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About two months ago I received an email from the eBay Research Department offering me £5 if I took an online survey. My first reaction was that this was one of those phishing scams but I cautiously took a look anyway.
There were no questions asking for any personal details, just questions about my experience of using eBay which took less than 5 minute to complete so I went ahead and sent my feedback. I had forgotten all about this survey until I received a cheque in the post for £5 as promised. So it just goes to prove that not all things that seem too good to be true turn out not to be true.
I used the comparison website mysupermarket.co.uk today to save me money on my regular food shop online. The site was very easy to use as I could import my favourites from Tesco and reserve a delivery without having to leave the site.
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My eBay auctions finished lastnight with 7 of the 14 items listed selling. The total value of the items sold was was £45.88, eBay listing fees came to £3.15, PayPal fees were £2.76, packing materials cost £2.65 and postage costs came to £10.52. So all things considered I made a total profit of £26.80.
Photographing all the items, writing the listing and packing everything that sold took about 3 hours in total so I earned the equivalent of £8.93 per hour. Which means that if I am to become an eBay millionaire I need to work for another 111,982 hours, or just over 43 years working 50 hour weeks. But that’s not the biggest problem, I would need to find 261,780 items to sell which I very much doubt I have in my small flat. Oh well… looks like my millionaire adventure continues.
I received a statement today in the post from the Students Loan Company showing how much I still owe for the privilege of attending university. Now I wont get into the argument about whether students should be paying for their education as that has been widely reported in the past, instead I will focus on the issue of whether students have been misled.
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A new year brings a new opportunity to budget and that’s just what I have been doing. This year it’s been easier for me to set a budget as I tracked my spending in 2007 against the budget I had set at the beginning of the year so I had a good baseline to start from. However it looks like inflation is going to drive many of my costs up in 2008 adding a lot of uncertainty into my figures.
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