The Mystery Shopping Thread - X

Drea2904

fabsaver wrote: »

Has anyone managed to successfully pick up two jobs at the same station on RE? There were two at my local station but when I selected one the other one disappeared. Exactly the same has happened to me before and I just assumed somebody had beaten me to the other one but this time I'm thinking otherwise as it was very late last night.

I'm now left with just one job which is not worth it after petrol and parking.

When RE place limits on numbers of jobs we can do I wish they would tell us what they are first like other companies do:mad:

I managed to get 2 in the same station, then they all disapeared.

twinklie

Boo...GR just uploaded in "my area" but it's too far out for me. Gutted.

ukmonkey

aplaceinthesun wrote: »

Morning all

I am doing one of the TNS coffee jobs this weekend , I am quite new to shopping for TNS and having just read through the notes I see that they only reimburse UP TO £x ...... (no fee either ....hmmmm....) So if I buy other things than the required purchase , maybe a another drink or a food item will they pay for that too , obviously up to the maximum reimbursement ???
I have run a search on the forums to try and find the answer but to no avail.
Thanks for any help!

The required purchases should cost you pretty much the reimbursement so you probably wouldn't be able to buy nything else anyway!

absolutelynomoney

fabsaver wrote: »

Has anyone managed to successfully pick up two jobs at the same station on RE? There were two at my local station but when I selected one the other one disappeared. Exactly the same has happened to me before and I just assumed somebody had beaten me to the other one but this time I'm thinking otherwise as it was very late last night.

I'm now left with just one job which is not worth it after petrol and parking.

When RE place limits on numbers of jobs we can do I wish they would tell us what they are first like other companies do:mad:

I think its more likely that people grabbed them as you were applying - I have a couple of jobs in 1 station and I got a few student accomodation ones.

A tip for what I do to get as many assignments as I can do - right click "apply for assignment" and select "open in new tab" from the drop down menu. You can then do the accreditation for a few jobs at the same time, increasing your chances of getting more. Of course you will still lose some, but I tend to get accepted for more that way as you go through the process faster.

Mumof2 wrote: »

Maybe I should also see if I can get into Retail Eyes too then if I won't get much from Grass Roots. Are you allowed to join more than one company? Complete novice here (as you may be able to tell! :huh:)

You can apply to as many as you like!

I would say most of us here (if not all of us) are registered with a few companies and I have read that some people are registered with as many as 25!

I am registered with about 10, but I have only got work from a few of them. I get the most jobs from Retail Eyes, GAPbuster and used to be GFK but they haven't had much for me recently. I also get a couple now and then from TNS and Grassroots but not as frequently. I got my first job for Mystery Customer Evaluations the other day - a haircut that they paid for! But thats the only one I've had from them.

I would recommend you sign up with the ones you like the sound of from the very first post on this thread, then after a little while when you develop a thirst for it (!) you can sign up with the rest once you feel confident - thats what I did.

Good Luck!

fabsaver

Drea2904 wrote: »

I managed to get 2 in the same station, then they all disapeared.

That's what I thought should happen. It must be some sort of special requirement or glitch for that specific station. There were 5 jobs for various dates. I was going to do 2 on the same date but when I selected one the other 4 vanished. I could still see all the other station jobs everywhere else

aplaceinthesun

ukmonkey wrote: »

The required purchases should cost you pretty much the reimbursement so you probably wouldn't be able to buy nything else anyway!

Thanks Monkey ! Its a summer drink , blimey are they really that expensive !!! Wont pick one of these up again I dont think but hey it will give me something to do whilst I wait to return to an Abai shop ...

Lil_Me_2

aplaceinthesun wrote: »

Thanks Monkey ! Its a summer drink , blimey are they really that expensive !!! Wont pick one of these up again I dont think but hey it will give me something to do whilst I wait to return to an Abai shop ...

I don't think they are that expensive, they would never sell any if they were! I'll probably just get a cake as well if they do an RE and only pay what you spend.

Lil_Me_2

DebtHater wrote: »

no chatting on the alert thread !

Looks like we have a serial chatter... SIX TIMES they've posted in the alerts thread without having an alert! It's incredibly annoying. :mad:

KaramelRose

Lil_Me wrote: »

Looks like we have a serial chatter... SIX TIMES they've posted in the alerts thread without having an alert! It's incredibly annoying. :mad:

Yes I agree - very annoying. Karms12 - PLEASE don't chat on the Alerts thread - we'd all be more than happy to answer any questions you've got here.

Mes1214

Lil_Me wrote: »

Looks like we have a serial chatter... SIX TIMES they've posted in the alerts thread without having an alert! It's incredibly annoying. :mad:

Maybe adding "(NO CHAT)" to the topic like those in the Freebies Board would help!