Mystery shopping thread xiii ** please don't mention client names on here **

clippy_girl

i may give that a try ukmonkey thanks as i am nearly 25. know their cars used to only be 25. i am desperate to get to 20 shops to apply for the flights! only on 6 so far

cte1111

look_after_the_pennies wrote: »

Travel Agents must get people coming in all the time, changing their plans and destinations. I'm sure they are not going to question why you want a different quote from previously.

Quick warning though, the ESA travel agents do have a central database, so when you give them your postcode they will see all previous records for that postcode. ESA told me before I did a run of 6 travel agents, that they had separate systems, but it turned out not to be the case. I could see the previous quotes on the screen in the third one. Switched to my parents' postcode after that.

So if you are doing lots for them, then you need to have alternative postcodes / names on the tip of your tongue.

Scotties_Mum

I feel like that for the electrical shops, fortunately there are so many staff in there I can always move away from one I may have MS'd before.

They probably think I am mad, always asking about something, never buying, except for a gift card!!

Hollypear

ukmonkey wrote: »

Like I said...I'm an outsider, never visited either of them...Glasgow has a reputation, as Liverpool does, as Manchester does, as Belfast does, etc etc, so based PURELY on that, I'd have opened my store in Edinburgh over Glasgow. HOWEVER, I'm far more intelligent than to choose the location of my new store based soly upon [historic/outdated] reputations.

I did a MS'ing flight to Belfast last year. It is an excellent city to shop in now and to visit. Liverpool is fab as well.

Hollypear

ukmonkey wrote: »

That's a great idea! hahaha! :rotfl::rotfl:

Used that excuse on cat shops too for the return bit.

Puzzcat

misssarahleigh wrote: »

I sit in front of the computer all day with the alerts thread open (i'm an office worker so can do this and get on with my work)

GAP - done a pizza and 2 stamps
React - nothing as yet
JKS - never seen a job
Bare - to young for car circuits
ABAI - done a few cats for them
Tern - one glasses job
PIP - nothing, i'm new
TNS - 1 booked
Retail Eyes - got a bookies and 2 sandwhiches

GFK - done a couple
Grass roots. i see one job a month if i'm lucky
ESA - about 50% sucess rate. got all my apps deleted today though

I have applied for:

Amber Arch
Checkout
Douglas Stafford
Frontline Focus
Helion Research
Impact Mystery Shopping
Stratagem Market Checker

waiting the outcome

Any i have missed????

as you can tell, i really want to make some pennies lol

WOW, you really have signed up to everybody...!! The only advice I can give you is that I have been MS'ing for 6 month's now and do approximately 5 - 10 assignments per week. I have yet to pick up a single job from using the Alerts thread, generally because they are not area specific and I often check to find that the jobs on offer are on the other side of the country..

But you also need to be checking the sites direct during the day to check for the jobs that don't make it to the Alerts thread... 99% of my work come's from doing this.

Hollypear

Puzz you stolen RosyViolet's ink. She'll be after you to get it back.
:rotfl:

cte1111

Puzzcat wrote: »

WOW, you really have signed up to everybody...!! The only advice I can give you is that I have been MS'ing for 6 month's now and do approximately 5 - 10 assignments per week. I have yet to pick up a single job from using the Alerts thread, generally because they are not area specific and I often check to find that the jobs on offer are on the other side of the country..

But you also need to be checking the sites direct during the day to check for the jobs that don't make it to the Alerts thread... 99% of my work come's from doing this.

That's interesting. I find the Alerts thread very useful, particularly for Abai, as I think they tend to upload the whole country at the same time. If you can get to a new batch of jobs before the Alert, then it's even better but it saves on the work of checking all the different sites every few hours, if we work together with the alerts.

ukmonkey

Hollypear wrote: »

I did a MS'ing flight to Belfast last year. It is an excellent city to shop in now and to visit. Liverpool is fab as well.

Exactly, but most people would think of them as sh**holes.

nearlyheadlessian

ukmonkey wrote: »

Exactly, but most people would think of them as sh**holes.

Nah.

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