Mystery Shopping Thread 21 *PLEASE READ THE OP FIRST**PLEASE NO CLIENT NAMES OR FEES*

GlasgowMS

I keep meaning to ask this... GR have never offered me a single job! Any reason for this? (I'm a 20 year old male if that makes any difference). Every time alerts come on here, they just don't materialise for me.

N.I.M

jonno1001 wrote: »

GR reports are great, but you seem to have to live in a shopping centre car park to get any job offers.

Very true, I can count on one hand the number of offers I've had from them.

marvellousaunt

jonno1001 wrote: »

you seem to have to live in a shopping centre car park to get any job offers.

It's strange, my home and work address and where I spend evenings just happen to be in the centre of retail parks near me... convenient

I changed a couple of my addresses recently and it unlocked a few more jobs which was lovely. I've seen: phones, kids character shop, sofas, supermarkets, jewellery/bags, phones telephone call, high street clothes.

As well as the user-friendly reports, their scenarios are very realistic, not too contrived, not difficult to fit into 'normal' shopping behaviour and not overly long and complex. You'd be in there 15-30 minutes but able to focus on the conversation with the MOS rather than asking loads of specific questions. Which I guess, in turn, makes your report more focused on the service you get. Can only be a good thing!

I'll say this now and then not hear a peep from them for a month...!

Monkeynut

GlasgowMS wrote: »

I keep meaning to ask this... GR have never offered me a single job! Any reason for this? (I'm a 20 year old male if that makes any difference). Every time alerts come on here, they just don't materialise for me.

It's all about your postcodes. Set them to places with lots of shops, so one of the shops in a shopping centre or retail park.
Their system shows jobs to the nearest X number of people, rather than everyone in the area. So if you 'live in the car park' you're more likely to get shown the job and have a chance to nab it!!

GlasgowMS

Hmm... my two postcodes are actually set to quite highly populated areas anyway... but I'll move it to the car parks and see what happens!

scubaangel

marvellousaunt wrote: »

I'm so in love with GR at the moment. After grumbling I only get a couple a month from them, I've got about 4-6 or so on at the moment. Done my first today and it was such a user-friendly report. True you get very short boxes to write in, but it helps you be concise. None of RE's trick of asking you a tick box and then making you explain it. Was surprised how quick the survey was, was bracing myself!

And the jewellery and bags shop was very pleasant to browse in after work as well. Now to return the item I bought as everything is way overpriced in there! (Didn't put that in the survey)

I did two the other day too, love them so easy to act natural, and the reports are a joy compared to some!

I tend to make sure I buy either multibuys which add up to around the payment level or one item at the payment level, then ebay them - generally they sell for a shade under the rrp so I don't lose anything.

Boredupnorth

Has anyone else on here been asked by GR to start doing the new project for them in January?

TractorGirl327

Boredupnorth wrote: »

Has anyone else on here been asked by GR to start doing the new project for them in January?

Yes although I despair of how unorganised they seem to be about it!!

Boredupnorth

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

Yes although I despair of how unorganised they seem to be about it!!

Glad its not just me that thinks that then, I keep getting random phone calls going over the same thing each time! Although it looks to be a decent project I just wish they would let me use my own Ipad instead of insisting on giving us a tablet PC

Boredupnorth

GlasgowMS wrote: »

Hmm... my two postcodes are actually set to quite highly populated areas anyway... but I'll move it to the car parks and see what happens!

Why not set up all 4?