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.

eBay vs Charity shop

I was clearing the spare room today trying to find space for all my new Christmas presents, throwing everything I no longer wanted into bags ready for the charity shop. Whenever I do this I always debate in my head whether I should sell some of the stuff on eBay, but the charity shop always wins as I am too lazy to list everything on eBay. So with my renewed motivation for all things money making this time I decided to give eBay a go.

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Got paid for my mystery shopping

I finally got paid today for the mystery shopping that I did at Liquid nightclub back in April. The reason for the delay was my fault not GapBuster as I had forgot to give them my payment details! So I can finally add the £18 that I earned to my total.

Mystery Shopping

I signed up with GAPbuster to become a mystery shopper. The registration process was quick and easy with a quick questionaire to fill in and then I was ready to pick my assignments. After a bit of searching I managed to find an assignment for our local Liquid nightclub which would pay £30 just for going out for the evening!!

However it’s not quite as simple as it would seem as I would have to pay for entrance and at least one drink once inside. A quick visit to Liquids website and I found a voucher for free entry to save myself a couple of pounds. However a big night out would easily end up costing me far more than the £30 I was earning so I opted for a few drinks at home before heading out. This meant that I was able to keep my total spending on drinks to £12 which meant I ended the night £18 up and had a great night too!