TNS - The National Shopping Monitor

does anybody do this? i dont know anyone else other than me who does it! would be nice to know somebody that did!!

Iv been doing it for over a year now and i save all my vouchers up for do an xmas shop with - which reminds me il have to claim em soon so they arrive in time!!

I want to do this, do you know how I apply ?

i dont,no...

i tried to get info for a friend but i couldnt! the way i did it was a few years ago i had some junk mail pushed thru my paretns door (i wasnt even living with them!) it was a flyer that said about it and had the section to fill in - i thort why not (thinkin it was rubbish) so i did! within a week my scanner thing came and iv done it ever since!!

do you know how it works? or did you want some info on it?

looks like you have to be invited to join as opposed to just signing up!!!

sounds like fun!!!

they have got back to me and told me to tell you go on this website: www.volunteer4panels.com and then complete the online registration form. Your details will then be passed to our Volunteer department who will contact you as soon as they have a suitable vacancy.

So how does this work then? I am very interested in it but abit confused hunnie!

its a company doing marketing research

basically on applying you get like this pda scanning machine thing thru the post which you plug into you phone line (there is no charge for this or monthly line bill or nothing) that looks like one of the scanners the shops use.

you also have a folder with each individual persons name in you household - a barcode next to each persons name.then theres a section with all the shops/supermarkets - with barcodes, and then theres a section for your grocery/butcher things (such as potatoes and other things that wouldnt have a barcode)

whoever has been shop - no matter how little or big of a shop - you get the folder, scan the name of the person whos been the shop, scan the shop youve been, it will then ask you the total amount spent - you type this in (its a touch screen thing) and then you scan the barcodes of each individual item you brort.

save up your weekly receipts and then send them off in the pre-paid envelopes once a week.

you pay absolutely nothing,it just takes abit of time and i must admit sometime i cant be bothered with farty things iv brort!

You are awarded points for your continued participation in the National Shopping Monitor. You can also earn points for helping us in all sorts of ways.

Every 1000 points you earn has a value of £1. These points are credited to your very own rewards account.
Full details of the points on offer are provided in your welcome pack.
Here are some of the ways you can earn your points:

*Points for each month served as a full panel member
*For sending in your till receipts
*Sign-Up bonuses
*Annual bonuses
*Christmas bonus
*For completing questionnaires
*Helping us with additional special research projects
*Helping us check your household details
*For winning various prize draws and competitions

you can then claim back your points in 10s - 10,000points = £10. its up to you how you have you reward - theres high street vouchers - experience/travel vouchers - entertainment vouchers or you can dedicate whatever you want to a charity.
if you want to claim your points - you dont have to claim them all, you can claim as much or as little as you want. so far i now have 73,250 points stored (£73.25p) but as i you can only withdraw in 10s i can only withdraw £70. HOPE YOUR UNDERSTANDING ME HERE!!!

you also get monthly magazones with wordsearches,a kids section for them to raw things and send em in (to win u more points!) and theres also the online stuff where you can do many things to get more points - its good really!!

im saving up my points to withdraw just before xmas,will help with food or pressies - you dont have to wait forever either - your vouchers come within days!

Hayley just wanted to say thanks as I signed up to this AGES ago lol and had a few surveys sent to me and got the odd few Nectar points but I've just had an invite to do the shopping thing. It's a clicker to scan my shopping. I get £10 for the first lot, then £1 per week after that. Its not much but it is better than a kick in the teeth for definite! Just awaiting an email to get going

mine works in points hun - i get 2500 a ,month for doing it = £2.50 and 500 points everytime i send an envelope of recipets in = 50p... anyways, i redeemed my vouchers - i chose homebase ones with us decorating - so that was £90 towards my laminate flooring!! so really my laminate flooring only cost me £20 of my own pocket lol!! as it cost £110 in total!!

you wil be surprised how soon it all mounts up hun!!

signed up, man theyd have a field day the amount of shopping we have

it is good... iv been doing it for well over a year now and i can honestly say it aint a scam - and your points soon build up - you can redeem the vouchers whenever you want - this year im going to save them do xmas shoppin with.

Yeah I got my email and it said points but it adds upto vouchers, I've set up my statement thing so I can total up all my points and get the vouchers.

I've not been asked to do reciepts just scan barcodes and send it through my computer via internet I assume I've had to install something to work my clicker anyway lol.