The Mystery Shopping thread - VII

Geordie_Lass_3

Gap is down for maintenance until Sunday Morning

IlonaRN

When it comes to keeping records, do you keep your paper records strictly in date order, for example one folder per month, or do you keep them in client order, i.e. one folder per MS company?

Need to sort mine out, and want to get it in the best possible order so I don't have to redo it at a later date!

blindman

josie wrote: »

If you're still on here - when she rings back, can you ask here when you'd need to do it, if tonight is already full please? Just thought it might help the rest of us who can't do tonight?

What area are you in?

The contact at RE is Katherine Earl on 01908 328008

or [EMAIL="katherine.earl@retaileyes.co.uk"]katherine.earl@retaileyes.co.uk[/EMAIL]

They will reschedule for next weekend either Friday or Saturday.

josie

truly1 wrote: »

Haven't been able to log in since early this morning

xx

Nor me. They rang me 3 times yesterday.

The first time to offer me a stamp job that I was passing later that day, so agreed to do it and he gave me a pizza job.

First of all he told me I'd done the stamp job there before and after he'd been through it all over the phone and I asked for the exact address, it turned out to 8 miles away, as it wasn't the one I'd done before at all. Fortunately, that was still on my way home.

He told me it was open until 6.30pm and I said are you sure? 18.30 hours, a stamp shop - very strange (especially as it was a little village). I knew I wouldn't get there til around 18.00. So needless to say I get there at 6 and it was shut! Huh! Then I get home to find the pizza place he's given me is actually a weekday lunchtime one that I can't do as I work full time about half an hour away from home.

I think he was just saying anything to get me to do it and has basically mis-led me on 3 counts!

Someone else rings me about about 7pm to say did I get the job done - no, it was closed and she said they'd still pay me and she'd deallocate it. Then a 3rd chap rings me to offer me a stamp shop on Monday for the place I originally thought I was doing in the first place and I said I would only do if passing as it's 15 miles away, so a 30 mile round trip. So he said how much do you want for it? So have said I can do it after work on Tues and he's given me 4 times the usual fee and a petrol job.

Of course I could actually do the little village one at the same time, and have emailed them to say this, but no reply yet. Did get an instant reply to another query last night tho - literally within 2 minutes!

josie

blindman wrote: »

The contact at RE is Katherine Earl on 01908 328008

or [EMAIL="katherine.earl@retaileyes.co.uk"]katherine.earl@retaileyes.co.uk[/EMAIL]

They will reschedule for next weekend either Friday or Saturday.

Thanks, thought it might have to be those dates - can't do those ones either - hey ho!

raphanius

How on earth do you remeber everything, I just looked at the questions
and they look very scary, How much insurance, How many years this and how many years that, Just don't know how I will remeber it all:eek:

I did my first mystery shop (for grassroots) yesterday and solved the problem by making notes on my mobile phone..it just looked like i was texting.

ukmonkey

I'm off on a mission now guys. Might be on later if I can get on a wifi connection or via HSDPA.

Hope you all have a lovely extended weekend.

nads

Have a good weekend too ukmonkey Bank holiday period will be quiet will probably start putting all my invoices into a application

nads

raphanius wrote: »

I did my first mystery shop (for grassroots) yesterday and solved the problem by making notes on my mobile phone..it just looked like i was texting.

Congrats, you're on your way to being a pro Yep I use the same method sometimes difficult as I have T9 on so can be annoying when the wrong word comes up

jdan9

Timmne wrote: »

Big Easter tut tut for you jdan

Hey hey hey, hang on... who said anything about them being clients? Not me...!

Timmne wrote: »

All the client needs to do, to find out who's discussing their MSing schemes is google "John Smith Ltd" and "Mystery Shopping" - if the above post's names are left in, then the client would be brought directly to this thread.

The less client attention we get, the better, surely?

But that's a good point which I didn't think of. I doubt any such googler would bother to read the context of the post thoroughly... Should probably edit the names then.

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juliecallum wrote: »

Hi
How much are these notebooks roughly, I have my 40th in a few months, Could be an idea for a pressie off OH:j

I got an Acer one which runs XP for £249 from Currys.