MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD XV - please, no mention of client names or fees on here

misssarahleigh

mysteryshoppingninja wrote: »

They won't, they're huge £6 is small change to anyone but especially them...

I've had a few urgent ones off them recently and always ask for petrol, every time its been a decent enough amount to make it worthwhile...

Gap on the other hand rang me for two urgent burgers and wouldn't give me anything :eek: apparently they're "spending a lot on extra fees" and it's "affecting their bottom line". Well driving 60 miles for a greasy burger and a measly fee affects mine too

Well i only live about 1 1/2 miles from the place. So asking for petrol would be selling myself a little short lol

Mumof2_2

jen_br wrote: »

Anyone else get the email from GFK? about a new project?

I got it but no way can I do it with 2 young kids and a husband who works away a lot himself.

mysteryshoppingninja

misssarahleigh wrote: »

Well i only live about 1 1/2 miles from the place. So asking for petrol would be selling myself a little short lol

Point taken

Yeah I'd have asked them for extra as well I think, if they're desperate to have it covered in the grand scheme of things a few quid is nothing. I've had up to 5x the usual fee for some jobs although they were a long way out of my usual area.

Becles

jen_br wrote: »

Anyone else get the email from GFK? about a new project?

I did and the work sounds interesting but the being away from home would put me off. It would be difficult to organise childcare, and I'd miss my bairns too much

misssarahleigh

Saying that Karma is now kicking my !!!

Anyone done one. On the print it gives me three products to check but on the questionnaire loads more.

Do i check all the ones on the questionnaire or just the three on the sheet?

Brian_Damage

misssarahleigh wrote: »

Saying that Karma is now kicking my !!!

Anyone done one. On the print it gives me three products to check but on the questionnaire loads more.

Do i check all the ones on the questionnaire or just the three on the sheet?

You have to do both. The three are promotional items you have to check, and the others are part of the audit you have to do afterwards, with a member of staff...

Flygirl767

Oh heck, just got rumbled doing one of my covert crisp jobs! So annoying as I only had about 4 bays to go but didn't see the busybody staff member watching me and he apprehended me! Asked me what I was doing, why I was taking photos etc. It was quite scary really, I just told them I was doing a project for a course I was on but he quoted the data protection act at me and asked me to leave:eek: Oh the shame!
Has this happened to anyone else? Have you gone back to the same store? I'm not even gonna attempt the 2 new products but would like to finish off the crisps now I've started!

misssarahleigh

Brian_Damage wrote: »

You have to do both. The three are promotional items you have to check, and the others are part of the audit you have to do afterwards, with a member of staff...

Thanks, I would have thought they would give you a sheet with that info on aswell, not hid it in the questionnaire.

jen_br

Flygirl767 wrote: »

Oh heck, just got rumbled doing one of my covert crisp jobs! So annoying as I only had about 4 bays to go but didn't see the busybody staff member watching me and he apprehended me! Asked me what I was doing, why I was taking photos etc. It was quite scary really, I just told them I was doing a project for a course I was on but he quoted the data protection act at me and asked me to leave:eek: Oh the shame!
Has this happened to anyone else? Have you gone back to the same store? I'm not even gonna attempt the 2 new products but would like to finish off the crisps now I've started!

LOL the data protection act LMAO

proshopper

Glamazon wrote: »

Have to disagree with proshopper here!

ESA wanted me to do 3 shops which were a 40 mile round trip and the fees weren't great and offered me an extra £1 per job :rotfl:

GfK on the other hand have offered me half the original fee on top to do a job 2 minutes down the road :T

Last time with ESA, it was three jobs with an already reasonable fee. However, the round trip was 60 miles. I told them, yes, but said that I would have to reschedule other work to fit them in, and that I would want the mileage/travel time covered. So they doubled the fees for all three jobs and added in an extra bit. They seemed happy and so was I.

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

I'm still smarting from a job last year when GfK rang me up to beg me to do a job for them - it was miles out of my area but they told me how far it was (about 36 miles as I recall) and they offered an increased fee to reflect that.

When I did the job, I clocked it on the car dashboard and it was actually 70 miles :eek: I was NOT happy! Took hours out of my day and was nearly double the distance they had told me. I did ask about extra money to cover the fact that it was a lot further than they had told me, and depsite telling me (twice) that they were asking about this for me, I never got any extra money.

GfK went down in my estimation after that.

You must have been miffed, SC. I would have been. Luckily, I always have a pretty good idea of the sort of mileage involved going anywhere within 100 miles of home. All these years of keeping MS companies interested in my services have given me a good idea of local (and beyond) geography.

mysteryshoppingninja wrote: »

Point taken

Yeah I'd have asked them for extra as well I think, if they're desperate to have it covered in the grand scheme of things a few quid is nothing. I've had up to 5x the usual fee for some jobs although they were a long way out of my usual area.

I have just accepted an "unallocatable" job for another company. Again, I said I would have to reschedule other work to do it. They have upped the fee to a pretty good rate, and thrown in enough other work in the immediate area to give me a full day (plus travel was already reimbursable anyway). I think it's called scratching each others' backs!!