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

sunnyjasmina

Hi all, can someone advise me on this please, when I'm claiming mileage for tax purposes is it a return journey or just the distance to the job?
I'm trying to get it all right on the excel sheet.

mysterious_girl

sunnyjasmina wrote: »

Hi all, can someone advise me on this please, when I'm claiming mileage for tax purposes is it a return journey or just the distance to the job?
I'm trying to get it all right on the excel sheet.

Return from your home.

mimi1234

Miss_Qwerty wrote: »

Just FYI if anyone got the targeted mail from abai this evening - they don't seem to be coming up under the normal search conditions, you need to do the * search thing to see them all.

Without sounding really thick, where do I put the *? I'm new to that company and am unsure how to search where everything comes up.

sunnyjasmina

mysterious_girl wrote: »

Return from your home.

Thanks for that, thought it was but didn't want to get it wrong and have to amend everything.

MoneySavingBecky

mimi1234 wrote: »

Without sounding really thick, where do I put the *? I'm new to that company and am unsure how to search where everything comes up.

when youre searching click the circle for "other" for location
and then put * in the "search" box

blindman

mimi1234 wrote: »

I don't understand BARE at all. My average rating is 10 and I have done 28 visits for them. However, whenever I apply, I never get allocated any. It's a shame that dude who is with another MS company now jumped ship. He was good at allocating me stuff. LOL.

Done over 50+ jobs (average is ony 9) still never got allocated jobs so I give up trying especially as they lost the flight contract.

As for RE. OMG! I had a sports shop to do and it said I had to call them first for special instructions before my visit. I was thinking I had picked a special visit and the special instructions were that I was going to get a reimbursement of £50. LOL. I can but dream. She just asked me if I could confirm what town the visit was in. !!!!!!!

Same here, had to ring for special instructions before I could continue with the job. Turns out the special instructions was the location of the shop was open-which was ON the BRIEFING!

I then went to the correct shop (home town so know there are two locaitons) got receipt and uploaded.

RE get back to me stating I'd done the wrong site so I wont get paid.

Rang up allocator and chewed her ear off BIG time!

They had mucked up the reciept numbers mismatching them to the wrong locations

D*ckh*eads.

jen_br

Ugh my OH did a betting shopfor them... there is 2 in town but a new one opened and the other was closed... called allocator she said do the new one.

So we did... then TEAM MEL, sent a bunch of messages stating how we were wrong. I sent NASTY ones back and got nasty ones, finally I got someone else in the proofreading dept to approve it.. all together it took 3 weeks to sort. WTH wasn't the allocator talking to the PR team?

misssarahleigh

blindman wrote: »

Same here, had to ring for special instructions before I could continue with the job. Turns out the special instructions was the location of the shop was open-which was ON the BRIEFING!

I then went to the correct shop (home town so know there are two locaitons) got receipt and uploaded.

RE get back to me stating I'd done the wrong site so I wont get paid.

Rang up allocator and chewed her ear off BIG time!

They had mucked up the reciept numbers mismatching them to the wrong locations

D*ckh*eads.

jen_br wrote: »

Ugh my OH did a betting shopfor them... there is 2 in town but a new one opened and the other was closed... called allocator she said do the new one.

So we did... then TEAM MEL, sent a bunch of messages stating how we were wrong. I sent NASTY ones back and got nasty ones, finally I got someone else in the proofreading dept to approve it.. all together it took 3 weeks to sort. WTH wasn't the allocator talking to the PR team?

I had it where there were two on the same streen. One i didn't realise but got a message back saying id done the wrong one. Checked on google and it pointed to the shop i went to. emailed back and didn't get anything.

Took it to a manager who was loverly and paid me, putting a note in the assignment to say 2 on the same stree.

jen_br

Ugh -- Can someone pm me with the new abai client. i got the email earlier and accidently deleted it from phone and mailbox (didn'trealise my super smart phone could do that *shaking fist*)

otherwise ill have to call them in the morning!

clippy_girl

random question, can anyone get on facebook?