The mystery shopping thread - part 4

82much

Mimi1234 we are all having these emails from Bare. The jobs have been on their site for ages and people have got fed up waiting for them to be assigned. Now all of sudden they are desperate to get them done and some of us don't want those jobs anymore!!!

Hollypear

82much wrote: »

Mimi1234 we are all having these emails from Bare. The jobs have been on their site for ages and people have got fed up waiting for them to be assigned. Now all of sudden they are desperate to get them done and some of us don't want those jobs anymore!!!

There are so many of us in that boat Mimi the flaming boat is in danger of capsizing.:eek:

Now I have their number from a poster on here I intend to phone them on Monday 1st thing and ask what the hell they are playing at. It is becoming like getting begging letters which say "Don't send any money"

RoxyK

ellie9ellie wrote: »

Does anyone put a certain amount of money aside each month to cover next years tax bill. If say for example I get £100 a month should I be putting a certain percentage away to pay the bill.

I'd definitely put away a percentage each month, though at a guess 10% should be ok. As you're paying tax on your profits only it depends on how much profit you make of course, but 10% sounds a reasonable estimate. If I'm way off I'm Timne will help more

No one wants to get landed with a tax bill at the end of the year! And of course if it goes in a nice high interest account will be happily earning you a bit more

I got my payslip from TNS today (1st one) and am amazed by their and GFK's efficiency. If only everyone else was like that.........

ellie9ellie

RoxyK wrote: »

I'd definitely put away a percentage each month, though at a guess 10% should be ok. As you're paying tax on your profits only it depends on how much profit you make of course, but 10% sounds a reasonable estimate. If I'm way off I'm Timne will help more

No one wants to get landed with a tax bill at the end of the year! And of course if it goes in a nice high interest account will be happily earning you a bit more

I got my payslip from TNS today (1st one) and am amazed by their and GFK's efficiency. If only everyone else was like that.........

I had mine today as well which was good. My mum nearly had a heart attack when I gave her the money for my Christmas savings!!! Hopefully tax bill won't be too much but I thought I'd be safe than sorry and put a bit away otherwise knowing my luck I'd be on maternity leave with a nice tax bill!!

leila1

teedy23 wrote: »

I,m taking a break from M/S for a while, have cancelled all my jobs and dont care if they sack me. I work full time and am finding it a bit hard going concidering the time I have to put in for the money offered. I do the jobs either before or after work then have to fill in reports at the other end, so many repeat questions, and they are always looking for new evidence that you actually went there, they will be asking for a letter from a lawyer next.

If I was able to work full time I would have done exactly the same thing. You should use your free time from a full time job to have fun not to be doing more work. It is not worth all the running around.

josie

leila1 wrote: »

If I was able to work full time I would have done exactly the same thing. You should use your free time from a full time job to have fun not to be doing more work. It is not worth all the running around.

I do a bit of MS - only meals, stamp shops, petrol & Mr T's really, so that it's either a "free" meal out with my OH or free euros/dollars to top up my holiday spends. I never go out of my way to do any, only local ones or places I'm traveling to anyway for work or for footy matches. Oh yeah and bookies, cos I like a flutter, esp when I can do 3 and bet home win, away win and draw, thereby guaranteeing at least one of the bets to come up trumps!

I do work full time, which is another reason to limit my jobs. I put all the income in a high interest account, except the meals that just go to pay for the meal and it's my way of saving a bit as well as not having to find the money for the tax bill.

Just compiled my income and expenditure for last year and spent £690 with an income of £735, so my bill on £45 shouldn't amount to much, all being well!

ellie9ellie

leila1 wrote: »

If I was able to work full time I would have done exactly the same thing. You should use your free time from a full time job to have fun not to be doing more work. It is not worth all the running around.

I'm taking good advice and giving up work and MSing 4 weeks before baby is due. Can you imagine my waters breaking on an MS job - how exactly would I fill in the questionnaire then!!!! Got visions of trying to cancel assignments whilst having contractions!!! I'll do any local ones as I'll probably still have to shop etc but won't be going to far afield. Going to sit on the sofa tonight and indulge in some yummy chocs. Hope everyone else has a good weekend xx

princess_leia_3

ellie9ellie wrote: »

I'm taking good advice and giving up work and MSing 4 weeks before baby is due. Can you imagine my waters breaking on an MS job - how exactly would I fill in the questionnaire then!!!! Got visions of trying to cancel assignments whilst having contractions!!! I'll do any local ones as I'll probably still have to shop etc but won't be going to far afield. Going to sit on the sofa tonight and indulge in some yummy chocs. Hope everyone else has a good weekend xx

Ok, so I need you to stop talking about being pregnant.....only joking, its making me so broody :eek: and I have vowed that is it as I have 2 boys (4,2) and baby girl 18 weeks old.
It makes me so jealous that I won't be fat and uncomfortable with a baby again (even tho my pg's were quite awful I still miss it!!)
Have a good few jobs before you rest up, but I just know that you will see a few and think 'I will just do that....and that...' so you will probably need to disconnect your pc to stop yourself looking for tempting jobs!

Anyway. just had a chinese takeaway which is not good for the weightwatchers but it was nice

Off to print some paperwork for a job tomorrow now so have a good evening x

bobthego

fitzal wrote: »

I am finding the same thing with RE, I have only found a couple of small jobs and they are all miles away!! I dont know how I am going to get off probation!!

It was just the same for me for weeks, so in the end I took a pub job that I didn't particularly want (but it was local) and now I have plenty of jobs with RE, so it might be worth doing a little job just to get you out of probationary status
HTH

bobthego

Gap and TNS have underpaid me TNS only by one little job but I need to look into GAP properly as they've paid me about a quarter of what they owe me, grrr!