Bingo!

I signed up with Gala bingo via GreasyPalm today which should net me £12.50 cashback (although I am currently waiting for them to credit my account). In return I had to stake £5 which I promptly lost in just 3 games. A pathetic performance as I didn’t even come close to winning!

Once I had used up my money Gala gave me another £10 to play with which I used to buy as many tickets as possible for the next couple of games. The excitement really started to build as I had 4 tickets down to needing just one more number… (more…)

The Mystery of Mystery Shopping

I signed up for another mystery shopping assignment today, this time I had to go to the nominated post office and ask three specific questions and note the response. There was also a couple of questions asking me for my opinion on the state of this particular post office and in return for doing this I was offered £4 + reimbursement for the cost of purchasing something on display.

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Lost Change: Part IV

It was just over a year ago that I last counted the penny jar so I thought I had better count it up and get it to the bank again. I wasn’t expecting there to be much in there this time so was pleasantly surprised to find £57. Most of it was pound coins which I wasn’t expecting. I can only assume its from where I have been out drinking only to return with pockets full of change (why I can only pay for drinks with notes is still a mystery!).

Sometimes it can be true!

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.

eBay Auction Results

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.