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

yonk

A bra. If it's the company I think it is, they want a full fitting, if I remember rightly as that if the crux of the shop. Basically, you have the bra fitted, hence the requirement for you or the shopper to have boobs and then you buy it and return it to said company, who send you the cash back really quickly. The fitting service is really good, in my case, my cup size was different to what I was previously buying and it was helpful. But it may not be for you, if you are a bit shy.

Best put the payment on a credit card, even if you wouldn't normally if that helps your cashflow.

xxvickixx

lucylou wrote: »

can anyone suggest what type of product to buy?or what do you normally buy?maybe a cream so they can demonstrate it,would that be ok?

Anything that they could show you on your hand. It does say that in the brief - well mine does anyway.

xxvickixx

yonk wrote: »

A bra. If it's the company I think it is, they want a full fitting, if I remember rightly as that if the crux of the shop. Basically, you have the bra fitted, hence the requirement for you or the shopper to have boobs and then you buy it and return it to said company, who send you the cash back really quickly. The fitting service is really good, in my case, my cup size was different to what I was previously buying and it was helpful. But it may not be for you, if you are a bit shy.

Best put the payment on a credit card, even if you wouldn't normally if that helps your cashflow.

Aw don't they let you keep the bra? The reimbursment looked like you could. I really, really want to go to this shop and get measured, they are supposed to be really good.

yonk

I've not done that one for ages so the brief may have changed or it may be a completely different shop altogether. Once I got in to be fitted, the local shop had a 3-hour wait, the fitting was excellent. My bras are way more comfortable now that I've gone up 2 cup sizes. I don't actually like their bras tho...

StacFace

beckybrianie1973 wrote: »

Hi, I did check the brief and the bit about the report still being valid, I'm just hoping that they'll stump up for the similar product to the one that was specified iyswim.

Yeah they will, providing it's still within the reimbursement limit. Although none of mine refused to sell there was one that saw it was out of stock and then took a similar product off the shelf to pass that off as the ones I'd asked for. Payment has been approved for it still.

jen_br

Yoiu can keep bra but you don't get reimbursed

Lil_Me_2

Jen - have a wonderful holiday. I am very jealous!! Take lots of photos for me. Are you visiting Disney?

teendude

mimi1234 wrote: »

I suggest you do call them. I always have my mobile near me. If it says RETAIL MAXIM, I call there and then. Their shops are really fun to do and the reports are uber simple unlike others where you have to write almost a thesis for each question.

Becles wrote: »

Well done on the first shop :j

I would ring anyway. If the assignment has gone, ask if there is anything else in your area and sometimes they find other jobs

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Thanks
I got a phone call back this morning and now have two quite well-paid visits to an electrical supplies chain.

spender wrote: »

Retail Maxim - I signed up ages ago and got approved however I can recall if I have ever worked for them, could one kind person pm me just to let me know the types of jobs they do, it is only someone has mentioned them earlier in the thread that my curiousity is aroused (oohh)

Mine involve making an enquiry, rejecting it because of the price and then buying something cheap.

suzannesuzanne

Out of interest, do the other Gyp coffee shoppers out there actually like the taste of the coffee?
Personally I think it usually tastes absolutely disgusting, really really weak horrible coffee taste - like drinking hot milky water.
Lucky for them the survey completely ignores whether the coffee tasted any good!

lalli_pickle

suzannesuzanne wrote: »

Out of interest, do the other Gyp coffee shoppers out there actually like the taste of the coffee?
Personally I think it usually tastes absolutely disgusting, really really weak horrible coffee taste - like drinking hot milky water.
Lucky for them the survey completely ignores whether the coffee tasted any good!

I don't know about Gap but the React ones taste like a cross between wet cardboard and a baby's nappy
Although they are ok with Soya milk and don't charge extra for it.
The TNS coffee shops are the best imo and they do a lovely chocolate fudge cake