The Mystery Shopping thread - VII

Scaredy_Cat_3

Nothing for me... RE is showing a few more jobs now but I'm still in the Teesside Triangle of no work! Plenty of jobs Newcastle way or Leeds areas, nowt in between!

Nothing showing elsewhere either - GfK has had the same 2 bank jobs showing for ages, miles too far out for me to consider, and GR has had nothing since they pulled all those jobs the other week.

fabsaver

johnhugh wrote: »

The same here... In the last few weeks I've only ever seen pubs on RE even with a nationwide search. I have never done an assignment yet with them, so could this be why?

I think they just let new shoppers see whatever they can't shift (pubs, pharmacies, whatever). You will probably have to do one of those just to get off probation and then you should be able to see more.

I have my defined areas set to cover a huge proportion of the country including London yet most of the time I have less than 10 jobs available. Often in the time it takes for someone to post on the alerts board the jobs are gone:rolleyes:

auntypog

ukmonkey wrote: »

Well manic for me anyway, refreshing the RE site every five mins to see what else they'll be offering.

But yes, the fee for the dome shops wouldn't even buy you a pint on the way home. Possibly a bag of chips, if you have a small portion though!

You could use 'Yrefresher' shareware. It automatically refreshes for you. You should be able to google it. It might wipe all your filters, though. I does that to me nowandagain.

nads

auntypog wrote: »

RE are paying in pants..? Hmmm, some sort of lingerie shop then...(sorry!)

Don't worry I like your humour

fabsaver

Timmne wrote: »

NO?!!

Really? Are RE actually testing shoppers now?

I (seriously) blame RE for single handedly ruining the MSing market. They're a joke!

Although people who do these jobs don't help the more choosy of us!

Yes and they will probably still have 'please support your answer with a detailed comment' on every question. Not that I'll be taking one to find out.

Alex1234

Hi All! I've only recently started mystery shopping :j, so far registered with gfk and just registered with grassroots..just currently signing up with RE and thought would check if someone would like the referal fee? I'm assuming I just enter your name...if someone wants to pm with details then I'd be happy to do it
You all seem to be doing quite well with it all, I've done 3 with gfk in the past week, so not done too bad! Re seem to be doing lots of jobs from what's been said on here so thought I would give them a go aswell!

Alex1234

Lol typical, I talk about signing up to RE and it seems like you guys aren't having a great time with them...should I avoid?

nads

Alex1234 wrote: »

Hi All! I've only recently started mystery shopping :j, so far registered with gfk and just registered with grassroots..just currently signing up with RE and thought would check if someone would like the referal fee? I'm assuming I just enter your name...if someone wants to pm with details then I'd be happy to do it
You all seem to be doing quite well with it all, I've done 3 with gfk in the past week, so not done too bad! Re seem to be doing lots of jobs from what's been said on here so thought I would give them a go aswell!

Welcome to the thread Alex Well you've picked two of the best companies so that's a great start :T

nads

Alex1234 wrote: »

Lol typical, I talk about signing up to RE and it seems like you guys aren't having a great time with them...should I avoid?

Lol, well I know Timmne absolutely detests them.

Once you do a few you realise there's better things across the horizon. The very low fees and excessive questioning puts you off.

By all means do sign up as your mileage may vary and you may find some interesting ones on their but yeh... not for me now. Well put off.

I'd like to say something good about them but at present with their low fees awful reimbursements and excessive questions, I can't really think of anything.

Timmne

nads wrote: »

Lol, well I know Timmne absolutely detests them.

Absolutely detests is a strong description!





.....but yes, I think you're right! :rotfl: