MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD XII - ** New people please read posts 1 & 2 **

ChefBungle

jc2703 wrote: »

Where are you Chef?

J x

I'm in Edinburgh.

look_after_the_pennies

I've got 16 jobs scheduled for Feb so far. No petrol as I seem to miss out on them Probably as I don't do the burger visits so can't be bribed with petrol.
Haven't done bad from GR this month. Got 5 assignments from them.

TractorGirl327

I've got a couple of TNS supermarkets and a RE supermarket and a Gap coffee next week.

February is beginning to fill up, currently got 4 TNS supermarkets & 6 ABAi department stores

squeaky1055

Have got 5 banks, 1 DIY, 1 old time shop and a green supermarket so far this week. Nothing today! I need the rest after all the egg shops. Few booked in for Feb.

Miss_Qwerty

Morning peeps

I've only got 3 jobs to see me out til the end of the month, but have 7 from TNS lined up for the first few weeks of Feb already.

And it's about that time of month that Gap release their jobs, so hopefully start filling up again soon.

Pennies, how on earth have you been offered that many jobs by GR? Last job I saw on their webpage was months ago - there's not even any listed in the assignments you could have accepted but didn't bit. I just assumed there wasn't any in our area but obviously i've not done enough work for them to make it into elite squad yet

look_after_the_pennies

Miss_Qwerty wrote: »

Morning peeps

I've only got 3 jobs to see me out til the end of the month, but have 7 from TNS lined up for the first few weeks of Feb already.

And it's about that time of month that Gap release their jobs, so hopefully start filling up again soon.

Pennies, how on earth have you been offered that many jobs by GR? Last job I saw on their webpage was months ago - there's not even any listed in the assignments you could have accepted but didn't bit. I just assumed there wasn't any in our area but obviously i've not done enough work for them to make it into elite squad yet

Lucky I guess! Mind you, I've never done any jobs in Ipswich as they don't seem to appear on my list for some reason. I missed out on a couple of jobs there for them in the past week as someone else got there first. However, Squidge said she gets offered jobs in Ipswich. Strange!

nbruen

I have 2 supermarkets and a phone shop this week and just a supermarket booked for Feb with TNS. Gone quiet in my area too. Still not tempted by the RE pharmacy jobs though!

Scotties_Mum

Talking of GR maybe losing the green s/market, also seems they may be losing (or lost) the blue bank.

The 2 last minute jobs I did for GFK were for the blue bank, (the month after having done them for GR), and GFK asked me to make sure as much info and detail as poss because this was their 1st assignment for them and wanted to make a good impression.

Hope GR start to gain a few companies, nice straight forward questionnaires, decent enough fees, would be a shame if things start going downhill.

In other news, I don't seem to do much in Colchester, but always see stuff for Ipswich, guess I will have to jiggle my postcode settings about a bit!!

00michelle00

Did my first job for RM - the questionnaire was straightforward and nowhere near as time consuming as others, I'm definitely doing more for them! Much less time consuming than some other work i'd done recently!

ljshopper

Hollypear wrote: »

Exactly. Why would they pay anymore when people would do them anyway.

I think this is a good point.

However new MSers will always grab the RE jobs because they are self assign,same as Gap and TNS who all pay pretty poorly.

How that affects the quality of work is another matter.

I try to only do them if I am there anyway and need to cram in a few extra jobs.

On another RE issue I have never had so many queries over jobs as I had last week. Every night I got a call.