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

TractorGirl327

Whoo-hoo, doing an online pet store order for RE, and delivery is FREE this weekend!!!

(And using Quidco for 5% cashback :T:T:T)

Lil_Me_2

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

Whoo-hoo, doing an online pet store order for RE, and delivery is FREE this weekend!!!

(And using Quidco for 5% cashback :T:T:T)

Good timing!

I'm baking cakes today, a chocolate mickey mouse shaped one. I'm so impressed with it so far! Just need to ice it

look_after_the_pennies

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

Whoo-hoo, doing an online pet store order for RE, and delivery is FREE this weekend!!!

(And using Quidco for 5% cashback :T:T:T)

Martin Lewis will be proud!

clippy_girl

grrrrrr so annoyed with myself. did abai cafe today and forgot to ask for a receipt had to release it as not going to be able to go back tomorrow to redo it due to other things booked.

did a travel agents today which took 1hr 15 mins :mad: had to wait 21 mins then they could not find anything less than £1000 over the budget :eek: i do not know how anyone with school age kids can afford to go on hol

second one i picked the cheapest location, sc and only 7 days and they still struggled!

other than that today went well. did an audit, 2 travel agents, 2 bookies, i cafe and one coffee equipment shop. no wins unfortunately .

i did my third ever bookies and was feeling a bit cocky about not standing out anymore. i thought i was acting like a pro by picking my horse and looking for the non-runners screen and the assistant called over to see if i wanted help as i 'looked a bit lost' :rotfl:

Becles

Lil_Me wrote: »

It's also not a good idea to RELY on payment from any of the jobs that you do. What would you do if you accidentally made a mistake on a report and it was rejected, or if the company goes bust or you get sacked? Don't put all of your eggs in one basket so that you can't cope with a small loss should you be unlucky.

That's easy to do if you have an alternative source of income, but it's not so easy for the people who's sole income comes from MS work and every penny counts. It can make life difficult if you expect a payment to arrive and it doesn't, so you have to juggle other payments around to get by.

look_after_the_pennies

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did a travel agents today which took 1hr 15 mins :mad: had to wait 21 mins then they could not find anything less than £1000 over the budget :eek: i do not know how anyone with school age kids can afford to go on hol

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The Travel Agents didn't happen to be in Castle Mall? I had a similar long wait in one there. I had one minute to go until I reach the time limit which meant I could abandon the assignment and still get paid and I only got served then, didn't I!!!

Tarasam

look_after_the_pennies wrote: »

Yep, I've rescheduled my Gap jobs in the past and have not had any problems yet. Touch wood!

I'm fairly certain that was the reason they sacked me!!! No other valid possible reason for it.

clippy_girl

look_after_the_pennies wrote: »

The Travel Agents didn't happen to be in Castle Mall? I had a similar long wait in one there. I had one minute to go until I reach the time limit which meant I could abandon the assignment and still get paid and I only got served then, didn't I!!!

it was!! :T the upstairs one! downstairs one was fine! bet you were well annoyed, they rarely take less than 30 mins so adding on extra waiting is so annoying!

stoozer would have been proud, i had 5 shops in city centre today and 2 were a 30 sec walk apart!

look_after_the_pennies

clippy_girl wrote: »

it was!! :T the upstairs one! downstairs one was fine! bet you were well annoyed, they rarely take less than 30 mins so adding on extra waiting is so annoying!

stoozer would have been proud, i had 5 shops in city centre today and 2 were a 30 sec walk apart!

OMG! Yes it was the upstairs one! Obviously they have learnt nothing after my report!

Paul_Varjak

dazza.mk wrote: »

Personally I think it was probably scaremongering by BARE, I had the email, although had no contact from Helion, besides given BARE has been operating for some time they really must be a 2 bit operation if they did not have confidentiality clauses allowing for them to take legal action against Helion if they were able to prove what they seemed to suggest.

Sorry, what I meant to say was, I do not recall getting an e-mail from Helion asking me to become a Mystery Shopper. I regard any e-mail asking me to become a mystery shopper as most likely a scam so, if I did get one, it would have been deleted without reading it. Many other MSE members did receive such an e-mail though.

I did get the BARE e-mail, and have no doubts about the authenticity of the contents.

BTW, Helion claims it operate in 90+ countries, that is at least 16 more countries than the world biggest mystery shopping company, GapBuster!