2 Quick Sunday Deals

Today's Grab

I had a quick look at we promise to for some deals and found a couple of easy ones nice and quick. Both were quick and didn't require me pulling out my bank card.

The first was a 2 books for free from Mills and Boon. You get £1 for signing up, but it's actually a subscription. Even though they didn't take any bank details I'll be sure to cancel as soon as I receive the books.

The second deal was a registration for Qeep. This pays £3 for a registration which is a bonanza! The only tricky bit is that Qeep is a mobile service, so you'll need a web enabled phone to grab this one.

The Tally

Still ticking along, £4 for the day

I wonder if those surveys are any good?

Today's Grab

I've been up to two things over the last couple of days.  First up I've started going through the offers to topcashback see what I can find.  This was complicated a bit because some of the offers are the same as quidco, but the fact that I noted the offers I took up with quidco in this blog has made it easy to avoid trying the same offer twice.

The topcashback offers I've taken up since the last post are...

Who remembers me, Registration, £0.10

It's your View, Survey, £0.70

Super Free Bingo, Registration, £1.00

Just Rewards, Survey, £0.96

Great UK Surveys, Survey, £0.83

Orange, Sims, £0.60

for a total of £4.19.

One thing I've noticed with a lot of these smaller deals is that you'll frequently get offered the 'opportunity' to join other sites. I'd recommend not signing up for any of them, there's a good chance that doing so will lose you the chance to get a signup bonus for them. If you're interested, at least take a look at the cashback sites to confirm that there are no current deals on that site.

Surveys surveys!

The freebie cashback I've been enjoying so far are great, but they are limited in number and I suspect I'll be running short on them soon.  There seem to be a lot more offers where you can spend a little and get back more,  but I don't want to take too much cash out of my pocket chasing these offers.  Spending £5 now to get £15 later is something I'll be a lot happier doing with my profits.

So I've started looking for what other ways I can bring in some cash and there seems to be a bit of a buzz about paid surveys.  I figure it's worth a crack so I've gone on a bit of a sign up spree. I've gone and joined...

Global Test Market - Sign up via we promise to for £0.44 cashback

Lightspeed Panel - Sign up via rpoints for £1 cashback

You Gov - I couldn't find a cashback on this one, but sign up via this link and at least I'll get something for it.  =)

We promise to and rpoints are 2 other cashback sites that I haven't investigated very thoroughly yet.  Use the links above and I get a small bonus when you join. For the surveys themselves I haven't done any apart from sign up types. Hopefully surveys will frequently become available and they'll be useful earners.  I'll keep you informed.

The Tally

With the different cashback sites I've started joining I figured it will be useful to list the earnings seperately to give an idea of how they perform.  I'll be listing any survey earnings seperately as well.

Cash in hand : -£47.87

Net Position : £122.38

Quidco : £144.62

ING : £21.00

TopCashBack : £5.69

RPoints : £1.00

We Promise To : £0.44

Want to buy a t-shirt?

Today's Grab

Having exhausted the free offers on quidco I took a look at some of the other cashback sites. The next biggest name seems to topcashback. I signed up and checked it out. Doesn't seem to have as many offers as quidco, but it's got a few different ones.

An interesting find was spreadshirt, which pay £1.50 for opening up a shop. This means signing up and creating a t-shirt that can then be bought online. So I've created an original money-for-nothing t-shirt. Pretty stylish huh? I can't honestly see me retiring off the profits, but it amuses me to have a blog shirt up for sale.

My first affiliate link

You'll note that I've made that when I first mentioned topcashback above I made it a link. The reason being that if you aren't yet signed up for topcashback and go to the site via that link I'll get a referal bonus of £2.50. So go on, sign up! Then refer all your friends. =)

I'm hoping to find more links like this, as they have the potential to provide an ongoing source of cash without me having to do anything. I won't be getting greedy though. If I know that you can get a better deal if you go to the site without following an affiliate link I won't post it.

The Tally

Small fry earnings today, but the numbers are still moving in the right direction.

Cash in Hand : -£47.87

Expected Earnings : £164.62

Net Position : £116.75

Anyway

More cheaper than free DVD's

Today's Grab

I've been eyeing off a deal on Quidco for £15 cashback for a free 2 week trial at LoveFilm. I was hopeful that I could combine it with a free 3 month deal and get paid for 3 months of DVD's. 

Unfortunately that was not to be, I had a chat with some of the folks at moneysavingexpert and the general concensus was that trying would result in 3 months of dvd's for free, but no cashback.  I'm all about the cashback, so I'm not going to try and be fancy.  Even with a 2 week trial it's still a great deal.

You snooze you lose

I posted yesterday about the £20 ING direct offer.  Apparently that deal was too good to last! I was going to wait a day or two before signing my wife up as well, but I should have just dived in and signed us both up because the offer is now gone.

Oh well, £20 isn't £40, but it's a lot more than nothing. Unless I've got a good reason to do otherwise I think I'll be snapping up any great deals like this one the moment I see them.

The Tally

I didn't celebrate yesterday as there's a cloud hanging over some of the smaller bonuses I'm expecting to receive.  Today however I'm confident and proud to declare that I've netted over £100 of free cash! Quite a bit more than I was expecting after just 2 weeks.

Cash in Hand : -£47.87

Expected Earnings : £163.12

Net Position : £115.25

There's more to free money than quidco

Today's Grab

I jumped onto Quidco again today planning to run my way through another bunch of small freebie offers.  I was suprised to discover that after just 2 days the well seems to have run dry! I'm sure there's a couple of deals on there that I've missed, but I'm not keen on spending large chunks of time trying to find them.

There is still more to be had on quidco, but I'm also not keen to outlay any more cash at the moment, so I expanded my search a bit.  I took a look at the moneysavingexpert forum and quickly discovered a clear winner.  ING Direct are offering £20 to any new customer opening anyone opening a cash saver account.  To claim the cash I just need to deposit £1 before march 31.  Looks great, I'll mail them a cheque tomorrow.  Even better, I see no reason why I can open an account in my wife's name as well.

I'll open just the one in my name today and then give it a few days before opening the other, just in case ING are against this sort of thing.

Quidco Tracking

The other dissappointment I've had with quidco lately is the tracking.  Up until my cheapo runs of the last 2 days everything had always tracked within minutes.  However I've found about half of the recent ones haven't tracked yet.  I'll give it another few days and then raise an issue with quidco about them.  Could be good in a way, as I'll get to report back on what their enquiries process is like.

The Tally

The £1 I'll be sending to ING tomorrow isn't really spent, as I'll be pulling it back out as soon I get the bonus.  It won't be in my pocket though, so I'll take it off my cash in hand and add it to my expected earnings.

Cash in hand: -£47.87

Expected Earnings : £148.12

Net Position : £100.25

More little wins

Today's Grab

I found yesterdays sign ups pretty painless, so I didn't think to hard today and just went through some more of the little ones on quidco.  I went for these ones.

Plum Offers, Sign up,£0.80

Flatmateclick, Registration, £0.85

EmailInForm, Survey, £0.85

MoveMe, Sign up, £1.00

Just Rewards, Survey, £1.10

GMI, Sign up, £1.30

For a total of £5.90

A couple of quick notes. I found the EmailInForm survey long and tedious, only bother doing this one if you are keen.

The GMI is a survey site for computer types (I'm a programmer so I fit) that promises money for doing surveys.  Their speil is interesting, if I'm reading it right then doing 5 surveys will net me $50 USD.  I'm not mad keen on surveys, but that doesn't sound too bad.  I'll report back on this one later.

The Tally

Cash in Hand : -£46.87

Expected Earnings : £127.12

Net Position : £80.25

Quantity vs Quality

Today's Grab

There a ton of smaller cashbacks on quidco that I've just skipped past when looking before, but I figured there's good money there asking for me to take it. To make the process as painless as possible I downloaded google toolbar and entered my details into the autofill section. This means that on most sites I can just click the autofill button to automatically populate the registration form. Once set up I went to quidco and started clicking. Here's the deals I signed up for today.

O2, 4 x Sims, £0.60

Lands End, Newsletter, £0.15

Secret Sales, Registration, £0.25

Maxi Muscle, Free Catalogue, £0.25

My Pix, Newsletter, £0.30

Ibood, Newsletter, £0.40

T-Mobile, Sims, £0.50

InstantWin4Now, Signup, £0.56

Pampers, Signup, £0.60

Opinion World, Signup, £0.70

UKPrizeDraw, Entry, £0.75

So a total of £5.06 for today.

Unsubscription Spree

Did a bit of housework unsubscribing from the free trials I signed up for last week.  The only slightly tedious one was the Experian Credit Reports, which required me to actually phone up to cancel.

The only other thing I need to do today is watch 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', one of the movies I got from block buster.  =)

The Tally

Cash in hand : -£46.87

Expected Earnings : £122.06

Net Position : £75.19