The Mystery Shopping Thread - X

ukmonkey

skywalker83 wrote: »

i need to go to three places this evening on the tube/bus in london. does anyone know of a site which maps out a route for me please? i'm not too sure which one i should go to first and second? please help!

Yes, I used such a think when I was doing a car circuit in a city quite a way away from here that I'd never visited before.

http://www.batchgeocode.com/

It wasn't simple to use, but worked extremely well. Not sure it'd be worth using for 3 jobs though.

AndyInYorks

TNS and RE? money in today...... But my TNS money seems to be wrong.

I did a quick supermarket for them last month, it was the only job I'd done for them which I was expecting payment for this time round. However they have only paid me the fee, not the small reimbursement amount towards my shopping. I haven't received my statement from them yet so am not 100% sure what's gone wrong.

I have emailed the person named in the FAQs for payment queries, however I wondered if this has happened to anyone else?

anika

Hi

Yea this happened to me, they didnt pay me the agreed mileage, but they did email me and say they had made an error and would pay me. It just took time for someone to get back, from my first phone call. But not a problem.

blondecaz

Hi everyone - tax question! Am I supposed to keep my petrol receipts in order to claim mileage? Because I haven't been oops

AndyInYorks

blondecaz wrote: »

Hi everyone - tax question! Am I supposed to keep my petrol receipts in order to claim mileage? Because I haven't been oops

No, not if you're claiming a flat rate of xx pence per mile.

AndyInYorks

Just grabbed a phone shop on GR.

It really does prove the point about changing your postcodes though - I work next door to a shopping centre, and had my work post code in there. Very rarely saw any work in the shopping centre, so I changed the postcode to the Shopping Centre's management suite, and am now seeing more jobs.

Lunary

Not really worthy of an alert but there are some ladies clothes shops on ESA (although the completion dates appear to be a bit out). After you apply, how long do they take to approve or reject you?

ukmonkey

AndyInYorks wrote: »

Just grabbed a phone shop on GR.

It really does prove the point about changing your postcodes though - I work next door to a shopping centre, and had my work post code in there. Very rarely saw any work in the shopping centre, so I changed the postcode to the Shopping Centre's management suite, and am now seeing more jobs.

I just grabbed the other - thanks for the heads-up, and thanks for leaving it for me!

Lil_Me_2

AndyInYorks wrote: »

Just grabbed a phone shop on GR.

It really does prove the point about changing your postcodes though - I work next door to a shopping centre, and had my work post code in there. Very rarely saw any work in the shopping centre, so I changed the postcode to the Shopping Centre's management suite, and am now seeing more jobs.

Definately agree with this for anyone who doesn't get much on GR. Although I may refine one of my postcodes which is next to the shopping centre to one that is in it based on what you've said.

AndyInYorks

ukmonkey wrote: »

I just grabbed the other - thanks for the heads-up, and thanks for leaving it for me!

You're welcome... but it would only let me accept the one... The other one I could see was CP, is that the one you got?