The Mystery Shopping Thread - X

Drea2904

scotsbob wrote: »

Not disagreeing with your sentiments, however when you say "we" who do you mean?

RE claim a list of 450,000shoppers. Allowing for some exaggeration to attract custom, they have a lot of shoppers on their books. How many of them would you think read this forum?

If everyone who reads this forum stopped accepting RE jobs or boycotting jobs requiring photos, would RE even notice do you think?

As I say, I don't disagree with the sentiments that you express. However, the number of people here is a minute fraction of the shoppers on the companies books.

Scotsbob!!!! Where u been hiding, annsbee was looking for you, I thought your carer may of been on holiday..... :eek:

Yes I know, the 450,000 shoppers, no wonder it takes so long to proof read!!!:rotfl:

xxisabellexx

scotsbob wrote: »

Not disagreeing with your sentiments, however when you say "we" who do you mean?...

...If everyone who reads this forum stopped accepting RE jobs or boycotting jobs requiring photos, would RE even notice do you think?

Yea I know what you mean. I was referring to someone (sorry can't remember who) who posted yesterday or the day before urging people not to accept the jobs. Obviously, its not going to happen, I should have explained a bit more what I meant by < that lol!
What I meant was that we should all refuse to do them but they're still being picked up so there's no point. I think there will always be someone willing to do it, or needing the (albeit small amount of) cash. So its all a bit in vain I think! I hope I am interpreting your post in the right way?

And I'm not suggesting boycotting shops that need photos, I actually enjoyed my entertainment store job yesterday, even though it made me a bit late for work and I moaned about the report being a bit long and I felt a bit self conscious taking the pic, I did get a little freebie and some cash for it. If I didn't like it that much I wouldn't have taken the job! I was just lamenting in a conversational manner that I also feel weird taking photos of shops.

Nice to see you back though scotsbob, I haven't imagined you not posting much over the last few days have I?

brryssn

Gap money in. :j

scotsbob

Drea2904 wrote: »

Scotsbob!!!! Where u been hiding, annsbee was looking for you, I thought your carer may of been on holiday..... :eek:

The politically correct expression is not holiday but respite.

She got very stressed to learn that burger bars use CCTV.

Something to do with a thing called "the burroo" and "signing on" and unofficial earnings.
Too complicated for me to understand but it stressed her so much that she needs this respite.

squeaky1055

Well I sat finger poised from 7.30 last nite but despite all the alerts(thanks guys), no new jobs appeared for me! I am def over 21 and have a good score so guess it is a location thingy.
On the plus side I have 13 jobs to do on Saturday and have planned my day like a military operation.lol. Guess I will be up late getting the reports back tho.

ukmonkey

Gap, and also Assosia money in today.

Matt567

Todays positive thought for the day;

[FONT=arial, sans-serif]The best things in life aren't things. - how often we strive to achieve material that we think will make us happy, but in the end it is not material things that make us the happiest. It is those moments, memories, the love of our family and friends - no material thing could ever replace these.


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ChelseaGirl

Something has been bugging me so much that i have to ask the question. I was asked to do a product buy back of some bottled water for a company that doesn't like to be mentioned on here. This was a few weeks ago. I was just about to set off around the local supermarkets to do this, and then I received a call for this company to say that the buy back had been cancelled. The woman sounded very smug and for some reason i didn't believe her.
Does anyone know whether there actually was a buy back of bottled water that went ahead as planned.
I've got it stuck in my head that this particular person had someone else lined up in my area to take over these jobs - even though i've always completed them accurately and on time.
Basically, am i being paranoid?!

squeaky1055

ChelseaGirl wrote: »

Something has been bugging me so much that i have to ask the question. I was asked to do a product buy back of some bottled water for a company that doesn't like to be mentioned on here. This was a few weeks ago. I was just about to set off around the local supermarkets to do this, and then I received a call for this company to say that the buy back had been cancelled. The woman sounded very smug and for some reason i didn't believe her.
Does anyone know whether there actually was a buy back of bottled water that went ahead as planned.
I've got it stuck in my head that this particular person had someone else lined up in my area to take over these jobs - even though i've always completed them accurately and on time.
Basically, am i being paranoid?!

I have done a few similar ones in the past but not heard about this water one!!!

Hollypear

nads wrote: »

Don't have much chance to provid einput or babble on about random thigns but jsut want to say I miss you lot!

You have been very much missed. Hope all is well with you. I wondered where you were thought you had won the lottery and had discarded us plebs.:rotfl: