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

mimi1234

dazza.mk wrote: »

Why don't they stop asking for photos of all shop fronts even when they've got a receipt and stop asking stupid proofreading queries as well.....

We can but dream :rotfl:

Tut. Tut. Take the name out. Just joking. The bed shop does have some good deals now and then though. Got a right bargain last time I did one.

Wow, that's 5 RE reports and not a single query. Mel must be off sick.

DPJames

I got a good one the other day. They wanted the name of the person I spoke to on the phone. They spoke quite fast so I didn't quite catch it but it was either Carla or Carly, so that's what I wrote, "The person that I spoke to's name was either Carla or Carly." I got a query asking, "You've stated the person you spoke to's name was Carla or Carly, which one was it?" !!!!!!!!

I told them again I couldn't make it out but it was either Carla or Carly. I then got queried again, this time, "Was the person you spoke to male or female?" :rotfl:

DPJames

dazza.mk wrote: »

Why don't they stop asking for photos of all shop fronts

It's because name, description, receipt, shop left, right and opposite just isn't enough.

System

The RE proofreaders just sometimes come across as dumb but we shouldnt hate, they are just doing a job.

DPJames

I don't hate them, I love them. I love them like I love our village idiot, the mental bloke down the town who chases the red buses but not the blue or yellow ones. Yeah, you can't hate idiots, you've just got to go along with them on their space trip.

dazza.mk

berbastrike wrote: »

The RE proofreaders just sometimes come across as dumb but we shouldnt hate, they are just doing a job.

Oh, I've got nothing against actual proofreaders, its their guidance from RE itself that spawns half the queries (ie their guidance often specifies something different to the shopper's brief which is why you get what seem to be irrelevant queries) ie another example if you don't specify "not wearing glasses" in a description they are supposed to raise a query rather than assume that is correct.

(Admittedly some people may have missed glasses off the description, but I wouldn't generally describe someone as 'not wearing glasses' unless specifically queried, just as I wouldn't say didn't have a squint/wooden leg/moustache)

Monkeynut

Lol, I think I may start adding one of these type descriptions into RE reports, not that I do many of them these days, but do have a bookie tomorrow. Perfectly reasonable description, but just adding 'he did not have a wooden leg' or 'she did not have a third nipple' (although this one may be harder to correctly determine I suppose!!).

Must say I am intrigued now about what I missed that triggered a the cow/dolphin response!!

DPJames

Monkeynut wrote: »

Perfectly reasonable description, but just adding 'he did not have a wooden leg'

That's be awesome, we should ALL do that this weekend, start taking the pi$$ out of them for once.

And exaggerate how everything made you 'feel'. "I felt so happy I could cry." "I haven't had feelings like that since I was 15 and in Miss Brown's geography class when she bent down in front of me to pick up my pen."

And if you have to take a photo of a store, get passing shoppers to gather round waving and smiling and with a placard saying "YUCK FOU PROOF READER B". (Although you might get pulled up for that one for not spell checking the placard).



Female, late 30's, 5'7", long straight brown hair, did not have a wooden leg. :rotfl:

superliss

DPJames wrote: »

That's be awesome, we should ALL do that this weekend, start taking the pi$$ out of them for once.

And exaggerate how everything made you 'feel'. "I felt so happy I could cry." "I haven't had feelings like that since I was 15 and in Miss Brown's geography class when she bent down in front of me to pick up my pen."

And if you have to take a photo of a store, get passing shoppers to gather round waving and smiling and with a placard saying "YUCK FOU PROOF READER B". (Although you might get pulled up for that one for not spell checking the placard).

Female, late 30's, 5'7", long straight brown hair, did not have a wooden leg. :rotfl:

Female, mid 40's, brown hair, poirot style moustache, neatly shaven beard.

nads

Not Male, Not <=28 =>39 <57, Not a red head. most likely lives in local vicinity lost track of Not Male after 1 mile.