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10 easy ways to make quick cash
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Want cash right now? Check out our ten top ways to get money fast, with the minimum amount of effort possible.
1. £150 for your broken or old mobile
2. Get paid to refer friends for jobs
3. £5,000 a year for renting your driveway
4. Get £100 to switch your current account
5. Be paid for your opinion – online surveys
6. £4,250 tax free for renting a room
7. £50 for a market research session (and £££s for referring friends)
8. Sell your photos online
9. Get paid to shop
10. Sell your trash for cash
1. £150 for your old or broken mobile
How many of us have an old or broken mobile lying around idly at the back of a drawer? Most of you Moneymagpies will already be aware that you can make quick cash selling it on one of the many mobile recycling websites. With so many companies offering the service we decided to test them out ourselves to see which one came out on top.
We’ve recycled phones with Mopay, Envirofone, Banana Green and Mazuma – the results were mixed with different companies coming out on top depending on the model. However, Mopay were our top choice when it came to effiiciency and customer service so if you find that all the companies are offering similar prices for your phone Mopay is a good option.
In fact, we were impressed enough to join forces with Mopay after our experiment to set up the free Moneymagpie mobile recycling service. Depending upon the make, model and condition of the phone you could earn anything between £1 and £200 (although the top prices are reserved for newest models and may make more money on eBay and the like).
You’ll have to provide the serial number of the phone so that this service cannot be used by unscrupulous people to sell stolen phones. Once you’ve done that you’ll be given a Freepost address to send the phone to and, once it is confirmed that your description was accurate, a cheque will be sent back to you.
Remember it is a zero risk task – it costs you about 5 minutes to complete the application process and you don’t even pay for postage (just the envelope).
Find out what cash you’ll get for your old or broken mobile by clicking here now
2. Get paid for referring friends to jobs
Jobfact! is a jobs website that pays you £100 to refer your friends to jobs on the site. All you have to do is register for free then send details of your friends who are looking for jobs. Any time any of them actually lands one of the jobs you get paid £100 commission!
Sign up for FREE here and start getting paid to find jobs for your friends
3. £5,000 a year for renting your driveway
If your driveway or garage is not in use during the day (or at all) then you could make up to £10,000 for renting it out. The income depends upon your location and how successful you are in renting the space out. Parkatmyhouse and Park Let both reckon the range is from £100 a week (£5,000 a year) for an ‘Average’ space that is ‘Successfully’ rented out all the way up to £200 a week for a ‘High – Successful’ space.
Step One - Place a FREE advert on Parkatmyhouse
Click on Parkatmyhouse, look for the little tab that says “Register”. Click that and complete the registration. You can then place an ad for your driveway. They help with pricing and any other assistance you may need.
Step Two - Place a FREE advert on Park Let
Click on Park Let and click on the “Submit” button. This will take you through to a simple three stage process in which you (i) register your details, (ii) enter the details of the space you have to offer, (iii) confirm everything.
Don’t forget you can even rent out your garage as spare storage space for cash on sites such as Spareground.com – which won’t charge you a penny to advertise your space. The opportunities are vast – you could rent out some of your garden as allotments, or charge someone to store equipment in your shed. You always have the final say on who you rent to and there is no obligation to rent to anyone.
Get a FREE advert on both Parkatmyhouse and Park Let and start earning £5,000 a year for an otherwise empty driveway.
4. Get £100 for switching your current account
Switch to a First Direct 1st Account and they will give you £100.
The Moneymagpies think this is a great account with outstanding customer service. You have to have at least £1,500 per month coming into the account to get it for free.
If you don’t like the account after you’ve tried it, they’ll give you another £100 and help you get set up with another account elsewhere.
5. Be paid for your opinion – online surveys
This is a sporadic and relatively small income but it’s low effort and you’ve nothing to lose. There are two points you need to remember:
(i) NEVER pay to join a survey site and NEVER give your credit card details. There are legitimate sites that you can join for free. If you pay you are taking a big risk of never seeing that money again.
(ii) Do be PATIENT. Expect to be asked A LOT of questions up front and then be considered inappropriate for most surveys – this is completely NORMAL. They have to get lots of details up front because the survey companies are being paid a lot of money by their clients to be very selective about whom they survey. If they fire questions at any old person whose happy to complete a survey then the results are fairly useless. So be patient.
One site that addresses the frustrations you may feel for spending a lot of time up front and then not qualifying for most surveys is Panelbase. They have a new monthly prize draw of £50 cash for all respondents who are rejected from a survey because they didn’t fit the criteria (such as age, location etc.)
Panelbase has also launched survey opportunities through mobiles (SMS and WAP) in which members are paid a 50p reward to answer a handful of questions via their mobiles – there is no charge to you for the phone call.
Here are the four survey sites that are probabaly the most well worth joining:
* Lightspeed
* Panel
* Panelbase
* Valued Opinions
6. £4,250 tax free for renting a room
You can make a whopping £4,250 a year by renting a room without having to pay tax on it.
If permanently sharing your nest doesn’t appeal, consider taking in foreign students short-term. English language schools are always looking for good homes for their growing number of students. Depending on where you live and how nice your place is, you can make between around £35 and £150 a week.
You can advertise your room for FREE on Spareroom - it covers the whole of the UK. The whole process takes around 5 minutes and you have nothing to lose.
Step One – Place a FREE Advert of your Rooms/ Whole Property To Let
Click on the Spareroom link and click on either “Rooms for Rent” or “Whole Property to Let”. Scroll down the page and click on the grey button that says either “Place an ad now” or “Place your free advert now”.
Step Two – Complete the advert contents
The rest of the process is well explained. You’ll be guided through the processes of both completing the advert and creating your own account with them (there’s no charge for this).
If you have any problems along the way they provide an email and telephone helpline on every page.
FREE – register your room here
7. £50 for participating in a market research session & £££
By taking part in surveys and focus groups you can make between £30- 50 for a session and you may even get some free food if it’s a long session. You can also earn money for referring other people whom you think would be appropriate for focus groups that they are running.
As with Online Surveys (above) you have to submit a whole heap of information about yourself up front and then expect not to qualify for most focus groups. They look for very specific people depending upon the client company for whom they are working.
To get started you need to register with a market research company like Saros Research.
The actual focus groups usually take place at an office local to you. You give your opinions on a product or advert over a period of one or more hours, and pick up your cheque on the way out.
Join as many groups as you can as you’ll only be asked to do a very small number of group meetings per year. Others include
Start making some easy money by clicking here to join Saros Research
8. Sell your photos online
If you have taken (or can take) some good and commercially useful photos then you could make a handy bit of pocket money. The photos need to have a clear subject which can be anything from a hot cup of tea to a clear action shot of a windsurfer. They absolutely must be of good technical quality – good lighting and composition are essential.
Fotolia ranks its contributors in terms of how many of their images have been sold. This constitutes a good guide on what is more likely to sell. You get a royalty payment for each picture that sells. Other online stock photo sites worth looking into are Picture Nation, iStockphoto, Alamy and 123RF. Also, read our guide to selling digital photos for more tips.
9. Get paid to shop
This one is only for you if you:
* are self-disciplined
* are only using it to buy something that you are definitely going to buy anyway
* have searched online shopping sites to make sure that you cannot get a better deal elsewhere for whatever it is you are buying.
A Cashback site is a website that pays a small amount of money back to you after you have made a purchase. They also offer small ‘credit’ incentives for bringing friends in to join – but you only actually get that credit once those friends have spent some money. So you may want to be careful about who you recommend such sites.
Cashbackshopper is one of the better ones because it makes no admin charges and passes on all the money that it gets from the retailers. They will also give you £5 ‘credit’ for signing up (but you have to have spent a certain amount of money before you can get this) and they offer the £5 credit incentive for referring a friend.
If you have no credit card debts and want to make money on purchases that you HAVE to make AND you are self disciplined you can try the American Express Platinum cashback credit card for the first three months you get 5% cash back on all your spending up to £100. This isn’t worth doing if you have outstanding credit card debts – pay those off first.
10. Sell your trash for cash
You can sell anything from your old CDs and books to your hair for an easy way to make money from things you don’t need anymore.
The obvious choice for most people is eBay and other auction sites such as eBid which tend to enjoy a roaring trade during economically difficult times. However, it is often worthwhile looking a specialist selling sites if you’re struggling to get a good price on auction sites.
For books, we like Green Metropolis which pays £3 a piece. It’s easy to do: log on, enter the book’s ISBN number (check the back of the book) and describe its condition. There’s no charge for listing books, so it really is the ideal way to make money and recycle your old books. Amazon is also great for selling books – and probably easier if you’re selling lots of books rather than one or two.
CDs, DVDs and games can be sold on Musicmagpie. Don’t expect much money, selling items on Musicmagpie is unlikely to get you the best price for old albums or films but the postage is free, so it could still work out more profitable than selling on eBay where you have to post the items to the winning bidder.
The creative types amongst should check out New York based Etsy targeted specifically towards independent artists. This US website is designed exclusively for buying and selling handmade goods so you’re more likely to have success here than somewhere like eBay.
Register your username (which is also your shop name so choose carefully!) for a basic buyer’s account – then upgrade to a seller’s account. There is a fee of $0.20 per item listed but this covers the item for four months and includes the option of five photos to show off your wares. When you sell an item there’s a 3.5% final value charge.