Fun and Games Getting Money for Microtasks etc.

[Retiree]

I've signed up for a few of the "gig economy" sites and GPT sites. Not megabucks but better than a kick in the teeth as my late mother would have said. People are probably fed up of me mentioning having a dodgy back that's taking its own sweet time to clear up - but the last three months I've probably done more online purchasing than I would normally when it's not too onerous to pop to the shops. I've asked (mostly) for the minuscule incoming payments to be sent to a site which for the purposes of this post I will call Friendly Payment (as far as I know there is no site called Friendly Payment but you probably know what I mean). A couple of times my few quid from, say, a survey site had been used by Friendly Payment to go towards, for instance, my Tesco delivery, though I hadn't asked for it to be used thus. So I decided to link up my bank account so that any inward monies to my "Friendly Payment" account can be transferred to my bank account in question. Then I got something from "Friendly Payment" saying they needed me to link up my direct debits to them - I don't want them to make any outgoing payments on my behalf, I only want to ensure that ingoing payments go to the bank account I have nominated. Whoever thought it would be so complicated, especially when it's only small amounts of money. Anyway, I've asked them for a suggestion as to how to resolve the matter. I missed an incoming phone call on my mobile that sounded as though it came from "Fubow" in Nebraska when I played back the recorded message - not anyone or thing I recognise. Has anybody else found this sort of thing a bit of a pain?

 

[Retiree]

Somebody from the site informed me that the facility for people to be paid directly into their bank accounts is only for business customers. My "earnings" this financial year haven't been sufficient for me to call myself a "business". I'm aiming to boost my pension.