have a look here
http://www.holidayrepping.co.uk/forum/
where you will be able to get lots more info from people who actually do the job.
good luck.

Thank you very much - I'll take a look later and see what I can find out !!

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Hi - I nearly ended up being a rep in Rhodes for ****** about 5 years ago - £300 sounds about right on pay front, you should get accommodation thrown in. Basically, it's not a job to go for if you've got bills to pay in the UK.

Beware unexpected extras - ****** required around £120 to be paid up front as a uniform deposit - you only got this back once you completed the season. (I hadn't even been fitted for my uniform when I had to withdraw my application, but I still never got the deposit back!). You were "required" to have 2 pairs of airport shoes (given how long you're going to be on your feet on airport days, not good to buy cheapies). Holiday pay is only paid on completion of the season. Commission was partialyy paid in arrears, but the majority was paid once you'd completed the season.

And don't forget, if you don't like it they won't pay for your flight home!

have you had a look on firstchoice4jobs

Thanks for that link jimd-f What I have read so far is sooo true and I have been laughing out loud. I was very tempted to join with some of my stories but felt I might bogart the forum for too long!!

Nik, no-one I know does repping for the money!!!!

In November 2006 Olympic holidays wrote a letter to my daughter advising that her application for a job as a transfer representative had been successful and that if she wished to accept the job, she would need to sign the enclosed document and also send a bond of £150 to cover her traveling expenses. The final paragraph of the letter read "we would like to stress again that signing this document does not commit you to anything and does make any sort of contract between us". She was also required to sign a form with the bond money saying that the money was non refundable IF SHE DID NOT complete the full season.

In January my daughter received the terms and conditions of employment and as they were different to what was discussed at the interview and were omitted from the offer letter in November she decided not to sign the contract and sent a letter to Olympic explaining her reasons for declining the offer and requesting her £150 bond money back.

Olympic ignored this letter and she telephoned Julian Pearl who advised, contrary to their letter dated 21st November, that she had entered into a contract with them and therefore was not entitled to this bond money back because she had not completed the season. However, by their own written admission this statement is untrue and as she had not entered into a contract with them or even embarked on the season surely she should be entitled to this money back.

On 27th February she wrote again advising that she had taken legal advice and that it was misrepresentation on their part and again requesting the return of the monies again. To date, she has not heard anything and her telephone calls and voicemails remain ignored.

I also threatened to take Kosmar to the Small Claims Court in order to retrieve my £120. Unfortunately, I didn't!

What annoyed me was that - at the point I had to withdraw my application - I still had a week to go before the deadline for returning the contract and deposit!!!

I also threatened to take Kosmar to the Small Claims Court in order to retrieve my £120. Unfortunately, I didn't!

The key to your problem and many others. Regrettably people make threats but fail to follow them through.

Where anyone parts with money that has a non return clause they should take legal advice. Yes it may cost you money, but then expert advice, rather than opinions such as we may express do cost money.

fwh

When I worked for Thomson the deposit was taken from my first pay and refunded in my final pay at the end of the season.

fwh - I know that unfufilled threats are worse than no threats at all - however, the worsening of my mum's health which was a major factor in my pulling out of the job rather distracted me from pursing Kosmar any further.

Something else that occurred to me tonight in the "hidden costs of being a rep" vein - beware the costs of presentation materials....in my "handy to take with you" list were items like felt tip pens, card etc etc - so you can bet that any items you'd need for your customer presentations/welcome meetings whilst abroad wouldn't be paid for out of petty cash!

To be quite honest - I don't regret not going - I've lived a season out in Greece mixing with the Greeks a lot and the Brits a little - a season dealing almost solely with Brits could've been soul destroying![/i]

Was a hotel rep in my home country for a UK company and it is a great job, money rubbish but good for a break

There is a thread somehwere in the general forum started by brit5alpha about holiday repping as her daughter is/was one and it described all the pit falls and hardships she faced. I seem to remember quite a debate started and eventually some people got quite nasty and the thread got locked. perhaps you should read through it if one of the mods would be kind enough to provide the link please. ( i am not computer literate enough to do it.. )

I think this is the thread val and rob is talking about.

http://www.holidaytruths.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=77834&highlight=