The Mystery Shopping thread - VII

Mumto2

So, how did everyone get on with their casino jobs?

We had a good night, ended up with small profit. (mostly thanks to the 2 free £10 bets for new members!). There was no free tour or free drink though, so probably won't score that highly on the report.

blindman

creaker wrote: »

By the way, do you know if you have to have a lot of experience with them before they offer you a flight or is it just random?

I honestly haven't a clue.

All you can do is try to get jobs for Bare and prove yourself reliable and high scoring.

lostweekender

I don't know if this will help anyone and the more experienced may have better information but I was only accepted with the above at the end of Feb 09. I received a welcome email which invited me to call or email if I had any difficulty.
I can not remember why but I did call the person and during the conversation I found out I needed to register a voice recording as an English speaker.
I don't think I would have known to do this if I had not called them. I straight away applied for a car circuit and was assigned.
Hope this helps someone

pebblespop

missy_sarah wrote: »

Why accept a job with no fee please try not to MS companies will do it more often making them richer and us with less.....

i take jobs with no fee if the reimbursement os for something i want/need. i have done a pizza job today with no fee. i was doing other shops in the area and i took OH along and had lunch out.

sometimes the perks are worth it. it also brings down your taxable profits.

if you don't do them, someone else will - sad but true!!

purt

Hello

Would someone be so kind as to PM me details of the stores Grassroots and ABAi shop? I used to do quite a few mobile phone shops for Grassroots but haven't been offered any in yonks. Also, I'd quite like to do the catalogue shops for ABAi if I could but none show up. Am just wondering if they are shops that are available in N. Ireland. Thanks

ellie9ellie

bumblebee23 wrote: »

Yeah I pretty much figured that Mysterious Girl but meh, would rather have no fee and no food poisoning!

And what is going on with RE not offering fees for the pub jobs?! Especially when you have to order what they tell you to... can't imagine many people signing up to them!

And weren't the fees for the flights on BARE nearly twice as much as they are now, last time?!

What is the world coming to?!

Fingers crossed you may be OK. I did an horrendous stamp job about 2 months ago and GAP called me to query and I thought - this is it. I explained the staff member really was that bad and I actually apologised. She said "Don't apologise, your paid to give good feedback - that is exactly what were looking for". Every question she asked I said No to. At the end we were both laughing. Apparently they had had problems with this particular staff member before. You may find that there have been problems with this pizza place before as well. Fingers crossed and let us know how it goes x

flyer

Does anyone else find the React questionnaire difficult to complete? It takes ages because after each answer an egg timer appears and you can't move on. Or am I doing it wrong?

josie

Quote:
Originally Posted by msmas
Obviously, they wouldn't have provided any reasons, but can you think of any - too many queries for the past few jobs/high degree of rescheduling or cancellation/anything else in particular about the stamp jobs you've done in the past ??? It's quite difficult to get around Gap and their ways

jediteacher wrote: »

Nothing I can think of. I've never had a report queried or written late. I've never cancelled any either. And no, they haven't provided a reason. :mad: But thank you.

Someone else got sacked from the stamp jobs. She wondered if she'd done too many. Have you done loads of them and they've taken you off them maybe?

josie

pebblespop wrote: »

i take jobs with no fee if the reimbursement os for something i want/need. i have done a pizza job today with no fee. i was doing other shops in the area and i took OH along and had lunch out.

sometimes the perks are worth it. it also brings down your taxable profits.

if you don't do them, someone else will - sad but true!!

Yes, I take jobs with no payment for meals for the same reason - brings down the tax figure and only if it's a free meal for 2. I only do jobs that have a "freebie" anyway. I don't do ones where it's a fee only as don't feel it's worth it for a fiver or whatever, in most instances. There are odd ones where the fee is £20 and that feels acceptable to me.

The pub meals on RE have been no payment for quite a while. I think the majority are, with RE, Gap and TNS meals anyway.

TractorGirl327

bumblebee23 wrote: »

I think I may get sacked from GAP now as I walked out of a Pizza job yesterday, the food had hair (human, I think) and meat (was non meat dish)and the fish was off so I gave up to save myself food poisoning... I emailed GAP straight away, but I bet I get sacked for it! I gave them all the notes I have on it, but I have honestly never had such a horrid meal experience... Still feel a bit queasy now when I think about it...

I reckon you are well within your rights to walk out. Gap should still honour the payment, it's not your fault!