The Mystery Shopping thread - VIII

jdan9

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

Can you not cancel jobs on the RE site anymore? I have a job booked with them, and have just been offered a more lucrative job on the same day by ABAi, in completely the other direction, so I want to cancel the RE one.

Go into active jobs, click "Release" (next to continue) on the job you want to cancel.

IlonaRN

angel13 wrote: »

Now I know thats fine but I think the fee is low when over 50% of it I have to spend on purchases of set things. Would be good if this appeared on the initial screen and not in the attachment they email out to you AFTER you have accepted the job. But its all trial and error and now I know for next time

Once you've done a few, you'll start to remember which are which

TractorGirl327

jdan9 wrote: »

Go into active jobs, click "Release" (next to continue) on the job you want to cancel.

Excellent, thank you!

cte1111

Gosh aren't alcoholic drinks expensive? I've just MSd a snail & salad place for lunch and had to order 4 different drinks, 3 alcoholic, neither me nor my friend who was with me drink much, so we were stuggling. And the bill came to £10 more than the reimbursement, 1 small glass of wine was nearly £5. :eek: Was quite fun anyhow, and I got some free postcards for my competition entries.

IlonaRN

cte1111 wrote: »

Gosh aren't alcoholic drinks expensive? I've just MSd a snail & salad place for lunch and had to order 4 different drinks, 3 alcoholic, neither me nor my friend who was with me drink much, so we were stuggling. And the bill came to £10 more than the reimbursement, 1 small glass of wine was nearly £5. :eek: Was quite fun anyhow, and I got some free postcards for my competition entries.

Wow! Has the brief changed since last month, then? I "only" had to order two different drinks when I went recently.

Edit: Just looked and yes, the brief has changed. I managed to get deserts in the reimbursement when I went, but that wouldn't be possible with the current brief. Also, there's no way that they can expect working people to have more than one alcoholic drink each at lunchtime, so I guess this now one for the non-working, non-driving brigade! :eek:

cte1111

IlonaRN wrote: »

Wow! Has the brief changed since last month, then? I "only" had to order two different drinks when I went recently.

Yes mine last month was 2 drinks, presumed it would be the same, but nope 4 drinks this time, and no increase in the reimbursement. And you could see the waiter was wondering why I was ordering spirits when I hadn't even drunk my wine, but he was very polite. We ended up with 5 half drunk glasses on the table.

Scaredy_Cat_3

cte1111 wrote: »

Yes mine last month was 2 drinks, presumed it would be the same, but nope 4 drinks this time, and no increase in the reimbursement. And you could see the waiter was wondering why I was ordering spirits when I hadn't even drunk my wine, but he was very polite. We ended up with 5 half drunk glasses on the table.

Makes you wonder what the 'target market' is. I did a couple of lunch-time meals ages ago, and won't bother any more because it just leaves me feeling sluggish all afternoon. I wonder if they get a large number of genuine customers eating and drinking these quantities at lunch-times?

IlonaRN

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

Makes you wonder what the 'target market' is. I did a couple of lunch-time meals ages ago, and won't bother any more because it just leaves me feeling sluggish all afternoon. I wonder if they get a large number of genuine customers eating and drinking these quantities at lunch-times?

I think the target must be to enable the servers to correctly identify the mystery shopper's table based on the drinks ordered! :rolleyes:

tigergold

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

Makes you wonder what the 'target market' is. I did a couple of lunch-time meals ages ago, and won't bother any more because it just leaves me feeling sluggish all afternoon. I wonder if they get a large number of genuine customers eating and drinking these quantities at lunch-times?

:T:rotfl:, if it was an evening meal, i would probably go for it, but a mid week lunch with all that booze and food.....who has the time. Its more like "look at me i'm the MS, who couldn't possible eat and drink all this"

pinkprincess39

Hi
Can anyone of you experts help me please??Just accepted my 1st GAP job.I know from reading the posts here trhat they dont like you calling them so i have acouple of questions please!!
!. When it asks for my bank details it mentions bic/swift and iban. what is this?

2. when ive completed my visit where will i find/upload my questionaire

thanks in advance:beer::beer::beer: