MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD 17 - please don't mention client names or fees on here!!

serendipity2706

mysterious_girl wrote: »

Mimi, are you a bloke?! I always thought you were female, going by your Avatar and dance quote.

Obviously trying to confuse RE:D

mimi1234

serendipity2706 wrote: »

Well, dress up as a girl then! See how far that gets you??:D

I was thinking of going with a sash saying MISS MYSTERY SHOPPER even though I am a bloke. LOL. So wait up, I go in, do the mystery shop, they recommend bags, I pick them up, flounce around, and say yeah my girlfriend will definitely like it? Hmmm OK. May have to drop it I think.

Got another selection of 9 visits tomorrow. I am getting bored of it now.

mimi1234

mysterious_girl wrote: »

Mimi, are you a bloke?! I always thought you were female, going by your Avatar and dance quote.

LOL. I used to a full scale Boots tart (male version). I used to always advertise bargains and glitches. I think it would have been obvious who I was as I was going to each store everyday and a lot of Boots staff actually came on to read threads. So I deleted my original profile and came back as Mimi. I still think everyone thinks I'm a woman, but that's all good. I like to disguise myself. LOL.

mysterious_girl

mimi1234 wrote: »

LOL. I used to a full scale Boots tart (male version). I used to always advertise bargains and glitches. I think it would have been obvious who I was as I was going to each store everyday and a lot of Boots staff actually came on to read threads. So I deleted my original profile and came back as Mimi. I still think everyone thinks I'm a woman, but that's all good. I like to disguise myself. LOL.

Just goes to show that you really can't tell what gender the posters on here are unless they refer to it. Is Tractor Girl a boy too?

Badger_Lady

blindman wrote: »

So you are their ideal shopper.;)

However:
Do a time and motion study (1970's speak :cool:)
Time EXACTLY how long it takes you to:

Search their site for jobs
Allocate the job
Print the paperwork (+ costs for printing)
Going to the store (In your case the absolute minimum)
Doing the job (If you went just for lunch you wouldn't observe staff actions\replies\names etc)
Inputting results :eek:
Answering idiotic queries

Time taken XX
Fee given.....XXX

Now is it worth:eek: it

Yeah, sorry but it is. I agree with you on some of the assignments - there are many that I'd turn down. But:

- searching the site is very quick and easy with the filtering options and I do it whilst at work in my office job. And today, for example, they actually rang me and offered me a local job, so no time at all spent there.

- food to go assignments take no longer in-venue than if you were just buying lunch there. You just have to make the observations in the time it takes to be served.

- Yeah some of the questionnaires take 15 minutes to fill out (I'm a fast touch typer), but I do that whilst eating my free lunch sat at my desk, and get paid a little bonus on top.

Hardly makes a living, but is a nice little moneysaver for me. And then I can mix in a few of the higher-fee jobs while I'm out and about too.

Don't get me wrong, some are ridiculous - a couple of pages ago I wrote that there was a pointless assignment near me and that I'd told RE as much. But there are benefits too, if you happen to be in the right circumstance.

mysterious_girl

RE have an assignment in my area for an electrical enquiry at a major supermarket. The client is the brand, not the shop. You have to make a purchase of say £8.50 (not the actual amount, just an example). Then you get a tiny fee on top. Do you think they'd know if I took it back for a refund? There's no mention of it in the briefing notes.

jen_br

Mimi Say your buyinga gift for your wife... for your anniversary or xmas.

dazza.mk

mysterious_girl wrote: »

RE have an assignment in my area for an electrical enquiry at a major supermarket. The client is the brand, not the shop. You have to make a purchase of say £8.50 (not the actual amount, just an example). Then you get a tiny fee on top. Do you think they'd know if I took it back for a refund? There's no mention of it in the briefing notes.

Don't see how they could know.

Monkeynut

I used to be (well, I say 'used to' as if it was a long time ago, but was probably only a couple of weeks ago!!) very much of the opinion that it's only a small amount, but we were quite in need of it to get a couple of loans paid back as soon as possible so that I don't have to go back to work from my Mat Leave as soon as I will need to now, so I was prepared to do their crappy questionnaires for peanuts.
But very quickly I changed my mind, and that's without even being bombarded with silly proof reading queires, which, to stick up for them ever so slightly I've only had one (albeit a ridiculous one)!!! Now I seem to end up with a quite steady supply of jobs, it's in no ones interests for me to do an RE job, unless there is something in particular that I need from it so it's relevant.
The only one that has been relevant to me though was an electrical store, with a reimbursement that very almost covered what we were planning on buying anyway, and I got there - Bloody closed for refurb!!!
If I don't do them, it gives someone else who's new to this the chance to do it, and the hope that gradually clients might realise they are rubbish and we all ahte them, and move to a different company, or they will run out of shoppers willing to do them, and increase the fees?!?

jen_br

Mimi- You handle the bag touch the leather... ask about what if it rains... look inside as your Mrs. likes a BIG purse.. with some pockets.