The Mystery Shopping thread - VIII

TractorGirl327

Timmne wrote: »

TG bear with these jobs - I love them. I think you begin to remember (as you say) what not to do and what does need doing. I find them quite enjoyable really - as we do our shopping at that supermarket and tend to buy our normal shopping as part of these jobs, the whole £xx.xx (fee + mileage + cafe + reimb) is ours to keep - three of these jobs in a month and that's a week's food shopping paid for! I have four this month plus 3 little ones so that's probably fed the wife and I for May If only I'd got a fourth little one too; the cat could have eaten too - now he'll have to wait until June for some food

I quite like TNS's supermarket questionnaire online too - if there isn't a member of staff there, the department is completely ignored. If this were to happen on RE, you'd have to explain in no less than 100 words (which is about 200 words) why the non-person was or wasn't not-smiling. :cool: And then you'd have to send RE £20 for the joy of doing the job.

(I'm such a hypocrite - I'm only now looking at the no fee hotel jobs they have!) :o

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I know you're right, but I'll remember in future not to select one on a Friday morning!! (Heaven help me doing one tomorrow afternoon :eek: ) I was also !!!!!! off this morning 'cos it was raining and I got drenched as everyone had parked close to the shop (people without children in the P&C spaces :mad::mad: but don't get me started on that subject, wrong forum!!)

But as you say if you shop there anyway it's free food so I will bear with them!

Timmne

Parent & child spaces? I park in them and I don't have a kid - it's just more convenient.














































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KSG1970

Did anyone book a bank phone call with TNS ? If you have received briefing notes is the scenario totally different than that shown on the original visit search page ?

jdan9

KSG1970 wrote: »

Did anyone book a bank phone call with TNS ? If you have received briefing notes is the scenario totally different than that shown on the original visit search page ?

Oo didnt check... will have a look now!

jdan9

Yes, it is a completely different scenario. I certainly won't be doing that scenario. How disappointing!

Edit:

Just read the whole thing thoroughly. I would not be able to do this scenario, I don't have the required overdraft/credit card interest, and the scenario is not believable for me as a student. I can't understand why they would have done this, post them as one scenario and then completely change it by the time they send the packs out. Emailing my AM!

Scaredy_Cat_3

KSG1970 wrote: »

Did anyone book a bank phone call with TNS ? If you have received briefing notes is the scenario totally different than that shown on the original visit search page ?

I don't think I looked that closely when I booked it - but now I've seen the job notes I'm not terribly keen. Not sure it's going to be worth it for the fee.


By the way, sorry to harp on but has anyone got any ideas about the problem with accepting jobs on TNS? I don't even know if I can get IE for a Mac, and I'm the board Luddite so not terribly keen (took me long enough to adapt to firefox!) Any ideas please?

jdan9

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

By the way, sorry to harp on but has anyone got any ideas about the problem with accepting jobs on TNS? I don't even know if I can get IE for a Mac, and I'm the board Luddite so not terribly keen (took me long enough to adapt to firefox!) Any ideas please?

It seems to be a firefox issue. Try any old different browser you can get your hands on - don't Macs come with Safari installed?

KSG1970

jdan9 wrote: »

Yes, it is a completely different scenario. I certainly won't be doing that scenario. How disappointing!

Edit:

Just read the whole thing thoroughly. I would not be able to do this scenario, I don't have the required overdraft/credit card interest, and the scenario is not believable for me as a student. I can't understand why they would have done this, post them as one scenario and then completely change it by the time they send the packs out. Emailing my AM!

I have already e-mailed to cancel as I can't do this scenario. I have recently started work after 5 years of being a 'mum' and have more money gong into my account so can't possibly use this scenario as they know I am now being paid a salary. I wonder how many people will cancel the jobs ?

jdan9

KSG1970 wrote: »

I have already e-mailed to cancel as I can't do this scenario. I have recently started work after 5 years of being a 'mum' and have more money gong into my account so can't possibly use this scenario as they know I am now being paid a salary. I wonder how many people will cancel the jobs ?

Judging by the initial reaction on here within just the last 10 minutes, a lot of people. Nobody out of those who've spotted it so far seems too impressed. My jobs were under two AMs and I've just emailed them both.

AndyInYorks

ellie9ellie wrote: »

Morning peeps. Firstly does anyone have a magic formula to make a 7month old teething baby sleep - either that or a magic formula to make me sleep -

I have a couple of packs of hayfever tablets that cause drowsiness if they will help? :rotfl: