The Mystery Shopping thread - VIII

ellie9ellie

blindman wrote: »

The job allocation process for BARE is (ironically) a mystery in itself for any job

For the flights you will find it as described by yourself and ellie9ellie

I wrote a brief on the where's an why's of this particular job back on the older thread

I've noticed that BARE are modifying the process and requirements etc but that is to be expected as they may be having problems filling the jobs due to the date restrictions and the fact that it wll cost you money to do these.

Basically just keep applying and be lucky!

See - I knew you'd know :j

I've just accepted one of the phone jobs on ABA-i. Typically I could have accepted quite a few but considering I'm still on crutches I don't want to do too much. May check again next week to see what's left. And, yes they are a good fee.

IlonaRN

Charliezoo wrote: »

Come to think of it...they expect you to drink quite alot considering its an afternoon assignment!:beer:

I took a friend from work when I did my local last month (can't do any others when they're lunchtime mid-week!).

It doesn't actually say you need to DRINK the drinks, it just says you have to ORDER them. So you could order what they say AND order what you would actually like to drink! Of course it's stupid, but often MSing scenarios are!

ukmonkey

The ABAI phone jobs are the same reimbursement as the Gfk ones were/are. And yes, pretty generous when you compare to the likes on RE!!

blindman

ellie9ellie wrote: »

See - I knew you'd know :j

I've just accepted one of the phone jobs on ABA-i. Typically I could have accepted quite a few but considering I'm still on crutches I don't want to do too much. May check again next week to see what's left. And, yes they are a good fee.

Spookily they've just posted the next wave.

A few changes to the criteria.

You must have a score of 8 and have done no less than 20 shops for BARE

You MUST stay 2 nights and travel ALONE.

You have to submit each of your reports within 24hrs of each flight.

At least you can pick more than one route.

Scaredy_Cat_3

How do I re-schedule a job on the new Gap website please? I know this is probably dim, but it was easy before and now I can't quite figure it out! (Dufus alert!!!)

blindman

blindman wrote: »

The job allocation process for BARE is (ironically) a mystery in itself for any job

For the flights you will find it as described by yourself and ellie9ellie

I wrote a brief on the where's an why's of this particular job back on the older thread

I've noticed that BARE are modifying the process and requirements etc but that is to be expected as they may be having problems filling the jobs due to the date restrictions and the fact that it wll cost you money to do these.

Basically just keep applying and be lucky!

Update to the earlier post:

Flight allocation
Slightly different method than before:
If you are lucky to get picked then you get an email which goes along the lines of:
(My bolding and colours)

You have applied for this shop and I would like to get more information from you.

Please take a look at the following dates and give me three choices of round trip travel for yourself in order of your preference. Please be aware due to flight schedules and seat availability we may not be able to give you your first choice so make sure your back ups are valid dates you are available.

If you are interested, please respond ASAP. At this time this offer is being made to other shoppers. Once we receive dates from you we will send them to the airline The airline will then choose the dates that have the best availability for them.
You are not confirmed until you receive an e-ticket from the airline
Unfortunately, not everyone who sends dates in will be ticketed.
Increase your chances by sending your dates to me as soon as possible.
Ticketing generally takes 2-3 days.

There seems to be no way to choose your class of travel either, (the email you receive usually has the class in the title) and some of the travel dates are very restrictive.

So even if you get picked it's still a bit of a lottery!

cte1111

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

How do I re-schedule a job on the new Gap website please? I know this is probably dim, but it was easy before and now I can't quite figure it out! (Dufus alert!!!)

Go to 'My Assignments' then click on 'Reschedule' to the left of the assignment.

Scaredy_Cat_3

cte1111 wrote: »

Go to 'My Assignments' then click on 'Reschedule' to the left of the assignment.

Where? I'm on the My Assignments page. I've got all the info, far left is Assignment number (nothing to the left of that), then it continues to the right, Site, Scenario, Date, etc. I can't see the word reschedule anywhere????

ukmonkey

blindman wrote: »

Update to the earlier post:

Flight allocation
Slightly different method than before:
If you are lucky to get picked then you get an email which goes along the lines of:
(My bolding and colours)



There seems to be no way to choose your class of travel either, (the email you receive usually has the class in the title) and some of the travel dates are very restrictive.

So even if you get picked it's still a bit of a lottery!

BM, that is exactly the email that I received a few weeks ago.

Hmm...

Scaredy_Cat_3

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

How do I re-schedule a job on the new Gap website please? I know this is probably dim, but it was easy before and now I can't quite figure it out! (Dufus alert!!!)

Even the email reminder from Gap says click on My Assignments and then click on Reschedule. I don't see 'reschedule' anywhere???? I'm on a Mac and using firefox. Please could someone take a look at their own account and tell me exactly where the reschedule is located on the new website?