The Mystery Shopping thread - part 6

owlet

Hi everyone,

Is it me or is it really quiet at the moment? I did one job yesterday and have 4 jobs booked for Sat but they were all booked before Christmas. Nothing is available with TNS GAP RE or GR. All my reports have gone through without query so I presume it is just quiet in my area.
Can anyone shed any light with GR? I was accepted at the beginning of Dec but have not had one job offer from them - are they usually slow? I have done quite a few for the other companies. Thanks - hope you are all busier than I am lol. x

Dinah93

GR are very slow, I get about 5 job offers a month from them, but they almost always are taken within 5mins of the email going out, its madness!

I'm finding it really quiet at the moment too, all RE have for me are airport jobs, but not at the airport that I use frequently, and a few with gap booked before Christmas.

Btw I want to know who PiP are too!

cranezoe

PiP is performance in people. hth!

owlet

cranezoe wrote: »

PiP is performance in people. hth!

Thanks cranezoe, I'll have a look!

tirlittan

Thanks catwoman.

mysterious_girl

I've only done 7 assignments for GR in the last 6 months and I've only missed out on 5 that were allocated to other people. They don't seem to have much work at all in my area. RE have only got 9 jobs within a 40 mile radius of my home and they are pubs which I am not interested in. BARE and TERN aren't even worth mentioning as there is nothing on their books. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come but just the post Christmas slump. Have you applied with GfK? I have 4 jobs with them for next week.

gco1133

I can only ever seem to see the jobs for a large London retailer on Oxford Street on ABAi. Do I need to do something else to see the other jobs?

owlet

mysterious_girl wrote: »

I've only done 7 assignments for GR in the last 6 months and I've only missed out on 5 that were allocated to other people. They don't seem to have much work at all in my area. RE have only got 9 jobs within a 40 mile radius of my home and they are pubs which I am not interested in. BARE and TERN aren't even worth mentioning as there is nothing on their books. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come but just the post Christmas slump. Have you applied with GfK? I have 4 jobs with them for next week.

Thanks mysterious girl, I will have a look at GFK. I have also had a look at PIP & I'm going to apply to them as well. I will ditch GR lol. Just this minute picked up supermarkets & pizza on TNS (will post on the other thread in a mo).
I have been lucky with RE & had pubs, electrical shop, garden centre & well known kitchen shop )

josie

Hi Owlet,

Just wanted to ask you and others, can you all see pizza on TNS? None showing for me, even if I look at the whole country. In the past I've done takeaway pizza for them and the other "fast" pizza restaurant, but neither recently. Wonder if I've been blocked... Oh, actually I can see a fast pizza one in Eire but none over here.

josie

cranezoe wrote: »

PiP is performance in people. hth!

I applied to these in November but have heard nothing so far. Apart from car showrooms, does anyone know what other sort of clients they have please?