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

look_after_the_pennies

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

To be fair it's also school hols, people will be away, and, probably like me don't want to have to drag the kids round these stores too often. Costs me a fortune in the cafe as well!!!!

Whatever the reason, I don't care as long as I have the chance to do one! I'm bored now with my usual fix of DIY jobs, fast food and supermarkets. Would like to do something else and broaden my horizons, even if it is just something to put down to experience. Did my first buyback job on the weekend and enjoyed that.

star7_2

I have been mystery shopping for 6 months now since being made redundant with a few different companies but the main one being Gap. I used to do them once maybe twice a week and cover about 8 shops per day. They used to telephone me a lot asking me to cary out shops and many of them 100 miles away. 99% of the time I obliged and often times on bank holidays. Always, the reports were carried out to the letter of the law and suddenly I get an email last week to say that I'm no longer on their panel and I cannot sign up again! I emailed the contact I used to speak with all the time in the company and a complaints department and I got back two identical emails saying they couldn't give exact details away but here are three possible general reasons why - anoe of which applied to me at all. Really !!!!ed off with this. When i replied back to this email I never got anything back!!! !!!!!!!
:mad:

squidgeum

look_after_the_pennies wrote: »

I agree that they seem to be struggling covering these jobs. I had an email last week about a job which needed covering over the weekend. I filled in the form about what shops I could do but I haven't heard anything since.

If it's who I think it is then I got the same email. We have one in BSE and one in Ipswich, but none in Stow. Am I on the right lines Pennies?

kman

squidgeum wrote: »

If it's who I think it is then I got the same email. We have one in BSE and one in Ipswich, but none in Stow. Am I on the right lines Pennies?

Have sent you a PM...

look_after_the_pennies

Yep, on the right track Squidgy! Funnily enough, the email mentioned the store in BSE only.

Mags30

star7 wrote: »

They used to telephone me a lot asking me to cary out shops and many of them 100 miles away. 99% of the time I obliged and often times on bank holidays.

Loads of people on here are sacked from GAP. It's almost normal. I'm going to advise that in future you don't show such loyalty to any mystery shopping company, particularly a low pay one. They are not going to thank you for the trouble you go to. I sometimes do a job I hadn't planned to oblige but I wouldn't travel 100 miles on a bank holiday to buy a burger.

Register with all of the companies and work for as many as you can rather than being too dependant on any one company.

squidgeum

look_after_the_pennies wrote: »

Yep, on the right track Squidgy! Funnily enough, the email mentioned the store in BSE only.

Strange - the one I got mentioned Ipswich, Colchester and Cambridge. It asked me to list them in order of preference and give an approximate mileage figure for each.

squidgeum

star7 wrote: »

I have been mystery shopping for 6 months now since being made redundant with a few different companies but the main one being Gap. I used to do them once maybe twice a week and cover about 8 shops per day. They used to telephone me a lot asking me to cary out shops and many of them 100 miles away. 99% of the time I obliged and often times on bank holidays. Always, the reports were carried out to the letter of the law and suddenly I get an email last week to say that I'm no longer on their panel and I cannot sign up again! I emailed the contact I used to speak with all the time in the company and a complaints department and I got back two identical emails saying they couldn't give exact details away but here are three possible general reasons why - anoe of which applied to me at all. Really !!!!ed off with this. When i replied back to this email I never got anything back!!! !!!!!!!
:mad:

Welcome to the club Star7. I think this has happened to a lot of us on here, if not sacked completely, then sacked from certain clients. I would not work for them again even if they asked me to sign up for them again. They have no respect for their shoppers and from what I have seen on here the last couple of months don't even seem to be paying on time anymore. :eek:

look_after_the_pennies

squidgeum wrote: »

Strange - the one I got mentioned Ipswich, Colchester and Cambridge. It asked me to list them in order of preference and give an approximate mileage figure for each.

Lol, I find it funny that you practically live on the door step of BSE yet you get offered jobs elsewhere! I mentioned those towns when asked where else I could shop.

Have you had a reply back yet?

Fiver29

I'm really annoyed with the company that cannot be named. They gave me the photo assignments on a monthly basis, then I found out (after I'd done the photos and went to upload them) that they gave them back to the guy doing them two months ago because he's got his camera fixed :mad:

They could have at least had the decency to let me know before I went round 3 stores photographing crisps.