The Mystery Shopping Thread - X

ukmonkey

From the alerts thread:

squidgeum wrote: »

When Gap quote a reimbursement amount, does that mean that they reimburse the full amount whether you spend that much or not? I seem to remember that when the last wave of stamp jobs were out somebody said that they only paid to send a 1st class letter, got a POP, and were still reimbursed the full amount. Am I right please, or am I imagining things?
Many thanks

It's my understanding that if you post a letter and get a CoP, then they will still reimburse you the full amount.

squidgeum

ukmonkey wrote: »

From the alerts thread:




It's my understanding that if you post a letter and get a CoP, then they will still reimburse you the full amount.

Thank you for the reply......and apologies to everyone for wrongly posting on the alerts thread.....moral in the story is to engage brain before using computer

aplaceinthesun

squeaky1055 wrote: »

Me............but I expect it is too late now!

Someone kindly PM'd me with some assistance yesterday evening . Thanks ever so much though!

twinklie

I want a DIY shop!!! So rude! They just don't show up on mine. Nevermind...going stop all my moaning this week as considering there seems to be a work drought I don't seem to have done too badly out of it.

twinklie

Does anyone keep a ledger for their MSing? Thinking I need to keep some sort of record from it...any tips?

Brian_Damage

twinklie wrote: »

Does anyone keep a ledger for their MSing? Thinking I need to keep some sort of record from it...any tips?

Try looking at the post on the first page...

Record keeping

Keeping records is something that’s vital with MSing. This is for two main reasons – one is that the MSing company may call you (potentially ages) after the job has been completed to query your report, and the other is for your tax return information at the end of the year.

In terms of tax, the record keeping can prove invaluable on a month to month basis and it’s worth investing some time and possibly money in setting up a bookkeeping system.

There’s a spreadsheet designed by ukmonkey - MS_Logger by ukmonkey which is very whizzy with macros, or for a more basic one that will still add up how much tax you owe and keep track of all earnings, then feel free to PM me, but please remember to send your email address.

twinklie

Thats brilliant thanks to ukmonkey and Brian Damage for that.

ukmonkey

no problem!

absolutelynomoney

Just got back from holiday and found a lovely payment from GFK and a beautful new thread!

Hope everyone is good and MS'ing is treating you well - I'm getting back in with 4 jobs today ... business as usual!

BTW I know this has been talked about already as I read through all the posts I missed while I was away, but what is with GAP's new search system?! I used to select 10 areas and get to see all the jobs I caould do ... now I have to search 1 area that isn't very specific. Annoying.

Trying_to_be_good

Maybe the useful link to the GAP search could be added to the first page? Off to find it, now...

Here it is (replace hxxp with http, and the country/cities with your own):

hxxp/www.xec.gapbuster.com/WebSelect3/SearchAssignment.aspx?q=search&flag=true&f1=England&f2=&f3=Newcastle,Liverpool,Sheffield,London&c=&a=&start=&end=&premiumOnly=false&pageSize=25&pageIndex=0