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

serendipity2706

Boredupnorth wrote: »

serendipity2706 wrote: »

£25 an hour! You must be video shopping then as there are no jobs that I have ever seen paying that much for standard shopping.

Unless of course you are talking just about the physical shop paying around a tenner, I suppose you could do 3 in an hour or so. But then you have to take time to get there time back, time for the reports and of course the costs. Minimum wage is about all you end up with unless you get a hat full in 1 town of course.

I don't video shop, just the straightforward reports.
I did 4 after work today in town, took about an hour and a half inc the (travel between them) driving. Got £45, plus expenses. Reports will be about an hour, but I can do them while waiting for the, paid for, pizza to be delivered, (minimal fee but free dinner, and its a BOGOF day so dinner for another night too) so that's time I would have been sitting waiting anyway.
You certainly wont make the money doing RE, ESA,GAP etc, but they are fillers if you are in the area anyway, as some of their jobs only take a few minutes to do and write up.
I try to be efficient, get the jobs on the same days in the same area, etc, rather then go back and forth. I also only work a couple of days a week after work usually or pop out for one in my lunch hour, which is time I'd be doing nothing anyway. It's not my full time job but is a nice bit of extra income.

PS, Yes, I know tonight isn't £25 an hour, but I wanted to get home for the free pizza! (And that isn't included in the jobs mentioned) There was a job a few weeks ago for £75, took less than 2 hours with the writing up, and another for £50, about 30 mins in store and 15 writing up. They are the ones to look out for and don't let the salesmen waffle on. Get in, do it, get out etc.

HappyMJ

yonk wrote: »

Ok, I aim for about £10 an hour and never get near £25 but £1 is just not worth it.

You do realise I am talking profit after I've taken the expenses off the fees received. I might make a profit of £1 an hour but the hourly rate of actually being in the store for 20 minutes might look like about £12 an hour but it isn't. It will take me nearly 2 hours to do 1 MS. I do pile them up together as much as possible. So I might do 4 MS's in about 4 hours. That paid me £45 a few weeks ago but my average profit has for many months been £1 per hour. That's what my accounts reveal, that's what I tell HMRC (for tax credits) and that's what I tell the council (for housing benefit).

poor_student138

Boredupnorth wrote: »

You certainly wont make the money doing RE, ESA,GAP etc, but they are fillers if you are in the area anyway, as some of their jobs only take a few minutes to do and write up.
I try to be efficient, get the jobs on the same days in the same area, etc, rather then go back and forth. I also only work a couple of days a week after work usually or pop out for one in my lunch hour, which is time I'd be doing nothing anyway. It's not my full time job but is a nice bit of extra income.

Just wondered which MS ones you'd recommend? Or can you not say that on here?

mimi1234

I think we all go through the phase of being new and travelling to do 1 shop. I once did a bank for GRG 5 years ago, I travelled from Leeds to Selby which cost about £30 on the train and I got paid approx. £8 for doing it.

These days I would not get out of bed for that money nor would I be stupid enough to spend that amount of money on travel and not get anything back for it. Unless I am at work and the shop can be done at lunchtime, I mix about 5 to 10 visits a day. For example, this coming Saturday, I have a secret lunch, a men's suit shop, a posh clothes shops and a phone shop.

Instead of asking heaps of questions, I think newbies should go and do what they feel is right. If they make a mistake and make a big fat loss (Leeds to Selby anyone!), they will know and learn from it!

PS. Is RM going bust? Poor loves don't text anymore. They rely on email now!

serendipity2706

HappyMJ wrote: »

You do realise I am talking profit after I've taken the expenses off the fees received. I might make a profit of £1 an hour but the hourly rate of actually being in the store for 20 minutes might look like about £12 an hour but it isn't. It will take me nearly 2 hours to do 1 MS. I do pile them up together as much as possible. So I might do 4 MS's in about 4 hours. That paid me £45 a few weeks ago but my average profit has for many months been £1 per hour. That's what my accounts reveal, that's what I tell HMRC (for tax credits) and that's what I tell the council (for housing benefit).

Oh well, I would tell the HMRC/council etc that I made a loss
If things are looking too profitable at the end of the year I go and visit my son in Glasgow (170 miles round trip roughly) for meals out out with secret eating.

Boredupnorth

serendipity2706 wrote: »

Boredupnorth wrote: »

I don't video shop, just the straightforward reports.
I did 4 after work today in town, took about an hour and a half inc the (travel between them) driving. Got £45, plus expenses. Reports will be about an hour, but I can do them while waiting for the, paid for, pizza to be delivered, (minimal fee but free dinner, and its a BOGOF day so dinner for another night too) so that's time I would have been sitting waiting anyway.
You certainly wont make the money doing RE, ESA,GAP etc, but they are fillers if you are in the area anyway, as some of their jobs only take a few minutes to do and write up.
I try to be efficient, get the jobs on the same days in the same area, etc, rather then go back and forth. I also only work a couple of days a week after work usually or pop out for one in my lunch hour, which is time I'd be doing nothing anyway. It's not my full time job but is a nice bit of extra income.

PS, Yes, I know tonight isn't £25 an hour, but I wanted to get home for the free pizza! (And that isn't included in the jobs mentioned) There was a job a few weeks ago for £75, took less than 2 hours with the writing up, and another for £50, about 30 mins in store and 15 writing up. They are the ones to look out for and don't let the salesmen waffle on. Get in, do it, get out etc.

I think we have all done jobs like you describe from time to time but they are not regular and they are pretty few and far between.

I cant understand why people say you dont make money with ESA? I did 20 shops for them last week over 2 days, they took 20 minutes each to do and the reports a further 10. After my petrol of £20 quid I made quite a few quid out of them. Granted I worked for 2 full days doing them but profit was well worth the effort. Per hour it worked out better than most thats for sure.

mimi1234

Paid by ABAI for the petrol shop I did last week. REACT have sent me a reimittance email, don't know when that will get paid. Whoooop! Mimi in the money.

poor_student138

My application for Mystery Dining Company got declined. Anyone know why this could be? Or what I did wrong?

Tudorc1

poor_student138 wrote: »

My application for Mystery Dining Company got declined. Anyone know why this could be? Or what I did wrong?

Please read back over the thread - this was discussed in depth a couple of days ago, (and last week, and a few times last month...........)

mimi1234

Tudorc1 wrote: »

Please read back over the thread - this was discussed in depth a couple of days ago, (and last week, and a few times last month...........)

It just seems to be the same questions asked over and over again. This one and "WHICH AGENCIES SHOULD I JOIN". Errrrr.