Beep Beep Beep...money for scanning! (shopandscan.com)

Member Name: wxcat

Product:	shopandscan.com
Date:	17/10/09 (163 review reads)
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Advantages: Get vouchers for scanning shopping, Good panels

Disadvantages: Can be a bit tedious

Shop and Scan run by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres) is a variety of panels which people participate in to provide user data mainly on shopping which is then provided to supermarkets and retailers showing shoppers habits so they can target us more and better. Shop and Scan Panels I know about are the "shop and scan", "food on the go", "sky usage", and "petrol" panel. I'm sure there are other panels they do, all are invite only and you have to wait, and you are usually rewarded for long service by being invited to other panels. You will also get surveys worth between 50p and £2.50 which you can complete to boost your points.

First of all you need to sign up at www.volunteer4panels.com and wait until your needed in your area. They will e-mail you when you can sign up. The first panel you will get is the basic Shop And Scan panel, they send you a scanner and uploading cable, and on your first scan you get 10000 bonus points. The points you collect are worth 1000 = £1, so it's a nice bonus to start you off.

The Shop And Scan Panel is where you scan all the barcodes on your shopping all week and then upload all the barcodes weekly on to www.shopandscan.com. They reward you 1000 points on a Monday for a successful scan, and if you forget you do get a couple of second chance Mondays to scan on Monday. Also recently part of this panel now is to scan in your receipts from major shops and upload them weekly with your barcodes which gets you an extra 500 points per week. If you do this regularly you get invited to other panels, if you are constantly missing weeks or late they will ask you to leave the panel and return your scanner.

The Food on the Go Panel is an invite only panel I have been doing for about a year now, you are asked to text in any snacks (food and drink) you have to them. You get up to 200 points per text you send in, up to twenty a week, and this applies to every member of the family texting in their snacks.

The Sky Panel you can get in if you tell them you have Sky in one of their yearly surveys, you get another survey asking you about your viewing habits, which you get £5 for completing and letting TNS record your viewing habits on Sky. This is all done automatically and an easy £5!
The Petrol Panel is a panel I have only been recently invited to, it rewards you for putting in your petrol purchases, and you get £2.50 a month for doing it.

You can redeem your points at any time for vouchers when you have reached £10. You redeem points at www.shopandscan.co.uk, they have a wide variety of vouchers available, including Amazon, Homebase, Arcadia, Argos, and plenty of leisure/restaurant vouchers. The only noticeable loss recently has been B&Q vouchers which I used to collect and they haven't replaced them after Woolworths demise. They send all vouchers within 5 days, and if ordering on a Monday you generally have them by Saturday at the latest. Orders over £80 will be sent by recorded delivery.

Summary: A good site to build up, and as you get trusted you get invites to more panels!