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

borders

Tudorc1 wrote: »

This sounds like a £100 plus day.

All money you wouldn't have otherwise received. If you have nothing else planned for the day, what is wrong with this type of return? All costs are covered, your time is surely your own concern.

I'd do a day like this.

I've done those kind of days a few times. If I just relied on local jobs within 15-20 miles I would be lucky to get 4 or 5 jobs a week. A 100 mile round trip is pretty acceptable for me, as I long as I get enough jobs to make it pay.

I love getting phone calls for jobs miles away. I make sure I'm getting a fee good enough to cover the trip, then I try and fill it in with other jobs I can do on the way. :j

Rosy_Violet

Lil_Me wrote: »

Agreed, although I flaked out doing 7 jobs in one day, not sure I could cope with 10!!

The jobs are fine...shopping easy. It's the blessed report writing after that leads to the real fatigue!

Is it too early to have an egg nog do you think?

Beckfordbaby

I love being part of this forum, even with the odd difference of opinion. I've been a MS for 6 years without the support of this forum until 6 months ago, and believe me it was fairly lonely and stressful at times especially with new companies and a variety of assignments. The introduction of online reports terrified me but I managed it eventually. Made the usual mistakes as discussed on this forum, but now I feel more relaxed as I now know I am not alone and there is always someone on the forum who will help. So thanks to the regulars on this forum, and I don't care if you have a sense of humour or not!

borders

Rosy_Violet wrote: »

Tee Hee!


I'm, having a brain overload today. Written so many reports lately and I am struggling to find different words. Suffering from repetitive egg syndrome.

When I did the egg shops I saved my comments on notepad and then just copied and pasted. Slight addition or variations as I went. Did 11 of them in one day. Even with using notepad I was still a bit doo-lally at the end of it.

Rosy_Violet

borders wrote: »

When I did the egg shops I saved my comments on notepad and then just copied and pasted. Slight addition or variations as I went. Did 11 of them in one day. Even with using notepad I was still a bit doo-lally at the end of it.

Just feel they are all get a bit samey having done so many over last few months. So trying to be more creative. Same as when I do the TNS ones. I think I am just a bit anal:eek:. A while back after a busy day I did some copy and pasting in two reports for the same client and the same proof reader read both. I got a very patronising telling off. I regressed into pathetic shy school kid and now I have to write a literary masterpiece.

I need serious help ...

pinkprincess39

Gap sacked me last week and said I would be paid for anys jobs i had completed. So I got paid for the job I did in JAN but they still owe me for a job I did in FEB. Do you think they will pay me this end of march?
On a brighter note I have 5 phone shops, 1 jewellers and 1 bank all in the same shopping centre tomorrow!

jc2703

Rosy_Violet wrote: »

Tee Hee!

We should go back to the simplicity of that thread. Now so much info is at the front yet still the same old questions.

Smile everyone and rise above the snappers. We are after all able to look at things objectively!

I'm, having a brain overload today. Written so many reports lately and I am struggling to find different words. Suffering from repetitive egg syndrome.

Egg-bound maybe? :rotfl:

blindman

Tudorc1 wrote: »

This sounds like a £100 plus day.

All money you wouldn't have otherwise received. If you have nothing else planned for the day, what is wrong with this type of return? All costs are covered, your time is surely your own concern.

I'd do a day like this.

I'd like to hear from the Op but I don't see how that's £100 + unless ALL the jobs were at a premium?

How are all costs covered? No mention of fees for fuel What about the W+T on the car?

Also how long did the OP take from leaving home to finishing the last report?
£100 for an 18 hour day is still not a lot:eek:

Also OP is now too tired to work the next day? So loss of income?

Your time is worth what you make it surely. Doing less than minimum wage per hours is IMHO not worth it.

Only the OP can answer the Q's

MaxAben

Hi,

I would like to ask a question from a different side of the Mystery Shopping world. Do you, the new shoppers ask the company you work for these questions you have? I would hope that my fellow allocators/panel managers/community managers... would be there to help the new shoppers? But it seems that these simple questions that all shoppers have at some point in their shopping life get asked here and everyone starts to get all annoyed! Just a thought ;-)

Max

Rosy_Violet

MaxAben wrote: »

Hi,

I would like to ask a question from a different side of the Mystery Shopping world. Do you, the new shoppers ask the company you work for these questions you have? I would hope that my fellow allocators/panel managers/community managers... would be there to help the new shoppers? But it seems that these simple questions that all shoppers have at some point in their shopping life get asked here and everyone starts to get all annoyed! Just a thought ;-)

Max

I think some new shoppers are always a bit shy of asking the allocators.
It's that feeling of not wanting to sound silly.
When answering I think most of the experienced shoppers do say that the best people to ask are the agency staff.

It's the consequences of it all being online these days. In the past we had to talk to allocators to get the jobs. Sadly it's become an annonymous process.