MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD XIV - Please do NOT mention Client names on here

MrShopper

squeaky1055 wrote: »

I `ve just sent mine and I too have put a very brief description....bet I get marked low now then. Brief is brief....so I thought!

LOL, correct......

Becles

squidgeum wrote: »

Can I ask roughly how many words everybody wrote in the final part of the Telecom reports please? I seem to have scored quite low and wondered if I read 'brief description' as too brief.

Where do you find out what you scored?

I looked on completed assignments and four say "completed" and one says "finalized", but no mention of scores.

I understood brief to mean a couple of sentences so I just wrote a quick summary. Hope that was enough

Tesco_points_addict

Lil_Me wrote: »

Hahaha reminds me of a time I asked a policeman for directions to a station in Wales (for reference Pontypool station isn't actually in Pontypool!) and they offered to let me follow them to it. Unfortunately as the police when through a light it started to turn red! I sped up and nipped through the light behind them. After we got to the train station they asked if I'd run the red light haha. I cheerily told them it was amber and they just laughed at me

Its in New Inn isn't it;)

TPAx

Tesco_points_addict

misssarahleigh wrote: »

It says on my job link that i need to visit the petrol dept (I have two to do) and then in my specification it says i have a small amount to purchase a newspaper or chockie bar.

Issue is, i can't get a small item as it's a pay only kiosk. So i wont be able to get a reciept to say i've been without buying petrol.

I think i'm just being careful as it's my first shop for TNS and don't wanna make a pigs ear of things.

I've had this too, dodn't buy any fuel, but explained on the report that it was a kiosk only and they don't sell anything else.

TPAx

Lil_Me_2

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

Its in New Inn isn't it;)

TPAx

Yes it is, and it still isn't sign posted. Silly place! I missed the train by the time I got there and ended up driving to Newport. Should have just driven all the way to Cardiff to be fair.

I'd also like to know where you find out your Helion scores. From the sounds of it I don't think I'll be getting a great one.

clippy_girl

disasterous day! managed to !!!! up a burger job twice oops! forgot to ask for a receipt but she told me to take a seat and she would bring my burger over. i asked for the receipt then and she looked !!!!ed off but brought it to me. then realised i had pressed the stop button twice and cleared my results will have to redo it. as it is late nite shopping i then went into the city centre only to find the branch of my gap mobile shop (there are 2) did not stay oprn late like the other grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :mad:

cant reschedule the burger either

squidgeum

Becles wrote: »

Where do you find out what you scored?

I looked on completed assignments and four say "completed" and one says "finalized", but no mention of scores.

I understood brief to mean a couple of sentences so I just wrote a quick summary. Hope that was enough

I got an email for the last 4 I did, but not for the 4 before that, so a bit confusing really!!

proshopper

nearlyheadlessian wrote: »

If it was me I would either:
a) IF I HAD A CAR: Purchase a small amount of fuel (say £5 to £10) so that the reimburse makes for a pretty good discount (after all, you'll need fuel anyway at some point).
b) IF I DIDN'T HAVE A CAR: Leave it. There's like one question about it in the questionnaire - they want to know how many pumps were open and how many tills were open. You can get by that and then leave a comment at the end noting that it is kiosk only.

TNS don't generally go postal on the little things - provided you explain yourself whatever you do and provided a reasonable report there shouldn't be a problem.

I don't think I have ever submitted a receipt for the petrol station element. TBH, if you buy something minor, they rarely give the receipt. For example, today, I bought a pint of milk (had filled up with petrol on previous job), and the cashier screwed up the receipt immediately.:)

clippy_girl

is anyone doing an audit tomorrow? if so, is your spreadsheet on yet?

nearlyheadlessian

proshopper wrote: »

I don't think I have ever submitted a receipt for the petrol station element. TBH, if you buy something minor, they rarely give the receipt. For example, today, I bought a pint of milk (had filled up with petrol on previous job), and the cashier screwed up the receipt immediately.:)

If I have a receipt I submit it, but I've never had a complaint for not submitting one. I assume tns understand that cashiers do just what you described.