The Mystery Shopping thread - part 6

mysterious_girl

owlet wrote: »

Nothing in the three counties I just searched

They probably made a mistake and removed them because if you do a search for "all" which lists everything in the country, there are no phone shops on there for anywhere.

mysterious_girl

creditcontroller wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed that the minimum spend for assignments at the dept store with a yellow carrier have now increased to £25 unless you are doing a food assignment? The payment is still only £10...

Yes, isn't it rediculous! They will stay on there for a while I imagine. They were there the other day and when I looked this morning most of the jobs were still there.

nads

I'm been trying to get in touch with ABAi by phone and email for over a week now to see if they'll put on more shops on my account but still nothing

owlet

Black petrol jobs for GAP: Minimum spend is £2 more than the reimbursement and NO fee :mad:. Ok if it is very local to you I suppose, but still not on :mad: & I for one won't pick any up. By the time you have done the evaluation & added your time, you may as well just go and put £x in you tank without the hassle of the questionnaire. It would probably work out about the same considering that the assignment is going to cost you £2 before you start anyway.

shazam

mysterious_girl wrote: »

They probably made a mistake and removed them because if you do a search for "all" which lists everything in the country, there are no phone shops on there for anywhere.

I think they are back on again, just done a search and 4 came up.

Timmne

owlet wrote: »

Black petrol jobs for GAP: Minimum spend is £2 more than the reimbursement and NO fee :mad:. Ok if it is very local to you I suppose, but still not on :mad: & I for one won't pick any up. By the time you have done the evaluation & added your time, you may as well just go and put £x in you tank without the hassle of the questionnaire. It would probably work out about the same considering that the assignment is going to cost you £2 before you start anyway.

The way I look at it (although I used to have the same opinion as you on this) is that if they paid me that reimbursement to spend a maximum of 3 minutes in the shop and another maximum 5 minutes writing up the report without buying anythin, I'd definitely do it. The fact that you spend more than the reimbursement just feels wrong. It's also a little loss for your accounts too!

Loolabell_2

shazam wrote: »

I think they are back on again, just done a search and 4 came up.

Yeah i got one for glasgow, posted on alerts page!!

Noctu

Posted on alerts page too, fast pizza on TNS. Fastest finger first more like!

KILL_BILL

i think that the 2 companies that want you to buy something and then give you say £4 to cover your time is a bit of a rip off

your out of pocket for a considerable period of time as they only pay once a month and then you havr to spend time doing the report which is hardly worth the 4 from what i can see

ive done 2 assignments for gfk which dont need as far as i can tell need you to lay any outlay out first

xxvickixx

TNS DIY - they are the ones in the same group as the big catalogue company.
I just looked under ALL on the search they are still there. How strange that some can't see them.