you are obliged to register with the inland revenue as self-employed within 3 months or face a fine. Not sure exactly how this will affect your benefits, as you wont know what you will earn, to be able to get them to work out the difference, so you might have to do it once you have some records to show them. Then they can reclaim any benefits you were overpaid, and can adjust future payments, until the next time you show them your records.

noorani

Thats the bit I'm stuck with, the benefits. I've sold all my junk, and I want to continue with ebay but selling stuff in order to make a profit, etc. I can't put alot of time in as if it was a proper job or even a part time job because I'm a single mum and also care for a relative too. But I would like to try selling a few things a week that if I am good at, I can sell more over time. There must be someone on here that is earning money in some way, or doing ebay hoping to sell more, whilst on benefits and slowly making that change to be self supporting which is what I would like to be. So its that process, of who do you tell, when do you tell them, and how is the money side of it declared on a weekly, monthly basis or what? I've read a few threads on here now about other ways of earning some cash, and they all say to declare it, etc, but everyone appears to be working already or they often say they are. But for the ones like me who aren't, does anyone know the procedure of how it all would work coming from this point of view.
I'm fed up of being broke all the time and would like to improve my lot just a wee bit although I can't change my actual home situation right now, so I'm sort of stuck.
As you've pointed out girliepink, I wouldn't know how much I would earn, and some weeks I might not earn anything.