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

misssarahleigh

You are only allowed to accept 1 call or email (UBM12188 and

UBM12189) for each scenario e.g. only one A**x Scenario 1

Thats what the GFK notes say. I don't quite understand though. does it mean regardless of the company you can only have one with the number.

Bit confused if somebody could explain as i could do a few but not is theoretically you can only do 2 (one of each number)

thanks

martyn187

Krazie_Kay wrote: »

How do you get the egg jobs (yes I know probably has been posted here before but I find the search button really unhelpful when searching!). Do you have to have done a few ESA jobs before you are entitled for these? Hear so much about them that I really really want to do one! Oh and the stamp jobs-but never had the chance to grab one!

I'd like to know how!!! Must save time to search for this sort of thing in the future!

I have only done 1 ESA job (only do about 15/20 jobs a month around full time job) and that was an egg job, so as long as it is not snapped up by someone else you should be able to go for it!

I get about 3 e-mails a day from ESA with jobs available, so there should hopefully be a new wave of these soon!

On another note, has anyone else noticed the Grassroots mobile phone shop payment is nearly double the Gapbuster payment, for pretty much identical jobs!

clippy_girl

grrrrrr so annoyed with my phone email thing i wanted a new address for ms when i got the phone so the guy set me up a vodafone blackberry account. you can only view it on the phone and not on the vodafone website.

when it went in for repair i had to create a new hotmail account so i could get alert, queries etc...

got phone back and when they did software update it removed email. added it again and it has not sent me the messages i know i was sent whilst it was fixed! they have just never appeared so i can never see them!

also added the new hotmail account to the bb email and i have not received any emaild from it all day. not sure if it is because i am on hotmail on my pc? grrrrrr so confused!

martyn187

clippy_girl wrote: »

grrrrrr so annoyed with my phone email thing i wanted a new address for ms when i got the phone so the guy set me up a vodafone blackberry account. you can only view it on the phone and not on the vodafone website.

when it went in for repair i had to create a new hotmail account so i could get alert, queries etc...

got phone back and when they did software update it removed email. added it again and it has not sent me the messages i know i was sent whilst it was fixed! they have just never appeared so i can never see them!

also added the new hotmail account to the bb email and i have not received any emaild from it all day. not sure if it is because i am on hotmail on my pc? grrrrrr so confused!

If you use a POP 3 e-mail program like Outlook then it comes off the server once you send/receive it onto the computer, so the push e-mail thing on blackberry will not pick it up, not sure about hotmail but maybe once you open it and it is no longer 'unread' it leaves the same situation??

I know that wasn't the most helpful post ever!!

clippy_girl

martyn187 wrote: »

On another note, has anyone else noticed the Grassroots mobile phone shop payment is nearly double the Gapbuster payment, for pretty much identical jobs!

yup- same as the gap travel agents ones. no thanks! i have found the gap phones to be quicker than the gr ones although that might be because the last few gap ones i have done were mobile broadband enquires so less to have to go through!

clippy_girl

martyn187 wrote: »

If you use a POP 3 e-mail program like Outlook then it comes off the server once you send/receive it onto the computer, so the push e-mail thing on blackberry will not pick it up, not sure about hotmail but maybe once you open it and it is no longer 'unread' it leaves the same situation??

I know that wasn't the most helpful post ever!!

thanks i wondered about whether it was not comming through because i had hotmail open on my pc as i got an email on my phone this morning before i logged on. have signed out now on my pc and sent an email from my work laptop but it has still not come through on the phone.

really annoying as i am missing stuff but would rather not have to change everything back to bb mail!

Dotty13

misssarahleigh wrote: »

just got confimed for edigital a week ago. there starting me off easy. 11 jobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think i saw this in a post, but the music download. i think somebody said they look for the least expensive download as they pay the full reinbursment regardless of what you pay. is that correct?

Sorry if this has been answered already, but am still catching up on a couple of days reading. You are correct - they pay back the full reimbursement, even if you don't spend that amount, so I always look for the cheapest track (about 79p):j

Dotty13

ukmonkey wrote: »

By all means change it to the latest day, but if you take the pics before, I wouldn't wait until the 14th to upload them. We don't know what goes on behin the scenes. For all we know the client may telephone the non-compliant stores and tell them to sort (whatever it is) out. You're asking for trouble if the manager turns around and says that it's compliant! It'd cast doubt over all of your work on the project.

Do you think it would be okay to upload prior to your due date then - or is this just as bad as going over your due date.:eek:

Dotty13

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

But look at it from the clients point of view. What if everyone was to do that? They'd have their staff sitting around twiddling their thumbs for 2 weeks then be inundated on the very last day of the project - and, from your point of view, if there were any problems, you'd have very little time to get back and re-do them.

I usually have a rough idea of when I'm going to so a specific store but will set the date for 2 or 3 days after, to give me leeway. eg. If I think I'm going to be doing stores in such-and-such an area on a Monday, I'll set the date for Wednesday. I upload as soon as I've done them so that they have definitely got them by the due date and last month a couple were actually accepted before the due date.

The thing is we dont really have a full brief, and we dont know why we are doing it, and for whom... I have previously stuck to my due date and uploaded that evening. However, I remember the intial email from the company advertising the flexibility of the project - not quite the case now is it....?:D

galaxynicole

clippy_girl wrote: »

yup- same as the gap travel agents ones. no thanks! i have found the gap phones to be quicker than the gr ones although that might be because the last few gap ones i have done were mobile broadband enquires so less to have to go through!

I can't do the phone jobs for gap but GR have no problems in me doing them. Just cos I work for one of the phone people doesn't mean, I'm going to give them a bad score. I know exactly what I'm looking for when MSing a phone shop and I know how important they are towards bonuses. I'm always fair in my report of them. If they are great, I give great comments if they aren't, I say what they did wrong. Obviously I can't do my own company lol but I think it's silly just cos I work in that industry, I can't shop them with gap.