The Mystery Shopping thread - part 6

Hollypear

MikeLB wrote: »

Best example I can think of is this way for actual times:

a - Stop in queue
b - Arrive at window
c - Offer greeting
d - Order Total
e - Receive food

If there is no queue, then a can be the same as b

If you are offered greeting as soon as you arrive at the window, then c will be 1 or 2 seconds only. It can't be the same as a or b as you would have to have someone hanging out the window shouting hello at you as you pull up! But I know myself it can be quiet and you get offered service immediately, so 1 second suffices.

d and e can never be the same.

Out of curiosity, its not Castlemilk is it?!

Shouldn't that be Chateau Lait as I have a friend who lives there.

Soz everyone else a Glasgow joke.:rotfl:

bobthego

mtem74 wrote: »

Mentioned to my mother I was doing some bookies as part of my MSing.. her comment.. I hope you don't get addicted to gambling !!!

Well, it made me laugh.

That is just what my dad said when I got a casino one LOL

Hollypear

leila1 wrote: »

I have done a lot of work for both. The only time GFK pays 10 X RE fee is for mortgage/ financial interviews which take one hour to complete, sometime require two trips and have 10 page report to complete.
On average GFK pays 2.5 X RE fee.

That may be your experience. It isn't mine. I can quite assure you I am telling the truth. And the GfK job wasn't a bank job.

GfK do different types of bank jobs. The easy one asking about how to open a current account I got my fee upped last week to 2 1/2 times what they originally paid.

I am doing one of their savings ones next week and it is a considerable fee if I need to do the interview.

And quite frankly a 10 page questionnaire is a piece of cake compared to the rubbish ones on RE.

bobthego

leila1 wrote: »

Fairly easy to do, three main enquiries have a shopping list handy to tick what you have done and record some info.
I would access the biref in advance as they change the time of visits for each month and for different counters.

Thanks Leila, I'd like to do more of them so dont want to mess it up

ThinkingOfLinking

blindman wrote: »

Are you actually employed by RE

Please quantify how you can make £100 per week. I assume that's before tax?

How many jobs is that?

Looking forward to your reply.

I agree...unless it includes reimbursements? Because I did a food job and received £20 reimbursement the other week plus a £5 fee but after travel and printing was taken into account, I had 7p profit!!

leila1

bobthego wrote: »

Thanks Leila, I'd like to do more of them so dont want to mess it up

Write a detailed report and hand in within the 24 hrs. I think there is a link there for a sample one that you could print. It also helps if you have a lots of locations that you could do in your details because they only give you the same store every quarter. Good luck.

leila1

Hollypear wrote: »

That may be your experience. It isn't mine. I can quite assure you I am telling the truth. And the GfK job wasn't a bank job.

GfK do different types of bank jobs. The easy one asking about how to open a current account I got my fee upped last week to 2 1/2 times what they originally paid.

I am doing one of their savings ones next week and it is a considerable fee if I need to do the interview.

And quite frankly a 10 page questionnaire is a piece of cake compared to the rubbish ones on RE.

I was talking averages, and yes they all up the fee for the middle of nowhere places that would take half a day to get to! Gap two can pay 10X RE fee when desperate! Apart from that I can assure you that GFK are not giving you (or anyone else) a special fee that they are not giving the rest of us.

Hollypear

leila1 wrote: »

I was talking averages, and yes they all up the fee for the middle of nowhere places that would take half a day to get to! Gap two can pay 10X RE fee when desperate! Apart from that I can assure you that GFK are not giving you (or anyone else) a special fee that they are not giving the rest of us.

Well I have seldom known RE to up a fee. My real point though was that for a higher fee sometimes by quite a bit you don't have those ridiculous please answer this question is 5 different ways type questionnaires.Plus often a photograph of the place for no real reason. The receipt proves you were there.

ThinkingOfLinking

RE did once up a fee for me; they had a job that needed doing that day as someone els must have let them down. I accepted the job, havin asked for an extra £5 to cover my travel; a travelcard costs £4.30 in my area. If they ever need a job doing urgently I shall do the same.

adoresabargain

Hi, can anyone tell me what the bank jobs are like for gfk, I do not bank with this certain bank. Thanks in advance.:beer: