The Mystery Shopping thread - VII

scubaangel

Becles when I did one I checked in as early as I could to make sure I could have the snack and drink then booked a fairly late meal time, was hard work though!

gerkin

Becles wrote: »

Just been looking at a brief for a hotel job. After checking in, you have to have a drink and a bar snack in the lounge, and then go into the restaurant for a three course meal with wine. How on earth do you manage to eat and drink all that without bursting?

lol ! This had had me in trouble so many times. The best way to achieve this is to check in at 2 pm and head to the bar straight away and drown a few drinks and choose the lightest snack available. I choose the grilled pita bread. Head to dinner at about 8.30 pm since most restaurants close by 10 pm, it gives you enough time to consume 3 courses. Many times I have quit halfway through dessert.
I once got caught in traffic and checked in at 6.30 pm and by time I finished 3 course meal I was so knackered I had to get into bed and was gone till next day.:D

nads

scubaangel wrote: »

Thanks Timmne. Going to ask whats probably a really silly question now - but do saved searches on gap stay saved? Or do you have to rechoose the options everytime? As I saved some when I signed up and when I went back today they werent saved anymore.

I think it's saved as a cookie. What many of us do is bookmark the main job search page which not only makes searching faster but will allow you to keep track of the various spellings on the system.


http://www.xec.gapbuster.com/WebSelect3/SearchAssignment.aspx?q=search&flag=true&f1=Stoke,Stoke-on-trent,Stoke%20on%20Trent,Cotbridge,Abbey%20Hulton&f2=&f3=&c=&a=&start=&end=&premiumOnly=false&pageSize=25&pageIndex=0

Where the town name has a space in it, you have to type %20 instead of the space.


As you can see you can add lots of names and suburbs and they'll all appear ine go.

nads

Just to say, I can now see hotels on RE!!!!!!! :beer:

Mumto2

Anyone doing the Index 6 surveys for emysteryshopper? I've got a supermarket delivery one for survey/purchase/refund. The brief very light on details - am hoping it will become clear as I go through the survey.

Anyone got any ideas what I could buy and send for a refund? Surely if they deliver all the shopping you order with no subsitutes that should be it?

skywalker83

do emystery shopper pay well?????? they asked me to do a test report about an online store as a part of my registration... its take way too long and so i decided to leave it! do you recommend i complete it? is it worth doing it?

Mumto2

skywalker83 wrote: »

do emystery shopper pay well?????? they asked me to do a test report about an online store as a part of my registration... its take way too long and so i decided to leave it! do you recommend i complete it? is it worth doing it?

To be honest, haven't done a lot for them till now. Did a survey about a year ago for £5, but didn't get paid out as you need to earn £15 to generate payment.
The shopping ones I'm lined up to do give a fee for the survey, then a fee each for the refund & purchase. But when you consider there will be a delivery charge then probably only worthwhile if you are wanting to buy something anyway. Roughly £15 all in.

olivetti

Mumto2 wrote: »

Anyone doing the Index 6 surveys for emysteryshopper? I've got a supermarket delivery one for survey/purchase/refund. The brief very light on details - am hoping it will become clear as I go through the survey.

Anyone got any ideas what I could buy and send for a refund? Surely if they deliver all the shopping you order with no subsitutes that should be it?

Only ever done Tesco as a supermarket shop for thre index surveys on emysteryshopper. Both times I did it I got something from Tesco Direct, not groceries. handy that I have one nearby that I can get it delivered to and take back for refund.

Scaredy_Cat_3

skywalker83 wrote: »

do emystery shopper pay well?????? they asked me to do a test report about an online store as a part of my registration... its take way too long and so i decided to leave it! do you recommend i complete it? is it worth doing it?

I guess it depends on what you do. I did the test survey, which was easy enough, though a bit time consuming. Since then I've only done one survey for them and the fee was less than the one quoted above!

Not their fault, but I did the survey over Christmas when I really, really couldn't spare the time... then found out you have to earn about £10 before you can get your money paid! Since then I haven't seen any surveys that I thought worth doing for the fee, so it looks like I'll never get paid!!!!

Don't want to criticise them unfairly - each to their own, I'm sure there will be lots of people around who have made good money out of them, but it hasn't worked for me!

EDIT: Just re-read the above posts - my mistake, is it £15 you have to earn before they pay you? Well, I guess I'll be waiting a long time!

scubaangel

Olivetti please take the client name out of your post!