The Mystery Shopping thread - part 6

jobbingmusician

With RE generally you can order extras. They will reimburse up to their maximum, but you are quite likely to exceed this at a Spanish place, so be aware the job will end up costing you money.

When you come to do your tax, you can only reclaim the expenses necessary to do the job......

(Can you tell that I am fed up with companies who reimburse you less than you need to spend? )

darlo_fan

jobbingmusician wrote: »

With RE generally you can order extras. They will reimburse up to their maximum, but you are quite likely to exceed this at a Spanish place, so be aware the job will end up costing you money.

When you come to do your tax, you can only reclaim the expenses necessary to do the job......

(Can you tell that I am fed up with companies who reimburse you less than you need to spend? )

With regards to reimbursement.

If for example the job has a reimbursement of £9 and I only spend £6, I take it I only get the £6?

jobbingmusician

From RE, yes, you only get the £6.

From GAP you get the £9.

With regard to my earlier response - at the Spanish restaurant the briefing notes specifically say you have to have the 4 things as PART of your meal - order other things as well, but not the deals they forbid you from ordering!

tigergold

Just wanted to say thanks to Kman for pm'ing me help for my casino job.
It went ok, but I was a bit of a chicken and cashed out whenever I had actually won some money. It was good fun and will probably go back.

kman

tigergold wrote: »

Just wanted to say thanks to Kman for pm'ing me help for my casino job.
It went ok, but I was a bit of a chicken and cashed out whenever I had actually won some money. It was good fun and will probably go back.

Glad you enjoyed it - now you're 'hooked', you'll definitely be back...;)

darlo_fan

People keep talking about premium assignments on GAP, and I can see the area on the web site would list them, but how do you qualify for them? Or is it just random?

jonno1001

Just had a hotel stay with RE cancelled as the chain have suspended their MS programme.

Anyone else affected?

tigergold

jonno1001 wrote: »

Just had a hotel stay with RE cancelled as the chain have suspended their MS programme.

Anyone else affected?

oh no, thats terrible. I've always wanted to do a hotel stay as well !
Lucky I got the casino job, while the going is still good.
I have to say I can see how people get addicted to casino's as time there passes so fast without even noticing. I am finding december quiet, still waiting for these 8500 jobs RE say there will be.

jonno1001

There are plenty of jobs in my area, but lacking the bookies and pharmacy. It's a shame the hotels have gone as they were good for stacking up loyalty points:beer:

kman

Do Gfk still have the bookies jobs, as I haven't seen any on there for ages?