MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD XI ** New people make sure you read the first 2 Posts **

HZA

Rosy_Violet wrote: »

Welcome.
Make some notes from the brief on your mobile phone or in a little notebook that you can pop in your pocket/bag. Refresh yourself with the details before you go in making a note of the left, right and external boards etc that they ask you to notice. I pretend I am writing a text on my mobile and pop all the details in whilst in car park or loitering on pavement. As you have to pop to the loo on these assignments you can look in your notebook or phone to refresh your memory as to what you might have forgotten to look at. Don't forget the receipt...above all relax...enjoy the drink and meal... providing it's a half decent pub!

Thank you very much, Rosy Violet. They are really useful tips!;) I was worried that I won't be able to remember all the brief so will make some notes on my mobile. I don't eat out much these days (feeling the pinch myself like many other) so quite excited about it at the same time.

partyprincess

pinkprincess39 wrote: »

Anyone had their money from Aba for the cheap designer stores yet?

I got mine today, cash payment!

vicz123

leanne2682 wrote: »

can anyone help! just wondering how long esa take to assign jobs once you have applied!

i have found it varries from a few days to a week or so. they send you an email when you are assigned

nearlyheadlessian

So pleased; just been offered a big premium by Gap here in Sweden (ie: big enough that I think it's worth 90 minutes of my time and a £9 train journey) premium to eat a burger at arlanda airport. Can't remember the last time I was paid a premium by gap in the uk

Miss_Qwerty

partyprincess wrote: »

I got mine today, cash payment!

I got mine today too, very handy, don't need to go to the bank now.

leanne2682

vicz123 wrote: »

i have found it varries from a few days to a week or so. they send you an email when you are assigned

thanks everyone!! its an assignment for tommorrow, still appearing on the jobs board, so who knows! i've found esa to not be too great so far!

Tarasam

Quick note to anyone that registered for Self employment online in the last say 6 months, theres been a problem with the system, if you havent heard from HMRC then please contact them, I registered on Aug 1st and checked yesterday and no record of me doing it.

If you've any qu's please PM me, I work for them so am in the know !!!

pinkprincess39

Miss_Qwerty wrote: »

I got mine today too, very handy, don't need to go to the bank now.

hmm waiting for 2 not come yet!

squidgeum

jc2703 wrote: »

Hi

The postage costs are not additional to fee and the shopping channel will only refund the cost of the item to you and not P&P charges.

Sure thats not what you wanted to hear!

Jx

Thanks for the reply, and no its not really what I wanted to hear , but that's not your fault.

The item was delivered nearly a week late, and it says that they take up to 21 days to refund, so that's nearly 5 weeks that they have my money. And now it's for only half the fee of what I was expecting!! Did you notice that the shopping channel charged more than double for p&p than what the postage actually cost? Quite a nice little profit for them :rolleyes:.

squidgeum

leanne2682 wrote: »

can anyone help! just wondering how long esa take to assign jobs once you have applied!

I have to agree with TG....they are terrible. I applied for about a dozen in the last lot they had, hoping to get maybe 1 or 2, and got nothing. But what really annoys me is they phoned me yesterday with an urgent job that was quite a long way from me and then got stroppy when I said no to it. They kept asking me why I wouldn't do the job. In the end I said "Look, I don't have to give you a reason. I'm busy, simple as that!"

How dare they question why you won't drive 80 miles return when they don't allocate you anything local in the first place :mad:.