MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD 18 - please don't mention client names or fees on here!!

jen_br

mysterious_girl wrote: »

Staff member name: Alfred Cutterbug
Hair colour: Ginger
Height: 5'7
Glasses: yes, with black frames
Age: 40 - 45
Sex: I doubt it
Distinguishing features: Tattoo of a snake behind his ear

Query:

Was the tattoo behind his left or right ear? Please confirm within 20 minutes or you won't get paid.

Dear Shopper,

Was he wearing a wedding band or ring of any description as he sounds like someone I have been waiting for my whole life.

Team Mel
(yes all of us we do everything together)

ukmonkey

Fruit_and_Nut_Case wrote: »

ukmonkey kindly sent me a copy of the fabulous spreadsheet referenced in the first post of this thread. Thanks for that.

As I suspected when I requested a copy, it is designed to work with Microsoft Excel. As someone interested in moneysaving I use OpenOffice.org Calc instead.

I tried to import the spreadsheet into Calc but failed miserably. I suspect that it was bamboozled by the macros.

Has anyone had more success along these lines? Thanks in advance.

Hi.

I'm afraid as good as OpenOffice is, it's Spreadsheet programme is let down badly by the lack of VBA, although I do appreciate the reasons why it was omitted (costs of licensing it, I believe).

I'm unable to offer a solution, sorry!

ukmonkey

mimi1234 wrote: »

The lingerie shops, do you have to send the outfit back to them or do they pay you to keep it?

If you ask them, you can keep them, but obviously you don't get the purchase refunded.

ukmonkey

Becles wrote: »

Did a shop at the weekend and had to take a photo after my visit. The store is next to the mall exit doors and has blocked in stairs about 8ft away from the store front. At the bottom of the stairs is a large Sky TV stand, so you have to stand almost right in front of the shop to get a photo.

When I left, one of the staff members was standing in the shop front (it's just open) staring out into the mall. I faffed about looking in another shop window for a while, then had a pretendy phone call, but he was still just standing there and I didn't want to walk up and take his picture! Had to give up and leave.

Explained it all in the report but have been told that if I do not supply a photograph, the whole report is invalid and it will have to be reshopped

Dunno why a photo makes so much difference considering the main points of interest are surely the report. It was a really poor visit too, so it's important that what happened is passed onto the store as they'll be horrified when they read it!

Which company was this please? Name and shame.

mysteryshoppingninja

ukmonkey wrote: »

Which company was this please? Name and shame.

Hazard a guess and you'll probably be right. Who asks for photos for nearly every shop to make their reports pretty? Who cares about the content as long as it's dressed up nicely

OzzyBear

Yes, I signed up with them the other week. Had a couple of e-mails offering jobs (decent fees too) but I couldn't do either of them because of other commitments

redzhell wrote: »

Really quiet for me this month too so I'm signing up to yet more agencies! Anyone had any experience with OB Services?

I don't usually trust companies who won't publish their address and office number. There is only a mention of someone's mobile number and ability to send emails.

Misty_Blue

Does anyone know anything about Accolade Mystery Shopping? I've had an email from them, quoting from that new Mary Portas program, but its not something I've applied to.

StacFace

Misty_Blue wrote: »

Does anyone know anything about Accolade Mystery Shopping? I've had an email from them, quoting from that new Mary Portas program, but its not something I've applied to.

I've received quite a few emails claiming to be from MS companies like this over the past few days. They've gone straight to my spam box and they go to the email address I give out to everyone and not my MS and other work email, so I know they won't be genuine.

I would be careful about joining, Google them and see what you can find out and join through the link you find on Google, don't click on a link in an email.

Tbh, if they were genuine I doubt they'd be emailing people out of the blue to join.

nehpets81

proshopper wrote: »

Do a seacrh for "mystery shopping" on google. We all know that GfK and the likes have wanted more hits for ages. See what shows up ...

Ok, just out of interest tried just that - the first page has RE at number one, the Wiki page at 3, a few dubious looking ones, GRG next then Gap.

Adding UK to the end strangely puts Retail Maxim pretty high up and Tern appear towards the bottom of the page.

I would say GFK need to look into getting their website a bit higher up if they want more hits!

serendipity2706

weeg wrote: »

TMDC have the scales totally stacked against newbies too. Registered with them in March last year, and got a job almost immediately. Then nothing until November. It's really hard to get past Bronze!

I just took everything, travelling all over the place, once you get to silver it isn't too hard to get to gold, and platinum is easy after that.
The problem with bronze is you only get to see the jobs after all the others have had their pick, so there isn't much left and it is all in Inverness!