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

Boredupnorth

MSRyan wrote: »

Ranting Time, I hear all the time about how much people hate RE and there reports/proof readers, However I am becoming increasingly frustrated with RA and there excuse if a fee for the cheapo stores, and the pharmacy visits. If that visit and fee were on RE I think people would be constantly moaning however RA seem to get away without any negativity. I find their system very silly as you cannot see if your image has been uploaded and some of the staff I have dealt with are rather rude.

I have nerver had to speak to anyone there so dont know if they are rude or not.
I think the difference is, although the fee is low so is the expectation in the report. They take 2 minutes to do and you dont need to tell them how it made you feel when the assistant offers you a certain type of nit treatment!!
I would rather do the RA reports for the fee than an RE report for 3x the fee, but thats just my opinion.

Lil_Me_2

MSRyan wrote: »

Ranting Time, I hear all the time about how much people hate RE and there reports/proof readers, However I am becoming increasingly frustrated with RA and there excuse if a fee for the cheapo stores, and the pharmacy visits. If that visit and fee were on RE I think people would be constantly moaning however RA seem to get away without any negativity. I find their system very silly as you cannot see if your image has been uploaded and some of the staff I have dealt with are rather rude.

I think the key difference is the reports. RE reports take me around 45 mins to do 'cause they're so comment heavy. The pharmacy reports for RA however take me 10 mins max. Plus you can normally get a nice route of 5 or so pharmacys so the fee adds up.

I have no intentions of taking a cheapo store from them though, I am certainly worth more than that! :rotfl:

Boredupnorth

MSRyan wrote: »

I tend to say I can do the visit within a few hours then tell them you will upload the report by the end of the day guaranteed. Then I usually get my fee, I tend to aim for double most fees as a bench mark.

I do pretty much the same, I say I can help you if you help me with the fee. They generally at least double it and sometimes it gets much higher if they are really stuck.

blindman

cyprus31 wrote: »

That's interesting, I do a lot of RE hotels all over the country, and if it's the same hotel chain, I've always been under the impression that we can't accrue points. If I'm wrong, I've missed out big time. Any chance you can give a hint to the hotel group?

PM me

Though RE have been getting more strict about this, so not as sure fire of getting the points

blindman

proshopper wrote: »

Only the two of you? Gosh that's a very exclusive club. :rotfl:

I have told all who have asked so it's more than two :cool:

Becles

auntypog wrote: »

I suppose my question is: can you log in to the RM site and browse the available jobs?

I don't think you can. You just have to ring up and take your chance it's a job that you want to do!

I don't mind the RA pharmacies. They're quick and easy, especially if you get a route in the area. Good value if you actually use the stuff you have to buy as well.

the_cake

ESA have quite a few egg shops left for this Saturday, now with a better fee ....

Becles

the_cake wrote: »

ESA have quite a few egg shops left for this Saturday, now with a better fee ....

I'm still working through my massive egg mountain. Bairns are getting a bit fed up with eggs now, although they're happy with all the pancakes I keep making.

Egg fried rice and some stir fry beef I got on a butchers job yesterday for tea tonight

ChickenGirl

It's times like this when you wish you didn't keep chickens. We have to give our lovely eggs away and eat the shop ones, because I can't really explain to friends why I have a large amount of shop bought eggs as they know we have chickens.

jen_br

proshopper wrote: »

Only the two of you? Gosh that's a very exclusive club. :rotfl:

No im sure others do it but i know that BM and I follow the same way of getting them