The Mystery Shopping Thread - X

aplaceinthesun

laudee wrote: »

People can make mistakes especially if new. If it annoys you that much, dont answer! I know repeated questions must be annoying to people who have been on here a while but we don't all have time to memorise all the information on the 1st page and we don't all have time to check this forum every 5 minutes. Some seem to think the only acceptable comments are ones that invole moaning! No forum is ever going to be tailored around every individual so in the meantime, lets be nice to each other!

Ive only just ventured back on this forum after what seemed like every day there were heated discussions etc , as it seems a nicer place again I thought I would start joining in again a bit, so please please pretty please dont start saying about people only wanting to post moaning comments, lets maintain the nice atmosphere here at the moment! Yes lets be nice to each other !

Also I just want to say that of course no one is expected to memorise all the info on the first page but it is there permanently , at the start of this thread to refer to .

mtem74

blondecaz wrote: »

Ok - as far as I know:

1) The £10 would NOT be taxable as it was necessary for you to spend that to do your job - it's a job-specific cost

2) I would say that you can only claim £15 as expenses - as you knew this was all that was offered before you took the job, so you spent the further £4 voluntarily.

3) Sorry no idea!!

Any other thoughts from more experienced people than me??

Hi,

3) it's all an expense and you end up with a loss because you could not do the job without spending the money.. i think we all know which jobs these sound like.

this is similar for 2. If you had to get x, y & z and it came to more than
the reimbursement then the extra cost is still an expense.
however if they said spend upto 15 on anything you want, you then spend 19 the extra 4 is not going to count as a genuine expense as you chose to spend it and didn't need to to complete the job.

i did a clothes shop where I got 2 tops for 35. I was only getting 20 reimbursed and only needed to buy 1 top for the job. Therefore the 2nd top was not needed so I can't claim it as a genuine expense. I did claim the 20 though as that was the cost of 1 top (if bought individually).

Hope that gooes someway to helping.

twinklie

Us....NICE....NEVER!!!!

weeg

Thank you - yes it did help to know that they just wanted to know what kind of marketing materials were there. Sometimes the people in shops just don't make it easy to stick to scenarios, I think. And apparently I looked to poor to be shown the good, new phones without prompting!

Actually, while I'm here. I'd like to thank all of you for sharing your advice and experiences of mystery shopping. It really suits me at the moment while I'm trying to get my sole trader business off the ground, and sometimes i frankly need a good reason to take my pyjamas off!

Becles

weeg wrote: »

and sometimes i frankly need a good reason to take my pyjamas off!

If you want to get paid to take your pyjamas off, have a look at the saucy new job thread

Hollypear

Hello everyone. I have had a bad day but I haven't come on to moan. Sorry I haven't been around but been busy with family illness. Yesterday I had to take my lovely mum to a lawyer to get full power of attorney over her. Not a nice process and I hope none of you ever have to go through it. Mum has rapidly worsening Alzheimers disease and life isn't a bowl of roses at the moment.

I had to do some mystery shopping today as I needed a ME day.

I came on to put a query on about somethingonly to find another nuclear war.UKMonkey I have the greatest respect for you and the many like you who help others so please don't tell me also to b**** off. Could I make a suggestion. I don't know the history between you and the poster you have fallen out with as I have been to busy to come onto the forum much but it might be better rather than slag someone off would be use the abuse button.

Obviously you feel insulted but I often find that totally ignoring people makes more sense as people who have disrupted the forum recently want a reaction. What they hate most is being ignored.

There was me too going to ask your advice about car jobs.:rotfl:Bare sent me a request to do 3 in Brighton. Now that is a bit far from Glasgow but I got another one saying they got Glasgow and Brighton mixed up. ( Easily done). When You advised me about it last time you made it sound easy but my confidence is a bit low just now and I seeem to have mislaid my brain. Scotsbob has probably nicked it.

I will leave it there and post my query in a minute.

And I have missed you all.

Don't worry the nutty HP hasn't gone I just need to press my humour switch back on.

ukmonkey

HP, sorry to hear about you mum.

I think you need to highlight my post, particularly between the two hyphens!

Feel free to ask my advice about the car jobs.

ukmonkey

Becles wrote: »

If you want to get paid to take your pyjamas off, have a look at the saucy new job thread

I LOL'd! :rotfl:

Becles

Hollypear wrote: »

Mum has rapidly worsening Alzheimers disease and life isn't a bowl of roses at the moment.

Sorry to hear that HP. You have my sympathies. My Gran had it and it was hard work looking after her.

Is her GP and social services involved? We got loads of help from social services. Gran was forgetting to eat and take her tablets, so social services organised a carer to go first thing in the morning to make sure she'd had breakfast and her tablets, and then we had a rota with family members going at lunch time and evening to check on her. My Mam was classed as the main carer and social services organised temporary periods in care homes when my parents went on holidays. They also made sure we were claiming attendance allowance and other benefits Gran was entitled to.

Drea2904

Hey HP, been in your situation, nothing worse. Hope you are coping ok.xxx