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

serendipity2706

yonk wrote: »

I have to book MDC as I'm new to them, do they answer the phone on the weekend?

9 to 5.30 Mon to Friday
no-one is there at weekend so no point emailing either
Hope this helps

twinklie

I looked at MDC but they don't have anything in my area yet. Boo.
I've also tried signing up for RA. I've been MS for a lot of the companies for about 3 years...promised I'd have a look at signing up the the other companies sooner rather than later...ahem.

Well later it is then but so is everyone else. I'll give up until it dies down a bit me things. Just stick with what I know. Stupid Mary P!!

yonk

twinklie wrote: »

I looked at MDC but they don't have anything in my area yet. Boo.

Took me 18 months before they were recruiting in my area.

samsmam

Hi guys,
I hope someone can help. I signed up to Gapbusters about a week ago and today received an email asking me to log in using my shopper code and password to complete some shopper training. I tried logging in with the number that was next to my name in the email and the only password i ever use, but it keeps coming up with an error msg saying i have to be a registered and active member! Has anyone else ever had this or am i doing something wrong? (probably me lol.)

serendipity2706

samsmam wrote: »

Hi guys,
I hope someone can help. I signed up to Gapbusters about a week ago and today received an email asking me to log in using my shopper code and password to complete some shopper training. I tried logging in with the number that was next to my name in the email and the only password i ever use, but it keeps coming up with an error msg saying i have to be a registered and active member! Has anyone else ever had this or am i doing something wrong? (probably me lol.)

you get a log in (a number) and a password (also a number) from them
Mine was on my email telling me I'd been successful and welcoming me

samsmam

serendipity2706 wrote: »

you get a log in (a number) and a password (also a number) from them
Mine was on my email telling me I'd been successful and welcoming me

Ye I suspected i was missing something Its weird but thats the first and only email I have ever received.I have tried to request a new password using my number ( well I think its my number as it appeared in brackets beside my name.) Thanks hun I thought I was going mad lol.

cheekychipmunk

Hello all, not been on here for a while as have taken a self-enforced month off Msing (sanity reasons) - just about to get started again!

Just wondering if anyone else read the article in the Times today about MSing? It was talking about the money spent on mystery shopping government agencies and mentioned gfk specifically.

Also mentioned that MSers get paid around £100 a day to visit banks, shops, etc..............:eek:

And RE got a mention too.....

As long as the papers don't broadcast the names of my favorite companies to work for :shhh: , i guess there's still a chance of me getting some work this month .....

DevilsAdvocate1

cheekychipmunk wrote: »

Hello all, not been on here for a while as have taken a self-enforced month off Msing (sanity reasons) - just about to get started again!

Just wondering if anyone else read the article in the Times today about MSing? It was talking about the money spent on mystery shopping government agencies and mentioned gfk specifically.

Also mentioned that MSers get paid around £100 a day to visit banks, shops, etc..............:eek:

And RE got a mention too.....

As long as the papers don't broadcast the names of my favorite companies to work for :shhh: , i guess there's still a chance of me getting some work this month .....

I'm really sick of all these articles that make MSing sound like easy money. Yes, I do sometimes earn £100 on a day, but this is by getting jobs from many different agencies and is a very full day (often with the reports going on the following day).

Its the same with the few newbies who have posted on here asking which companies have the plum jobs. The jobs mentioned in these articles are not plum jobs, they're pie in the sky. I have only ever once got a 3 figure sum and it was for a job which involved 3 credit checks. And jobs which pay £50 tend to be mortgage enquires which are long and have big reports.

Sorry for the rant.

D.

jen_br

Ugh frustration has set in with articles like that!

boyoboy1986

Am seriously considering writing to the correspondent of said advert and challenging them to register with RE etc and see how many shops and how many hoops they have to jump through to make £100 per day.

The quicker MP and her mini series has finished the better.