Mystery Shopping Thread 20 **PLEASE DO NOT MENTION CLIENT NAMES OR FEES ON HERE**

ukmonkey

GAP payment pending for tomrrow.

kst101

TNS have paid today. And it includes the phone jobs from June

dazza.mk

whitelabel wrote: »

Really ?!
well unless they are a security guard (the Lodge Service side of the business) i dont think thats quite right.
As far as im aware all Lodges mystery shopping is done through their react surveys company, all though ill happily be corrected if it means there are other jobs im currently missing out on.

If you look at Lodge's website there are 'Test Purchasers' under another division.

tomla

dazza.mk wrote: »

If you look at Lodge's website there are 'Test Purchasers' under another division.

The way to answer this would be to ask if anyone actually works for Lodge as a MS or Test Purchaser or is, as I suspect, all that work completed under the React brand.

kst101

I have had payment from React under the name Lodge Services and have only done ordinary react jobs.

dazza.mk

tomla wrote: »

The way to answer this would be to ask if anyone actually works for Lodge as a MS or Test Purchaser or is, as I suspect, all that work completed under the React brand.

Haven't done any work for them, but there are definitely card shops on their (not Reacts) Sassie site.

mimi1234

There are no cards on REACT job board. So have no idea what you lot are talking about. Then again, I might be talking complete bullish as well. LOL.

Was just answering the last question on the pizza for RE and someone swiped it. Hope you really enjoy your pizza!

mysterious_girl

mimi1234 wrote: »

There are no cards on REACT job board. So have no idea what you lot are talking about. Then again, I might be talking complete bullish as well. LOL.

Was just answering the last question on the pizza for RE and someone swiped it. Hope you really enjoy your pizza!

They're currently doing any pizza any size for 7.99 or 9.99 delivered up until Sunday.

mimi1234

mysterious_girl wrote: »

They're currently doing any pizza any size for 7.99 or 9.99 delivered up until Sunday.

LOL. I know love. I keep getting the text messages off them HAPPY SUNDAY, WHY NOT ORDER A PIZZA TODAY? It's kinda annoying, they text all the time. They annoy me.

Also, if anyone is doing the pick up, go at lunch time cos they have special deals on like BUY A MEDIUM FOR A £5. This was the case for me last time. HTH.

tas123

serendipity2706 wrote: »

This is the paypal reply. I'm going to write to Catalyst attaching the reply. Anyone else??

Thank you for contacting PayPal regarding the payment made to you which had a charge.

As I have checked your account the £*** GBP from Catalyst Marketing Communications Ltd was sent to you as a normal commercial payment rather than a mass payment given to you by Amber Arch Ltd £XXX GBP.

To further clarify, a normal commercial payment is sent to a single
person for a payment for service or goods. This is done by selecting the 'Send Money' tab and selecting 'services' which is what is showing on your £XXX Catalyst payment.

This is why it will incur the standard receiving fee of 3.4% of the
total payment plus 20p. On the other hand, a mass payment is a type of payment made by a seller to a lot of people in the same time on a single session of submitting the payment.

With the mass payment method done, the merchant will shoulder the fee which is why you can see that the whole amount of £XXX GBP was given to you.

If you would like to get the rest of the £XXX GBP on your PayPal
balance, you can ask the merchant to send you a Personal type of payment instead of making a commercial or Purchase type of payment.

With this payment feature, they can send the whole amount to you in one go even if you are just the only person they need to pay.

In order to do this, you can ask your merchant to follow these steps:

1. Log in to your PayPal account at www.paypal.co.uk
2. Click the 'Send Money' tab.
3. Enter the email address of the recipient and the amount and currency
of the payment.
4. Select the nature of the payment under the two tabs ‘Purchase’ or
‘Personal’.
Select 'Personal'.
a. Purchases are for paying for products/services; such as
something won on eBay, or for a service, such as music downloads.
b. Personal payments are for sending gifts, splitting a lunch bill,
paying living expenses, and everyday exchanges of money between friends
and family.
5. Click 'Continue'.
6. Review your payment details including the payment method and
currency. To change any information, click the ‘change’ link in the
relevant section. Note: If you change any payment details, the payment
method will automatically return to your default method of payment.
7. Review your postage information and add a message to the recipient
(optional).
8. Click 'Send Money' to complete the payment.

The recipient will receive an email announcing the payment. If the
recipient does not have a PayPal account, they will be required to open one to receive the payment.

Now once this is done, you can refund the original payment they made to you or you can do this before receiving the Personal payment.

Here’s how to refund a payment:

1. Go to http://www.paypal.co.uk/ and log in to your account.
2. Click ‘History’ near the top of the page.
3. Click ‘Details’ next to the payment you want to refund.
4. Click ‘Issue a refund.’
5. For ‘Refund amount,’ enter the amount to you want to refund, then click ‘Continue.’
6. Review the information, then click ‘Issue Refund.’

Thank you for your time.

Yours sincerely,
Terence

Sounds good to me. We'll see what happens - thanks.:)