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

Fiver29

jen_br wrote: »

Has anyone looked at the BARE assignments that became avail the other day Pricing phone calls for cars? You have to complete a circut (4-6 calls) and get the best deal however the fee is pretty poor... very poor actually

Just seen them, hardly covers the cost of the phone calls, especially if you have to do 10.

ETA: Oh hang on, I think I read it wrong, fee is per evaluation not per set. Still not great, but better than per set

mimi1234

Fiver29 wrote: »

Just seen them, hardly covers the cost of the phone calls, especially if you have to do 10.

ETA: Oh hang on, I think I read it wrong, fee is per evaluation not per set. Still not great, but better than per set

Does anyone actually still shop for BARE? Payments are pants and the visits are not interesting whatsoever. Bring back the clothes shop with the big reimbursement! I loved those.

Oh and I got a -5 marks for the report I did on RE where the assistant swore. What gives? Should I have lied and said the visit was fantastic instead? I thought the whole purpose of MSing was to give an insight into the customers experience? I get the impression shoppers get penalised for negative reports. Not good!

rachelandgromit

How rude, ESA just emailed me to say my egg shop reports are 14 hours overdue!!!! The bl**dy system is still not working, I've just this minute tried again. . . .

jen_br

Fiver29 wrote: »

Just seen them, hardly covers the cost of the phone calls, especially if you have to do 10.

ETA: Oh hang on, I think I read it wrong, fee is per evaluation not per set. Still not great, but better than per set

Yeah I read it wrong too but still thats not brill I know its fairly hard work to get a good price over the phone like that ...

Angelfeathers

mimi1234 wrote: »

Oh and I got a -5 marks for the report I did on RE where the assistant swore. What gives? Should I have lied and said the visit was fantastic instead? I thought the whole purpose of MSing was to give an insight into the customers experience? I get the impression shoppers get penalised for negative reports. Not good!

Yeah, I got -1 for an RE report on an energy supplier stand that wasn't there. I'm not sure if it's marked down because I couldn't find it or because I dared to query the location because the postcode and address did not match, but I did absolutely nothing wrong anyway!

jen_br

mimi1234 wrote: »

Does anyone actually still shop for BARE? Payments are pants and the visits are not interesting whatsoever. Bring back the clothes shop with the big reimbursement! I loved those.

Oh and I got a -5 marks for the report I did on RE where the assistant swore. What gives? Should I have lied and said the visit was fantastic instead? I thought the whole purpose of MSing was to give an insight into the customers experience? I get the impression shoppers get penalised for negative reports. Not good!

Was it for a coffee shop? I got a -4 and called them up I realized there is a fault in the report it lets you submit it but there were comments missing that were one of those silly types like

"was the staff membernice" YES NO and you click yes.. but it wants a comment below..

rachelandgromit

I was just thinking about my egg shops from yesterday and I was wondering if anyone had the similar visits as most of my reports were identical. These were all 'mini' egg stores. Most of the time the same person that served me was the same person that I 'interacted' with asking if they sold something as I had to go to the till as there were no staff on the shop floor and the main thing they fell down on was asking if you were a 'member?' They were all really well stocked (although I did do all mine before 11am) and no real issues.....

Flygirl767

rachelandgromit wrote: »

I was just thinking about my egg shops from yesterday and I was wondering if anyone had the similar visits as most of my reports were identical. These were all 'mini' egg stores. Most of the time the same person that served me was the same person that I 'interacted' with asking if they sold something as I had to go to the till as there were no staff on the shop floor and the main thing they fell down on was asking if you were a 'member?' They were all really well stocked (although I did do all mine before 11am) and no real issues.....

Mine were the same, felt like I was writing the same answers for all of them! Only one asked me if I was a member.

I did get accused of dropping my carton of milk yesterday when I took it back leaking..bloomin' cheek, suggesting I damaged it myself!!:rotfl:

rachelandgromit

Flygirl767 wrote: »

Mine were the same, felt like I was writing the same answers for all of them! Only one asked me if I was a member.

I did get accused of dropping my carton of milk yesterday when I took it back leaking..bloomin' cheek, suggesting I damaged it myself!!:rotfl:

Thanks for that, thought I was going a bit paranoid! The sandwiches are quite good, just tear away the edge of the film saying it is open! Still got lots of sandwiches left! Egg on toast for breakfast, sandwiches for dinner

Becles

rachelandgromit wrote: »

How rude, ESA just emailed me to say my egg shop reports are 14 hours overdue!!!! The bl**dy system is still not working, I've just this minute tried again. . . .

That'll probably be an automated message rather than it being personally sent to you.

The system probably doesn't realise the reporting thingy is broken, so it just sends out the reminders as instructed.