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

mysteryshoppingninja

pinkprincess39 wrote: »

just got email from ESA with a self allocation update which included the following so please all of you who SA be careful!

"You should carefully check the summary text and project instructions to ensure that you do not exceed the self-allocation limit for any project. Where Shoppers attempt to self-allocate above the agreed limit for the project, the system will re-adjust their grading, and the privilege of self-allocation will be automatically withdrawn, without notification."

I got this too - think everyone who can SA has

I picked up more eggs than I should have done last wave because I thought they went into pending once you hit the limit (obviously they don't). Think it would be nice if they could change the website so any you apply for after the limit can be given a yes or no from the office... Would make much more sense given the amount of egg shops they are and how desperate they are to cover them sometimes...

Tudorc1

jediteacher wrote: »

Been off for a while but I got a call to do a shop for ESA today but as I'm at work at the moment I haven't got their login page saved in my favourites. I have tried going through the link on the first page but I can only login as a researcher or client and I am neither of those two.

Could some very kind person please either post the link or pm me.

Thanks

https://www.esa-webms.co.uk/login.asp

OK Too late !

look_after_the_pennies

sarah-t wrote: »

Hi
Does anyone know how i can see how many jobs ive done on gfk .
Ive done a few and have lost my notes. and im not sure how many jobs i did this month for them?
TIA

Oh dear. Lets hope you find your printed notes. It is a condition for all GFK assignments that you print out the Coversheet and Questionnaire and keep for at least 3 months. They could request these from you at any time.

mysteryshoppingninja

proshopper wrote: »

Last time, I didn't have chance to get out my concealed item. I was ejected before answering a single question because I took my glasses off to read the computer screen. Easy, huh??:rotfl:

Some of the clever clogs on here have passed, so we MSers are obviously not all the dumb lot that we are supposed to be!:)

Well I have a feeling I might not get paid for today but hopefully I can still give them some useful feedback...

Managed to get mobile phone into the testing room no problem :eek: left it in my back pocket... Brief said I would be expected to pat myself down and turn out my pockets but that didn't happen... Started the test and from the explanation by the receptionist I was expecting a large practice section at the beginning. Unfortunately after getting to the end of the "practice" I realised it was the bit I was supposed to cheat in

I'm still not sure how they didn't spot the mobile phone in my back pocket as it must have been bulging quite a bit.

Lots of other candidates were there for a car-related test in jeans, t-shirts, tracksuits etc so felt a bit out of place in shirt and trousers!!

On the plus side I passed... How they can expect a former accountant to fail a numeracy test I don't know :rotfl:

On the really bad side I got back to my car in the "free" car park near the centre to find a parking ticket from Excel Parking on it, £60 that I will be ignoring after doing a bit of research online and seeing what a scam it is!

mysterious_girl

look_after_the_pennies wrote: »

Oh dear. Lets hope you find your printed notes. It is a condition for all GFK assignments that you print out the Coversheet and Questionnaire and keep for at least 3 months. They could request these from you at any time.

What?! I didn't know we had to leep for 3 months. Imagine the weight I'll lose!

mysteryshoppingninja

look_after_the_pennies wrote: »

Oh dear. Lets hope you find your printed notes. It is a condition for all GFK assignments that you print out the Coversheet and Questionnaire and keep for at least 3 months. They could request these from you at any time.

That requirement on GfK really winds me up. I try to print as little as possible not only for cost reasons but to do my bit for the environment. Lately I've used my normal making notes on my iPhone method for GfK jobs and printing the questionnaire and coversheet to a PDF file and just keeping the files and my notes for three months in case they request them. Never known them request mine but apparently it can happen.

look_after_the_pennies

mysterious_girl wrote: »

What?! I didn't know we had to leep for 3 months. Imagine the weight I'll lose!

Lol! As a mystery shopper, I really should pay more attention to my spelling! Corrected now!

weeg

I got caught cheating during my Bare test. They were really nice about it. I felt rubbish. I got an email from the testing co a couple of weeks later saying my cheating would be kept on my record!

mysterious_girl

look_after_the_pennies wrote: »

Lol! As a mystery shopper, I really should pay more attention to my spelling! Corrected now!

I think we can let you off as it was clearly a typo.

Mine was a spelling mistake - leap not leep. :eek:

mysterious_girl

weeg wrote: »

I got caught cheating during my Bare test. They were really nice about it. I felt rubbish. I got an email from the testing co a couple of weeks later saying my cheating would be kept on my record!

You should ask Bare to notify them that you were an MS. You dont want anything bad kept on record. Unless you used a false name and address etc. You never know where this kind of info can end up.

Call me slightly paraniod if you will but I'd be a bit worried incase I got falsely accused of a crime and then they went through my past history and found I'd cheated on a test, it would all stack up against you in court.

Am I being melodramatic? Note to self: stop reading John Grisham novels.