The Mystery Shopping thread - VIII

angel13

Mes1214 wrote: »

I did a bank job for GfK this afternoon. I kept checking on GR this morning but nothing's there and while I was doing the bank job I missed a job on GR :mad: I have 7 jobs booked from tomorrow till next Monday but that's all for this month!

i did 3 last wed, 1 call fri (now not getting paid for it), 5 sat, 1 sun but I now have nothing for the rest of the month hence im really worried.

angel13

cte1111 wrote: »

I treat it as a taxable expense, it's fine as long as you give the items to charity, which I'm sure we all do.

so i can class ALL reimbursements as expenses then??? how many people do this or the other option please as I definitely do not want to get my books wrong.

Scaredy_Cat_3

angel13 wrote: »

so i can class ALL reimbursements as expenses then??? how many people do this or the other option please as I definitely do not want to get my books wrong.

I class all money 'in' (fees and reimbursements) as income, and then do a separate column for all money 'out' - so that's petrol, printing, and whatever I was required to spend to undertake the assignment.

If I get a reimbursement of £5 but I actually spent £8.30, I put £5 as income and £5 as expenditure as it was my choice to spend over the £5 reimbursement.

However, if I get a reimbursement of £15 but I am told specifically to buy x, y and z, and that comes to more than £15 (rather than just being told to spend about £15), then I put the entire cost down as expenditure.

tigergold

I class all reimbursements as expenses (like food, cinema tickets) basically anything I need to buy for a job as specified by the company. If I wasn't doing the job, i wouldn't be buying these things.
Makes me wonder, with all these MP expenses........they need to collect our taxes to pay for thier dry rot treatments and gardeners.

SC- thats what I do as well, much better explained than me;-)

princess_leia_3

mysterious_girl wrote: »

I will read the notes. It never said it before. If it says not to use them in the notes then of course I wont use them. Thanks for the tip - I will check later. But whenever I go there for lunch, everyone uses the voucher. I am going to look silly not having one.

Obviously because I have never had one of these before they have changed the rules just for me!!! I will recheck the notes too :rolleyes: just to make sure I read it correctly!

cte1111

angel13 wrote: »

did anyone do a phone call re: phones for Bare last week? They had rated my report as a 9 but now sent me an email saying i dont qualify for payment. All that work for 6euros and now they arent going to pay me :mad: Anyone else having the same problem???

My OH did one of these, and he's not had the email (thankfully as I got him to sign up just to do it, and it took a while). Have you asked them what the problem was?

cte1111

mysterious_girl wrote: »

I will read the notes. It never said it before. If it says not to use them in the notes then of course I wont use them. Thanks for the tip - I will check later. But whenever I go there for lunch, everyone uses the voucher. I am going to look silly not having one.

If they are the Gap pizzas, then there are 2 different questionnaires. The old one says one thing, and the new another, with regards to pineapple, half & half, and quite probably vouchers too. MGirl is near me, so is probably doing one under the newer more lenient scenario, as they are being trialled around here.

princess_leia_3

cte1111 wrote: »

If they are the Gap pizzas, then there are 2 different questionnaires. The old one says one thing, and the new another, with regards to pineapple, half & half, and quite probably vouchers too. MGirl is near me, so is probably doing one under the newer more lenient scenario, as they are being trialled around here.

I was talking about TNS fast pizzas, didn't even know you could get vouchers for GAP pizzas definitely need to check my notes now

AndyInYorks

truly1 wrote: »

Thanks, will try again.

I got an email from them re the query at 3am this morning, proofreading in the night? Bizarre.

I got one of those within minutes of putting a report online in the early hours of Sunday morning a few weeks ago. I thought they were quick off the mark....but two weeks later the job is still pending to be paid. :mad:

flyer

I have payment for jobs I did a week ago for RE still pending. I hope there's no problem.