1st Mystery Shopping Assignment goes pearshaped - will I get paid?

mountainofdebt

I've done mystery shopping before but only recently (thanks to this site!) signed up for it again.

Anyway I had an offer of an assignment - which had to be done today -which I accepted.

However when I got there, the shop was closed - and it appears that they don't open on Saturdays.

So will I get paid do you reckon?

rog2

You should do - it's good feedback that they don't open Saturdays>

Becles

You should do. It wasn't your fault the shop was closed.

ehallett

I wouldn't worry, you should get paid. Who was the company you were working for?

I did a mystery shop for TNS once and I got to the pub and couldn't get in as they wanted student ID!! I emailed TNS about it and explained what had happened. I still got paid for the job.

Dr.Shoe_2

mountainofdebt wrote:

I've done mystery shopping before but only recently (thanks to this site!) signed up for it again.

Anyway I had an offer of an assignment - which had to be done today -which I accepted.

However when I got there, the shop was closed - and it appears that they don't open on Saturdays.

So will I get paid do you reckon?

Perhaps they wanted you to verify that it was indeed closed. Maybe it was meant to be open but the head office has had complaints etc.

Hootie19

If you selected the assingnment from the list of times etc, then yes, you should get paid. I've done it before where I was visiting a post office which, it turned out, had closed down about 2 years before! I did get paid for it though.

Beanietdc

My first mystery shopping assignment involved applying for an account card at Mothercare.... Mothercare don't do account cards!

I still got paid for the job (and offered another identical assigment in a different town 2 days later!).

dlb

I did my first one the other week and it did say on the brief they sent me, please check opening hours of the store before going ahead with assinment, they even gave me shop helpline number to check.

But as said before i think you should still get paid if they stated that was the day to do the shop.

Rachie_B

yday i went to a store which now has "ceased to trade" ,will i still get paid ?!

mountainofdebt

(where's the thanks button gone btw?)

phoned up today and told them that the shop was shut and that it didn't open on saturdays and when I asked would I be paid, I was told I would be so that's £10 for the credit card!

The funny thing about it was that it HAD to be done on a saturday ......
not that I'm complaining you understand!

jobbingmusician

Sounds like someone was being naughty and not opening the shop when they should have done!:eek: