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Sell Christmas HampersSell Christmas food and gift hampers and earn commission for each hamper you sell. Get paid in cash or vouchers with this free information: Christmas hampers are great fun and can provide great value. Their cost can be spread over a period of weeks or months with small weekly payments. Companies need agents to help sell hampers in their local area and to collect these regular payments. This article will discuss the pros and cons of being a hamper agent and will provide links to various hamper companies where you can seek work. Advantages Of Working For Hamper Companies Commission levels can as high as 30% and top sellers get further bonuses like free shopping vouchers. The work suits people seeking part time work that can fit in with another job, child care and household duties. It is ideally suited to people with children or a retired person wanting to get out and about meeting people. You will need to deliver the catalogue or leaflets to customers and work at building a customer base. Christmas hamper catalogues are usually free to order so you can leave these with potential customers to peruse in the comfort of their home. Disadvantages Of Selling Christmas Hampers You will have to collect money from people and will have to be comfortable carrying sums of money in public places. This money will then need to be banked or sent to the hamper company at regularly agreed intervals. You may need to deal with people who say they cannot afford a payment or miss regular payments. At times you may have to act as an intermediary between customers and the hamper company in times of dissatisfaction or disputes. These will be balanced against regular satisfied customers who love their hamper and may order another for next Christmas. The hampers are usually delivered to you to distribute amongst your customers. When you deliver the hamper to each customer you can built up a professional relationship and leave information about next years hampers. The Delivering Catalogue Jobs Tips will give you advice to help you increase your earning potential. Profit From Selling Hampers Income from selling Christmas and seasonal hampers should be declared to the income tax office on your annual self assessment form. Expenses such as transport costs, office supplies, phone calls, etc can be offset on your expense sheet. Christmas Hamper SellersThe Park Hamper Group has been run since 1967 from a family butcher, Peter Johnson. Customers can save weekly for a Christmas hamper and agents are required to help collect this money and distribute the food, sweets, drinks, meat packs, grocery and gift hampers at Christmas time. Agents are paid a commission based on sales and their are incentive awards for top sellers. For more information visit the official Park hamper or family hamper website at either www.parkgroup.co.uk or www.getpark.co.uk The Park Hamper Christmas saving scheme should not be confused with Farepak which is described further below this Sell Christmas Hampers page. The Christmas Jobs page will give you more ideas to earn money for Christmas time. If this page has not answered your questions or you need some more advice then please feel free to e-mail me. I would also welcome any advice to increase the information on this page to make it more useful to others. So feel free to e-mail me your thoughts. I would also appreciate it if you were to send the url of the www.findextrawork.co.uk to your friends, forums and websites. Automatically Add www.findextrawork.co.uk To Your Favourites Folder - Bookmark Us. The site is updated weekly with new earning opportunities. Farepak Hampers: In March 2007 an official investigation that was commissioned after the collapse of Farepak when over 113,000 families lost approximately £39 million savings gave its findings. The Government's financial inclusion taskforce, led by Chairman Brian Pomeroy, gave its findings to Mr Ian McCartney, the Consumer Minister. It is hoped that the recommendations will help form changes in law so that no other Christmas hamper saving scheme can collapse and cause people to lose money. According to administrators it is thought that those affected may only get back about 4 pence in the pound. The firm's collapse is still being investigated by the Government's Companies Investigations Branch. The Farepak company went into administration on the 13 October 2006. I will update this page with further news. It is advised that no more money be sent to the company. Advice about claims and any complaint against Farepak hampers will be posted on their website and forums by the administrators. There is information about Choice Vouchers, direct debits and help for Farepak agents and customers at the website which is now acting as an info forum and complaints help. Updates can be found on the news about the Farpak Rescue Plan by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) which may involve companies and shops like Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS), Sainsbury, M&S and more top retailers helping those affected by the collapse of Farepak so that they my receive either money or shopping vouchers by Christmas. Information can also be found on the unfairpak website which is run by former Farepak Hampers customers and Farepak agents. The government also set up a Farepak Response Fund and paid out 17 pence to every £1 saved by Farepak Hamper customers. It is estimated that there will be over 123,000 Farepak customers and between them they are owed £38 million. The administrators of Farepak are BDO Stoy Hayward and they estimate that once Farepak go into liquidation and the liquidators are able to release information questions such as why Farepak collapsed will be answered. This can take some time: a typical company in administration may have less that 1000 creditors whilst Farepak have about 122,000. As a result of the Farepak collapse the Park Group who also run a Christmas savings scheme have set up an independent Park Prepayments Protection Trust. Two f the three trustees are independent of the Park Group. Save Xmas CampaignIn July 2007 the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) launched a new drive in Edinburgh to help the UK victims of the Farepak savings scheme collapse and other savers thinking of using a Christmas savings scheme. This UK wide Save Xmas Campaign gave information on credit unions, supermarket saving schemes, hamper schemes, banks and local savings initiatives. The OFT worked with organisations such as Surestart, Citizens Advice and DWP groups in an effort to reach as many people as possible in communities throughout Britain. In addition the Save Xmas Campaign ran TV commercials, radio adverts and posters and leaflets to raise awareness. The information below was written prior to this news and will be updated once the company position has been clarified. For the moment the advice should be ignored. 
Farepak Hampers is a company that seek agents to help them sell their Christmas and seasonal hampers such as food hampers, drinks hampers, confectionery hampers,
gift vouchers and gift hampers. In addition Farepak pay you commissions on orders of fragrances, jewellery, gifts, experience and activity days out like hot air
ballooning, a family portrait or a flying lesson. In addition you can earn from the sales of Christmas cards, decorations, box set videos and DVDs, jewellery such as
rings and necklaces, toys and games, collectables such as ornaments, bicycles, go-karts, furniture such as sofas, musical instruments such as guitars and keyboards,
juke boxes, music centres, televisions, DVD players, digital cameras and much more.
The Farepak company has been in operation since 1969. They are based at Swindon and were a part of the Kleeneze company. There are over 35,000 Farepak Hamper agents and have earnt the reputation of a safe and reliable Christmas savings scheme throughout the UK. Read more information and fill out an application form to Sell Christmas Hampers at www.farepak.co.uk The collapse of Farepak had long term problems for other sell Christmas hampers companies and was said to harm the reputation of many reputable Christmas hamper companies. For example the Christmas savings club Park Group at parkgroup.co.uk and their Christmas Saving Club at getpark.co.uk saw a slump immediately after the new of Farepak going into administration broke. About a third of their customer numbers were lost as confidence in Christmas hampers and Xmas savings club was lost. Fortunately Park Group recovered and one year later approximately 38,000 Christmas hamper and savings agents were working with ParkGroup. Christmas orders for December 2008 were 17% higher then Christmas 2007. |
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