The Mystery Shopping thread - VIII

ukmonkey

pinkprincess39 wrote: »

Perhaps I should have been clearer.!!...I always say I live in London, but im actually in essex though my postcode is IG :rolleyes:

I see so many alerts for jobs for these guys I am soooo jealous. Ive tried putting in all my friends postcodes too but no joy! Am I right in saying though that once someone is accepted they can add other postcodes too ?

I think I'd tell people London too, sounds a little better than Essex doesn't it? :p

You can have two postcodes, my home one and one other.

I see few little work from Gfk, and often at different times and days to those posted on the alerts. e.g someone may post about phone shops, but it may be 3 days later when I see them on their site.

kman

ukmonkey wrote: »

I think I'd tell people London too, sounds a little better than Essex doesn't it? :p

You can have two postcodes, my home one and one other.

I see few little work from Gfk, and often at different times and days to those posted on the alerts. e.g someone may post about phone shops, but it may be 3 days later when I see them on their site.

I only ever see jobs on Gfk & GR when they send me an email. There's never anything new available when I look after someone has posted on the Alerts thread...

Charliezoo

Hi,

I've got my first green supermarket visit from GR and I'm a bit unsure about the spend limit.

It says in the notes to purchase 3/4 items up to a total value of £5.00. If I buy a few extra bits and go over this amount will it invalidate the assignment?

kman

Charliezoo wrote: »

Hi,

I've got my first green supermarket visit from GR and I'm a bit unsure about the spend limit.

It says in the notes to purchase 3/4 items up to a total value of £5.00. If I buy a few extra bits and go over this amount will it invalidate the assignment?

No, you can spend what you like over £5 - you can only put a maximum of £5 in the reimbursement claim in your report.

jobbingmusician

No, they are happy for you to do your week's shopping - they just like you to be able to prove your were there.

Charliezoo

That's great...I need to do a bit of shopping

Thanks for your help!

jdan9

Argh... not having a good day. Why do RE insist on this stupid automatic release at midnight thing they do on certain clients? Do they not consider that maybe, sometimes, there's a very good reason a report hasn't been filed? My internet went down at about half 7 and was down until I went to bed after midnight. Now I've lost the two jobs I had, I'm out of pocket for the reimbursements plus I spent money on travel, and I had to go back to one because I forgot the photo.

ARGHHH! Anybody ever had any luck getting jobs back/money back in this sort of situation? I'm not happy at all right now.

Scaredy_Cat_3

jdan9 wrote: »

Argh... not having a good day. Why do RE insist on this stupid automatic release at midnight thing they do on certain clients? Do they not consider that maybe, sometimes, there's a very good reason a report hasn't been filed? My internet went down at about half 7 and was down until I went to bed after midnight. Now I've lost the two jobs I had, I'm out of pocket for the reimbursements plus I spent money on travel, and I had to go back to one because I forgot the photo.

ARGHHH! Anybody ever had any luck getting jobs back/money back in this sort of situation? I'm not happy at all right now.

Sorry to hear this has happened - I've not had this problem myself so this is just a guess, but have you tried ringing them? I have needed to ring them in the past for changing dates etc and they've always been really nice. Maybe if you explain why you didn't get the report done (and how you stayed up late trying to sort it etc) they will give you back the jobs. Seems a shame to waste your reports if you've already done the jobs.

matthewluck

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

Sorry to hear this has happened - I've not had this problem myself so this is just a guess, but have you tried ringing them? I have needed to ring them in the past for changing dates etc and they've always been really nice. Maybe if you explain why you didn't get the report done (and how you stayed up late trying to sort it etc) they will give you back the jobs. Seems a shame to waste your reports if you've already done the jobs.

I can second this. And they have given me the jobs back in the past in this sort of situation.:T

angel13

pinkprincess39 wrote: »

Perhaps I should have been clearer.!!...I always say I live in London, but im actually in essex though my postcode is IG :rolleyes:

I see so many alerts for jobs for these guys I am soooo jealous. Ive tried putting in all my friends postcodes too but no joy! Am I right in saying though that once someone is accepted they can add other postcodes too ?

you can have just 2 postcodes.