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

jc2703

squeaky1055 wrote: »

Managed to get them all done and reports are finished! I even managed to do a bit of normal shopping. Shattered now, got nothing booked for tomorrow so can spend day doing housework which has been neglected this week.... Turned out to be 97 mile trip so was not far off the mark!

Go you!! Mine only took a couple of hours today - quite painless really! I did leave one jobs to do tomorrow on my own as its a first for a new company.

Easy dinner..... omelette

borders

Brian_Damage wrote: »

I've picked up 3 and can still see others available...

Tudorc1 wrote: »

Quote from Assignment notes

"Please be aware you can only do a maximum of 3 visits in March, so all other

visits for L******** will disappear once you have accepted 3"

Is this the RE bookies we're talking about? I havent seen visits for L********. The ones I can see are for W. They've got a better scenario this time round and I would consider doing a few, if I knew I was going to get the whole circuit I would want.

look_after_the_pennies

The jobs I saw were the same ones as Gap have/had. Not sure if they have lost the client or if they are competitor visits. Didn't accept any though as being female, didn't fancy hanging around in one for at least 15 minutes.

Tudorc1

borders wrote: »

Is this the RE bookies we're talking about? I havent seen visits for L********. The ones I can see are for W. They've got a better scenario this time round and I would consider doing a few, if I knew I was going to get the whole circuit I would want.

Yes this is RE.

I have several WH and then several L******** showing.

The WH visits offer a bonus competitor visit with each one accepted. Assume this is at same rates ?

coffee-break_2

finlay wrote: »

I have done an egg job and submitted it. It is the first job I have done for them. Does anyone know how you can tell if they have received it? I submitted it on Wednesday and the site shows nothing on it for me. I would have thought it would have shown on the certifications but perhaps this is for something else. Anyone help as I have no idea if I am to be paid for this or not. I sent the receipt to them.
Confused!

Finlay, you should have got a 'survey confirmation' number when the report was submitted. I think it would have showed on the assigned surveys page, from memory.

squidgeum wrote: »

Is anyone having problems logging into Grass Roots please? It keeps telling me to check email or password and I know both are OK.

All's fine here .

jc2703 wrote: »

Go you!! Mine only took a couple of hours today - quite painless really! I did leave one jobs to do tomorrow on my own as its a first for a new company.

Easy dinner..... omelette

Uploaded eggy report today :T. Had a lot of fun doing the assignment (easily pleased i know ). Don't know why i was so nervous about it this morning .

Omelette for me tomorrow, JC :rotfl:

Lil_Me_2

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

Who?

All I can see are funerals, eggs (pah!) and their new clothes/homeware client.

The new client with ESA have previously had visits available via GR. I did one last September.

borders

Thanks for the replies. Am now seeing L visits as well and have grabbed a couple.

Hollypear

multipleincs wrote: »

Oh HP, Please don't be upset with us newbies - we're simply over eager. I'm not making excuses for others, however I'm sure many more will read it.
I for one found it informative and definately read it - so please make that 3 people who have read it till date.

And thanks for taking the time out to compile it.

Thanks for that. I was just hoping it would help people who were a bit nervous of MS'ing. I know I found it daunting to begin with. If you break it down though it is simple.
At the end of the day though you only get out of it what you put in. I was chatting to 2 allocators recently who are fed up with people taking on loads of jobs and then not doing them. And at that coming up with ridiculous excuses.

Hollypear

Zazen999 wrote: »

Blimey.

I use user cp to read this, and didn't see a post that you had put together a new guide [you may have mentioned it but I must have missed the one that says it is done]

Are you suggesting in your idiot's guide that people who do not use the title line are indeed - idiots?

Personally, I don't read idiot's guides...is that what you have titled it?

ETA: what guide? There is nothing on the first 2 pages of Up Your Income....ETA again - I've just seen it is on the first page of this thread.....

[Who's 'they'....aah yes, the idiots...well if they are idiots then they won't, will they??]

Think as blindman says you just proved your point. And mine.

It was meant to be humourous...as in idiot's guide to Windows etc but if you have had a sense of humour bypass you won't see that.

Hollypear

jc2703 wrote: »

I have read HP's guide - I don't consider myself to be new or an idiot but I welcomed the opportunity to pick up any helpful tips from an experienced shopper....but I did think that was what it was - an offer of help if you chose to take it. It seems now that it is being dressed up as a laws which we have to follow - perhaps that needs to be cleared up.

And maybe it could be titled 'Tips to help new mystery shoppers' . I understood that the term 'Idiots Guide' was just a turn of phrase where as it is now being implied that people who are new are indeed idiots which is at best patronising and at worst down right offensive.

*gets off the soap box*

It has been renamed for the sensitive. And of course they are not intended to be laws. And let me tell you when I was new I made all kinds of idiotic mistakes. Which sometimes even meant I had to go back to a shop cos I had forgotten something basic...like getting a MOS's name. I was hoping to help others avoid the mistakes I made. That was all.