The Mystery Shopping thread - part 5

Hollypear

josie wrote: »

It takes lots of checking websites and signing up with lots of different companies, I'm afraid - oh and it could be the fact that you're in Glasgow too. You see, there are one or two keen Mystery Shoppers in Glasgow already on here who may well snap up a lot of the jobs...!:D

What you meant Josie you just worded it wrongly was there are one or two super duper excellent MS'ers in Glasgow...:rotfl: who snap up all the jobs.

Nah seriously I think the thing is to join every company you can then wait and see and keep checking the websites.

GfK for instance often email you to say there are new jobs on the site but often they don't and you just catch one by checking the GfK website.

scotnan

RE have got to be having a laugh with the fee for those sports shop jobs!
If their fees get any lower, they'll be wanting the mystery shoppers to pay them for the jobs soon :rolleyes:

I realise that there is also a spending amount too but the way I look at that is that you're just giving that money back to the company that you are completing the job for, I'd rather have a bigger fee and decide where I would like to spend my hard earned cash, thank you.

juniee

I'm with a certain MS company and have only done 2 assignments in 10 months. I live near Manchester but never get assignments offered for there.
Assignments are always sent around early afternoon when I am at work so they have gone by the time I am home.
Most of the assignments are for banks/ building societies and involve opening an account which I'm not interested in doing.
j

mcallister1

scotnan wrote: »

RE have got to be having a laugh with the fee for those sports shop jobs!
If their fees get any lower, they'll be wanting the mystery shoppers to pay them for the jobs soon :rolleyes:

I realise that there is also a spending amount too but the way I look at that is that you're just giving that money back to the company that you are completing the job for, I'd rather have a bigger fee and decide where I would like to spend my hard earned cash, thank you.

I agree- I wouldn't mind but they also are very clear that the item should not be taken back. Its quite difficult to find something for £10 that you want in one of those stores- so you end up spending more than you wanted, or stuck with something you don't want.

Vickisaver

juniee wrote: »

I'm with Grassroots and have only done 2 assignments in 10 months. I live near Manchester but never get assignments offered for there.
Assignments are always sent around early afternoon when I am at work so they have gone by the time I am home.
Most of the assignments are for banks/ building societies and involve opening an account which I'm not interested in doing.
The two I have done are **** and *** which were both interesting.
j x

I've not been doing this for long, but I've found most of the bank ones are just to enquire about an account, I've done a few now and haven't had to actually open a new account, which I'd not be interested in doing. I also got one for my own bank where I had to just do a normal transaction. I hope a few more jobs come in for you, although I think I'm right in saying you are not supposed to mention which actual companies you have had jobs with, you might want to change your post.

ThinkingOfLinking

Regarding the sports shops, if I could afford to go spending money in them, I'd not be MS'ing in the first place. I always refund them after and then just say my acountant has them as I am registered s/employed for this job. But they have never asked me for my receipt after I've uploaded it as a jpeg and I don't have a scanner either, I just use my camera phone.

I forgot to mention, when you take the item back, tell the till staff you need to retai your receipt because it hasn't come off your bank statement and becaus you just moved house you're wary of fraud.

sinderella_2

juniee wrote: »

I'm with Grassroots and have only done 2 assignments in 10 months. I live near Manchester but never get assignments offered for there.
Assignments are always sent around early afternoon when I am at work so they have gone by the time I am home.
Most of the assignments are for banks/ building societies and involve opening an account which I'm not interested in doing.
The two I have done are ******* and *** which were both interesting.
j x

hi Juniee - you are breaking ts&cs of mystery shopping for the company concerned please edit your post

sinderella_2

hi vickisaver - you also need to edit where you quoted juniee:D

sinderella_2

mcallister1 wrote: »

I had a really nice reply from RE after I emailled them about the points situation. The lady there was sympathetic to the points I raised and said that she would raise them at the next development meeting. She also reminded me that surveys earn 2 points, so can eventually prop up your average. She also was sympathetic to the idea of taking an average over 3 or 6 months, and reconsideration of whether changing the date should result in loss of points- I don't think it makes a great deal of difference to them really if its changed once so long as it is in the time period.
It is a condition the client has made that only their 'best' shoppers will get these jobs, and becasue they have a points system that is what is used.

sorry guys to be spamming the thread - but after telling all those peeps off, I didn't get around to making my own point! Which is - of course the company want the best shoppers - wouldn't all companies??? But RE can't blame the company for this, because it's them who decided that you need to get max points everytime to be left with a 12 and put into the best shopper category. I would have thought that there could be many other (and more effective) ways of selecting the cream of the bunch. The current method will inevitably mean that less experienced shoppers who have been exposed to less risk (re losing points) will fare better than highly experienced shoppers who've had to move jobs around a couple of times. I'm wondering which muppet made this decision and why nobody else has argued it! Let's hope you're right, McAllister and they do review it! Of course I'm only up for a change of system because I've not got a score of 12!

ThinkingOfLinking

Anyone who's with aba-i, can you tell me what sort of time of the month the assignments with the black department store and the general store which shares its name with a razor come up?