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The Mystery Shopping thread - part 6

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  • ThinkingOfLinking
    ThinkingOfLinking Posts: 11,828 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Oh poo; I love Italian food, and I adore shellfish. I wish I had been offered that job!!
  • Timmne
    Timmne Posts: 2,555 Forumite
    Flickering_Ember wrote: »
    ME: "Ooh, nice T shirt, but £30 is a bit pricey. Can I have a discount?"
    S/A: "No"
    ME: "Ok, I'll buy it anyway."

    :rolleyes: :rotfl:


    Does anyone remember the convenience store RE had a while back? It wasn't the store itself but a gift card type thing IIRC.

    Anyway - the brief was ridiculous.

    Shopper: "Hello, how much can I put on this gift card"
    MOS: "Any amount you like"
    Shopper "OK, I'll have a mars bar thanks"

    :rolleyes:
  • iNath
    iNath Posts: 382 Forumite
    My first job was an underground sandwhich for RE. I was so excited I was getting free food (and some money!)

    Ahh, those were the days...
  • adoresabargain
    adoresabargain Posts: 85 Forumite
    Timmne wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the convenience store RE had a while back? It wasn't the store itself but a gift card type thing IIRC.

    Anyway - the brief was ridiculous.

    Shopper: "Hello, how much can I put on this gift card"
    MOS: "Any amount you like"
    Shopper "OK, I'll have a mars bar thanks"

    :rolleyes:
    That is so funny, I am sat here on my own laughing my head off!:rotfl: Thank you for that.
  • SuperMum2008
    SuperMum2008 Posts: 673 Forumite
    Anyone ms'ing in Northern Ireland - it is SOOOOO quiet....virtually no work going - anyone else as frustrated as me..sigh!
    Feel free to thank me, it makes my toes tingle and my ears go warm :T
  • skywalker83
    skywalker83 Posts: 405 Forumite
    hi,
    has anyone heard of:
    Michael Bernard
    Best Surveys
    505 Barranca Parkway
    Irvine, CA 92604-3703

    they mailed me asking me to send them my details so that they could register me for mystery shopping
  • Kellylea
    Kellylea Posts: 110 Forumite
    I have been a complete idiot!

    Can someone please confirm that just giving your name sort code and account number nothing can be taken from your bank.

    I have been very careful not to sign up to any companies that ask for money or fee's as it's me who's going to get paid not them.

    I replied to a add on a jobsite for MS'ers in my area and gave the normal name phone number payment details. But then i got an email telling me i'll get paid 350 per assignment which i know is deffinately not true. I googled the company name full scope inc and found info saying it's a scam.

    Apparantly they'll try to get me to wire money somewhere which obviously i would never have gone through with anyway but i'm a bit worried that i gave them any of my details at all!

    I am normally so much smarter than this! I used to work for a credit card company (booo!) so am very alert on email scams.
    Baby Boy B 30/08/2008 Baby Girl B 16/12/2010

    Determined to become debt free ready for my wedding 2012!
  • fabsaver
    fabsaver Posts: 1,306 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Becles wrote: »
    LOL - I think the jobs are run for the benefit of the establishment not the shoppers! If you read the notes on this one, you have to order the Italian dish to make sure it is presented in a certain way.

    It's to do with brand image and making sure every customer gets the same experience. I've done other restaurants where you have to order specific dishes and and you get a food spec showing what ingredients you should have and the way it should be presented. Some are so specific - "your salad garnish must contain 4 pieces of pepper and 2 cherry tomatoes" or "the bread must be arranged like this and have 2 pats of butter with it".

    I've just had to turn down an Italian restaurant as this time you had to order a seafood based dish, and both husband and me hate seafood!
    I think we must be talking about different jobs here:o My original comments were about the Sunday one and there was no mention of an Italian meal.

    I can understand that on occasions they do need to check the presentation of specific dishes but for this one there were no details on what they should look like so it would be impossible to check.
  • ThinkingOfLinking
    ThinkingOfLinking Posts: 11,828 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    There are lots of jobs going up on RE right this second.
  • Cherry_pie_5
    Cherry_pie_5 Posts: 121 Forumite
    Flickering_Ember wrote: »
    There are lots of jobs going up on RE right this second.


    I'm starting to get worried as I can't see them, no railway jobs, just a few retail and some health clubs :( What area are you in? :confused:
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