Lets shop

Advantages: Earn extra cash
Disadvantages: You never know when an assignment will come to you

...for about a year and so far been paid on time and have never had to contact them to ask where the money is. Usually you get a payment of £10 straight into your account and this is sometimes a little more if they want you to buy a certain item from a store. I have had regular assignments and they now even ring me up on my mobile if anyone cannot do an assignment in my area, quite often I have had a call to go to a bank or shop the next day to do an assignment someone has dropped out of. When this happens they email you the questionnaire which you can print off and send back to them to get paid. I have made a regular steady flow of tenners from this company and highly recommend them to you if your looking for extra cash. When I first joined it took them about six weeks to get back to me with an assignment, but I'm really glad I'm a member...

Sunnysmiles 06.11.2006 (07.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Mystery Shopping

Sainsbury's Mobile - What's the point?

Advantages: Don't appear to be any. At all.
Disadvantages: Too many to mention.

...Where do I start? Well, at the beginning, I suppose. I have to say categorically that I didn't start to have any trouble at all with Sainsbury's Mobile UNTIL THEY GOT TAKEN OVER BY CARPHONE WAREHOUSE!!! Until that point everything was mostly hunky-dory. Then they were taken over. Since then I've had trouble with my Direct Debits (of which I can't alter the date, unlike a standing order) - did you know that if you're originally a Sainsbury's Mobile customer and you have a problem that necessitates you paying your bill by some other method than DD that you won't be able to pay it in your local Carphone Warehouse shop? That's right! The reason being that the computer systems between the companies are not aligned. Or at least that's what they told me! I've also been overbilled and to say that trying to get the cash back was...

JeeanA 31.01.2004 (28.02.2004) · Read review
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Review of Sainsbury's Mobile Phone Shop

Tesco mobile network - in fact O2 coverage

Advantages: O2 coverage (best in the UK), free credits, easy top up, unlatch possible
Disadvantages: high call charges (expected with PAYG phone)

...Here I would like to talk about the Tesco mobile service rather the phone. For the phone Sony Ericsson T303 please read my other review posted yesterday. First of all, I got the phone and Tesco (always) has an offer of buying a new PAYG phone and credit you £10! This is not a free credit which will expire after a month but 'real' credit that will never expire until you have used it. Good ! The second impressive offer is triple you top up i.e. I have topped up £15 and Tesco gave me £30 free credit (expires after one month - if you don't use it, you lose it). You do need to pre-register this prior to your first top-up. The most important thing of this offer is: your free credits automatically get used first and then your real credits. Free credits can be used for normal national calls including landlines and text...

volcano 31.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tesco Mobile

My Supermarket Mobile

Advantages: Cheap, easy to get started, good coverage, clubcard points
Disadvantages: None so far

...So here we go again another review brought about by the fact I had to move to keep my job (long story and will be covered when I write the review of my employers when and if Ciao list them). Sadly for Orange their network doesn't cover Lydd camp - just the area outside it but no signal penerates the camp fence oddly enough. So while on my hunt for a working network I checked the O2 website and found they claim to have full coverage across the camp, not long after this I remembered the handset and SIM I was given by the nightclub I used to work for but was on Tesco mobile. Dont worry I've not lost it, Tesco mobile and O2 are pretty much the same thing because Tesco buy the 'spare' satellite time from O2 to operate their network. Which means that while the Tesco sell the SIM's and the handsets its O2 that owns and operates...

scuba_angel 19.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Tesco Mobile

Tesco are now Mobile...

Advantages: Reasonable cost and a straightforward range of tariffs
Disadvantages: Some underlying network problems

...Want to buy your mobile while picking up your beans? Why not go one better and have the supermarket BE the mobile network with Tesco Mobile (well almost? see below!). When did Tesco build a mobile network? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The answer, of course, is that they didn't. The Tesco Mobile network is a 'virtual' network, similar to Virgin Mobile, in this case being carried on the O2 network. It is a joint venture between Tesco and O2. Why do these virtual networks exist? On the (physical) network operator's side they use up spare capacity while someone else picks up the marketing bill. On the (virtual) network operator's side they gain the ability to offer mobile telephony services without the need to spend (many) millions and years building a network. Here O2 effectively get access to Tesco's undoubted marketing ability...

pauljm 12.02.2005 (04.03.2007) · Read review
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Bob's mobile

Advantages: learns numbers
Disadvantages: noisy

...Hello! My son has been great fan of bob the builder for quiet sometime. But as time goes - he is 6 now- he grow up from some of his baby toys. And just few days ago I have cleared his bedroom from his old and baby toys. And there was quiet some of them and in good condition so I thought that I will take them to the charity shop. But as I was packing them his younger sister was sort of helping me. As I was putting the toys in the bag she was taking them out. And she has find bob mobile phone and started to play with it. So I can say that I have clear my boy bedroom to his sister bedroom. And I just clean it up with only few toys going to the charity shop. Since them my little girl is waking the phone and saying: ?bob on the phone?. I do like vetch toys but my kids love them. the toy The phone is shape of bob...

redeyes22 16.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of VTech Bobs Mobile Phone

Top of the shops.............

Advantages: see above
Disadvantages: see above

...Advantages: Loads of stuff available, good prices Disadvantages: can get busy at christmas time so much so people abandon their shopping I am a huge Asda fan, it's where I do most of my shopping and I know where everything is which makes it easier when dragging 3 kiddies along with you! In my local Asda we have a photo centre, cafe, George, electricals, homewear, toys, bakery, pizzaria, rottisary (chicken place lol), fresh meats counter and all the usual foody aisles plus we have a petrol station, cash machines and bus stop. It's the largest shopping store we have although we do have a Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Co-Op, Farm Foods and Iceland. I have never had a bad experience with Asda and the stock is usually replenished quite quickly! They have such a huge range that I know I can do my weekly shop and more there. Everything...

jadiep890 26.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Asda (Shop)

shopping heaven

Advantages: great bargains
Disadvantages: queues

...Primark is one of the greatest shops that i find that every time i go in there you can guarantee that i will come out having brought something. When you go into Primark you are guaranteed that you will always find a bargain and at the fraction of the cost of any other shops. Primark has come on in leaps and bounds over the years it stocks a greater range of items that are more in line with the fashions of today and at a great price. A few years ago i would never have even thought to go to Primark, but as they finally put one in my local town centre i always have a look for a bargain. Primark stocks everything from ladies, mens , childrens and homeware. In the ladies section you will find shoes, bags, jewellery, t shirts, lingerie, jeans, trousers, skirts, jumpers, jackets and night wear. In the mens sections you have jeans...

jo_field26 17.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Primark (Shop)

Shopping with Teenagers

Advantages: Sells every item of clothing possible
Disadvantages: Busy at peak times

...Clothes shopping is never an easy task when you have kids in tow. It doesn?t matter if they?re toddlers, young or teenagers, they are still a pain in the proverbial backside when you?re trying to look round the shops and I can guarantee that my teenage son will be moaning and groaning within half an hour when we go shopping. Back in the Summer we decided to brave the busy Ipswich shopping centre, the prime motive to get the kids kitted out for the new school term. After we?d paid the perfunctory visit to the school clothing department in Debenhams we set off down the street to have a wander round the shops. I was absolutely amazed then my son stopped outside Primark and suggested we had a look inside. Teenagers are renowned for wanting designer labels aren?t they? I propelled him inside quick as a flash, before he could see...

Lizard_Lover 15.10.2004 · Read review
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Review of Primark (Shop)

Virgin Mobile

Advantages: Everything is an Advantage
Disadvantages: Naaa

...a phone from virgin mobile you might find that some of the phones are cheap than when you go look at other operators, sometimes you can find a phone a virgin store for £60 and for some reasons its £100 in other places. You can save a lot of money first just buy buying the phone, and if you?re not happy with it you can take it back to the shop for a full refund, easy as that. 4) Staff and extras: I have phoned up Virgin mobile on occasions that I need to register or my phone has had a problem, I you are always greeted in a polite hello, how can I help you manner, and these people with do any thing to get the problem fixed, its also cheap to phone them 10p per call. If something does go wrong and it?s a phone fault they will send a new one out a soon as possible in exchange for the broken one. Friendly staff to help you out instead...

Sethiroth 18.04.2004 · Read review
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