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The Mystery Shopping thread - part 6

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  • mysterious_girl
    mysterious_girl Posts: 1,859 Forumite
    pebblespop wrote: »
    £397 in five days??? OMG!

    what have you been doing to get that much??
    Banks and cars. Very monotonous and extremely boring. Running around like a headless chicken trying to get it all in before picking the kids up from school! Aggghh. So, also quite frustrating. I always manage to get every red light as it has just turned red. I also manage to always fall behind some idiot who drives 19 miles an hour in a 30 zone. :mad:
  • tigergold
    tigergold Posts: 1,095 Forumite
    Jdan9:Just submt it as is, use a blank page for any upload. My 1st ever job was a GAP phone, guy was so awful didn't get anything - cards/brochures. Submitted the job and gap contacted me with further questions - ended up writing a thesis on what happened. Put me off phone jobs for life !!
  • whitelabel wrote: »
    go there, ask do they do food, when they say no, do a drinks only visit stay 45 mins minimum )remember cctv) then report back to RE that no food was available.

    It should detail this in the visit notes already though

    Thanks Whitelabel...its my first ever shopper assignment...so not sure. The notes say 'if there is no food available, do not continue the assignment and leave the venue'.

    Just wondering if I even have to go in that case, but don't want to muck up my first visit and go into negative points :rolleyes:
  • princess_leia_3
    princess_leia_3 Posts: 1,165 Forumite
    Maybe phone the place to check if they are doing food now and if not phone RE tomorrow
    Sealed pot Member target £200 - No. 151
    GC Yearly £3k so far £1097 May£220/£300
    £1k in 100 days so far - £235 :p
    Snowball debt free calculator says DEC 09 - lets hope we can do it!

  • tigergold
    tigergold Posts: 1,095 Forumite
    DP:If he notes say do not continue if there is no food, you should as if you just do it as a drinks visit they will probably not reimburse you. I personally would email them and say my husband went to this location, XX days ago and there was no food, and let them confirm it with the client, saying you are just checking as this is your 1st job and don't want to mess it up.Princess - also a very good idea
  • princess_leia_3
    princess_leia_3 Posts: 1,165 Forumite
    Does anyone here do work for IMS? I applied ages ago and had email to say they now had vacancies in my area and I now have to ring them for a phone interview - just wondered what they were like really, you can PM if you prefer :D
    Sealed pot Member target £200 - No. 151
    GC Yearly £3k so far £1097 May£220/£300
    £1k in 100 days so far - £235 :p
    Snowball debt free calculator says DEC 09 - lets hope we can do it!

  • Scaredy_Cat_3
    Scaredy_Cat_3 Posts: 2,812 Forumite
    Just completed my report for the RE electrical shop. Goodness, what a lot of questions!!! And now I see what people are complaining about. They wanted a comment for every single response! There was one asking the name of the staff member, so I put the name in the comments box and it showed up as an error because I hadn't used enough characters... I had to do it again as a sentence.

    What a carry on. Is the report for the casino this much hassle? Hubby wants me to cancel as he doesn't really fancy it.

    Today was only my second ever RE job and if the reports are this much hassle I'm not sure it's worth bothering. They pay the same fee as GR, but the GR report is quite straightforward and quick to do.
  • nads
    nads Posts: 2,406 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Just completed my report for the RE electrical shop. Goodness, what a lot of questions!!! And now I see what people are complaining about. They wanted a comment for every single response! There was one asking the name of the staff member, so I put the name in the comments box and it showed up as an error because I hadn't used enough characters... I had to do it again as a sentence.

    What a carry on. Is the report for the casino this much hassle? Hubby wants me to cancel as he doesn't really fancy it.

    Today was only my second ever RE job and if the reports are this much hassle I'm not sure it's worth bothering. They pay the same fee as GR, but the GR report is quite straightforward and quick to do.


    Sorry chuck but I think apart from the stamps questionnaire on Gap, the most awful questionnaires you will come across are on RE!

    I don't recall ever doing a job on RE that did not involve a reasonable survey.
  • mysterious_girl
    mysterious_girl Posts: 1,859 Forumite
    Does anyone know when MCE pay up? I did a job for them back on the 6th Feb and haven't received anything yet. Do they pay into your bank account or send a cheque? I would appreciate it if someone could please enlighten me. Many thanks. :D

    Just out of interest: For the first time ever in my whole entire life, a fast food place that I MS'd for yesterday asked me if I wanted a receipt before I even had the chance to ask for one. Am I that obvious? :rotfl: They've probably studied me on CCTV when I did my last visit.
  • owlet
    owlet Posts: 1,510 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    jdan9 wrote: »
    Need advice - my mobile phone job for GAP went a bit wrong today!

    I'm supposed to get a business card from the member of staff who I spoke to. I asked him for one and he said 'all I can give you is the phone number of the store, you can save it in your phone'. So now all I have is the phone number, and no business card.

    Should I call GAP? Email them? Just submit the job and explain in the comments section? Reschedule and try again in a few days?

    I have done quite a few of these. I always get the SA to write his/her name & shop phone number on the top of the brochure (so I can get back to the same person if there are any queries) and send them a pic of that. I just put a comment in the comments section saying that there were no business cards available so I have done this instead. I also tick the box that asks about collecting a card as 'yes' because in reality I have! I have never had any probs with this & it doesn't give the game away leaving you looking like a plank! The only phone shop that seems to have business cards are the red ones. I don't even bother asking for a card now. GAP have always accepted this without questioning it.
    SPC 8 (2015) #485 TOTAL: £334.65
    SPC 9 (2016) #485 TOTAL £84
    SPC 10 (2017) # 485 TOTAL: £464.80
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